TY - JOUR
AU - MEIDNER, OLGA MCDONALD
AB - disguises of Shakespearean comedies, the role books None the less, Iser has charted literary of I/IH.Y in terms of character (The Fool) and anthropology in two senses —psychologically narrative (Tristram Shandy) But, as a template and historically Whether he has answered his to account for the totality of text play they question about our anthropological make-up suffer from a sense of self-contradictory arbit- through this procedure is less certain In rariness For, if the movement of play 'bears attempting to theorize the elusive nature of within itself its own unfathomableness' (p fictional expenences there is often the sense of 235)> or if the play structure of the text has Iser clutching at ghosts, and there are no con- rules that 'are not marked, let alone revealed' cessions to his implied reader whom the text which 'are always changing and always undis- defines as one patient with polysyllables and coverable' (p 273), does this not invalidate comfortable with a sustained high level of attempts to systematize its structural make-up abstraction Real or implied, Iser's reader has just as it does attempts to account for its ori- no easy nde gins' The pillars on which this theory is erected MICHAEL BENTON 
TI - BOOK REVIEWS
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.1.87
DA - 1995-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-GN5YvN6CTh
SP - 87
EP - 89
VL - 35
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -