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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461837103321

Autore

Haen Theo d'

Titolo

Text to reader [[electronic resource] ] : a communicative approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortázar and Boon / / Theo D'Haen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983

ISBN

1-283-42473-8

9786613424730

90-272-8024-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature = Utrechtse Publikaties voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap (UPAL) ; ; v. 16

Disciplina

809.3/04

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Reader-response criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,