The Implied Reader

Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett

By: Wolfgang Iser

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Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances aring 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 Thackery to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses.

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 the perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: The Doctrine of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel	p. 1
The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones	p. 29
The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker	p. 57
Fiction--The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley	p. 81
The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic Novel: Esthetic Effects in Thackeray's Vanity Fair	p. 101
Self-Reduction	p. 121
The Self-Communication of Subjectivity in Autobiographical Fiction. W. M. Thackeray: Henry Esmond	p. 123
Perception, Temporality, and Action as Modes of Subjectivity. W. Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury	p. 136
The Unpredictability of Subjectivity. I. Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History	p. 152
Subjectivity as the Autogenous Cancellation of Its Own Manifestations. S. Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable	p. 164
Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses	p. 179
Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses	p. 196
Myth and Reality	p. 196
Experiments in Style	p. 200
The Function of the Experiments in Style	p. 225
The Archetypes	p. 227
The Reader's Quest and the Formation of Illusion	p. 231
Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History	p. 234
When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett	p. 257
The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach	p. 274
Name Index	p. 295
Subject Index	p. 299
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