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

Iser, Prof Wolfgang

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ISBN 10: 0801821509 ISBN 13: 9780801821509

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974

Riassunto

Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising 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 Thackeray 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 his perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text.

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Recensione:

"When the present flurry of works on theory of narrative fiction comes to an end... this seems likely to be one of the survivors."

(Frank Kermode Times Literary Supplement)

"Well-written, scholarly, perceptive... A basic framework for a rational theory of literary effects and responses based on the novel."

(Library Journal)

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Book by Iser Wolfgang

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0801821509
• ISBN 13: 9780801821509
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320