TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appleyard,J.A.
ED  - Cambridge University Press.
TI  - Becoming a reader: the experience of fiction from childhood to adulthood 
SN  - 0521383641
AV  - PN98.R38 A67 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Developmental psychology
KW  - Reading
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Fictie
KW  - Lezers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index; -- Mapping the terrain; -- Reader-oriented theory; -- Reading and psychological development; -- Five roles readers take; -- Part I: Early childhood: the reader as player; -- The young child's world; -- The cognitive account of fantasy; -- The affective power of fantasy; -- Fantasy, play, and trust; -- Part II: Later childhood: the reader as hero and heroine; -- The young reader's world; -- What children read; -- Narrative structure: cognitive aspects; -- Narrative structure: affective aspects; -- Character; -- Fiction and information: two points of view; -- A process of growth; -- A note on sex roles; -- Part III: Adolescence: the reader as thinker; -- An adolescent's world; -- What adolescents read; -- Involvement and identification; -- Realism; -- Thinking; -- Reading and studying literature; -- Part IV: College and beyond: the reader as interpreter; -- Two students reading; -- The transparent text; -- The problematic text; -- The intelligible text; -- The text theorized; -- Irony; -- Part V: Adulthood: the pragmatic reader; -- Elizabeth; -- adulthood; -- The uses of reading; -- Escaping; -- Searching for truth; -- Discovering usable images
ER  -