A Mad Trapper's Examination of Reader Response and Reception Theory - Couverture souple

Pomeroy, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1987922123 ISBN 13 : 9781987922127

Editeur : Bear's Carvery, 2015

Synopsis

I ground this reading of reader-oriented criticism in a particular text, Rudy Wiebe’s The Mad Trapper. Positioning this novel as representative of the contradictory characteristics of all texts--”always already” open to multiple interpretations--I use these multiple readings both to examine and undermine the novel and Reader Response/Reception theory. Situating and problematizing my own discourse by examining its pedagogically-questionable origin, I begin my reading of both Reader Response and the novel with a Phenomenological investigation into intentionality and the construction of the reader’s consciousness. I then move to a reading of Reception theory which, by examining The Mad Trapper’s textual conditions of production and dissemination to the reading public, works to undermine Phenomenology’s problematic stance. Since both of these theoretical readings are premised upon notions of a unified and coherent self, I further explore their implications by discussing at first general theories of subjectivity and The Mad Trapper, and then finally making a reading of both Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and The Mad Trapper. I intend that this multiple reading of both theory and text, by utilizing interpretation’s inherent yet often unacknowledged multiplicity, undermines the dominant objective and authoritative interpretation of traditional critical practice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barry Pomeroy is the author of several novels and almost as many collections of short stories. He received his PhD. from the University of Manitoba in 2000 although he refuses to let that be a limitation. He is an itinerant English professor, boat designer and builder, traveller, carver, sometimes mechanic, carpenter, and web designer. As a writer he is responsible for the novel Naked in the Road and the scandalous short story collection The Bloody History of the Fertile Crescent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bear's Carvery
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1987922123
• ISBN 13: 9781987922127
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 156
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