Poetics of reading : approaches to the novel / Inge Crosman Wimmers

Wimmers, Inge Crosman (1940-)

ISBN 10: 0691067422 / ISBN 13: 9780691067421

Published by Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 202 p. Subject: La Fayette Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634-1693. Princesse de Clèves. Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880. Madame Bovary. 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetics of reading : approaches to the novel / Inge Crosman Wimmers
• Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691067422
• ISBN 13: 9780691067421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 3 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," here, is extended beyond the study of purely textual features to structures of exchange between text and reader. In a discussion of four major French novels from the seventeenth century to the present, the author not only sets up a broad-based poetics but also makes important contributions to contemporary issues in the study of narrative. Wimmers introduces the concept of multiple, interlocking frames of reference that allows for the integration of diverse critical perspectives. Analyzing La Princesse de Cleves, Madame Bovary, A la recherche du temps perdu, and Projet pour une revolution a New York, she shows how texts provide some frames of reference, while others are produced by the reader's disposition and cultural milieu.

Originally published in 1989.

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About the Author

Inge Crosman Wimmers is a professor of French Studies at Brown University.