The Reader in the Text : : Essays on Audience and Interpretation / / ed. by Susan Rubin Suleiman, Inge Crosman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bauschatz, Cathleen M.,; Beaujour, Michel,; Brooke-Rose, Christine,; Crosman, Inge,; Crosman, Robert,; Culler, Jonathan,; Holland, Norman N.,; Leenhardt, Jacques,; Maranda, Pierre,; Marin, Louis,; Mistacco, Vicki,; Rabinowitz, Peter J.,; Schor, Naomi,; Stierle, Karlheinz,; Suleiman, Susan R.,; Todorov, Tzvetan,; lser, Wolfgang,
• HerausgeberIn: Crosman, Inge,; Suleiman, Susan Rubin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 617
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism -- Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading -- Reading As Construction -- The Reading Of Fictional Texts -- Interaction Between Text And Reader -- The Readerhood Of Man -- Do Readers Make Meaning? -- Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction -- The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics -- Toward A Sociology Of Reading -- "What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing -- Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism -- Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds -- Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel -- Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction -- The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme -- Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism -- Notes On Contributors -- Subject Index -- Index Of Names