David Bleich (academic)

David Bleich
Occupation(s)professor,
Author
Known forSubjective reader-response theory
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester

David Bleich is an American literary theorist and academic. He is noted for developing the Bleich "heuristic", a reader-response approach to teaching literature.[1] He is also a proponent of reader-response criticism to literature, advocating subjective interpretations of literary texts. He has published research on language and its use in social contexts as well as postsecondary pedagogy.[2]

Bleich is an English professor at the University of Rochester.[3][4]

  1. ^ Resh, Celeste (1987). "Experimenting with Response to Literature". Language Arts Journal of Michigan. 3 (1): 14–21. doi:10.9707/2168-149X.1727.
  2. ^ "Department of English : University of Rochester". www.sas.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  3. ^ "Contributors". Pedagogy. 1 (1): 231–234. 2001. doi:10.1215/15314200-1-1-231.
  4. ^ Goodman, James; Upadhye, Neeti. "Campuses struggle with sex assault cases". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-12-22.