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... reader . For this reason the Booth - Ferry notion of an actual reader nec- essarily transformed " for the sake of the experience " into the poem's ideal reader seems to me different in form but not in substance from the ar- gument of ...
... reader . For this reason the Booth - Ferry notion of an actual reader nec- essarily transformed " for the sake of the experience " into the poem's ideal reader seems to me different in form but not in substance from the ar- gument of ...
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... reader " until it sounds more like the " implied reader " described by Iser . Fish's reader can take no part of the poem , no voice in the poem , as definitive of how he should think or feel . Instead he must actively seek to harmo ...
... reader " until it sounds more like the " implied reader " described by Iser . Fish's reader can take no part of the poem , no voice in the poem , as definitive of how he should think or feel . Instead he must actively seek to harmo ...
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... reader . In my view , the invention of a supposed seventeenth - century reader is not only fallacious but , in its effect on many modern readers , unfortunate , since it asks us to inhibit our own responses in favor of certain official ...
... reader . In my view , the invention of a supposed seventeenth - century reader is not only fallacious but , in its effect on many modern readers , unfortunate , since it asks us to inhibit our own responses in favor of certain official ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton