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| Special Issue: Reader Response | ||
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| The Editors | This issue of JLR is special in a sense that is both serendipitous and purposeful. The serendipity was the coincidental submission and ultimate acceptance of three independent manuscripts, each examining questions related to how readers respond to literature. These three independent but related articles authored, respectively, by Karla Möller and JoBeth Allen, Peggy Rice, and Linda Labbo and Melanie Kuhn are included in this issue. As the three manuscripts progressed through the review process virtually together, it occurred to us that this coincidence presented an opportunity to reflect on interpretations of response. Thus, for jlr’s regular Critical Issues piece, we decided to invite three well-known researchers in the area of reader response to comment on the current status and future direction of reader-response theory. Those commentaries, written by Richard Beach, Cynthia Lewis, and Dennis Sumara, are also included in this issue. Finally, to provide some closure, we invited the authors of each respective research article to respond to the commentaries in light of their own work. Thus, this special issue on reader-response theory was created. We hope that readers will find this unexpectedly unified special issue as stimulating to read as it was for us to coordinate. We want to thank the authors and the commentators for their participation and cooperation in putting this issue together. | |
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| JLR v. 32 no. 2 2000 |
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