The implied reader : patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett

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The implied reader : patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett

by Wolfgang Iser

(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978

  • : pbk

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Der Implizite Leser : Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett

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Translation of Der implizite Leser

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Bunyan's Pilgram's Progress: The Doctrime of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel Chapter 2. The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones Chapter 3. The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker Chapter 4. Fiction-The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Chapter 5. The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic novek: Esthetic Effects in Thackery's Vanity Fair Chapter 6. Self-Reduction Chapter 7. Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun: in James joyce's Ulysses Chapter 8. Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses Chapter 9. Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History Chapter 10. When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett Chapter 11. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach Name Index Subject Index

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