The Implied Reader

Acknowlegments ix Introduction xi 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 29(28) Joseph Andrews Tom Jones The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker 57(24) Fiction --- The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley 81(20) The Reader as a Component part of the Realistic Novel: Esthetic Effects in Thackeray's Vanity Fair 101(20) Self: Reduction 121(58) The Self-Communication of Subjectivity in Autobiographical Fiction. 123(13) W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond Perception, Temporality, and Action as Modes of Subjectivity. W. Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury W. Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 136(16) The Unpredictability of Subjectivity. I. Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History 152(12) Subjectivity as the Autogenous Cancellation of Its Own Manifestations. 164(15) S. Beckett Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of ``The Oxen of the Sun'' in James Joyce's Ulysses 179(17) Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses 196(38) Myth and Reality 196(4) Experiments in Style 200(25) The Function of the Experiments in Style 225(2) The Archetypes 227(4) The Reader's Quest and the Formation of Illusion 231(3) Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History 234(23) When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett 257(17) The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach 274(21) Name Index 295(4) Subject Index 299