You might also like

More about Confession and Complicity in Narrative

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 115 loyalty points

Book synopsis

What is the precise relationship between the writer of a text and the reader? Contributions to reader-response theory have suggested that the reader is relatively passive. In this 1987 text, Professor Foster argues that the relationship is more complex than that: readers enter into complicity with writers and create the illusion of the writer's mastery over meaning in order to imagine themselves as masters and become writers in their own place. This dynamic model of the reading process is revealed most tellingly in 'confessional' narratives and so Professor Foster explores the complex patterns of the reader/writer symbiosis in texts by Augustine, Kierkegaard, Henry James, Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Beckett. What emerges is a fresh theory of reading literature: the engagement between writer and reader as a struggle for power in which the reader is actively complicit and self-conscious in his or her interpretations.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Confession and Complicity in Narrative
• Author: Dennis A. Foster
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9780521177320
• ISBN: 0521177324
• ID: 02024735
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 232 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. March 2011

Trending among others

---

---

---