Wolfgang Iser's Contributions to Books

• "Lallans. Die künstliche Sprache der Scottish Renaissance." In Wolfgang Iser and Hans Schabram, eds., Britannica: Festschrift für Hermann M. Flasdieck, pp. 142-161. Heidelberg: Winter, 1960.

• "Bunyans Pilgrim's Progress. Die kalvinistische Heilsgewissheit und die Form des Romans." In Hans Robert Jauss and Dieter Schaller, eds., Medium Aevum Vivum: Festschrift für Walter Bulst, pp. 279-304. Heidelberg: Winter, 1960.

  Reprinted in Willi Erzgräber, ed., English literatur von Thomas Morus bis Laurence Sterne, pp. 165-193. Interpretationen, 7. Frankfurt & Hamburg: Fischer, 1970.

  Reprinted in a revised form in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 13-56.

  Translated into English as "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: The Doctrine of Predestination and the Shaping of the Novel," in The Implied Reader ( 1974), pp. 1-28.

  "Möglichkeiten der Illusion im historischen Roman: Sir Walter Scotts Waverley." In Hans Robert Jauss, ed., Nachahmung und Illusion. Kolloquium Giessen, Juni 1963. Vorlagen und Verhandlungen, pp. 135-156. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 1. Munich: Fink, 1964. 2d edition, 1969.

  Reprinted in a revised form in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 132-167.

  Translated into English as "Fiction-The Filter of History: A Study of Walter Scott's Waverley" in The Implied Reader ( 1974), pp. 81-100.

  Translated into English by David Henry Wilson as "Fiction-- The Filter of History: A Study of Walter Scott's Waverley." In Richard E. Amacher and Victor Lange, eds., New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays, pp. 86-104. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.

  "Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History." In Horst Oppel, ed., Der moderne englische Roman: Interpretationen, pp. 376-398. Berlin: Schmidt, 1965.

  2d edition, 1971.

  Reprinted in a revised form as "Negativer Dialog. Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and its History" in Der implizite Leser (1972), pp. 359-390.

  Translated into English as "Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History" in The Implied Reader, pp. 234-256.

  "Image und Montage. Zur Bildkonzeption in der Imagistischen Lyrik und in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land." In Wolfgang Iser, ed., Immanente Ästhetik - Ästhetische Reflexion: Lyrik als Paradigma der Moderne / Kolloquium Köln 1964; Vorlagen und Verhandlungen, pp. 361-393. "Discussion," pp. 495-508. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 2. Munich: Fink, 1966.

  Partially reprinted as "Das Bild als entautomatisierte Wahrnehmung Images bei T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound." In Martin Christadler, ed., Die Amerikanische Lyrik von Edgar Allan Poe bis Wallace Stevens, pp. 250-272. Ars intertretandi, 4. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972.

  "Wirklichkeit und Form in Smollett's Humphry Clinker." In Hugo Friedrich and Fritz Schalk, eds., Europäische Aufklärung: Herbert Dieckmann zum 60. Geburtstag, pp. 87-115. Munich: Fink, 1967.

  Translated into English as "The Generic Control of the Aesthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker." Southern Humanities Review (1969), 3: 243-257.

  Reprinted in a revised form as "Realitätsvermittlung und Leserlenkung in Smolletts Humphry Clinker" in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 94-131.

  Translated into English as "The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry Clinker" in The Implied Reader, pp. 57-80.

  Reprinted in James L. Thorson, ed., Humphry Clinker: An Authoritative Text, Contemporary Responses, Criticism, pp. 372-385. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1983.

  "Rupert Brooke: `The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' (Café des westens, Berlin, May 1912." In Horst Oppel, ed., Die moderne englische Lyrik. Interpretationen, pp. 59-70. Berlin: Schmidt, 1967.

  "Reduktionsformen der Subjektivität." In Hans Robert Jauss, ed., Die nicht mehr Schönen Künste. Grenzphänomene des Ästhetischen, pp. 435-491. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 3. Munich: Fink, 1968.

  Reprinted in 1983.

  Prepublished as "Reduktionsformen der Subjektivität. Betrachtungen zur modernen Literatur." Glauben - Wissen - Bildung II, 32. Freiburg:1967.

  Reprinted in a revised form in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 194-275.

