The Girl Who Prospered: The Implied Author as an Integrative Hermeneutic Device in Angela Carter's "The Werewolf"

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Girl Who Prospered: The Implied Author as an Integrative Hermeneutic Device in Angela Carter's "The Werewolf"

Original language description

This paper describes a reader-response survey focused on the perception of reliability of narration in Angela Carter's short story "The Werewolf." The ethical evaluation of the main protagonist by the readers indicated that a low degree of determinacy of the implied author combined with a matter-of-fact third person narration used by Carter might lead most readers to accept the narrative at face value despite a relatively large amount of textual evidence to the contrary. Readers construe the implied author to use as an integrative hermeneutic device according to their particular tastes, interpretative strategies and personalities. This inference then guides them in their attitude towards the reliability of the account given and, ultimately, enables them to form their own interpretation of the story. This paper does not intend to postulate the implied author in the Boothian sense as the key to unlocking the "most correct" meaning of the text, but rather as a cognitive device utilized by the reader to actualize the textual form and achieve enjoyment tailored to their own identity.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

44-49

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