{"product_id":"prospecting-from-reader-response-to-literary-anthropology-0801845939","title":"Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0801845939\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Iser, Wolfgang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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 that chart his intellectual development over the past decade, Iser sets forth what reader-response theory has accomplished-and where it has fallen short. Reevaluating such time-honored concepts as representation, he sketches out a new \"play theory\" of the text that sees literature as an ongoing enactment of human possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68217556009248,"sku":"NEW0801845939","price":33.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61lDLgqDVpL.jpg?v=1794293836","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/prospecting-from-reader-response-to-literary-anthropology-0801845939","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}