{"product_id":"the-implied-reader-9780801821509","title":"The Implied Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Bunyan's \u003ci\u003ePilgram's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e: The Doctrime of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Role of the Reader in Fielding's \u003ci\u003eJoseph Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTom Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's \u003ci\u003eHumphry Clinker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Fiction—The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's \u003ci\u003eWaverley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic novek: Esthetic Effects in Thackery's \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Self-Reduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of \"The Oxen of the Sun: in James joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Patterns of Communication in Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: \u003ci\u003eA Heritage and Its History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach\u003cbr\u003eName Index\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49938085937495,"sku":"9780801821509","price":24.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801821509.jpg?v=1738719427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-implied-reader-9780801821509","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}