Poetics of Reading / / Inge Crosman Wimmers.

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, pragmat...

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