{"product_id":"prospecting-9780801845932","title":"Prospecting","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wolfgang Iser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do we need literature, and what does this need tell us about human nature? Wolfgang Iser shows how these questions grew out of his pioneering work in reader-response criticism and how the answers to them may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. Iser's recent work spans a wide range of viewpoints and subject matter, from sixteenth- to twentieth-century literature, from Spenser and Shakespeare to Joyce and Beckett. In thirteen chapters that chart his intellectual development over the past decade, Iser sets forth what reader-response theory has accomplished--and where it has fallen short. Reevaluating such time-honored concepts as representation, he sketches out a new \"play theory\" of the text that sees literature as an ongoing enactment of human possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615007555735,"sku":"9780801845932","price":3105.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801845932.webp?v=1775097772","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/prospecting-9780801845932","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}