Abstract
The term ‘Implied Author’ was given wider currency by Booth in a 1961 essay1 to express the sense that, even where there is no explidt narrator in a fiction, an author whose presence arises from the text alone seems to be behind the scenes. It is not the same as the ‘Real Author’, but a version of him experienced through the text. The theory comes in various versions, according to critic concerned. Often, the notions of narrative level are placed into a linguistic embedding structure, somewhat on lines originally suggested by Chatman:2 (Real Author (Implied Author (Narrator (Récit) Narratee) Implied Reader) Real Reader) KeywordsSubjective PolePerfect FormImply ReaderCanterbury TaleReal ReaderThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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