The Range of Interpretation

Wolfgang Iser

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Paper, 280 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11903-0
$27.00 / £18.50

February, 2000
Cloth, 280 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11902-3
$85.00 / £58.50

"[Range of Interpretation] leaves the reader with a greatly expanded understanding of the nature of interpretation, of the various roles it assumes in our culture, and it is difficult to imagine a scholar who would not profit from such a book." — Philosophy in Review

"Iser’s insightful and erudite book is a truly original contribution to the field, for a cultural-historical and anthropological exploration of the Western practices of interpretation has long been overdue." — Mihai I. Spariosu, University of Georgia

"Iser’s assessment of literature’s cultural function makes a challenging contribution to the anthropological turn in literary studies and the interdisciplinary debates about literature and anthropology." — Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Wellek Library Lectures

About the Author

Wolfgang Iser is professor of comparative literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is best known for his works The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett; The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response; Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology; and The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology.

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