Implied author (Rhetoric)
- Here are entered works on a literary work's creative presence, imagined by the reader, distinct from the author or narrator.
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found: Work cat.: 2006027757: The implied author, 2006.
found: A dictionary of literary and thematic terms, 1999(coined by the critic Wayne Booth to describe the "second self" of the author, the one that exists only as the creative presence governing a narrative ... stands behind the scenes, whether as stage manager, or puppeteer, or as an indifferent God... [not] the same as the actual historical [author])
found: A handbook to literature, 1980(sense of a human presence presenting the materials of a literary work to the reader... [an] idealized version of the real author)
found: A glossary of contemporary literary theory, 1992(the picture of a creating author behind a literary work that the reader builds up)
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- Here are entered works on a literary work's creative presence, imagined by the reader, distinct from the author or narrator.
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Change Notes
2006-09-21: new
2006-09-22: revised
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