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Download full textBenton, Michael – 1993
Since the 1950s, literary study has experienced a major paradigm shift. M. H. Abrams' notion that the author, reader, and the signified world are arranged like satellites around a stable text has been succeeded by one that acknowledges the reader to be a central determinant in any "reading" of a text. Five themes related to reader…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Literacy
