Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

by Wolfgang Iser

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Why 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801845939

ISBN13:9780801845932

Release Date:February 1993

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods

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