 | Thomas Kent - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 194 pages
...for Iser is the process of "filling in the gaps left by the text itself."10 According to Iser, "... one text is potentially capable of several different...decision as to how the gap is to be filled."" In this process of "filling in the gaps," generic perception is especially important. In The Implied Reader,... | |
 | Felix Atance, University of Western Ontario - History - 1986 - 152 pages
...one way, it also accounts for the creative potential of reading. In Iser's words, For this reason, one text is potentially capable of several different...individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way .... By making his decision he implicitly acknowledges the inexhaustibility of the text; at the same... | |
 | Peter N. Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 364 pages
...the "gestalt" of the virtual dimension, for they may be filled in different ways. For this reason, one text is potentially capable of several different...his own decision as to how the gap is to be filled. . . . By making his decision he implicitly acknowledges the inexhaustibility of the text; at the same... | |
 | James L. Machor - History - 1993 - 322 pages
...are processing, from other texts, from our experience of the world. "For this reason," contends Iser, "one text is potentially capable of several different...will make his own decision as to how the gap is to be filled."4 Viewed through a fusion of Barthes's structuralist and Iser's phenomenological perspectives,... | |
 | James L. Machor - History - 1993 - 322 pages
...are processing, from other texts, from our experience of the world. "For this reason," contends Iser, "one text is potentially capable of several different...his own decision as to how the gap is to be filled." 4 Viewed through a fusion of Barthes's structuralist and Iser's phenomenological perspectives, the... | |
 | Brian Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 332 pages
...he concludes, "For this reason, one text is potentially capable of several different realisations, and no reading can ever exhaust the full potential,...thereby excluding the various other possibilities" (279). Here, too, the notion of gaps is limited (Ulysses would have more than Middlemarch) and potential... | |
 | Joyce Bainbridge, Sylvia Joyce Pantaleo - Education - 1999 - 290 pages
...bringing in past life and literary experiences. As the gaps in text may be filled in various ways, "one text is potentially capable of several different...reading can ever exhaust the full potential, for each reader will fill in the gaps in his own way, thereby excluding the various other possibilities" (Iser,... | |
 | Nicholas Saul - Metaphor - 1999 - 388 pages
...„one text is potentially capable of several reahsations, and no reading can ever exhaust the füll potential, for each individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way" (p. 280); and elsewhere he states that „the author had to use a variety of cunning stratagems to... | |
 | Richard Kern - Education - 2000 - 372 pages
...written. The literary text activates our own faculties, enabling us to recreate the world it presents .... [O]ne text is potentially capable of several different...his own decision as to how the gap is to be filled. (1980:54-5) From this characterization one might surmise that readers have complete freedom to interpret... | |
 | Dani Cavallaro - Philosophy - 2001 - 270 pages
...its limitlessness. Unifying readings alert us to the text's infinite richness and multiplicity, for 'one text is potentially capable of several different...individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way'. 'The potential text', in other words, 'is infinitely richer than any of its individual realizations'... | |
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For this reason, one text is potentially capable of several different realizations, and no reading can ever exhaust the full potential, for each individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way... 
