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Prospecting : from reader response to literary anthropology / Wolfgang Iser.
LIBRA - Special PN83 .I84 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iser, Wolfgang.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 316 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- "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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical notes and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0801837928
- OCLC:
- 19268523
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