Wolfgang Iser

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1. Wolfgang Iser

   Author of The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response, The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology

2. Walter Benjamin

   Author of The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940

3. Mikhail Bakhtin

   Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

4. Hans Robert Jauss

   Author of Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (Theory & History of Literature), Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics (Theory and History of Literature)

5. Fredric Jameson

   Author of The Political Unconscious, Marxism and Form, The Prison-House of Language

6. Jonathan Culler

   Author of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature

7. Kenneth Burke

   Author of A Rhetoric of Motives, A Grammar of Motives, The Philosophy of Literary Form

8. Edward W. Said

   Author of The World, the Text, and the Critic, Beginnings: Intention and Method

9. Michel de Certeau

   Author of The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 17)

10. Wayne C. Booth

    Author of The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)

11. Roland Barthes

    Author of S/Z: An Essay, Image-Music-Text, The Semiotic Challenge

12. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of Foucault, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 30), Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

13. William Empson

    Author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, Some Versions of Pastoral (New Directions Paperbook ; 92)

14. Geoffrey H. Hartman

    Author of Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy, Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today

15. Stanley Fish

    Author of Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

16. Josue V. Harari

    Author of Textual Strategies

17. Jane P. Tompkins

    Author of Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism

18. Terry Eagleton

    Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, After Theory

19. Northrop Frye

    Author of Anatomy of Criticism, A Natural Perspective

20. Paul Ricoeur

    Author of Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Time & Narrative), Time and Narrative, Volume 2 (Time & Narrative), Time and Narrative, Volume 3 (Time & Narrative)