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By defining what happens during the act of reading, that is, how aesthetic experience is initiated, develops, and functions, Iser's book provides the first systematic framework for assessing the communicatory function of a literary text within the context from which it arises. It is an important work that will appeal to those interested in the reading process, aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and basic theoretical aspects of the novel. Book jacket.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• I. The Situation: Literary Interpretation: Semantics or Pragmatics?
• 1. Partial Art--Total Interpretation(p. 3)
• Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet, in Place of an Introduction(p. 3)
• The Lingering of the Classical Norm of Interpretation(p. 10)
• 2. The Rudiments of a Theory of Aesthetic Response(p. 20)
• The Reader-Oriented Perspective and Traditional Objections(p. 20)
• Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader(p. 27)
• Psychoanalytical Theories of Literary Response(p. 38)
• II. The Reality of Fiction: A Functionalist Model of the Literary Text
• 3. The Repertoire(p. 53)
• Starting Point(p. 53)
• Speech-Act Theory(p. 54)
• Situation-Building(p. 62)
• The Referential System of the Repertoire(p. 68)
• 4. Strategies(p. 86)
• The Task of the Strategies(p. 86)
• The Old Answer: Deviation(p. 87)
• Foreground and Background(p. 92)
• The Structure of Theme and Horizon(p. 96)
• Variations of the Theme-and-Horizon Structure(p. 99)
• III. Phenomenology of Reading: The Processing of the Literary Text
• 5. Grasping a Text(p. 107)
• Interplay between Text and Reader(p. 107)
• The Wandering Viewpoint(p. 108)
• Correlatives Produced by the Wandering Viewpoint(p. 118)
• Consistency-Building as a Basis for Involvement in the Text as an Event(p. 118)
• The Text as an Event(p. 125)
• Involvement as a Condition of Experience(p. 129)
• 6. Passive Syntheses in the Reading Process(p. 135)
• Mental Images as a Basic Feature of Ideation(p. 135)
• Mental Images Affecting the Reader(p. 139)
• Building Images(p. 140)
• What Happens to the Reader?(p. 152)
• IV. Interaction Between Text and Reader: The Communicatory Structure of the Literary Text
• 7. Asymmetry Between Text and Reader(p. 163)
• Conditions of Interaction(p. 163)
• Ingarden's Concept of Indeterminacy(p. 170)
• 8. How Acts of Constitution Are Stimulated(p. 180)
• Introduction(p. 180)
• The Blank as a Potential Connection(p. 182)
• The Functional Structure of the Blanks(p. 195)
• Historical Differences in the Structure of Interaction(p. 203)
• Negation(p. 212)
• Negativity(p. 225)
• Name and Title Index(p. 233)
• Subject Index(p. 236)

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Wolfgang Iser, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Constance, has taught in many American and European universities