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Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser’s German and English writings in detail. Apart from being the first comprehensive account of his work, this study also modifies the established view of Iser’s theory. In contrast to the idea that his only contribution to literary studies is the reception theory of the 1970s, this account demonstrates the importance of Iser’s work on history and anthropology from the 1950s and 1990s. Instead of exclusively focusing on familiar terms such as ‘indeterminacy’, this analysis also discusses Iser’s view of modernity, fiction and culture. As this discussion shows, his writings develop a consistent theory of the novel and the way in which it allows its readers to articulate new views of reality. To situate this theory, Iser’s institutional and intellectual background is described as well, paying special attention to the Poetik und Hermeneutik-circle and thinkers like Blumenberg and Kermode. The continued relevance of his theory is demonstrated via comparisons with recent research on the novel and memory as well as examples from contemporary novelists like Juli Zeh and Hilary Mantel.

Esthétique de la réception --- Littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Iser, Wolfgang, --- Critique et interprétation --- Reader-response criticism. --- Criticism --- Literature --- 82.0 --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Style, Literary --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Reading --- History --- History and criticism. --- Literatuurtheorie --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Iser, Wolfgang --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- Reader-response criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique. --- Esthétique de la réception.

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“This book is an ambitious and original piece of literary criticism that recounts the presence of multispecies soundscapes in twenty-first-century fiction and their functions as human responses to/engagement with nonhuman sound. De Bruyn pulls the frameworks of contemporary literature, animal studies and sound studies together to tell us that there are many ways to listen to the natural world, and that contemporary literature should not be underestimated for the opportunities it offers to do so.” — Lucile Desblache, Professor of Translation and Transcultural Studies, University of Roehampton, UK The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories and technologies of listening that shape twenty- first-century cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels illuminate the cultural meanings we attach to creatures like dogs, frogs, whales, chimpanzees, and Tasmanian tigers – not to mention various bird species and even plants. At the same time, these stories explore the attitudes of distinct communities of human listeners, ranging from vets and musicians to chimp caretakers and sonar technicians. In highlighting animal sounds and their cultural meanings, these novels by authors including Amitav Ghosh, Julia Leigh, Richard Powers, Karen Joy Fowler, Cormac McCarthy, and Han Kang also enrich pressing debates about species extinction, sound pollution, nonhuman communication, and human-animal relations. As we are violently reshaping the planet, they invite us to reimagine our own humanity and animality – and to rethink how we tell stories about multispecies contact zones and their complex soundscapes. Ben De Bruyn teaches English Literature at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Literature Now (2016) and the author of several articles on contemporary fi ction and the environmental humanities in journals like Studies in the Novel and Textual Practice.

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General ethics --- Fiction --- Literature --- ethiek --- literatuur --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099