Primary texts:
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, ed. Blakemore Evans(Cambridge U.P., 2003)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, ed. J. Paul Hunter (New York: Norton, 1996)
Charles Dickens: "A Christmas Carol" in A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, ed. Michael Slater (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003).
Emily Bront?: Wuthering Heights, ed. Richard J. Dunn (New York: Norton, 2001)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, in Ibsen's Selected Plays, ed. Brian Johnston (New York: Norton, 2003)
Theory:
In Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, ed. James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein (London: Routledge, 2001):
? Jauss, ’The Identity of the Poetic Text in the Changing Horizon of Understanding’, pp.7-28
? Tompkins, Jane P., ‘Masterpiece Theater. The Politics of Hawthorne’s Literary Reputation’, pp.133-5
? Fiske, John, 'Madonna', pp.246-58
? Smith Allen, James, ‘Reading the Novel’, pp.180-202
*Articles in compendium 'ENG2329 Reception Studies' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
1. From The Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair Cleery (London: Routledge, 2002):
? Fish, Stanley, ‘Interpreting the Variorum’, pp.350-58
? Chartier, Roger, ‘Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader’, pp. 47-58
2. From The Practice of Everyday Life:
? De Certeau, Michel, ‘Reading as Poaching’, 20 pp.
3. Iser, Wolfgang, ‘The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach’ Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism, ed. Jane P. Tompkins (London: Johns Hopkins, 1980), pp.50-69.
Secondary literature:
Asdal et co., Tekst og historie: ? lese tekster historisk (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2008)
Bennett, Andrew (ed.), Readers and Reading (London: Longman, 1995)
Cavallo, Guglielmo and Roger Chartier (eds.), A History of Reading in the West (Cambridge: Polity, 1999)
Chartier, Roger, The Order of Books (Cambridge: Polity, 1994)
Fish, Stanley, Is There a Text in This Class? (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1980)
Freund, Elizabeth, The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism (London: Methuen, 1987)
Jauss, Hans Robert, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 1982)
Rem, Tore, Bokhistorie (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2003)
Tompkins, Jane P., Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism Johns Hopkins U.P., 1980)
Tompkins, Jane P., Sensational Designs (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980)