Implied Reader Patterns Communication Prose by Iser Wolfgang 1926 2007 (1 results)

PAPERBACK, very good, only slight wear to edges, probably unused. ISER, WOLFGANG. The implied reader: patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, much more recent printing, xiv, 303pp., . "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 readerthe implied reader. In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all his perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text" (rear cover text). - 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. SELF-REDUCTION -- 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. 9780801821509 ISBN 0801821509.