The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett - Softcover

Iser, Prof Wolfgang

 
9780801821509: The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801821509 ISBN 13: 9780801821509
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances aring from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By Analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackery to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses.

Iser's focus is on the theme of discovery, whereby the reader is given the chance to recognize the deficiencies of his own existence and the suggested solutions to counterbalance them. The content and form of this discovery is the calculated response of the reader—the implied reader. In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all the perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1974
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801821509
ISBN 13 
9780801821509
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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