The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett

by Wolfgang Iser and Professor Wolfgang Iser

Book Overview

Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801821509
• ISBN13: 9780801821509
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"