Wolfgang Iser

Author of The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response

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About the Author

Wolfgang Iser is professor of comparative literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

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Works by Wolfgang Iser

The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (1974) 114 copies

The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology (1991) 78 copies

How to Do Theory (2005) 64 copies

The Range of Interpretation (2000) 43 copies

Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology (1989) 28 copies

Sterne: Tristram Shandy (Landmarks of World Literature) (1987) 9 copies

Ato da Leitura: uma Teoria do Efeito Estético, O - Vol. 2 (1999) 8 copies

Ficticio e o Imaginario, O (2013) 8 copies

The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between (1996) — Editor — 8 copies

Ato Da Leitura - Volume 1 6 copies, 1 review

L'Appel du texte (2012) 3 copies

Stepping Forward: Essays, Lectures and Interviews (European Writers) (2008) 3 copies

Staging Politics (1994) 2 copies

Rutas de la interpretación (Filosofa) (2005) 2 copies

Fiktyvumas ir įsivaizdavimas: literatūrinės antropologijos perspektyvos (2002) 1 copy

Immanente ♯sthetik, s̃thetische Reflexion Lyrik als Paradigma der Moderne Kolloquium Kl̲n 1964, Vorlagen und Verhandlungen 1 copy

Interaction Between Text and Reader 1 copy

A Ficcionalização como Dimensão Antropológica da Literatura 1 copy

Actul lecturii: o teorie a efectului estetic 1 copy

Fictício e o Imaginário, O. Perspectivas de uma antropologia literária 1 copy

Indeterminação e a resposta do leitor na prosa de ficção, A. Cadernos do centro de pesquisas literárias PUCRS 1 copy

The Act of Reading A Theory of Aesthetic Response 1 copy

Die Appellstruktur der Texte: Unbestimmtheit als Wirkungsbedingung literarischer Prosa (Konstanzer Universitätsreden, 28) (German Edition) (1970) 1 copy

Az értelmezés világa 1 copy

Die Artistik des Misslingens: Ersticktes Lachen im Theater Becketts (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse) (1979) 1 copy

Die Weltanschauung Henry Fieldings (2013) 1 copy

"The Significance of Fictionalizing A lecture for the Learned Societies Luncheon, given at Irvine on February 24, 1997" [article], Anthropoetics 3:2 1 copy

"What is Literary Anthropology? The Difference Between Explanatory and Exploratory Fictions" [book chapter], Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today 1 copy

Walter Pater: The Aesthetic Moment (European Studies in English Literature) (2011) 1 copy

Emergenz (2013) 1 copy

La struttura di appello del testo: l'indeterminatezza come condizione ... 1 copy

Stepping Forward: Essays, Lectures and Interviews (2012) 1 copy

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Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (1980) — Contributor — 192 copies, 1 review

The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (1980) — Contributor — 56 copies

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