Topic 5: Response to Literature

Topic 5: Response to Literature

*New Criticism and Common Core's "close reading"

Thomas, P. L. (2012, January). "A richer, not a narrower, aesthetic"—The rise of New Criticism in English Journal. English Journal, 101(3), 52-57.

Beach, R. & Hynds, S. (1991). Research on response to literature. In Barr, R.,

Kamil, M. L., Mosenthal, P. B., & Pearson, P. D. (Eds.). Handbook of Reading Research, vol II. (pp. 453-489). New York: Longman.

Harris, V. J. & Willis, A. I. (2003). Multiculturalism, literature, and curriculum issues. In

Flood, J., Lapp, D., Squire, J.R., & Jensen, J. M. (Eds.) Handbook of research on

teaching the English language arts, (2^nd ed.).(pp. 825-834). Mahwah, NJ:

Lawrence Ehrlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Marshall, J. (2000). Research on Response to Literature. In Kamil, M. L., Mosenthal, P. B., Pearson, P. D., Barr, R. (Eds.) Handbook of reading research, volume III. (pp. 381-402). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Ehrlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Rosenblatt, L. (2003). Literary theory. In Flood, J., Lapp, D., Squire, J. R., & Jensen, J.

M. (Eds.) Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts (2^nd ed.). (pp. 67-73). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Ehrlbaum and Associates, Publishers.