  Translated into English as "Self-Reduction" in The Implied Reader ( 1974), pp. 121-178.

  Partially reprinted as "Subjektivität als Selbstaufhebung ihrer Manifestationen. S. Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable." In Hartmut Engelhardt and Dieter Mettler, eds., Materialien zu Samuel Becketts Romanen Molloy, Malone stirbt, Der Namenlose, pp. 203-222. Suhrkamp-Taschenbücher, 315. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1976.

  "Arcadia." In Gero von Wilpert, ed., Lexikon der Weltliteratur, Vol. 2: Hauptwerke der Weltliteratur in Charakteristiken und Kurzinterpretationen, pp. 58-59. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1968.

  2d edition, 1980, pp. 61-62.

  "Astrophel und Stella." In Gero von Wilpert, ed., Lexikon der Weltliteratur, Vol. 2: Hauptwerke der Weltliteratur in Charakteristiken und Kurzinterpretationen, pp. 68-69. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1968.

  2d edition, 1980, p. 73.

  "Hudibras." In Gero von Wilpert, ed., Lexikon der Weltliteratur, Vol. 2: Hauptwerke der Weltliteratur in Charakteristiken und Kurzinterpretationen, p. 479. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1968.

  2d edition, 1980, p. 512.

  "Der Leser als Kompositionselement im realistischen Roman. Wirkungsästhetische Betrachtung zu Thackerays Vanity Fair." In Bernhard Fabian and Ulrich Suerbaum, eds., Festschrift für Edgar Mertner, pp. 273-292. Munich: Fink, 1969.

  Reprinted in a revised form in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 168-193.

  Translated into English as "The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic Novel: Esthetic Effects in Thackeray's Vanity Fair" in The Implied Reader, pp. 101-120.

  Translated into Chinese in 1989.

  Translated into Korean in Bonghi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis, pp. 317-350. Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1994.

  "Literary Criticism as a Study of the Aesthetic Response." In Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur. Actes des Congrès d'Aix-en-Provence et de Clermont-Ferrand, 1966-1967: La Critique devant la Littérature anglo-saxonne, pp. 167-170. Etudes Anglaises, 34. Paris: Didier, 1969.

  Translated into Portuguese as "A Critica Literaria como um Estudo da Resposta Estética." Suplemento da Tribuna [Rio de Janeiro] (August 9-10, 1975).

  "Postscriptum zu einem Studienmodell." In Ewald Standop, ed., Anglistische Studienreform. Probleme, Pläne, Perspektiven, pp. 102-107. Schwerpunkte Anglistik, 1. Bad Homburg: Athenäum, 1970.

  Reprinted in Olaf Schwencke, ed., Literatur in Studium und Schule: Loccumer ExpertenÜberlegungen zur Reform des Philologiestudiums (I), pp. 177-182. Loccumer Kolloquien, 1. Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 1970.

  "Der Archetyp als Leerform. Erzählschablonen und Kommunikation in Joyces Ulysses." In Manfred Fuhrmann, ed., Terror un Spiel: Probleme der Mythenrezeption, pp. 369-408. Papers and discussions presented at a colloquium. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 4. Munich: Fink, 1971.

  "Neunte Diskussion. Mythen im 20. Jahrhundert: Depotenzierung und Usurpation," Vorsitz: Eberhard Lämmert. Iser, pp. 687-719.

  Reprinted in a substantially revised version as "Der Archetyp als Leerform. Erzählmodalitäten und Kommunikation in Joyces Ulysses" in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 300-358.

  Translated into English as "Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses" in The Implied Reader (1974), pp. 196-233.

  Reprinted in Richard E. Amacher and Victor Lange, eds., New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays, pp. 320-356. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.

  "Gerard Manley Hopkins. Zwischen Romantik und Moderne." In Rudolf Sühnel and Dieter Riesner, eds., Englische Dichter der Moderne: Ihr Leben und Werk, pp. 33-51. Berlin: Schmidt, 1971.

  "Samuel Beckett. Ist das Ende hintergehbar? Bemerkungen zum Fiktionsproblem." In Rudolf Sühnel and Dieter Riesner, eds., Englische Dichter der Moderne. Ihr Leben und Werk, pp. 560-577. Berlin: Schmidt, 1971.

  Reprinted in a revised form in Der implizite Leser ( 1972), pp. 391-413.

