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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Prospecting
• Author: Wolfgang, Iser
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780801845932
• ISBN: 0801845939
• ID: 04162996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 502 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 154 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1993

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