Anita Nézics

Norbert Rakonczay
Boldizsár Fejérvári
BBNANG112
8 October 2013

Auxiliary questions
(Wolfgang Iser, “The Reading Process: a
phenomenological approach”)

 According to Roman Ingarden, what do the two poles of the literary work refer to?
 What does Sterne think about literary texts?
 How can the author keep the attention of the reader?
 What do sentences consist of?
 What is the reader forced to do if there is an interruption in the text?
 How can the second reading help you to understand the text better?
 “[…] two people gazing at the night sky may both be looking at the same collection of stars,
but one will see the image of a plough, and the other will make out a dipper.” What is this
metaphor based on?
 How many aspects are there between the reader and the text?
 Do you think the image which appears in the mind of the reader is objective or subjective?
 What is the rereading? Can rereading create new aspects?
 What opportunity is given to us to bring our own faculty for filling the ‘gaps’?
 “You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something” (George
Bernard Shaw). What does Iser say about this quote?

Words to look for

phenomenology / phenomenological
schematized view
polarity
individual disposition
tenterhooks of suspense
significance
adequately
intentionale Satzkorrelate
correlative
preintention
anticipation vs. retrospection
consequent
picturing / gestalt
true meaning vs. configurative meaning
association
deductive vs. inductive
identification