Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome.' Life Writing, 13 (4). pp. 415-430.
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Abstract
This essay builds on the work of Wolfgang Iser, Janice Radway, E. H. Gombrich, and other theorists of reading to argue for a new approach to the reading encounter, which I call vested reading. Vested reading is a means of engaging with the literary text in a way that reads the self into the book one holds in one's hands while also attending to issues of literary form. I turn to Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome and its popular reception in order to flesh out my understanding of vested reading as a practice that realigns life-worlds, while reconstructing the world of the text in ways relevant to readers’ lives.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Anthropology of literature; reader-response theory; Edith Wharton; women’s studies; marriage; divorce; Wolfgang Iser; Janice Radway; E. H. Gombrich |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 17512964 |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the version of the article accepted for publication in Life Writing, 13 (4). pp. 415-430 (2016), published by Taylor and Francis. Re-use is subject to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.1124742 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 08:26 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40494 |
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