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

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

Wolfgang Iser

318 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction reflective medium-paced
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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 fictio...

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