The Critical Balance: Reader, Text, and Meaning
Type of Work
Proposes that literary analysis and criticism need to strike a balance between reader and text, between subjectivity and objectivity. Notes that literary works call for different critical approaches and urges English teachers to develop students' skills for apprehending what approach should be used with particular works.
Rabinowitz, Nancy S. and Rabinowitz, Peter J., "The Critical Balance: Reader, Text, and Meaning" (1980). Hamilton Digital Commons.
Hamilton Areas of Study
Literature and Creative Writing