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

by Wolfgang Iser and Professor Wolfgang Iser

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080181569X
• ISBN13: 9780801815690
• Release Date: September 1974
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.