Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

by Wolfgang Iser

Book Overview

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"