Keyword

implied author

Description: A literary-theoretical construct representing the authorial presence or set of values inferred by readers from a text.

Primary topic: Narrative Theory and Analysis (42%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1419339

OpenAlex ID: keywords/implied-author

The Remains of the Day and its challenges to theories of unreliable narration

1994 · Karolle Lynn Wall · 162

The Implied Author

2006 · Tom Kindt, Hans-Harald Müller · De Gruyter eBooks · 145

The Implied Author: Concept and Controversy

2006 · Tom Kindt, Hans-Harald Müller · 105

Historicizing Unreliable Narration: Unreliability and Cultural Discourse in Narrative Fiction

2001 · Bruno Zerweck · Style · 90

Free Indirect Discourse and Narrative Authority in Emma

2004 · Daniel P Gunn · Narrative · 82

Authorial intentions and metaphor comprehension

1991 · Raymond W. Gibbs, Julia M. Kushner, et al. · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · 79

The translation pact

2014 · Cecilia Alvstad · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 77

Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film

1995 · Gregory Currie · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 77

A social interaction model of reading∗

1981 · Bertram Bruce · Discourse Processes · 75

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Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?

2007 · Wayne C. Booth · Blackwell Publishing Ltd eBooks · 73

Collective Authorship in Film

2007 · C. PAUL SELLORS · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 71

Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature

1995 · Clinton Machann · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 69

Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors

1987 · Robert Stecker · Philosophy and literature · 69

Gulliver and the Gentle Reader

2021 · Claude RAWSON · E-rea · 67

Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel

2007 · Dorothy J Hale · Narrative · 62

Reconsidering the unreliable narrator

2007 · Per Krogh Hansen · Semiotica · 59

Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914

2017 · Tess Cosslett · Routledge eBooks · 57

Intratextuality, Extratextuality, Intertextuality: Unreliability in Autobiography versus Fiction

2007 · Dan Shen, Dejin Xu · Poetics Today · 48

Traditional Chinese fiction and fiction commentary: reading and writing between the lines

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 43

Interpretation. An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism

1983 · Gerhard P. Knapp, P. D. Juhl · The German Quarterly · 40

Evaluative stance and counterfactuals in language and literature

2007 · Jennifer Riddle Harding · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 39

Renaissance eines anthropomorphisierten Passepartouts oder Nachruf auf ein literaturkritisches Phantom? Überlegungen und Alternativen zum Konzept des “implied author”

1993 · Ansgar Nünning · Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte · 38

(Un)Reliability in Narrative Discourse: A Comprehensive Overview

2015 · Meir Sternberg, Tamar Yacobi · Poetics Today · 37

Historical and Implied Authors and Readers

1993 · William Nelles · Comparative Literature · 36

Introduction. The Implied Author: Back from the Grave or Simply Dead Again?

2011 · Brian Richardson · Style · 34

Works count: 1,404

Citation count: 3,526