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Intimate, intrusive, and triumphant

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Title Intimate, intrusive, and triumphant : readers in the Liaisons dangereuses / Peter V. Conroy, Jr.
Publisher Amsterdam
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Creation Date 1987
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content INTIMATE, INTRUSIVE, AND TRIUMPHANT Readers in the Liaisons dangereuses
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface Pentecost: The Feast of the Reader
1. Introduction to the Fictional Reader
Definition of the Fictional Reader
Editeur, Rédacteur, and Mme de Rosemonde
The Postal System: Privileging the Addressee
Reading : The Power of the Word
2. A Theory of Fictional Readers and Their Reading
Awareness of the Reader
The Bonds of Confidence
Receiving and Responding
The Dangers of Reading
Writing/Reading: The Ultimate Act
3. Hidden Readers
Valmont: The Reader as Thief
The Invited Intruder: Mme de Merteuil
4. Split Personalities: Characterizing Writers and Readers
Cécile Volanges
Mme deVolanges
The Chevalier Danceny
Mme deRosemonde
5. Writer vs. Reader: The Struggle for Power
The Written Battle Lines
The Readerly Armageddon
The Moral Reader
Notes
Selected Bibliography
The Text
Secondary Readings
Series Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743
v. 23
Extent 1 online resource (151 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010707482205171
MARC RECORDS
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