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.<P>Iser's focus is on the theme of discovery, whereby the reader is given the chance to recognize the deficiencies of his own existence and the suggested solutions to counterbalance them. The content and form of this discovery is the calculated response of the reader -- the implied reader. In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all his perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text.
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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.
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John Bunyan's religious and sociological importance has long been a subject of great interest to literary critics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Humphry Clinker, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pilgrim's Progress, James Joyce, Vanity Fair, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Sir Edwin, Henry Esmond, Lady Booby, Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies, The Oxen of the Sun, Roman Ingarden, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Grove Press, Henry Fielding, Leopold Bloom, Palace Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Fiction, Tobias Smollett, Everyman's Library, Nathalie Sarraute New!
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John Bunyan's religious and sociological importance has long been a subject of great interest to literary critics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
configurative meaning, schematised views, sentence correlatives, certitudo salutis, imagination dead imagine, virtual dimension, passive hero, esthetic effect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Humphry Clinker, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pilgrim's Progress, James Joyce, Vanity Fair, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Sir Edwin, Henry Esmond, Lady Booby, Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies, The Oxen of the Sun, Roman Ingarden, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Grove Press, Henry Fielding, Leopold Bloom, Palace Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Fiction, Tobias Smollett, Everyman's Library, Nathalie Sarraute New!
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- Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry Fielding on 16 pages
- Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding on 15 pages
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray on 12 pages
- Vanity Fair (BBC) by William M Thackeray on 12 pages
- Heritage and Its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett on 12 pages
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- Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain by Barbara Simerka on page 11, and Back Matter
- Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood by J. A. Appleyard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Matthew's Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations and the Reader in Matthew 21:28-22:14 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Wesley G. Olmstead in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature, Theory, and Common Sense: (New French Thought) by Antoine Compagnon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (Blackwell Guides to Literature) by Gregory Castle on page 180, and page 232
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