Wolfgang Iser

11.3k citations
82 papers · 4.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

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Papers in

    • German Literature and Culture Studies 7
    • Samuel Beckett and Modernism 6
    • Narrative Theory and Analysis 4
    • Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism 3
    • Literature and Cultural Memory 3
    • Media, Communication, and Education 2

Wolfgang Iser

64 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Wolfgang Iser's Hit Papers

The Act of Reading 1980 · 673 citations
6730+17+34Years since publication250500750

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Wolfgang Iser
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  • Literature and Literary Theory 1.9k
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 427
  • Philosophy 656
  • Communication 338
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 595
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All Works

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The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
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1979972
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The Act of Reading
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1980673
3 1980447
4
The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
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1975419
5
The act of reading
1978317
6 1972311
7 1978273
8 1996143
9 1992139
10 199396
11 199671
12 199069
13 199364
14 197960
15 200152
16
Der implizite Leser : kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett
197240
17 199436
18 197535
19 199028
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Die Appellstruktur der Texte : Unbestimmtheit als Wirkungsbedingung literarischer Prosa
197027

About Wolfgang Iser

Wolfgang Iser is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Communication, Museology, Language and Linguistics and Philosophy, having authored 82 papers that have together received 4.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include German Literature and Culture Studies (7 papers), Samuel Beckett and Modernism (6 papers), Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics (4 papers), Narrative Theory and Analysis (4 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (3 papers), Literacy and Educational Practices (3 papers), Literature and Cultural Memory (3 papers) and Media, Communication, and Education (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Literature and Literary Theory (1.9k citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (427 citations), Philosophy (656 citations), Communication (338 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (595 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, Hans H. Rudnick, Dagmar Barnouw, Rainer Schulte and Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Their work appears in journals such as diacritics, New Literary History, Comparative Literature, Poetics Today and Partial Answers Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.

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