San Antonio College Library

Poets, deeply imbued in the language and conditions of their society, stand forth to produce an utterance that reveals their constant "exposure" and their resourceful adaptiveness. Albert Cook's wide-ranging study characterizes poetry by testing its reach beyond given points or boundaries of expression. Through an insightful analysis of key poets in various Western traditions, Cook demonstrates that the best poetry, while subject to the language and...

An introduction to reception theory, a body of literary criticism that focuses on the way the reader interacts with the text. The study examines the roots of the theory in West Germany in the 1960s and considers its relation to other approaches to literature such as Russian Formalism, structuralism, hermenautics and literary sociology.