The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691100969 ISBN 13: 9780691100968

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1980

Synopsis

A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of international scholars raises fundamental questions about the status--be it rhetorical, semiotic and structuralist, phenomenological, subjective and psychoanalytic, sociological and historical, or hermeneutic--of the audience in relation to a literary or artistic text.

Originally published in 1980.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691100969
• ISBN 13: 9780691100968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Suleiman Susan Rubin, Crosman Inge