  Translated into English as "When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett" In The Implied Reader (1974), pp. 257-273.

  Reprinted in S.E. Gontarski, ed., On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, pp. 46-64. An Evergreen Book. New York: Grove Press, 1986.

  "Vorwort." In Horst Tippkötter's Walter Scott. Geschichte als Unterhaltung. Eine Rezeptionsanalyse d. Waverley novels, pp. ix-xi. Studien zur Philosophie und Literatur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Bd. 13. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1971.

  "Mittelenglische Literatur und romanische Tradition." In Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, ed., Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters. Vol. I: Généralités, pp. 304-332. Heidelberg: Winter, 1972.

  "Die Leserrolle in Fieldings Joseph Andrews und Tom Jones." In Wolfgang Iser, ed., Henry Fielding und der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts, pp. 282-318. Wege der Forschung, 161. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972.

  Reprinted in Der implizite Leser (1972), pp. 57-93.

  Translated into English as "The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones." In Sencer Tonguc, ed., English Studies Today, Fifth Series, pp. 289-325. Papers raed at the Eight International Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English, held at Istanbul, 1971. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

  Translated into English in The Implied Reader (1974), pp. 29-56.

  Reprinted in Rainer Warning, ed., Rezeptionästhetik. Theorie und Praxis, pp. 435-466. Uni-Taschenbücher, 303. Munich: Fink, 1975. 2d edition, 1979.

  Translated into Polish by Aleksandra Lukaszek as "Rola czytelnika q powiesciach Fieldinga `Josef Andrews' i `Tom Jones'." Pamietnik Literacki ( 1976), 67(4):313-342.

  Hungarian translation in Helikon ( 1980), 26: 40-65.

  Translated into Chinese in 1989.

  Translated into Spanish by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina in Estética de la recepción, pp. 277-298. Edited by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina. La Balsa de la Medusa, 31. Madrid: Visor, 1989.

  Translated into Korean in Bonghi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis, pp. 317-350. Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1994.

  "Einleitung." In Wolfgang Iser, ed., Henry Fielding und der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts, pp. ixxxviii. Wege der Forschung, 161. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972.

  "Die Figur der Negativität in Becketts Prosa." In Hans Mayer and Uwe Johnson, eds., Das Werk von Samuel Beckett: Berliner Colloquium, pp. 54-68. "Diskussion über Iser," pp. 69-71. Organized in October 26-28, 1973 by the Akademie der Kunste in West Berlin. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 225. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1975.

  Translated into English as "The Pattern of Negativity in Beckett's Prose." Georgia Review (Fall 1975), 29: 706-719.

  Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Twentieth-Century British Literature, Volume I, pp. 121-124. The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985.

  Reprinted in Prospecting ( 1989), pp. 140-151.

  "Im Lichte der Kritik." In Rainer Warning, ed., Rezeptionästhetik. Theorie und Praxis, pp. 325-342. Uni-Taschenbücher, 303. Munich: Fink, 1975. 2d edition, 1979. 3rd edition, 1988.

  Translated into Dutch in in Marijke Buursink, et al., eds., De Wetenschap van het Lezen: Tien Jaar Theorie der Literarie Receptie, pp. 174-189. >!-- PL-->Assen/Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1978.

  Revised and expanded version translated into English by Rodney Foster as "The Indeterminacy of the Text." Comparative Criticism-A Yearbook (1980), 2:27-47.

  Translated into Chinese in 1989.

  Translated into Spanish by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina in Estética de la recepción, pp. 197-208. Edited by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina. La Balsa de la Medusa, 31. Madrid: Visor, 1989.

  "Die Wirklichkeit der Fiktion. Elemente eines funktiongeschichtlichen Textmodells der Literatur." In Rainer Warning, ed., Rezeptionästhetik. Theorie und Praxis, pp. 277-324.. Uni-Taschenbücher, 303. Munich: Fink, 1975. 2d edition, 1979. 3rd edition, 1988.

  Translated into English as "The Reality of Fiction: A Functionalist Approach to Literature." New Literary History (Autumn 1975), 7(1):7-38.

  Translated into Polish by Ryszard Handke as "Rzeczywistosc fikcji. Elementi historycznofunkcjondlnego mode lu tekstu literackiego." Pamietnik Literacki (1983), 74(3):375-416.

