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The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
01 Jan 1974-
TL;DR: Iser as mentioned in this paper analyzed major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray to Joyce and Beckett, and provided a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses.
Abstract: Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray to Joyce and Beckett, renowned critic Wolfgang Iser here provides a framework for a theory of such literary effects and aesthetic responses. Iser's focus is on the theme of discovery, whereby the reader is given the chance to recognize the deficiencies of his own existence and the suggested solutions to counterbalance them. The content and form of this discovery is the calculated response of the reader -- the implied reader. In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all his perceptions, the reader learns to "read" himself as he does the text.
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TL;DR: A methodology that practice-based screenwriters can employ to remodel an existing character framework for the writing of a commercially viable anti-heroine teleplay is proposed.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a methodology that practice-based screenwriters can employ to remodel an existing character framework for the writing of a commercially viable anti-heroine telep...
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TL;DR: In this article, the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v034/34.2.html.
Abstract: This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v034/34.2.lester.html.
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01 Jul 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the shifts and continuities in the construction of security in the post-communist period and provided an insight into the reasons and the ways in which the dominant discourse of security and foreign policy of the Albanian state shifted in 1997 from a an emphasis on the nation and national sovereignty into a liberal discourse which emphasized the economy and the region.
Abstract: This thesis explores the shifts and continuities in the construction of security in the post-communist period. The thesis provides an insight into the reasons and the ways in which the dominant discourse of security and foreign policy of the Albanian state shifted in 1997 from a an emphasis on the ‘nation’ and ‘national sovereignty’ into a liberal discourse which emphasized the ‘economy’ and the ‘region’. The overarching question of the thesis is why did the Euro-Atlantic orientation become the hegemonic discourse of Albanian foreign and security policy in the post-1997 period? In order to find the answer for this question I will concentrate on the meanings that the Albanian political elites—and more specifically the two main governing parties, the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party— have attached to the notions of ‘national question’ and ‘Euro-Atlantic orientation’. The argument of the thesis is that the different articulations of ‘Euro-Atlantic orientation’ and of the ‘national interest’ have relied upon the elites’ different conceptions of self, that is, what constituted Albanianism. In turn, the political actors translate the basic identity narratives of the nation through their ideological/interpretative repertoires. The thesis builds on Discourse Theory and particularly the approach developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (1985) By incorporating notions of ‘identification strategies’, ‘interpretative repertoires’ and ‘myth’ into the framework of Lene Hansen and Ole Waever (2001), the thesis reveals the intricate interplay between the construction of state identity and of political identities in post-communist Albania.
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TL;DR: The authors explored how four male vehicle engineering students at an upper secondary school in Sweden engage in literature discussion and found that the boys use direct reported speech (DRS) in their interaction as a technique to handle intimate and personal dimensions in the text, but also to construct themselves as skilled readers.
Abstract: This article explores how four male vehicle engineering students at an upper secondary school in Sweden engage in literature discussion. The study combines a Conversation Analysis (CA) approach with a reception theory perspective and shows that the boys use direct reported speech (DRS) in their interaction as a technique to handle intimate and personal dimensions in the text, but also to construct themselves as skilled readers. Approaching the empirical data in this way makes it possible to go beyond the stereotyped images of (working class) boys presented in so many research papers and provide a more nuanced picture of boys’ reception pattern in a school context. Keywords: reading, literature reception, gender, literature discussion, school (Published: 1 June 2012) Citation: Education Inquiry Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2012, pp.243–257
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...In other words, the text has engaged Niklas’ imagination “in the task of working things out for himself” (Iser, 1974, p. 275), and he can construct a picture of Juha as a boy who lies about his sexuality simply because he wants to “have attention” (line 17)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that Byzantine literature has never had a good press, least of all from its own students, and they found support in the views of Romilly Jenkins: The Byzantine empire remains almost the unique example of a highly civilized state, lasting for more than a millennium, which produced hardly any educated writing which can be read with pleasure for its literary merit alone.
Abstract: In 1981 I noted that Byzantine literature has never had a good press, least of all from its own students. It was not hard to document this assertion. The opinion of Gibbon that not a single composition of history, philosophy or literature has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. Their prose is soaring to the vicious affectation of poetry, their poetry is sinking below the flatness and inspidity of prose might perhaps be expected, but it found support in the views of Romilly Jenkins: The Byzantine empire remains almost the unique example of a highly civilized state, lasting for more than a millennium, which produced hardly any educated writing which can be read with pleasure for its literary merit alone.
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