Wolfgang Iser, who has taught at leading universities in the United States and Europe, is currently professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Constance.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bunyan's Pilgram's Progress: The Doctrime of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel
Chapter 2. The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
Chapter 3. The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker
Chapter 4. FictionThe Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Chapter 5. The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic novek: Esthetic Effects in Thackery's Vanity Fair
Chapter 6. Self-Reduction
Chapter 7. Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun: in James joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 8. Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 9. Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History
Chapter 10. When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett
Chapter 11. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach
Name Index
Subject Index