The implied author: concept and controversy
Edition: 1 Auflage.
Series: Narratologia -- 9
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783110189483
Subjects: Literature, Criticism; OUR Brockhaus selection
Description: This book addresses itself to the concept of the implied author, which has been the cause of controversy in cultural studies for some fifty years. The opening chapters examine the introduction of the concept in Wayne C. Booth's "Rhetoric of Fiction" and the discussion of the concept in narratology and in the theory and practice of interpretation. The final chapter develops proposals for clarifying or replacing the concept.