The course of study described in this book aims to enlarge the normal purview of literary study to include the subjective cases and purposes for reading and coming to literary judgments. Although the sequence of the four phases in this study should be maintained, the time spent on each phase may last a semester, a year, or longer. The four phases…

Shows how subjective knowledge acquires authority. Applies this argument to the making of literary responses in classrooms, thereby allowing both research and pedagogy to emerge from the same procedures of reading. (RL)