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Title: PROSPECTING
FROM READER RESPONSE TO LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY
By: Wolfgang Iser
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0801845939
ISBN 13: 9780801845932
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Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 February, 1993
Pages: 328
Description: Why do we need literature and what does this need tell us about human nature? Iser shows how these questions come from his work on reader-response criticism and that the answers may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. He relates theoretical issues to analyses of individual works.
Synopsis: "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.'
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Publication: US
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Returns: Returnable
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