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The Implied Author: A Secular Excommunication

Style, 2011
Abstract This essay argues that the implied author (IA) is a construction by a reader who is seeking a god-like form of legitimation for his or her interpretation. Part one develops the analogy between the IA and God by zooming in on the work of Wayne Booth. Part two is more down to earth.
Herman, Luc, Vervaeck, Bart
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IMPLIED AUTHOR AND IMPLIED READER IN ROCOCO NOVEL

Human Being: Image and Essence. Humanitarian Aspects, 2020
The article concerns the forms and functions of the implied author and the implied reader in the novels by Lesage, Prevost, Marivaux, Crébillon, Bibiena, Diderot, Defoe, Fielding and Stern. Referring to the narrative on behalf of the hero, which is mainly used in the Rococo novel, as well as the narrative from the author in Fielding's novels equally ...
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A Hypothetical Implied Author

Style, 2011
Abstract Surveys the most important of the recent critical debates over the implied author and argues for retaining a fairly conservative version of Booth's original model of the concept, as enhanced by two supplemental principles of interpretation, hypothetical intentionalism and limited pluralism.
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What is the Implied Author?

Style, 2011
Abstract The concept of the implied author (IA) proposed by Wayne C. Booth half a century ago has aroused heated critical debate. This paper offers a defense of Booth's concept, arguing that it is basically free from the theoretical contradictions alleged by many commentators who, for various reasons, have missed what the concept ...
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Meaning, Intent, and the Implied Author

Style, 2011
Abstract The implied author has been assigned three major functions: 1. The implied author is a necessary parameter in the communicative model of literary narrative fiction. 2. The implied author is a design principle, responsible for the narrative techniques and the plot of the text.
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Six Ways Not to Save the Implied Author

Style, 2011
Abstract Our paper addresses six dominant ways to understand Wayne C. Booth's concept of the implied author. Consecutively, we discuss and refuse the proposals that the concept should be taken as denoting either an aid to the description of empirical reception processes, a participant of communication, or a postulated subject behind ...
Tom Kindt, Hans-Harald Müller
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Life, Literature, and the Implied Author

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 1980
The aim of this paper is to show that, contrary to a widely held view, fictional literary works which express or imply certain propositions make genuine assertions. Hence if a work expresses or implies certain propositions, the corresponding beliefs are properly attributable, not to the so-called “implied author” (Booth), but to the real historical ...
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Historical and Implied Authors and Readers

Comparative Literature, 1993
N A SENSE all narrative is embedded, the narrative itself existing at the center of a series of real and fictional agents who present it and receive it. A narrative is narrated by a narrator to a narratee, and the study of these relations is one proper focus of a narratological essay.
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3 Exit IA? Possibilities for Explicating the Implied Author

2006
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The Implied Author: An Agnostic Manifesto

Style, 2011
Abstract Rather than taking a specific position vis-à-vis the implied author, this “manifesto” proposes a set of principles that, in turn, suggest a different approach to the question. The eight (sequential) propositions I offer are meant to speak to theorists on both sides of the IA divide. In the end, I call for an empirical inquiry
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