This study describes the ways readers create meaning from literary texts. Though many have investigated written response to literature, few have looked at readers' initial responses to a text from ...

A new research study seeks to analyze the body of work of naturalist writers in Quebec, Haiti and Belgium during the late 1800s and early 1900s and explore their impact on French literature and the ...

Ann Curthoys received an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, which ended in 2013. This article is the third in a series examining the links, problems and dynamics of writing, ...

This article argues that the common practice of reading literary texts in the foreign language (FL) classroom almost always implies the exclusion of the cultural dimension of the text. The latter is ...