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James L. Machor
The Mercurial Mark Twains(s) examines the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by common readers, reviewers, and Twain scholars, as well as film and television adaptations…
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What has the city meant to Americans? James L. Machor explores this question in a provocative analysis of American responses to urbanization in the context of the culture’s tendency to…
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Edited by the author of Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America , these essays emphasize the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience…
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James L. Machor (Kansas State University)
In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians.
