Focusing on reader response in the classroom, the works collected in this book represent the results of a five-week summer institute in which 25 middle school, high school, and college teachers studied the principles and applications of literature instruction. The following essays are included: an introduction by G. Garber; "An Overview of the Method" (P. Hansbury); "Reader Response: Theory and Practice" (P. Hansbury); "Formalist Criticism in the Secondary Classroom" (R. DeFabio); "A Formalist Lesson Plan for Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' Used with Advanced Seventh Grades" (M. McKay); "A Formalist Lesson: 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'" (C. Forman); "Introduction to Historical/Cultural Methods of Literary Inquiry and Instruction" (M. Kelley); "An Historical-Cultural Approach to 'The Whole Town's Sleeping'" (J. Butterfield); "Introduction to Psychological Criticism" (B. A. Boyce); "A Psychoanalytic Approach to Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'" (G. B. Kamm); "A Psychological Critic Looks at 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass'" (D. J. Marhafer); "Overview of Mythological Criticism" (D. M. Quick); "The Application of Archetypal Criticism to John Knowles 'A Separate Peace'" (D. M. Quick); "A Feminist Archetypal Approach to 'Jane Eyre'" (R. Y. DeFabio); "Multiple Critical Approaches to 'A Rose for Emily'" (C. Reynolds); "Multiple Critical Approaches to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'" (C. Forman); and "Yes, But Does It Work?" (D. M. Quick). (JD)