9780801815690 - The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Iser (6 results)

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orig. cloth. 24x16cm, xiv,303 pp Contents: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: the doctrine of predestination and the shaping of the novel -- The Role of the reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones -- The Generic control of the esthetic response : an examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker -- Fiction- The Filter of history : a study of Sir. Walter Scott's Waverley -- The Reader as a component part of the realistic novel : esthetic efects in Thackeray's Vanity Fair-- The Self-communication of subjectivity in autobiographical fiction. W.M. Thackeray : Henry Esmond -- Perception, temporality, and action as modes of subjectivity. W. Faulkner : The Sound and the fury -- The Unpredictability of subjectivity. I. Compton-Burnett : a Heritage and its history -- Subjectivity as the autogenous cancellation of its own manifesstations. S. Beckett : Molloy, Malone dies, the unnamable; Doing things in style : an interpretation of "The Oxen of the sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses -- Patterns of communication in Joyce's Ulysses -- Myth and realtly -- Experiments in style -- The Function of the experiments in style -- Archetypes -- The Reader's quest and the formation of illusion -- Dialogue of the unspeakable : Ivy Comption Burnett : a heritage and its history -- When is the end not the end? The Idea of fiction in Beckett -- The Reading process : a phenomenological approach. Minor wear. Name rubberstamped on reverse of title-page. VG.