...Dan Shen This essay explores how to infer from a text the image of the implied author. It examines Kate Chopin's “Désirée's Baby” (1893), which has been widely regarded as an indictment of racism but which an “overall consideration” of the implied author's choices will lead us to see as a racist...

...H. Porter Abbott From a cognitivist perspective, I defend the utility of the implied author for the interpretation of fictional texts that support more than one intentional reading. David Herman (2008) provides a foil in his opposition to the implied author as object-like source and his promotion...

...Meir Sternberg; Tamar Yacobi 1 The State of the Art: A Field in Trouble. 2 (Un)Reliable Discourse off to a Stimulating Equivocal Start: Why Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Falls Short and Where to Go from There: 2.1 Stammering between Narrator and Implied Author, or, Why the Author Needs...

...; the second is that such a “contextualist narratology” necessarily requires the category of the “implied author.” By contrast, we argue that the “contextualists” can state convincing reasons neither for a change of narratology's aims nor for a necessary widening of its object domain. Finally, we demonstrate...

...Tamar Yacobi Interpretive disputes about the text's implied normative framework (its aesthetics, ideology, reality-model) involve the reliability of the fictive narrator who mediates between interpreter and implied author. Narrative and normative reconstruction must go together. But how...

...Dan Shen In many fictional narratives, especially shorter ones, the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs at a deeper and hidden level throughout the text. I designate this undercurrent as “covert progression” and investigate how the implied author creates...

... situation. Then it goes on to discuss two contrasting approaches to fictional unreliability, the rhetorical and the cognitivist or constructivist. The rhetorical approach deals, in an idealized way, with the gap between the narrator and the implied author and is only concerned with the “implied...

... by a love quest, belong to the more conventionally autobiographic genre of the personal memoir. The fiction of the Commedia is that the biography of its fictional protagonist is the author's autobiography. The same principle, which challenges the narratological distinction among real author, implied author...

... not entirely add up—a weakness, so long as one treats the Search as a treatise—that the implied author can produce the training effect, one which gives his novel its ultimate strength. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Anderson, Lanier, and Joshua Landy 2001 “Philosophy...

... on moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even generic assumptions shared with the reader: these allow the latter either to see the narrator as “reliable” and to develop a feeling of rapport with him or her or to easily assume the existence of an implied author who manipulates thenarrator for his or her...

... of cultural-semantic analysis necessary to understand 300 . The article then reads the overt plot and analyzes the narrator’s voice to assess distances between implied reader/author, narrator, and characters, which previous criticism has established. Next, the article analyzes the covert progression...

... but, rather, specific forms of conduct. Within George’s development, this implies a shift away from the earlier monologue of the soul to dialogical forms of speech. Jürgen Wertheimer (1978: 134–40) has investigatedtheinterplayofself-addressandaddressestotheotherand divine authority. Taking into account...

... sometimes convey stories autonomously. The author argues based on a choice of photographs that inducing suspense or curiosity is possible even through a monochronic picture. The article also shows how single pictures induce experiences of duration or instantaneity, concluding that single monochronic...

... authors of the twentieth century, including Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Brodsky. The list of missing authors is very impressive. However, the KGB and the Central Committee documents imply that samizdat is close to achieving some sort of critical mass and then it might cause real damage...

... of the Implied Author: Why Bother?” in Phelan Rabinowitz 2005 : 75 – 88 . Brooks Peter 1984 Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative ( New York : Knopf ). Chopin Kate 1976 [1893] “Désirée's Baby,” in The Awakening and Selected Short Stories of Kate...

.... that of the narrator in relation to the telling, to the told, and to the audience . . . ; 3. that of the implied author in relation to the telling, the told, and the authorial audience . . . ; 4. that of the flesh-and-blood reader in relation to the set of values, beliefs, and [ethi- cal] locations...

... umstrittenen Begriffs , edited by Fotis Jannidis,Gerhard Lauer, Matias Martinez, and Simone Winko, 273 -87 (Tübingen: Niemeyer). n.d. “ The `Implied Author': Explication and Use of a Controversial Concept .” Available on-line at www.narrport.uni-hamburg.de .(Shortened, English-language version of Kindt...

... Nachruf auf ein literaturkritisches Phantom? Überlegungen und Alternativen zum Konzept des implied Author,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 67 (1): 1 -25. 1997 “Deconstructing and Reconceptualizing the`Implied Author': The Resurrection...

... Press). Petsch, Robert 1934 Wesen und Formen der Erzählkunst (Halle/Saale: Niemeyer). 1942 Wesen und Formen der Erzählkunst, 2d ed. (Halle/Saale: Niemeyer). Prince, Gerald 1987 “Implied Author,” in A Dictionary of Narratology , 42 -43 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...

... and Troping: Allegories of the Transnational Intellectual in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions ,” in Willey and Treiber 2002a: 251 -70. Booth, Wayne C. 1983 [1961] The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 2005 “Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother...