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

1. Introduction

The Marketplace of Interpretation

Interpretation as Translatability

2. The Authority of the Canon

Canonization and Midrash

The Literary Canon: Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare

3. The Hermeneutic Circle

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Self-reflective Circularity

Johann Gustav Droysen: The Nesting of Circles

Paul Ricoeur: Transactional Loops

4. The Recursive Loop

Recursion in Ethnographic Discourse

Systemic Recursion

5. The Traveling Differential: Franz Rosenzweig, "The Star of Redemption"

"The Birth of the Elements Out of the Somber Foundations of Nought''

Proliferating Translatability

6. Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue

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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