Steven Mailloux is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Rhetorical Power and Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics, both published by Cornell University Press.
Its central theme—that all assertions about literature are
conditioned by interpretative rules and preceded by interpretative
work—enables Interpretive Conventions to help us inspect the
grounds of our practical criticism, to propose several valuable
standards for critical argument, competent interpretation, and
scholarly objectives, and to provide a widely informed introduction
to reader-response methodologies. I have sought to address
Mailloux’s contentions in detail to show that his serious book not
only deserves but demands careful reading, an activity I can trust
he approves.
*NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction*
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