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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation
Contributors:
By (Author) Susan Rubin Suleiman
Edited by Inge Crosman
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
801.95
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
452
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
624g
Description
A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of international scholars raises fundamental questions about the status--be it rhetorical, semiotic
