Barry Pomeroy

A Mad Trapper's Examination of Reader Response and Reception Theory (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this project I ground my 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 Mad Trapper 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 Mad Trapper 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barry Pomeroy
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781987922332
• Artikelnr.: 70623093

Autorenporträt

Barry Pomeroy is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, academic, essayist, travel writer, and editor. He is primarily interested in science fiction, speculative science fiction, dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction, although he has also written travelogues, poetry, book-length academic treatments, and more literary novels. His other interests range from astrophysics to materials science, from child-rearing to construction, from cognitive therapy to paleoanthropology.