Inge Crosman WimmersInge Crosman Wimmers is professor of French studies at Brown University. She is the author of Metaphoric Narration: The Structure and Function of Metaphors in A la recherché du temps perdu (1978), Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel/i> (1988), and Proust and Emotion: The Importance of Affect in A la recherché du temps perdu (2003). She and Susan Suleiman are coeditors of The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (1980). She has published articles on reader-oriented approaches to narrative fiction and literary emotions. Read More Read Less