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Readerly Closure

Readerly Closure is a narrative phenomenon in literary theory denoting the interpretive resolution achieved when a reader cognitively and emotionally satisfies the expectations set by a text’s structure, thereby distinguishing it from formal or ontological modes of closure that reside solely in the text or its material form.

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2017–2026

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Publications

15

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Jeremy Hawthorn · The Conradian : the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society · 2008 · 107 citations

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Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure

Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley, Mihnea Moldoveanu · Creativity Research Journal · 2013 · 67 citations

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Chaucer's open books: resistance to closure in medieval discourse

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 66 citations

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Loose ends: closure and crisis in the American social text

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 54 citations

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Processing Effort and Poetic Closure

Nigel Fabb · International Journal of Literary Linguistics · 2016 · 31 citations · Full text

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Authors

17

  1. TL
    Thomas Leitch

    University of Delaware, United States

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  2. AW
    Alexander Welsh

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  3. AM
    Alistair M. Duckworth

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  4. NF
    Nigel Fabb

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 31 citations

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  5. ÁM
    Ángel Medina

    Cranfield University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 14 citations

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Institutions

3

  1. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  2. University of Strathclyde

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    201 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 155 citations

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  2. African American Review

    AAR · 1 publications · 17 citations

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  3. Modern fiction studies

    MFS · 1 publications · 25 citations

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  4. Journal of Postcolonial Writing

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. Arizona quarterly/˜The œArizona quarterly

    1 publications · 21 citations

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