The Philosophy of Modern Literary TheoryA remarkable, systematic reconstruction of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of the major literary theories, from Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction and Postmodernism. The book ranges across not just the philosophical underpinnings of English Literature but also the critical literatures of Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy and North America. For the first time, the major schools of literary theory are set within their philosophical context. The book is likely to become the standard introduction to the study of literary theory. |
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... reader's response as a creative process , not as a mere filling in of semantic gaps . The realisation , Iser explains , is ' the reader's production of the meaning of the text ... reader whom Problems of Reader - Response Criticism 73.
... reader's response as a creative process , not as a mere filling in of semantic gaps . The realisation , Iser explains , is ' the reader's production of the meaning of the text ... reader whom Problems of Reader - Response Criticism 73.
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... reader is the well - informed recipient who is able to realise optimally the semantic , narrative , and pragmatic potential of a text . Unlike the real historical or contemporary reader , unlike the fictive reader whom the author ...
... reader is the well - informed recipient who is able to realise optimally the semantic , narrative , and pragmatic potential of a text . Unlike the real historical or contemporary reader , unlike the fictive reader whom the author ...
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... reader - oriented as in his critique of Iser's approach and in his later works . In one of his most important theoretical articles entitled ' Literature in the Reader ' ( 1970 ) , Fish still believes that the reader's reactions can ...
... reader - oriented as in his critique of Iser's approach and in his later works . In one of his most important theoretical articles entitled ' Literature in the Reader ' ( 1970 ) , Fish still believes that the reader's reactions can ...
Contents
THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND AESTHETIC | 1 |
ANGLOAMERICAN NEW CRITICISM | 17 |
Russian Formalism between Kantianism and | 24 |
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