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Book SynopsisA reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of international scholars raises fundamental questions about the status--be it rhetorical, semiotic
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 1*Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading, pg. 46*Reading As Construction, pg. 67*The Reading Of Fictional Texts, pg. 83*Interaction Between Text And Reader, pg. 106*The Readerhood Of Man, pg. 120*Do Readers Make Meaning?, pg. 149*Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction, pg. 165*The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics, pg. 183*Toward A Sociology Of Reading, pg. 205*"What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing, pg. 241*Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism, pg. 264*Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds, pg. 293*Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel, pg. 325*Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction, pg. 350*The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme, pg. 371*Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism, pg. 401*Notes On Contributors, pg. 425*Subject Index, pg. 429*Index Of Names, pg. 435
