“…This completely revised and fully updated edition of The Global Transformations Reader brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the argument and from a range of disciplines. …”

“…This important new work brings a fresh and carefully elaborated theory of the literary work of art to the current re­discovery of the reader—that of the concept, based on the transactional point of view, of the two-way process involved in eliciting a literary work of art from a text. …”