Confession and Complicity in Narrative

Klappentext What is the precise relationship between the writer of a text and the reader? This 1987 text tackles this question. Zusammenfassung In this 1987 text! Professor Foster argues that readers enter into complicity with writers and create the illusion of the writer's mastery over meaning in order to imagine themselves as masters and become writers in their own place. This dynamic model of the reading process is revealed most tellingly in 'confessional' narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. The confessional turn; 2. Three exemplary readings: the endless confession: Augustine's Confessions, a paradigm of passion: Kierkegaard's Diary of a Seducer, confession and revenge: James's 'Figure in the Carpet'; 3. The embroidered sin: confessional evasion in The Scarlet Letter; 4. Love's androgynous advocates: design and desire in Absalom, Absalom!; 5. All here is sin: the obligation in The Unnamable; 6. Conclusion: the web; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Foster, Dennis A. Foster, Foster Dennis A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521177320
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17732-0
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory