The Act of Reading¶
Iser, W. (1978). The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Domain-specific¶
- Implied Reader
- The implied reader (Wolfgang Iser) is the audience position that a text constructs as the competent addressee for its own reception: the prior knowledge it presupposes without supplying, the inferences it expects to be drawn, the gaps it leaves for the reader to fill, and the interpretive role it positions its receiver to inhabit
This sourceIser's systematic statement of the implied reader as a structure of the text itself, with the repertoire of presupposed knowledge and the blanks left for the reader to fill set out as its named components.
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- The implied reader (Wolfgang Iser) is the audience position that a text constructs as the competent addressee for its own reception: the prior knowledge it presupposes without supplying, the inferences it expects to be drawn, the gaps it leaves for the reader to fill, and the interpretive role it positions its receiver to inhabit
- Narrative Gap
- Wolfgang Iser's reader-response account and Sternberg's work on expositional modes
This sourceIser's reader-response theory, in which meaning is produced by the reader's interaction with 'blanks' in the text.
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“and indeterminacy conditions the {{{interaction between text and reader}}}, and such a two-way process cannot”
- Wolfgang Iser's reader-response account and Sternberg's work on expositional modes
- Reader-Response
- Wolfgang Iser's version (the Constance School) centers the text's gap-structure: the implied reader is the position the text constructs, and the meaning event is the reader's act of completing the text's indeterminacies according to the role the text projects
This sourceIser's implied reader as the role the text offers, with meaning completed as readers fill the text's gaps.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
“readers are primarily conceived as heuristic [constructs], they are nevertheless drawn from specific groups”
- Wolfgang Iser's version (the Constance School) centers the text's gap-structure: the implied reader is the position the text constructs, and the meaning event is the reader's act of completing the text's indeterminacies according to the role the text projects
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