The Reader in the Text : : Essays on Audience and Interpretation /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
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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

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