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).