The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response

8 best books like The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Wolfgang Iser): Deaf Republic: Poems, The Word for World is Forest, Poetics, Too Loud a Solitude, A Defence of Poetry, Michel Foucault, Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities, La liste de mes envies

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

The Word for World is Forest

Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...

Poetics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0140446362

‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’

In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...

Too Loud a Solitude

Author	Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN	0349102627

TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from...

A Defence of Poetry

Author	Philip Sidney
ISBN	0199110220

This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...

Michel Foucault

Author	Didier Eribon
ISBN	0674572866

At the time of his death in 1984, at the age of 58, Michel Foucault was widely regarded as one of the most powerful minds of the 20th century. Hailed by distinguished historians and lionized on his frequent visits to America, he continues to provoke lively debate. The nature and merits of his accomplishments...

Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Author	Stanley Fish
ISBN	0674467264

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers...

La liste de mes envies

Author	Grégoire Delacourt
ISBN	2709638185

Jocelyne, dite Jo, rêvait d’être styliste à Paris. Elle est mercière à Arras. Elle aime les jolies silhouettes mais n’a pas tout à fait la taille mannequin. Elle aime les livres et écrit un blog de dentellières. Sa mère lui manque et toutes les six minutes son père, malade, oublie sa vie....