Guide to the Wolfgang Iser papers MS.C.006

Finding aid prepared by Michelle Light, 2014; updated by Sarah Glover, 2021.

Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries

(cc) 2021

The UCI Libraries

P.O. Box 19557

University of California, Irvine

Irvine 92623-9557

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Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries

Title: Wolfgang Iser papers

Creator: Iser, Wolfgang

Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.006

Physical Description: 12.2 Linear Feet (32 boxes) and 0.25 unprocessed linear feet

Date (inclusive): 1952-2004

Abstract: This collection contains professional and private correspondence, papers presented at conferences, course reading and lecture notes, videorecordings, and unpublished and published writings documenting the work of literary theorist Wolfgang Iser as a teacher and scholar. The papers reflect Iser's main interests as a professor of English literature. The bulk of the material dates from after his appointment in 1967 as a professor at the University of Konstanz, in Germany. Some material documents his teaching at the University of California, Irvine from 1978 to 1998.

Language of Material: English .

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

Preferred Citation

Wolfgang Iser papers. MS-C006. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Wolfgang Iser, 1992, 1998-1999.

Accruals

Additional accruals are expected.

Processing History

Processed by Marcus Keller, 1999 and 2001. Finding aid updated in 2007 by Michelle Light.

Biography

Wolfgang Iser was born on July 22, 1926, in Marienberg (Saxony), Germany, the son of Paul and Else (Steinbach) Iser. From 1933 to 1944 he attended elementary and high school. He was drafted into the German army in 1944, and released from a prisoner of war camp in 1945. At the age of 19, he enrolled as a student of English, Philosophy, and German at the University of Leipzig, after the "Vorsemester" required for enrollment of students who graduated from high school in the later war years. At the end of his first year he transferred to the University of Tübingen and later to the University of Heidelberg, where he earned his Ph.D. in Anglistik (English philology and literature) in 1950 and joined the first generation of West German postwar graduates. From that point onward Iser's academic career took a straight and very successful course, which in many ways was typical for a young scholar of his generation. After his graduation and a short teaching appointment in Heidelberg, he became an assistant lecturer in 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland, teaching German for the next three years. Just before his departure he married Lore Reichert, who continued to assist Iser in his academic endeavors.

Upon his return to Germany in 1955, Iser was appointed to a position equivalent to an assistant professorship in the English Department of the University of Heidelberg, where he earned his "Habilitation" in 1957 with a work on the aesthetics of Walter Pater. This postdoctoral degree is the final step in the German academic system in becoming a full professor. After three more years of teaching at the University of Heidelberg, Iser was appointed full professor of English at the University of Würzburg in 1960.

After this appointment and another at the University of Köln during the mid-1960s, Iser finally took a position in the Department of Literature at the newly founded University of Konstanz in 1967. Konstanz belonged to the numerous new "reform" campuses created in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s in order to provide higher education for the burgeoning postwar generation of students and to fill West Germany's need for professionals in all fields. This rapid growth in the West German educational system was accompanied by deep reforms of traditional structures and teaching methods, and Wolfgang Iser was a significant participant in this reform project. He was a member of the founding council of the University of Bielefeld, another reform campus known at the time for its innovative structures. He became chairman of the Planning Committee for the University of Konstanz in 1971, a crucial position in the shaping of this new school, maintaining this post until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1991. Throughout his career Iser has been in great demand as an academic consultant in Germany, most recently as the chairman of the committee for establishing the "Grossbritannien-Zentrum" (i.e., British Studies Center) at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.

In the 1970s Iser established himself as one of the leading figures in literary theory with such works as Der implizite Leser (1972, English ed. The Implied Reader) and Der Akt des Lesens (1976, English ed. The Act of Reading). As a result, he was associated with "reception theory," which was very influential in literary studies during the 1970s; it was especially well-received in the United States, along with "reader-response" criticism. With Hans-Robert Jauss, Iser is considered to be the founding father of the Konstanz School of Reception Aesthetics. It was also during these years that Iser intensified his contacts with the North American academic community, which became over the years his second academic home. In the 1970s Iser held two fellowships and three visiting appointments at U.S. and Canadian institutions, including a visiting appointment in the German Department at the University of California, Irvine in 1976. In 1978 Iser became a faculty member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UCI, teaching classes regularly in English literature and literary theory.

Beginning in the mid-1980s Iser's research was oriented more and more toward the issues of literary anthropology. A large research project investigating these issues was established in the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, which is still in place. Books such as Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology (1989) and Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre (1991, English ed. The Fictive and the Imaginary) are representative of this phase in Iser's theoretical research.

Wolfgang Iser pursued an international and highly successful career, with numerous appointments and lectureships in Europe, North America, and Asia. He served on boards of prestigious academic and cultural institutions and has instigated a number of research and editiorial projects such as the series Poetik und Hermeneutik. His international reputation was indicated by his numerous memberships and honorary memberships in academic associations such as the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences, revealed his international reputation.

Iser died in Konstanz, Germany on January 24, 2007.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical Chronology

1926	Born on July 22 in Marienberg (Saxony), Germany.
1946	Student at the University of Leipzig.
1946-1947	Student at the University of Tübingen.
1947-1950	Student at the University of Heidelberg.
1950	Die Weltanschauung Henry Fieldings
1951-1952	Instructor, English Department, University of Heidelberg.
1952	Die Weltanschauung Henry Fieldings
1952-1955	Assistant Lecturer, German Department, University of Glasgow.
1955-1957	Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (equivalent to an assistant professorship), English Department, University of Heidelberg.
1957	Habilitation (postdoctoral degree), University of Heidelberg.
1957-1960	Privatdozent (equivalent to a non-tenured associate professorship), English Department, University of Heidelberg.
1960	Walter Pater: Die Autonomie des Ästhetischen
1960	Britannica: Festschrift für Hermann M. Flasdieck
1960-1963	Professor of English, English Department, University of Würzburg.
1963-1967	Professor of English, English Department, University of Köln.
1963-1982	Founding member and member of the Board of the Research Unit "Poetik und Hermeneutik."
1963-1994	Theorie und Geschichte der Literatur und der Schönen Künste: Texte und Abhandlungen
1966	Immanente Ästhetik - Ästhetische Reflexionen: Lyrik als Paradigma der Moderne
1967-1972	Member of the Council for establishing the University of Bielefeld.
1967-1991	Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Literature, University of Konstanz.
1968	Visiting appointment, English Department, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
1970-1971	Fellow at the Center of the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
1970	Die Appellstruktur der Texte: Unbestimmtheit als Wirkungsbedingung literarischer Prosa
1970	Spensers Arkadien: Fiktion und Geschichte in der englischen Renaissance
1970	Dargestellte Geschichte in der europäischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
1971-1991	Chairman of the Planning Committee of the University of Konstanz.
1972	Der implizite Leser: Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett
1972	Henry Fielding und der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts
1973-1974	Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, Holland.
1974	Visiting appointment, Graduate Program of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Ontario.
1975	Fellow of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1976	Visiting appointment, German Department, University of California, Irvine.
1976	Poggioli Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1976	Der Akt des Lesens: Theorie ästhetischer Wirkung
1978	Professor of English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine.
1978	Teaching Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, University of California, Irvine.
1978	Senior Old Dominion Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
1979	Honorary Member of the British Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, England.
1979	Die Artistik des Mißlingens: Ersticktes Lachen im Theater Becketts
1982	Theorien der Kunst
1983-1984	Visiting appointment, English Department, University of Zürich.
1984-1998	Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
1985	Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America, New York.
1985	Hanes-Willis-Lectures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1985-1986	Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1987	Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts.
1987	Laurence Sternes "Tristram Shandy": Inszenierte Subjektivität
1988-1991	Co-Director of the research project "Institutions of Interpretation," sponsored by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development, Jerusalem.
1988	Shakespeares Historien: Genesis und Geltung
1989	Walker-Ames Lectureship, University of Washington, Seattle.
1989	Keynote speaker at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary celebration.
1989	Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory
1989	Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
1989	Theodor A. Meyer: Das Stilgesetz der Poesie
1990-1996	Member of the Board of the Franz-Rosenzweig-Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1990	Fingieren als anthropologische Dimension der Literatur
1991	Member of the Academia Europaea, London.
1991	Professor emeritus as of October 1, 1991, at the University of Konstanz.
1991	Scholar at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
1991	Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre: Perspektiven literarischer Anthropologie
1992	Theorie der Literatur: Eine Zeitperspektive
1993	Spielstrukturen in Shakespeares Komödien: "Sommernachtstraum"-"Was ihr wollt"
1993-1994	Chairman of the committee for establishing the "Großbritannien-Zentrum" at the Humboldt-University, Berlin.
1994	Wellek Library Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.
1994-1999	Co-Director of the International Conference of Humanistic Discourse research project, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Bonn, and University of California, Irvine.
1995	Visiting appointment, University of Basel.
1995	Das Großbritannien-Zentrum in kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht
1996	The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between
1998	Stepping Forward: Essays, Lectures and Interviews
2000	The Range of Interpretation
2000	Presidential Lecture, Stanford University, California.
2000	Ph.D., Honoris Causa, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2000	Werner Heisenberg Medal, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn.
2000-2001	Senior Distinguished Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina.
2001	Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, London.
2001	Senior Fellow for Life, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2001.
2005	Professor emeritus at University of California, Irvine.
2006	How to Do Theory
2007	Died in Konstanz, Germany.

