Prospecting
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Author_Wolfgang Iser
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- ISBN 9780801845932
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Mar 1993
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.'
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.
