The Implied Reader

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

Wolfgang Iser1974
"When the present flurry of works on theory of narrative fiction comes to an end ... this seems likely to be one of the survivors."-Frank Kermode, Times Literary Supplement."Well-written, scholarly, perceptive... . A basic framework for a rational theory of literary effects and responses based on the novel."-Library Journal.
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