Course Chronology

The following chronology of courses taught by Wolfgang Iser at the University of Konstanz and at the University of California, Irvine was assembled with the assistance of Dr. Rolf Eichler and Christa Schellhammer (Konstanz) and Arielle Read (Irvine). Although every effort has been made to list every course taught by Iser at these institutions, this chronology is not definitive. Course titles frequently do not exactly match the titles supplied by Iser for the course materials in Series 2 of this finding aid. At Konstanz, courses are offered during Winter (Oct.-March) and Summer (April-Sept.) semesters. Also at Konstanz, Iser frequently taught Doktorandenkolloquium (doctoral colloquia), for which individual titles were not available for this chronology. At Irvine courses are offered during Fall (Oct.-Dec.), Winter (Jan.-March), and Spring (April-June) quarters.

Courses taught at UCI are explicitly noted; all other courses were taught at Konstanz.

Missing Title

Winter 1968	Joyce und Beckett
	Moderne ästhetische Theorien. Intention und Leistung
	Der englische Roman der Aufklärung
Summer 1969	Shakespeares Tragödien
	Shepheardes Calender
	Moderne ästhetische Theorien. Intention und Leistung II
Winter 1969	Romantische Odendichtung
	Kolloquium für Aufbaustudenten über Kunsttheorien des Pragmatismus und der Semiotik
	Der moderne englische Roman. Einübung in praktische Literaturkritik
Summer 1970	Kolloquium für Aufbaustudenten über Kritik ästhetischer Theorieentwürfe
	Waste Land und Ezra Pounds Cantos
	Modernes englisches Drama
Summer 1971	Kritik ästhetischer Theorieentwürfe (Rader, Krieger/Vivas, Margolis)
	Tristram Shandy
	Theorie literarischer Kommunikation
Winter 1971	Shakespeares Historien
	Fiktion in der Tradition des Empirismus und in der Literatur
Summer 1972	Arkadien in der Literatur der Renaissance
	Der viktorianische Roman
Winter 1972	Englische und amerikanische Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts
	Der Fiktionsbegriff in der Tradition des Empirismus
Summer 1973	Fiktion und Fiktionstheorie von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart
	Bürgerliches Trauerspiel und sentimentale Komödie
Summer 1974	Phänomenologie des Lesens
	Der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts
Winter 1974	Shakespeares Historien
	Kunsttheorien der Gegenwart
Summer 1975	Moderne englische Lyrik
	Becketts Dramen
Winter 1975	Shakespeares Tragödien
	Romantische Odendichtung
	Fiktion und Fiktionstheorie von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart
Winter 1976	Dickens und Thackeray
	Modernes englisches Drama
	Kunsttheorien der Gegenwart
Summer 1977	Shakespeares Historien
	Schäferdichtung der Renaissance
Winter 1977	Dickens und Thackeray
	Entblößte Fiktion
	Vorlesungskurs: Moderne englische Lyrik
Winter 1978	Romantische Odendichtung
	Kunsttheorien der Moderne
	Shakespeares Tragödien
Summer 1979	The Ambassadors und Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
	Das englische Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts
Winter 1979	Bürgerliches Trauerspiel
	Shakespeares Historien
Winter 1980	Dickens und Thackeray
	Der englische Roman der Aufklärung
Winter 1981	Englische Lyrik der Moderne
	The Ambassadors und Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
	Kunsttheorie der Gegenwart
Summer 1982	Bürgerliches Trauerspiel
	Europäische Bukolik: Zur historischen Genese der literarischen Fiktion
	Shakespeares Historien
Winter 1982	Idole, Fiktionen und Fiktionsbegriffe in der Tradition des Empirismus
	Romantische Odendichtung
	Shakespeares Tragödien
Winter 1983	Modernes englisches Drama: Vom Naturalismus bis zum absurden Theater
Summer 1984	Der englische Roman der Aufklärung
Winter 1984	Shakespeares Historien
	Idole, Fiktionen und Fiktionsbegriffe in der Tradition des Empirismus
Winter 1985	English 210: Representation in Narrative (UCI)
Summer 1985	Englische Lyrik der Moderne
	Tristram Shandy und Jacques le fataliste
