Translated to Arabic, 'The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation' by Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Susan Rubin Suleiman (1939-). A reader may be 'in a text' as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought - both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of international scholars ...raises fundamental questions about the status... of the audience in relation to a literary or artistic text.