Poetics of Reading / / Inge Crosman Wimmers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wimmers, Inge Crosman,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 927
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," here, is extended beyond the study of purely textual features to structures of exchange between text and reader. In a discussion of four major French novels from the seventeenth century to the present, the author not only sets up a broad-based poetics but also makes important contributions to contemporary issues in the study of narrative. Wimmers introduces the concept of multiple, interlocking frames of reference that allows for the integration of diverse critical perspectives. Analyzing La Princesse de Cleves, Madame Bovary, A la recherche du temps perdu, and Projet pour une revolution a New York, she shows how texts provide some frames of reference, while others are produced by the reader's disposition and cultural milieu.Originally published in 1989.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 -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Frames of Reference and the Reader -- TWO. Rewriting vraisemblance in La Princesse de Cleves -- THREE. Madame Bovary or the Dangers of Misreading -- FOUR. Proust's Palimpsest: Multiple Frames of Reference in A la recherche du temps perdu -- FIVE. Toward a Reflexive Act of Reading: Robbe-Grillet'S Projet pour une revolution a New York -- SIX. Conclusion: New Directions in the Reading of Narrative Fiction -- Works Cited -- Index