Winter 1985	Literatur und Spielbegriff
	Shakespeares Tragödien
Winter 1986	Humanities 270: Theories of Art (UCI)
Winter 1986	Der englische Roman der Aufklärung
	Phantasie und Phantasietheorien
Winter 1987	English 225: Fictionality in Philosophy and Literature (UCI)
Summer 1987	Shakespeares Historien
	Dickens und Thackeray
Winter 1988	Spielstrukturen in Shakespeares Komödien
	Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre: Grundzüge einer Literaturanthropologie. Teil I: Fiktionalität
Winter 1989	Humanities 270: The Play of the Text (UCI)
Summer 1989	Kanonbildung von der Aufklärung zur Moderne: Dr. Johnson, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot
	Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre: Grundzüge einer Literaturanthropologie. Teil II: das Imaginäre
Winter 1989	Englische Lyrik der Moderne
Winter 1990	Humanities 270: Theories of Art and their Consequences for Interpretations: Phenomenology, Gestalt, Hermeneutics, and Semiotics (UCI)
Winter 1990	Dramatische Literatur der englischen Renaissance: Shakespeares Zeitgenossen
	Shakespeares Tragödien
Summer 1991	Thomas Carlyle: Die übersetzbarkeit von Kulturen
	Institutionen der Interpretation
Winter 1992	Humanities 270: The Fictive and the Imaginary (UCI)
Spring 1992	English 210: Institutions of Interpretation (UCI)
Winter 1993	Criticism 240: Translatability of Discourses (UCI)
Winter 1994	Humanities 270: Anatomy of Interpretation (UCI)
Spring 1994	Criticism 240: Modern Theories of Art (UCI)
Winter 1995	Humanities 270: Conceptions of Culture (UCI)
Winter 1996	Humanities 270: Interpretive Procedures: Readings of Sealed and Open Canons; Hermeneutics, Cybernetics, and the Differential (UCI)
Winter 1997	Humanities 270: Modern Theories of Art (UCI)
Winter 1998	Humanities 270: Unfolding Interpretation: Iterations of Translatability (UCI)
Winter 1999	Humanities 270: Conceptions of Culture in Ethnographical and Anthropological Perspective (UCI)
Spring 1999	Humanities 270: Beckett and Theory (UCI)
Winter 2002	Humanities 270: Culture as an Emergent Phenomenon (UCI)

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection contains professional and private correspondence, papers presented at conferences, course reading and lecture notes, videorecordings, and unpublished and published writings documenting the work of literary theorist Wolfgang Iser as a teacher and scholar. The papers reflect Iser's main interests as a professor of English literature. The bulk of the material dates from after his appointment in 1967 as a professor at the University of Konstanz, in Germany. Some material documents his teaching at the University of California, Irvine from 1978 to 1998.

The papers are composed chiefly of handwritten or typed notes, approximately two thirds in German and one third in English. Especially noteworthy in the collection are Iser's notes on special topics such as reader-response criticism, fictionality, the imaginary, staging, and aesthetics. Also represented in the collection are notes on authors such as Thomas Carlyle, Henry Fielding, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, and on English literary periods and genres such as the English novel of the Enlightenment and English pastoral poetry.

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged in three series.

Series 1. Professional activities and biographical material, 1952-1994. 1.6 linear feet
Series 2. Teaching material, 1957-1998. 7.6 linear feet
Series 3. Writings, 1964-2000. 3.0 linear feet

The collection also contains one unprocessed addition:

Accession accn2004-021 001. Unprocessed addition, 2004. 0.25 linear feet

Related Collections

Papers relating to Wolfgang Iser's tenure as a professor at the University of Konstanz have been deposited in the archive there by Professor Iser.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Criticism -- History -- Sources

Literature -- Aesthetics

Theorists.

Literary critics.

