The Rhetoric of Fiction¶
Booth, W. C. (1961). The Rhetoric of Fiction. University of Chicago Press.
Cited by¶
2 citations across 2 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Unreliable Narrator
- Literature and narrative theory — the origin (Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction); the reader learns to read through a narrator's distortion toward the implied author's signal.
This sourceCoins the unreliable narrator, defining the reader's task of reading through a narrator's distortion toward the implied author's signal — the origin of the prime.
- Literature and narrative theory — the origin (Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction); the reader learns to read through a narrator's distortion toward the implied author's signal.
Domain-specific¶
- Implied Reader
- Iser's concept is the reader-side analogue of Wayne Booth's implied author: as the implied author is the image of the writer the text projects, the implied reader is the image of the receiver the text requires
This sourceBooth's introduction of the implied author - the image of the writer a text projects, held distinct from its actual author - which supplies one term of the analogy the sentence draws.
- Iser's concept is the reader-side analogue of Wayne Booth's implied author: as the implied author is the image of the writer the text projects, the implied reader is the image of the receiver the text requires
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