Poetics of Reading

by Inge Crosman Wimmers

What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," here, is extended beyond the study of purely textual features to structures of exchange between text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691604304
• ISBN13: 9780691604305
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"