{"product_id":"prospecting-from-reader-response-to-literary-anthropology-paperback","title":"Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWolfgang Iser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do we need literature, and what does this need tell us about human nature? Wolfgang Iser shows how these questions grew out of his pioneering work in reader-response criticism and how the answers to them may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. Iser's recent work spans a wide range of viewpoints and subject matter, from sixteenth- to twentieth-century literature, from Spenser and Shakespeare to Joyce and Beckett. In thirteen chapters that chart his intellectual development over the past decade, Iser sets forth what reader-response theory has accomplished--and where it has fallen short. Reevaluating such time-honored concepts as representation, he sketches out a new \"play theory\" of the text that sees literature as an ongoing enactment of human possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Iser\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at the University of Constance. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.04 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335311769849,"sku":"9780801845932","price":52.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RUxwaEJKT2kwR2Fhd2Y1bzE2cFlkUT09.webp?v=1769657916","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/prospecting-from-reader-response-to-literary-anthropology-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}