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Publication details [#13280]

Mey, Jacob L. 1994. Edifying Archie or: How to Fool the Reader. In Parret, Herman, ed. Pretending to Communicate. (Foundations of communication and cognition). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 154–172.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

author | communication | discourse analysis | pretending | reading

Annotation

This article supports a dialectic view of the author-reader relationship, according to which the successful pretension to communicate constitutes a necessary condition of the creation of the 'fictional space' that several literary theoreticians have identified as the proper locus of literary activity.