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The endangered promises
Clashes of culture
Snobbery with violence
Exploring literature--Fifth edition
Reception theory
The Psalms and their readers
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Resisting representation
Reading Games
Maps and legends
The Romance of the rose and its medieval readers
Getting at the author
Walt Whitman and the American reader
Falling into theory
Reading Women's Magazines
Authorship, ethics, and the reader
Knowledge in the making
Here comes everbody
The Implied Reader
The postwar novel in Canada
Our preposterous use of literature
The Evil and the guilty
A discourse of wonders
How to read journal articles in the social sciences
Invisible listeners
Order and chaos
Writing Against God
Love and marriage
Framed narratives
Ray Bradbury and the poetics of reverie
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