Wolfgang Iser's Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology

• Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ix, 316pp.
  Contents:

  • Reader Response in Perspective
    • Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response in Prose Fiction:3-30.
      
    • Interaction between Text and Reader:31-41.
      
    • Interview:42-69.
      
  • Paradigms
    • Spenser's Arcadia: The Interrelation between Text and Reader:73-97.
      
    • The Dramatization of Double Meaning in Shakespeare's As You Like It:98-130.
      
    • Ulysses and the Reader:131-139.
      
    • The Pattern of Negativity in Beckett's Prose:140-151.
      
    • The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett's Theater:152-193.
      
  • Avenues for Exploration
    • Changing Functions of Literature:197-214
      
    • Key Concepts in Current Literary Theory and the Imaginary (1978):215-235.
      
    • Representation: A Performative Act:236-248.
      
    • The Play of the Text:249-261.
      
    • Toward a Literary Anthropology:262-284.

  • John Hopkins Paperback edition, 1993.

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