  Translated into Chinese in 1989.

  Translated into Spanish by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina in Estética de la recepción, pp. 165196. Edited by Ricardo Sánchez Ortiz de Urbina. La Balsa de la Medusa, 31. Madrid: Visor, 1989.

  "Syntaxmorpheme in der Sprech- handlung." In Harald Weinrich, ed., Positionen der Negativität, pp. 445-446. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 6. Munich: Fink, 1975.

  "Kontrare Leistungen der Negation." In Harald Weinrich, ed., Positionen der Negativität, pp. 509-511. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 6. Munich: Fink, 1975.

  "Negativität als tertium quid von Darstellung und Rezeption." In Harald Weinrich, ed., Positionen der Negativität, pp. 530-533. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 6. Munich: Fink, 1975.

  "Die Phantasearchitektur als literatursoziologischer Indexwert." In Harald Weinrich, ed., Positionen der Negativät, pp. 537-539. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 6. Munich: Fink, 1975.

  "Das Komische: ein Kipp- Phänomen." In Wolfgang Preisendanz and Rainer Warning, eds., Das Komische, pp. 398-402. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 7. Munich: Fink, 1976. Based on discussions of papers presented at the 7th Colloquium of the Forschungsgruppe Poetik und Hermeneutik, Bad Homburg, September 2-7, 1974.

  "Literaturwissenschaft in Konstanz." In Hans Robert Jauss and Herbert Nesselhauf, eds., Gebremste Reform. Ein Kapitel deutscher Hochschulgeschichte Universität Konstanz 1966-1976: Gerhard Hess zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet, pp. 181-200. Constance: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1977.

  "Narrative Strategies as a Means of Communication." In Mario J. Valdés and Owen J. Miller, eds., Interpretation of Narrative, pp. 100-117. Papers read at the International Colloquium on Interpretation of Narrative held at the University of Toronto, March 24-27, 1976. Library of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 4. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1978.

  Reprinted in Semiotics ( 1978), 2: 1-31.

  "Ist der Identitätsbegriff ein Paradigma für die Funktion der Fiktion?" In Odo Marquard and Karlheinz Stierle, eds., Identität, pp. 725-729. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 8. Munich: Fink, 1979.

  "Figurationen des lyrischen Subjekts." In Odo Marquard and Karlheinz Stierle, eds., Identität, pp. 746-749. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 8. Munich: Fink, 1979.

  "Zur Problemlage gegenwärtiger Literaturtheorie. Das Imaginäre und die epochalen Sclüsselbegriffe." In Horst Sund und Manfred Timmermann, eds., Auf den Weg gebracht. Idee und Wirklichkeit der Gründung der Universität Konstanz: Kurt Georg Kiesinger zum 75. Geburstag gewidmet, pp. 355-374. Constance: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1979.

  Translated into English as "The Current Situation of Literary Theory: Key Concepts and the Imaginary." New Literary History (Autumn 1979), 11(1):1-20.

  Translated by S. Foisy and E. Poulain as "Les problèmes de la théorie contemporaine de la litterature. L'imaginaire et les concepts-clefs de l'époque." Critique (October 1981), 37[413]:1091-1115.

  Translated into Portuguese in Luiz Costa Lima, ed., Teoria da Literatura em suas Fontes, II, pp. 359-383. 2d edition. Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Alves, 1983.

  Translated into Turkish in elEstiri ( 1983), 2:54-64.

  "Interaction between Text and Reader." In Susan R. Suleiman and Inge Crosman (Wimmers), eds., The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation, pp. 106-119. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

  Translated into Spanish by Erik Martínez as "La interacción texto-lector: algunos ejemplos hispánicos." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (Winter 1982), 6(2):225-238.

  English version reprinted in Prospecting ( 1989), pp. 31-41.

  Translated into Korean in Bonghi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis, pp. 231-243. Seoul:Koreaone Press, 1994.

  "Wirkung und Rezeption. Eine Retrospektive." In Hendrik van Gorp, et al., eds., Receptie-Onderzoek mogelijkheden en grenzen, pp. 165-180. Leuven: Acco, 1981.

  "Wirkungsästhetik." Foreword to Koi toshiteno dokusho, pp. iii-xiv. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1982.

  Foreword to the Japanese translation by Osamus Kutsuwada of The Act of Reading.

