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The Implied Reader

Paperback • 1974 • English • 1. edition

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

By Wolfgang Iser

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About the book

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...Show more

Literary theory
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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ISBN

9780801821509

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

1974

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Implied Reader

Format

Paperback

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