Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!

Become a Readings Member. Sign in or sign up for free!

Textual Exile: The Reader in Sterne and Foscolo
Hardback

Textual Exile: The Reader in Sterne and Foscolo

$180.99
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to your wishlist.

An author writes with a certain type of reader in mind. Determining the identity of this implicit reader serves to reveal a text’s strategies and meaning. Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and Ugo Foscolo’s linguistically faithful Italian translation of it have different implicit readers, and hence radically different meanings. Unlike Sterne, who could be relatively confident of the competence of his English readers, Foscolo, because of the political, cultural, and linguistic fragmentation of the Italy of his time, addressed a reader of uncertain status, both in his translation and in his own earlier novel, Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis. These works are characterized by dialogical tensions that revolve around the postulation of different implicit readers. Therefore, a reader-oriented analysis is particularly illuminating in deciphering them. Conversely, the works themselves constitute an account and an illumination of the importance of the problem of readership in literary criticism.

In Shop
Out of stock
Shipping & Delivery

$9.00 standard shipping within Australia
FREE standard shipping within Australia for orders over $100.00
Express & International shipping calculated at checkout

MORE INFO
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Date
31 December 1985
Pages
283
ISBN
9780820401683

An author writes with a certain type of reader in mind. Determining the identity of this implicit reader serves to reveal a text’s strategies and meaning. Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and Ugo Foscolo’s linguistically faithful Italian translation of it have different implicit readers, and hence radically different meanings. Unlike Sterne, who could be relatively confident of the competence of his English readers, Foscolo, because of the political, cultural, and linguistic fragmentation of the Italy of his time, addressed a reader of uncertain status, both in his translation and in his own earlier novel, Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis. These works are characterized by dialogical tensions that revolve around the postulation of different implicit readers. Therefore, a reader-oriented analysis is particularly illuminating in deciphering them. Conversely, the works themselves constitute an account and an illumination of the importance of the problem of readership in literary criticism.

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Date
31 December 1985
Pages
283
ISBN
9780820401683