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1 online resource (172 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
TEXT TO READERA COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO FOWLES, BARTH, CORTÁZAR AND BOON; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. THE NOVEL AS ACT AND EXPERIENCE; CHAPTER II. JOHN FOWLES'S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN; CHAPTER III. JOHN BARTH'S LETTERS; CHAPTER IV. JULIOCORTÁZAR'SLIBRO DE MANUEL; CHAPTER V. LOUIS PAUL BOON'S DE KAPELLEKENSBAAN; CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY. |
| Summary |
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine how violations of these expectations rule the reader's relationship to the novel. The theory sketched in the first chapter is then, in four subsequent chapters, applied to The French Lieutenant's Woman by the English author John Fowles, Letters by the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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20th century |
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Reader-response criticism.
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Reader-response criticism. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Haen, Theo d'.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: D'haen, Theo. Text to Reader : A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortazar, and Boon. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1983 9789027221919 |
| ISBN |
9789027280244 (electronic book) |
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902728024X (electronic book) |
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1283424738 |
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9781283424738 |
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