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Reader Agency

Reader Agency is a theoretical construct within reader response theory that designates the degree of active, meaningful influence a reader exerts in shaping the interpretive trajectory and narrative structure of an ergodic literary text through deliberate interaction and cognitive engagement.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics

Stanley Fish · New Literary History · 1970 · 339 citations

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Criticism, theory, and children's literature

Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 211 citations

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Point-driven understanding: Pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of literary reading

Douglas Vipond, Russell A. Hunt · Poetics · 1984 · 152 citations

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The Author's Empty Purse and the Rise of the Literary Agent

James J. Barnes, J. W. Hepburn · The American Historical Review · 1969 · 115 citations

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Literature as conduct: speech acts in Henry James

Choice Reviews Online · 2006 · 104 citations

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Authors

73

  1. MA
    Molly Abel Travis

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  2. GR
    Gillian R. Overing

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  3. MO
    Marijane Osborn

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  4. NK
    Natalia Kucirkova

    The Open University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. DM
    Donald Marsden

    1 publications · 27 citations

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1–5 of 73

Institutions

22

  1. University of Hartford

    West Hartford, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

  2. Tomas Bata University in Zlín

    Zlín, Czechia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  3. The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature

    Andong, South Korea

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. University of Turku

    Turku, Finland

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    63 citations

  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    72 citations

  6. Manchester University

    Fort Wayne, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  7. University of North Texas

    Denton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  8. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 330 citations

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  2. Scriptura

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  3. Research in the Teaching of English

    RTE · 2 publications · 53 citations

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  4. College Composition and Communication

    CCC · 2 publications · 65 citations

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  5. American Literary History

    2 publications · 54 citations

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