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Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

Paperback • 1993 • English

Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

By Wolfgang Iser

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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 ce...Show more

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9780801845932

Published year

1993

Language

English

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Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

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Paperback

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