Readers and Popular Culture (5/97)
Call For Papers
For a special issue of the journal Reader , the guest editors invite manuscripts about the relationship between readers and popular culture or making connections between the theory and practice of using reader-based methods for popular culture study.
Articles might:
- apply reader-response, ethnographic, and other reader-centered theories to the consumption/use of popular culture
- propose new, reader-based methods for studying various forms of popular culture
- explore connections between reader-response approaches and other theories used for the study of popular culture
- discuss curricula/pedagogy in which reader-based theories are used to facilitate the study of popular culture
- explore ways in which using reader-based theories to study popular culture can provide information about the contexts in which popular culture is produced/consumed
- explore ways of overcoming the difficulties of studying reader-response, such as the problems of studying audiences who no longer exist or that haven't left written records
Inquiries should be directed to Linda Adler-Kassner and Sherry Linkon, guest editors.
E-mail inquiries are welcome.
Manuscripts are due May 1,1997, and should be mailed to:
Linda Adler-Kassner
General College
University of Minnesota
128 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Sherry Linkon
Teaching Specialist/Writing Program Co-Administrator General College
University of Minnesota
140 Appleby Hall, Mpls., 55455
612/625-6383 office
612/626-7848 fax
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