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

摘要: Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms stimulates them to assess criticize surroundings. By analyzing major works English fiction ranging Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, Thackeray Joyce Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for theory such literary effects aesthetic responses. Iser's focus is on theme discovery, whereby reader given chance recognize deficiencies his existence suggested solutions counterbalance them. The content form this discovery calculated response -- implied reader. In discovering expectations presuppositions that underlie all perceptions, learns "read" himself as he does text.