Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms

by Karolides; Nicholas J.

• ISBN13: 9780805830248
• ISBN10: 0805830243
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

This textbook focuses on the application of the transactional theory of literature asserted by Louise Rosenblatt - on activating it in the classroom, with the theory being expressed as background.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xv
I. THE TRANSACTIONAL THEORY OF LITERATURE	1	(74)
The Transactional Theory of Literature	3	(22)
Nicholas J. Karolides
Connecting Students and Literature: What Do Teachers Do and Why Do They Do It?	25	(22)
Robert C. Small
``The Guy Who Wrote This Poem Seems to Have the Same Feelings as You Have'': Reader-Response Methodology	47	(14)
Leila Christenbury
Writing From, of, and About Literature	61	(14)
Robert E. Probst
II. INITIATING READERS' RESPONSES: CLASSROOM PROCESSES	75	(60)
Reader Response at the Movies	77	(16)
Joy Gould Boyum
Mending Walls: Using a Reader-Response Approach to Teach Poetry	93	(18)
Ron Luce
Two Reader-Response Classrooms: Using Prereading Activity and Readers Theatre Approaches	111	(12)
Patricia P. Kelly
``I Understood the Grief'': Theory-Based Introduction to Ordinary People	123	(12)
Deborah Appleman
III. DEVELOPING READERS' RESPONSES: CLASSROOM PROCESSES	135	(100)
Teaching Eudora Welty's ``Petrified Man'': Expanding Preliminary Insights	139	(20)
Marshall Toman
Reader Response to Drama: Prospecting for Human Understandings and Connections	159	(20)
Linda Varvel
Hill Climbing With Thoreau: Creating Meaningful Carryover	179	(14)
Mary Jo Schaars
Intensifying Transactions Through Multiple Text Exploration: A Literature Circle Approach to Novels Set in the United States During World War II	193	(14)
Elizabeth A. Poe
Role-Playing Experiences: Expanding Readers' Responses to Literature	207	(18)
Nicholas J. Karolides
A Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone	225	(10)
Duane H. Roen
IV. EXPLORING DIFFERENCES: GENDER, RACE AND CULTURE	235	(104)
Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as a Gendered Reader	239	(16)
Laura Quinn
Reading and Teaching From the Outside: Responding to Native American Literature	255	(14)
David W. Furniss
Cultivating Understandings Through Reader Response: Dawn's Responses to The Things They Carried and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places	269	(18)
Arlette Ingram Willis
Teacher Learning in Response to Autobiographical Literature	287	(24)
Jocelyn Glazier
Mary McVee
Susan Wallace-Cowell
Bette Shellhorn
Susan Florio-Ruane
Taffy E. Raphael
Calypso, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa: Literature, Response, and the African Diaspora	311	(16)
Linda A. Spears-Bunton
Reader Responses to Roethke's ``My Papa's Waltz'': Exploring Different Perspectives	327	(12)
Jean E. Brown
Louise Garcia Harrison
Glossary: Key Concepts and Strategies	339	(6)
Bibliography	345	(16)
Author Index	361	(4)
Subject Index	365