The reader in the text : essays on audience and interpretation / edited by Susan R. Suleiman and Inge Crosman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939- editor.

Wimmers, Inge Crosman, 1940- editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 617

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reader-response criticism.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism / Suleiman, Susan R.

Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading / Culler, Jonathan

Reading As Construction / Todorov, Tzvetan

The Reading Of Fictional Texts / Stierle, Karlheinz

Interaction Between Text And Reader / lser, Wolfgang

The Readerhood Of Man / Brooke-Rose, Christine

Do Readers Make Meaning? / Crosman, Robert

Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction / Schor, Naomi

The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics / Maranda, Pierre

Toward A Sociology Of Reading / Leenhardt, Jacques

"What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing / Rabinowitz, Peter J.

Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism / Bauschatz, Cathleen M.

Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds / Marin, Louis

Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel / Beaujour, Michel

Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction / Holland, Norman N.

The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme / Mistacco, Vicki

Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism / Crosman, Inge

Notes On Contributors

Subject Index

Index Of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-691-64322-9

1-4008-5711-2

OCLC:

922709482