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Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Hidden Reader
• Author: Victor Brombert
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9780674731554
• ISBN: 0674731557
• ID: 11454461
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 1988

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