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This book describes a nontraditional, non-authoritarian method for teaching students how to think and write about literature. It elucidates contemporary critical theories concerning the reader's role in creating literary experience, and it explains how to use activities such as journal writing, composite interpretation, and stop-action reading to elicit original responses from students. Statistical measures and case studies document the effectiveness of this approach.

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Marian Price's use of reader-response methods in the classroom is inspiring and encouraging. People truly interested in helping students will get a lot out of this book. (Jane Tompkins, Duke University) In her useful study of a first-year college course. Marian Price has made an important examination of how a focus on reading can contribute to the formal study of literature and the teaching of writing. (Steven Mailloux, Department of English, Syracuse University)

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