| Prospecting Contributor(s): Iser, Wolfgang (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801845939 ISBN-13: 9780801845932 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1993 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.14" W x 9.04" (0.98 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |