Prospecting

副标题: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

ISBN: 9780801845932

出版社: The Johns Hopkins University Press

出版年: 1993-02-01

页数: 328

定价: USD 20.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"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.