Reception Theory

by Robert C. Holub

First published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. Reception theory is a term that is likely to sound strange to speakers of English who have not encountered it previously. In the largest sense it is a reaction to social, intellectual, and literary developments in West Germany during the late 1960s.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 19, 2013

About the author

Robert C. Holub (August 22, 1949 – August 27, 2023) was an American germanist and university professor and administrator. He served as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.