The Implied Reader¶
Iser, W. (1974). The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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- Wolfgang Iser introduced the implied reader in The Implied Reader (1974) and The Act of Reading (1978), arguing that a literary text builds into itself the role its reader must occupy
This sourceThe book that gives the term its name, developing the reader's constructed role through readings from Bunyan to Beckett; the companion statement of the concept is in The Act of Reading. Iser's chapter on the reader's role in Fielding, read together with the phenomenological essay on the reading process in the same volume; the Leerstellen apparatus itself is theorised in The Act of Reading.
- Wolfgang Iser introduced the implied reader in The Implied Reader (1974) and The Act of Reading (1978), arguing that a literary text builds into itself the role its reader must occupy
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