"reception history" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the response to a particular idea, text, or work over a period of time. For example, "The reception history of the novel has been overwhelmingly positive over the past decade."
That's a wonderful piece of reception history, because it shows how inaccurate our preconceptions of composers really are.
We will consider each playwright's sources and techniques, the historical conditions of each play's first production, and the play's reception history.
The result is a groundbreaking study that provides a surprising new picture of medieval education and writes a new chapter in the reception history of classical literature.
Dissertation projects of my graduate students range from pre-imperial Chinese intellectual history to medieval Chinese poetry, the reception history of early texts, classical commentary, materiality of text in ancient China, and commemorative inscriptions.
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, who wrote multi-volume studies of Chaucer and Shakespeare (in some ways anticipating modern reception history), an important History of the English Language (1879), and even appreciations of Tennyson and Browning.
She intends to properly situate the case in the context of the late 1960s, and provide it with a reception history – a history of the way events were portrayed and perceived at the time.
For much of its reception-history, Utopia has been treated as if it consisted exclusively of Book 2, and this impression was supported by some printed versions which omitted the first book.
Her research interests include Plato and Platonic reception, the history of political thought, and the intersection of political philosophy and literature.
We also look at how different forms of media change our perceptions and reception of history, engaging popular culture, film, music, and more.
Recapitulating the painting's reception through history, Steinberg's close reading of its individual elements, formal aspects, and setting is an exemplary piece of criticism, illuminating da Vinci's intentions and his achievement in much the same way that recent restorations have helped us see the most thought-out picture in the history of art afresh.
Adam Foley is a classicist and historian whose interests span the classical tradition, including Greek epic and lyric poetry, translation and reception studies, the history of Platonism, and the history of historiography.