  (with Dieter Henrich.) "Vortwort." In Wolfgang Iser and Dieter Henrich, eds., Theorien der Kunst, p. 9. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1982.

  "Interpretationsperspektiven Moderner Kunsttheorie." In Wolfgang Iser and Dieter Henrich, eds., Theorien der Kunst, p. 9. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1982.

  "Akte des Fingierens oder Was ist das Fiktive im fiktionalen Text?" In Dieter Henrich and Wolfgang Iser, eds. Funktionen des Fiktiven, pp. 121-151. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 10. Munich: Fink, 1983.

  Translated into Portuguese in Luiz Costa Lima, ed., Teoria da literatura em suas fontes, II, pp. 384-416. 2d edition. Rio de Janeiro: Alves, 1983.

  Translated into English as "Feigning in Fiction" in Mario J. Valdes and Owen Miller, ed., Identity of the Literary Text, pp. 204-228. Introduction by Jonathan Culler. Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

  "Fictionalizing Acts." Amerikastudien-American Studies (1986), 31(1):5-15. Condensed version.

  Translated into Serbo-Croatian by Marijan Bobinac as "Cinovi fingiranja ili Sto je fiktivo u fikcionalnom tekstu?" in Umjetnost Rijeci [Zagreb] (1987), 31: 311-336.

  Translated into Italian in Studi di estetica ( 1989), 14-15: 21-67.

  Translated into Korean in Bonghi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis, pp. 245-289. Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1994.

  (with Dieter Henrich.) "Fiktion. Entfaltung der Problemlage." In Dieter Henrich and Wolfgang Iser, eds., Funktionen des Fiktiven, pp. 9-14. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 10. Munich: Fink, 1983.

  "Die Doppelungsstruktur des literarisch Fiktiven." In Wolfgang Iser and Dieter Henrich, eds., Funktionen des Fiktiven, pp. 497-510. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 10. Munich: Fink, 1983.

  Translated into English as "Representation: A Performative Act." In Murray Krieger, ed., The Aims of Representation: Subject, Text, History, pp. 217-232. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

  English version reprinted in Prospecting ( 1989), pp. 236-248.

  "Das Imaginäre: kein isolierbares Phänomen." In Wolfgang Iser and Dieter Henrich, eds., Funktionen des Fiktiven, pp. 479-486. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 10. Munich: Fink, 1983.

  "Das Fiktive im Horizont seiner Moglichkeiten. Eine Schlussbetrachtung." In Dieter Henrich and Wolfgang Iser, eds. Funktionen des Fiktiven, pp. 547-557. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 10. Munich: Fink, 1983.

  "Zur Phänomenologie der Dialogregel." In Karlheinz Stierle and Rainer Warning, eds., Das Gespräch, pp. 183-189. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 11. Munich: Fink, 1984.

  "Gibt es ein Selbstverständnis der Anglistik?" In Manfred Pfister, ed., Anglistentag 1984, pp. 35-45. Giessen: Hoffmann, 1985.

  "Murray Krieger at Konstanz: A Colloquy Chaired by Wolfgang Iser." (Participants: Wolfgang Iser, Murray Krieger, Ulrich Gaier, Anselm Haverkamp, Hans Robert Jauss, Jurgen Schlaeger and Gabriele Schwab.) In Bruce Henricksen, ed., Murray Krieger and Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 231-270. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

  "Das Individuum zwischen Evidenzerfahrung und Uneinholbarkeit." In Manfred Frank and Anselm Haverkamp, eds., Individualität, pp. 95-98. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 13. Munich: Fink, 1988.

  "Toward a Literary Anthropology." In Ralph Cohen, ed., The Future of Literary Theory, pp. 208-228. New York: Routledge, 1989.

  Essays by Twenty-Five Leading Critics and Theorists Chart the Course of Criticism into the 1990s and Beyond.

  Translated into Greek in Logon (1991), 2: 3-24.

  English version reprinted in Prospecting ( 1989), pp. 262-284.

  (with Sanford Budick.) "Introduction: The Critical Turn: Toward `Negativity' and the `Unsayable'." In Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, eds., Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, pp. xi-xxi. Irvine Studies in the Humanities, 3. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

  "The Play of the Text." In Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, eds., Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, pp. 325-339. Irvine Studies in the Humanities, 3. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

  English version reprinted in Prospecting ( 1989), pp. 249-261.

