"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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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. )Prospecting contains fine examples of Iser's ability to relate theoretical issues to analyses of individual works. It will deservedly enhance his reputation as a critic and theorist who writes with equal skill and learning about Renaissance, Neoclassic, and modernist texts.
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"Prospecting contains fine examples of Iser's ability to relate theoretical issues to analyses of individual works. It will deservedly enhance his reputation as a critic and theorist who writes with equal skill and learning about Renaissance, Neoclassic, and modernist texts." -- Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
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overall plot line, toppling effect, anthropological makeup, semantic enclosures, literary fictionality, syntagmatic articulation, comic paradigms, transactive model, split signifier, emotive faculties, aesthetic semblance, wandering viewpoint, carnival effect, minus function, schematized views, referential field, doubling structure, multiple attention, fictitious reader, beautiful semblance, fictional component, ideational activity, literary anthropology, textual segments, habitual orientation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 7 pages
- Happy Days by Samuel Beckett on 6 pages
- Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut by Ruby Cohn on 4 pages
- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 4 pages
- Vanity Fair (BBC) by William M Thackeray on 4 pages
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- Re-Reading Harry Potter by Suman Gupta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Tom Keymer on page 72, and Back Matter
- Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Suzanne Keen on page 190, and page 226
- The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Imagining the Balkans by Maria N. Todorova in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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