What is the precise relationship between the writer of a text and
the reader? Contributions to reader-response theory have suggested
that the reader is relatively passive. In this 1987 text, Professor
Foster argues that the relationship is more complex than that:
readers enter into complicity with writers and create the illusion
of the writer's mastery over meaning in order to imagine themselves
as masters and become writers in their own place. This dynamic
model of the reading process is revealed most tellingly in
'confessional' narratives and so Professor Foster explores the
complex patterns of the reader/writer symbiosis in texts by
Augustine, Kierkegaard, Henry James, Hawthorne, Faulkner, and
Beckett. What emerges is a fresh theory of reading literature: the
engagement between writer and reader as a struggle for power in
which the reader is actively complicit and self-conscious in his or
her interpretations.
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