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
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978
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Der Implizite Leser : Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett
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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.
Table of Contents
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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