Prospecting

From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

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Wolfgang Iser

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"An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project."--'Modern Philology.' "There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function as `performer' of the text in 'Prospecting' than in Iser's other books. The two brilliant chapters on Beckett's fiction and drama are crucial here...Literature becomes `play' and `game,' and the reader becomes a performer of himself. This idea of performance becomes central to Iser's new theory. Art does not present life; it performs it."--'Yearbook of English Studies.'

Author Biography:

Wolfgang Iser is professor of English at the University of Constance. His previous books include The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response and The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett.

Release date NZ

March 29th, 1993

Author

Wolfgang Iser

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

328

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780801845932

Product ID

2794652

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