Wolfgang Iser

11.3k citations
97 papers · 5.8k · 4 hit papers · h-index 26

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Papers in

    • Samuel Beckett and Modernism 9
    • German Literature and Culture Studies 8
    • Literature and Cultural Memory 4
    • Narrative Theory and Analysis 4
    • Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism 3
    • Modernist Literature and Criticism 3

Wolfgang Iser

76 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Wolfgang Iser's Hit Papers

The Act of Reading 1980 · 815 citations
8150+17+34Years since publication2505007501000

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Wolfgang Iser
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  • Literature and Literary Theory 2.3k
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 496
  • Philosophy 891
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 727
  • Language and Linguistics 593
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wolfgang Iser, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
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19791100
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The Act of Reading
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1980815
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The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
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1980500
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The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
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1975476
5 1978352
6 1972347
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The act of reading
1978347
8 1996174
9 1993164
10 1992161
11 1979117
12 1996100
13 199091
14
Der implizite Leser : kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett
197284
15 199383
16
Die Appellstruktur der Texte : Unbestimmtheit als Wirkungsbedingung literarischer Prosa
197061
17 200159
18 199442
19 197541
20 197538

About Wolfgang Iser

Wolfgang Iser is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Communication and Museology, having authored 97 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Samuel Beckett and Modernism (9 papers), German Literature and Culture Studies (8 papers), Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics (4 papers), Literature and Cultural Memory (4 papers), Narrative Theory and Analysis (4 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (3 papers), Literacy and Educational Practices (3 papers) and Modernist Literature and Criticism (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Literature and Literary Theory (2.3k citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (496 citations), Philosophy (891 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (727 citations) and Language and Linguistics (593 citations). Wolfgang Iser has collaborated with scholars based in Germany. Frequent co-authors include Daniel T. O’Hara, Inge Crosman, Earl Miner, Michael Bell, Paul B. Armstrong, Sanford Budick, Dagmar Barnouw, Hans H. Rudnick, Rainer Schulte and Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Their work appears in journals such as diacritics, New Literary History, Comparative Literature, Poetics Today and Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

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