  Translated into Italian in Parol ( 1990), 6: 7-28.

  Reprinted as "Wolfgang Iser on the Play of the Text" in Lilian R. Furst, ed., Realism, pp. 206-217. Modern Literatures in Perspective. London & New York: Longman, 1992.

  Translated into Korean in Bonghi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis, pp. 291-315. Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1994.

  "The Aesthetic and the Imaginary." In David Carroll, ed., The States of "Theory": History, Art, and Critical Discourse, pp. 201-220. Irvine Studies in the Humanities, 4. New York: Co lumbia University Press, 1990.

  "Reader Response Criticism in Perspective." In Changes and Challenges: The Role of the Future University, pp. 223-246. International Symposium, May 10-11, 1989, Commemorating the SemiCentennial of Hanyang University. Seoul, Korea: Hanyang University Press, 1990.

  Includes also a Korean translation of the essay.

  English version reprinted in CIEFL [Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages] Bulletin (Hyderabad, India) ( 1990), 2(2):1-14.

  Translated into Chinese by Shan Te-hsing.

  "Vorwort." Preface to Theodor A. Meyer's Das Stilgesetz der Poesie, pp. 19-30. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, 790. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1990.

  Reprinted in Suhrkamp Wissenschaft, pp. 91-95. Frankfurt: Suhrkmap, 1990.

  "Von der dementierten zur zerspielten Form des Erzählens." In Wohin treibt die Moderne? Vortrage im Wintersemester 1991/92, pp. 55-73. Studium generale an der Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1991.

  "Liebe und Verwandlung im Schäferroman, Zur Poetologie des Fiktiven." In Herbert Foltinek, Wolfgang Riehle and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, eds., Tales and `their telling difference': zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz K. Stanzel, pp. 149-163. Anglistische Forschungen, 221. Heidelberg: Winter, 1993.

  "Die Präsenz des Endes: King Lear - Macbeth." In Rainer Warning and Karlheinz Stierle, eds., Figurationen des Endes. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 16. Munich: Fink, 1993.

  "Einleitung." In J. Hillis Miller's Illustration. Die Spur der Zeichen in Kunst, Kritik und Kultur, pp. 9-13. Translated by Monika Reif-Hülser. Konstanzer Bibl. 21. Constance: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1993.

  "Für die (koreanischen) Leser dieses Buches." In Bonhi Cha, ed., Reader-Response-Criticism: Inhaltsverzeichnis. Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1994.

  "Coda to the Discussion." In Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, eds., The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between, pp. 294-302. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

  "The Emergence of Cross-Cultural Discourse: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." In Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, eds., The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between, pp. 207-225. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

  Prepublication in Heide Ziegler, ed., Culture and the Imagination: Proceedings of the Third Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies, August 1-15, 1993, pp. 185-211. Stuttgart: M & P, 1995.

  "Die Präsenz des Endes: King Lear - Macbeth." In Karlheinz Stierle and Rainer Warning, eds., Das Ende: Figuren einer Denkform, pp. 359-383. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 16. Munich: Fink, 1996.

  "Beitrag zur Schlussitzung." In Karlheinz Stierle and Rainer Warning, eds., Das Ende: Figuren einer Denkform, pp. 664-667. Poetik und Hermeneutik, 16. Munich: Fink, 1996.

  "Why Literature Matters." In Rudiger Ahrens and Laurenz Volkmann, eds., Why Literature Matters: Theories and Functions of Literature, pp. 13-22. Anglistische Forschungen, 241. Heidelberg: Winter, 1996.

  "Fiktion/Imagination." In Ulfert Ricklefs, ed., Fischers Lexikon Literatur I, pp. 662-679. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1996.

  "Intertextuality: The Epitome of Culture." Foreword to Renate Lachmann's Memory and Literature: Intertextuality in Russian Modernism, pp. vii-xvii. Theory and History of Literature, 87. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

  "Reading." In Lester Embree, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, pp. 582-586. Contributions to Phenomenology, 18. Dordrecht; Boston; London: Kluwer, 1997.

  "Mimesis -->Emergenz." In Andreas Kablitz and Gerhard Neumann, eds., Mimesis und Simulation, pp. 669-684. Rombach Wissenschaften. Reihe Litterae, Bd. 52. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1998.

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