Wolfgang Iser
A Companion
Seiten
2012
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110245516 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110245516 (ISBN)
The series offers lively, comprehensive accounts of contemporary German culture written by experts and designed for advanced student readers and scholars alike. Both in monographs and closely-defined edited collections, it aims to introduce major authors, thinkers, filmmakers, literary topics, genres and landmark individual works, focusing on the period since 1989 but reaching back, where appropriate, to the vital hinterland of the 1970s.
Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser’s German and English writings in detail. Apart from being the first comprehensive account of his work, this study also modifies the established view of Iser’s theory. In contrast to the idea that his only contribution to literary studies is the reception theory of the 1970s, this account demonstrates the importance of Iser’s work on history and anthropology from the 1950s and 1990s. Instead of exclusively focusing on familiar terms such as ‘indeterminacy’, this analysis also discusses Iser’s view of modernity, fiction and culture. As this discussion shows, his writings develop a consistent theory of the novel and the way in which it allows its readers to articulate new views of reality. To situate this theory, Iser’s institutional and intellectual background is described as well, paying special attention to the Poetik und Hermeneutik-circle and thinkers like Blumenberg and Kermode. The continued relevance of his theory is demonstrated via comparisons with recent research on the novel and memory as well as examples from contemporary novelists like Juli Zeh and Hilary Mantel.
Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser’s German and English writings in detail. Apart from being the first comprehensive account of his work, this study also modifies the established view of Iser’s theory. In contrast to the idea that his only contribution to literary studies is the reception theory of the 1970s, this account demonstrates the importance of Iser’s work on history and anthropology from the 1950s and 1990s. Instead of exclusively focusing on familiar terms such as ‘indeterminacy’, this analysis also discusses Iser’s view of modernity, fiction and culture. As this discussion shows, his writings develop a consistent theory of the novel and the way in which it allows its readers to articulate new views of reality. To situate this theory, Iser’s institutional and intellectual background is described as well, paying special attention to the Poetik und Hermeneutik-circle and thinkers like Blumenberg and Kermode. The continued relevance of his theory is demonstrated via comparisons with recent research on the novel and memory as well as examples from contemporary novelists like Juli Zeh and Hilary Mantel.
Ben De Bruyn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
"Es gibt zur Zeit keine bessere Darstellung von Wolfgang Isers Gesamtwerk, nicht nur weil es noch keine andere gibt, sondern weil De Bruyns Studie sich in ihrer kritischen Nüchternheit wohltuend abhebt von polemischer Kritik einerseits und überschwänglicher Bewunderung andererseits."
Ingo Berensmeyer und Gero Guttzeit in: Anglia 4/2013
"[...] ausgesprochen gehalt- wie niveauvollen Bandes [...] "
Till Kinzel in: Germanisch-Romanischen Monatsschrift, S. 124-125, 1/2014
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.6.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Companions to Contemporary German Culture ; 1 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 428 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | Criticism • Grünbein, Durs • Iser, Wolfgang • Literary Theory • Literature • Literaturtheorie • reader-response criticism • Wolfgang Iser • Wolfgang Iser; Literary Theory |
| ISBN-13 | 9783110245516 / 9783110245516 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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