Poetics of Reading /

What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wimmers, Inge Crosman, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
French fiction.
Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Roman français > Histoire et critique.
Roman.
French fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. Frames of Reference and the Reader
  • TWO. Rewriting vraisemblance in La Princesse de Cleves
  • THREE. Madame Bovary or the Dangers of Misreading
  • FOUR. Proust's Palimpsest: Multiple Frames of Reference in A la recherche du temps perdu
  • FIVE. Toward a Reflexive Act of Reading: Robbe-Grillet'S Projet pour une revolution a New York
  • SIX. Conclusion: New Directions in the Reading of Narrative Fiction
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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