The Reader in the Text
Essays on Audience and Interpretation
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2014
452 pages
978-1-4008-5711-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Originally published in 1980.
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Edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman & Inge Crosman
Content
FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. vii
Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 1
Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading, pg. 46
Reading As Construction, pg. 67
The Reading Of Fictional Texts, pg. 83
Interaction Between Text And Reader, pg. 106
The Readerhood Of Man, pg. 120
Do Readers Make Meaning?, pg. 149
Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction, pg. 165
The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics, pg. 183
Toward A Sociology Of Reading, pg. 205
"What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing, pg. 241
Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism, pg. 264
Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds, pg. 293
Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel, pg. 325
Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction, pg. 350
The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme, pg. 371
Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 401
Notes On Contributors, pg. 425
Subject Index, pg. 429
Index Of Names, pg. 435
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. vii
Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 1
Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading, pg. 46
Reading As Construction, pg. 67
The Reading Of Fictional Texts, pg. 83
Interaction Between Text And Reader, pg. 106
The Readerhood Of Man, pg. 120
Do Readers Make Meaning?, pg. 149
Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction, pg. 165
The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics, pg. 183
Toward A Sociology Of Reading, pg. 205
"What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing, pg. 241
Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism, pg. 264
Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds, pg. 293
Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel, pg. 325
Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction, pg. 350
The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme, pg. 371
Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 401
Notes On Contributors, pg. 425
Subject Index, pg. 429
Index Of Names, pg. 435
