- Der implizite Leser. Kommunikationsformen des
Romans von 
Bunyan bis Beckett. 
Theorie und Geschichte der Literatur und der schönen Künste.
Texte und 
Abhandlungen, Bd. 31. Uni-Taschenbucher; 163.  
Munich: 
Fink, 1972. 420pp. 
- 2d ed., 1979. 420pp. 
- Translated into English as The Implied Reader: 
Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett.  
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 
1974. xiv, 303pp.
 Contents:
 - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: The
Doctrine of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel:1-28.
 The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews 
and Tom Jones:29-56.
 
- The Generic
Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker:57-80.
 
- Fiction--The Filter of History: A Study of Walter Scott's Waverley:81-100.
 
- The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic Novel: Esthetic Effects in
Thackeray's Vanity Fair:101-120.
 
- Self-Reduction:121-178.
 
- Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses:179-195.
 
- Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses:196-233.
 
-  Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History:234-256.
 
- When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett:257-273.
 
- The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach:274-294.
 
- 2d ed., 1975. 
- John Hopkins paperback edition, 1978. xiv, 303pp. 
- Italian translation. Genova: Marietti (forthcoming).