Protocols of Reading

  • Thomas M. Leitch
    What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation. University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Peter J. Rabinowitz
    Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Cornell University Press
  • Robert Scholes
    Protocols of Reading. Yale University Press
  • Christopher Nash (Editor) and Roger Seamon
    Narrative in Culture: The Use of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature. Routledge
Reviewed by Roger Seamon
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This review “Protocols of Reading” originally appeared in Writing & Cultural Values. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 130 (Autumn 1991): 159-161.

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