Abstract

Because performance particularizes and reifies all the component elements of the literary experience, it can be a valuable test of descriptions of the reading process. A comparison of performance practice and theory with one of the most famous descriptions of reading in contemporary literary theory, Stanley Fish's affective stylistics, demonstrates the accuracy of its claims. The study concludes that Fish's later rejection of affective stylistics is inconsistent with the neo‐pragmatism he currently espouses.

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