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Peer reviewedHarker, W. John – Visible Language, 1985
Explores the tenets of both the New Criticism and reader response criticism, and concludes that there is a need for a new imperative in criticism that conceives literary understanding in terms of a communication process in which both text and reader are granted importance. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Literary Criticism
