Writer’s Authority, Reader’s Autonomy in Italo Calvino’s "If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller"


Research Paper (postgraduate), 2012

29 Pages, Grade: 1.0


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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

What happens when Readers take over?

Praise for the ‘natural’ Reader/Criticism of Academic Reading

Narrative Strategy: Desire and Frustration of Readers’ Expectations

Textual Play: Reflections on Literature and Language

Last Page: Where authorial Control ends

Projection of the Author: Silas Flannery

Critique of the Culture Industry

Power of Literature versus Poverty of Language

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Title
Writer’s Authority, Reader’s Autonomy in Italo Calvino’s "If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller"
College
Durham University
Grade
1.0
Author
Year
2012
Pages
29
Catalog Number
V431158
ISBN (eBook)
9783668750494
ISBN (Book)
9783668750500
File size
578 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night, deconstruction, signifier, signified, role of the reader, role of the author, postmodern, Derrida, differance, Roland Barthes, post-structuralist, narrative strategy, ontological confusion, death of the author
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Dr. Sabine Mercer (Author), 2012, Writer’s Authority, Reader’s Autonomy in Italo Calvino’s "If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/431158

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