ISER WOLFGANG

(P/B) THE ACT OF READING
"A splendid theoretical companion to Iser's The Implied Reader. The earlier book drew much attention for its reader-centered practical criticism of narrative fiction from Bunyan on. The new volume explains Iser's phenomenological technique... This book belongs in every serious, up-to-date literature collection." - Library Journal. What happens when we read something? Is the text before us a documentary record of something that exists or has existed before, or is it a reformulation of an already formulated reality, to be broken down and re...
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(P/B) PROSPECTING
"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 presen...
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