
Don't just take our word for it..
a short selection of some interesting research articles on reading and the reception of literary fiction
(2020): Canning, P. "'I love the stories - they weren't boring': Narrative Gaps, the 'Disnarrated' and the Significance of Style in Prison Reading Groups", in The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present. Eds. Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose.
(2017): Special Issue: Reader-Response, Language and Literature (Canning and Whiteley)
(2017): Canning, P. "Text World Theory and Real World Readers: From Literature to Life in a Belfast Prison", Language and Literature.
(2012): Canning, P. “Poetic Justice: A Narrative of Belfast Breakthroughs”, The Reader 48: 59-65
(2011): Whiteley, S. "Talking about 'An Accommodation': The Implications of Discussion Group Data For Community Engagement and Pedagogy", Language and Literature, 20 (3): 236-56.
(2009): Special Issue: Literary Reading As Social Practice, Language and Literature, 18 (3)
(2008): “The Reading Cure”, Blake Morrison, The Guardian (5 January)
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