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Sterne: Tristram Shandy by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €35.24Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolfgang Iser shows how Sterne exploits the... -
The Range of Interpretation by Wolfgang Iser 9780231119030
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore... -
The Range of Interpretation by Wolfgang Iser 9780231119023
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €108.84There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore... -
Wolfgang Iser: A Companion by Ben De Bruyn 9783110245516
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €18.83Although 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... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and... -
Walter Pater: The Aesthetic Moment by Wolfgang Iser 9780521179287
Booksplease Price: €38.22Wolfgang Iser's study of Walter Pater (1839-94) was first published in German in 1960. It places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major exponents were... -
Stepping Forward: Essays, Lectures and Interviews by Wolfgang Iser 9781861711687
Booksplease Price: €13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861711687Author Wolfgang IserFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Stepping Forward: Essays, Lectures and Interviews by WOLFGANG ISER 9781861713865
Booksplease Price: €20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861713865Author WOLFGANG ISERFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint < -
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser 9780801844997
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €21.25"Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a... -
How to Do Theory Wolfgang Iser (University of California, Irvine) 9781405115803
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €31.01This succinct introduction to modern theories of literature and the arts demonstrates how each theory is built and what it can accomplish. Represents a wide variety of theories, including... -
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology Wolfgang Iser 9780801845932
Booksplease Price: €30.84"An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project."--'Modern Philology.' "There is a much greater... -
The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their... -
Reading Autobiographical Comics: A Framework for Educational Settings by Markus Oppolzer 9783631810880
RRP: €98.95Booksplease Price: €87.95This book updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. With the help... -
Assessing Building Performance by Wolfgang Preiser
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €72.52The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2)... -
Creating Communities: Towards a Description of the Mask-Function in Literature by Nourit Melcer-Padon
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €33.77How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known... -
Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Generation and Applications by Wolfgang Kaiser 9783540558774
Booksplease Price: €55.43This second edition in paperback provides an up-to-date review of the state of the art in different generation processes for ultrashort laser pulses. Inaddition, extensive applications in a wide... -
Environmental Design Research: Volume two symposia and workshops Wolfgang Preiser 9781138685918
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.69First published in 1973, this two-volume set summarises and structures the contributions by researchers at the Fourth International EDRA Conference, held in April 1973. The second volume focuses on... -
Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities by Michael Berube 9780807857779
Booksplease Price: €45.77A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political... -
The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation by Lisa Ahrens
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €38.60This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin... -
Reception by Ika Willis
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a... -
Readers and Reading by Andrew Bennett 9780582212909
Booksplease Price: €68.54Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author... -
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco 9780674302464
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €16.74"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of... -
In Conversation with Jonah: Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah by Jr Person 9780567425935
Booksplease Price: €44.53The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an... -
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P. Tompkins
Booksplease Price: €32.25With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.About... -
Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory by Sanford Budick 9780804724838
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €30.15The articulation of the unsayable, of negativity-that which has been excluded by what is sayable-is one of the most important areas of contemporary humanistic study. This volume brings together... -
Comparative Criticism: Volume 17, Walter Pater and the Culture of the Fin-de-Siecle by E. S. Shaffer 9780521558440
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €112.35This volume treats conceptions of the fin-de-siele as they were affected and characterized by the work of Walter Pater, the leading nineteenth-century English art critic after Ruskin, essayist and... -
Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader: A Yearbook by Elinor S. Shaffer 9780521227568
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.41This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association in the belief that, when English studies are being redefined, comparative literary studies represent a major direction... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793602
Booksplease Price: €108.73Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
Alterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern Literature by Wiliam D. Melaney 9781786601506
Booksplease Price: €49.22How does the theme of the other--as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme-allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to... -
Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern by Margaret A. Rose 9780521429245
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €42.45In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification... -
Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction by Steven Mailloux
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five... -
Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions by Andreas Schonle 9780299220402
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €42.73One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793619
Booksplease Price: €42.85Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
Hazarding All: Shakespeare and the Drama of Consciousness by Sanford Budick
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €25.26Demonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality Shows the pervasiveness of... -
Funktionalistische Rezeptionstheorie: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Rezeptionsasthetischen Positionen in der Literaturwissenschaft by Jos. Hoogeveen 9789060214343
Booksplease Price: €55.07I. S. 1 II. Zur Autonomie der Literaturwissenschaft S. 14 A. Textbedeutungssuche als selbstverstandliche Aufgabe der Literaturwissenschaft S. 14 R. UmriB eines funktionalistischen Ansatzes S. 18 1... -
Serious Play: Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-century Realist Novel by J.Jeffrey Franklin 9780812234848
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €66.43Queen Victoria was famously not amused, and the age to which she gave her name is not generally known for its playfulness or sense of fun. But play was pervasive in Victorian society and in the... -
The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read by Benjamin Bennett 9780823229161
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €64.88Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of... -
The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies Wang Ning 9781032642932
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17Applying the latest Western translation theories to the situation in China, this book redefines translation from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, bringing intercultural semiotic...