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is he whose birth must come at the cost of the death of the author.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. (Roland Barthes)

is implied by the text and is begged to participate in sythesizing it, indeed living it, insofar as texts leave great portions unexplained to the reader, whether as gaps in the narrative or as structural limits of the text's representation of the world.

For Iser, the reader does not mine out an objective meaning hidden within the text. Rather, literature generates effects of meaning for the reader in a virtual space created between reader and text. Although reader and text assume similar conventions from reality, texts leave great portions unexplained to the reader, whether as gaps in the narrative or as structural limits of the text's representation of the world. This basic indeterminacy 'implies' the reader and begs her participation in synthesizing, and indeed living, events of meaning throughout the process of reading.'(net)

is responsible for a text's unity. Textual unity lies not in its origin but in its destination.

The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost... a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. (Barthes 1977 : 148)

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

is capable of making the only valid tribute to the thought of a great thinker; namely, to use it, to deform it, to make it groan and protest.

I prefer to utilise the writers I like. The only valid tribute to thought such as Nietzsche's is precisely to use it, to deform it, to make it groan and protest. And if commentators then say that I am being faithful or unfaithful to Nietzsche, that is of absolutely no interest.

is that which has been exterminated by politics and novels. Urgent entertainment and the pursuit of immediate effects have destroyed what was formerly a painstaking regard for design and a slow intensity of apprehension. The eye now seizes on a crime or a disaster, then flits away.

Politics and novels have exterminated that reader. The pursuit of immediate effects and of urgent entertainment has eliminated from writing all that painstaking regard for design, and from reading all that slow intensity of apprehension. The eye now seizes on a crime or a disaster, then flits away. (valery 'i sometimes said to stephane mallarme' : 96)

is the addressee for whom the literary work is primarily destined.

the addressee for whom the literary work is primarily destined' (164)

is, while reading, in fact the reader of his own self.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

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