Wolfgang Iser (eBook)

A Companion

Ben De Bruyn (Autor)

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2012
282 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-024552-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is the first in-depth monograph on one of the most celebrated German literary theorists of the 20th century. Via an accessible analysis of Iser’s complete English and German writings, this study explains his acclaimed reception theory and connects the famous notions of ‘blanks’ and the ‘implied reader’ to his earlier and later work on English literature and literary anthropology. Iser’s views are also compared to those of related thinkers like Hans Blumenberg and illustrated with examples from contemporary authors like Hilary Mantel.

Ben De Bruyn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Autor

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Ben De Bruyn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
Chapter 1. Comic and Aesthetic Novels 19
Beyond Geistesgeschichte 23
Kierkegaard and the Aesthetic 32
The Prehistory of Modernity 41
An Applied Philosophy of Life 50
Example 1: Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb 52
Chapter 2. Montage and Modernity 55
The Implied Modernist 58
The Waxing of the Modern Ages 74
In the Midst of History 97
Example 2: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall 100
Chapter 3. The Phenomenology of Reading 105
The Modern Reader 114
The Quasi-Reality of Fiction 120
Duration, Imagination, Transformation 130
Negativity and Harmony 139
The Sublime and the Screen 148
Example 3: Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado (1) 157
Chapter 4. Fictions, Roles and Games 161
The Act of Reading 2.0 167
The Origin of Fictionalizing Acts 173
The (In)distinction of Fiction & Imagination
Games and Stagings 193
Literary Anthropologies 208
Example 4: China Mieville, The City & The City
Chapter 5. The Recursions of Culture 219
The Translations of Theory 224
The Range of Recursion 237
Rippled Surfaces 254
Example 5: Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado (2) 260
Conclusion. Modernity, Meaning and Humanity 263
Wolfgang Iser: A Bibliography 269
Name Index 279

Rezensionen

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"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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Companions to Contemporary German Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Companions to Contemporary German Culture
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Iser, Wolfgang • Literary Theory • Wolfgang Iser
• ISBN-10: 3-11-024552-3 / 3110245523
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-024552-3 / 9783110245523