Study Questions for Iser, "The Reading Process"

 

  1. What is the phenomenological theory of art?
    Who is its main theoretician?

  2. What does "concretization" refer to?

  3. What are the 2 poles of the literary work? What is the difference between the work and the text? What does Iser mean by the "virtual dimension of the text"?

  4. What does Iser mean by the "gaps" of a text? How do they relate to a text’s "realization"?

  5. What is the relationship between individual readings and the interpretation of a text? Is there a correct interpretation for Iser?

  6. What is the relationship between the polysemantic nature of the text and our illusion-making activities as a reader?

  7. What are the 2 elements that control the process of imaginative recreation?

  8. What happens to the subject during the act of reading (see Georges Poulet)?


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