num_pages: 239
description: Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.
language: English
title: The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
titlecomplete: The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
genres: Criticism, Theory, Philosophy, Academic, Research, Writing, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 228
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press