id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15701 Cook, Eleanor I. Magazines for Libraries: For the General Reader and School, Junior College, College, University, and Public Libraries, 12 ed. Ed. Cheryl LaGuardia, with Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. New Providence, N.J.: Bowker, 2003. 1,120p. $225 (ISBN 0835245411). 2004-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1228 61 58 For humanities librarians who studied lit- erature in the 1970s and 1980s, the essays collected here will transport them back to the exciting debates and discoveries of their apprentice years, the theoretical breakthroughs of Iser, Jauss, Fish, Bleich, and Holland that shattered the classical view of the reader as the dispassionate receptacle of incontrovertible meanings placed in literary works by sagacious authors. The “reading sites” of this book’s title are not libraries but, rather, locations in the imaginary space populated by readers, texts, and authors where, at least in the view of reader-response theories of litera- ture, the meaning of texts is constituted. cache/crl-15701.pdf txt/crl-15701.txt