Background
Iser, Wolfgang was born on July 22, 1926 in Marienberg, Germany. Son of Paul and Else (Steinbach) 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 central to Iser's new theory. Art does not present life; it performs it."--Yearbook of English Studies.
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( The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser p...)
The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field in an attempt to explain the human need for the "particular form of make-believe" known as literature. Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.
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("An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the...)
"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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(This succinct introduction to modern theories of literatu...)
This succinct introduction to modern theories of literature and the arts demonstrates how each theory is built and what it can accomplish. Represents a wide variety of theories, including phenomenological theory, hermeneutical theory, gestalt theory, reception theory, semiotic theory, Marxist theory, deconstruction, anthropological theory, and feminist theory. Uses classic literary texts, such as Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn, Spenser's The Shephearde's Calender and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to illustrate his explanations. Includes key statements by the major proponents of each theory. Presents the different theories objectively, allowing students to decide which if any, they subscribe to. Gives students a sense of the potential of theory. Includes a glossary of technical terms.
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(Iser examines what happens during the reading process, an...)
Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.
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There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore we are. While such a basic human disposition makes interpretation appear to come naturally, the forms it takes, however, do not. In this work, Iser offers a fresh approach by formulating an "anatomy of interpretation" through which we can understand the act of interpretation in its many different manifestations. For Iser, there are several different genres of interpretation, all of which are acts of translation designed to transpose something into something else. Perhaps the most obvious example of interpretation involves canonical texts, such as the Rabbinical exegesis of the Torah or Samuel Johnson's reading of Shakespeare. But what happens when the matter that one seeks to interpret consists not of a text but of a welter of fragments, as in the study of history, or when something is hidden, as in the practice of psychoanalysis, or is as complex as a culture or system? Iser details how, in each of these cases, the space that is opened up by interpretation is negotiated in a different way, thus concluding that interpretation always depends on what it seeks to translate. For students of philosophy, literary and critical theory, anthropology, and cultural history, Iser's elucidation of the mechanics by which we translate and understand, as well as his assessment of the anthropological roots of our drive to make meaning, will undoubtedly serve as a revelation.
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Iser, Wolfgang was born on July 22, 1926 in Marienberg, Germany. Son of Paul and Else (Steinbach) Iser.
Student, University Leipzig, Germany, 1946. Student, University Tuebingen, Germany, 1947. Student, University Heidelberg, 1947—1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Heidelberg, Germany, 1950.
Instructor in English, U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1951-1952; assistant professor, U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1955-1957; associate Professor of English, U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1957-1960; assistant lecturer in German, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1952-1955; Professor of English and comparative literature, U. Wuerzburg, Germany, 1960-1963; Professor of English and comparative literature, U. Cologne, Germany, 1963-1967; Professor of English and comparative literature, U. Constance, Germany, 1967-1991; Professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Irvine, since 1978.
(Iser examines what happens during the reading process, an...)
(Iser examines what happens during the reading process, an...)
( The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser p...)
( "An important transitional book, usefully summarizing t...)
("An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the...)
(This succinct introduction to modern theories of literatu...)
( There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes n...)
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Married Lore Reichert, May 24, 1952.