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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation - Suleiman, Susan Rubin (Editor), and Crosman, Inge (Editor)
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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 and structuralist, phenomenological, subjective and psychoanalytic, sociological and historical, or hermeneutic--of the audience in relation to a literary or artistic text. ...

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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691643229

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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691615844

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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation 1980, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691100968

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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation 1980, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691064369

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