Fictions, Theory of

Literature -- History and criticism

Critical theory -- Archives.

Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism

Imagination in literature

Video recordings

Spenser, Edmund

University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives

Shakespeare, William

Carlyle, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation

Sidney, Philip

Fielding, Henry -- Criticism and interpretation

Iser, Wolfgang -- Archives

Professional activities and biographical material Series 1. 1952-1994

Physical Description: 1.6 Linear Feet

Access

Access to original video cassettes is restricted; copies will be made for researcher use.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of materials documenting Iser's life, such as passports, curriculum vitae, and correspondence. The bulk of this series comprises correspondence and files documenting talks and lectures by Iser. Correspondence files include personal letters to and from colleagues, materials relating to offers for professorships, and dedicatory essays for his birthday. Files documenting his talks include print and manuscript items, and videorecordings.

Series Arrangement

This series is arranged primarily by form of material and secondarily by date. Correspondence related to Iser's publications can be found in Series 3.

box 1, folder 1

Curriculum vitae 1994

box 1, folder 2

Passports and registration certificates 1952-1985

Correspondence 1959-1994

box 2, folder 1-6, box 1, folder 3-17

Offers for professorships 1959-1984

box 1, folder 3

Kansas State College 1959

box 1, folder 4

Universität Heidelberg 1960

box 1, folder 5

Universität Würzburg 1960

box 1, folder 6

Universität Köln 1963

box 1, folder 7-8

Universität Konstanz 1967

box 1, folder 9

Colgate University 1968

box 1, folder 10

Universität Innsbruck 1969

box 1, folder 11

Universität Frankfurt 1970

box 1, folder 12

Universität Bielefeld 1974

box 1, folder 13-16

Freie Universität Berlin 1974

box 1, folder 17

Wesleyan University 1972

box 2, folder 1

Universität Zürich 1972

box 2, folder 2

University of California 1976

box 2, folder 3-4

University of Virginia 1982

box 2, folder 5

Stanford University 1983

box 2, folder 6

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1984

box 2, folder 7-11

Individuals 1967-1994

box 2, folder 7

Blumenberg, Hans 1967-1988

box 2, folder 8

Henrich, Dieter 1972-1973

box 2, folder 9

Jauss, Hans Robert 1974

box 2, folder 10

Kermode, Frank 1987-1994

box 2, folder 11

Kracauer, Siegfried 1964-1969

box 32, folder 1, box 2, folder 12-18

Birthday 1986, 1991

Scope and Content Note

Includes writings presented to Iser. Arranged by surname of correspondent.

box 2, folder 12-17

60th 1986

Physical Description: 6 folders.

box 32, folder 1

Festschrift slipcase 1986

box 2, folder 18

65th 1991

Talks

box 3, folder 1

"On Fielding" circa 1958

box 3, folder 2

"Fieldings Romane" circa 1959

box 3, folder 3

"On T.S. Eliot's Prufrock" circa 1960

box 3, folder 4

"Das Spiel im Spiel in Shakespeare's Hamlet" 1961

box 3, folder 5

"W. Palter and T.S. Eliot: transition to modernity" 1961

box 3, folder 6

"Gedenkrede auf Hermann M. Flasdieck" 1962

box 3, folder 7

"G. M. Hopkins: The Windhover" 1962

box 3, folder 8

"Möglichkeiten der Illusion im historischen Roman: Scott's Waverley" 1963

box 3, folder 9

"Die Entstehung des modernen Romans" 1963

box 3, folder 10

"Image und Montage: die Imagisten und T.S. Eliot's Waste Land" 1964

box 3, folder 11

"Historische Stilformen in Joyce's Ulysses" 1964

box 3, folder 12

"Smollet's Humphry Clinker" 1965

box 3, folder 13

"On Smolett's Humphry Clinker" 1966

box 3, folder 14

"Reduktionsformen der Subjektivität" 1966

box 3, folder 15

"Literature as a study of effects and response" circa 1967

box 3, folder 16

"Close reading and reader's reaction" 1969

box 3, folder 17

"Die Appellstruktur der Texte" 1969

box 3, folder 18

"Spenser: The Shepherd's Calendar" 1969

box 3, folder 19

"Joyce's Ulysses" 1969

box 3, folder 20

"On Beckett" circa 1970

box 3, folder 21

"The role of the reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones" 1971

box 3, folder 22

"Indeterminacy and reader's response." Condensed version. 1971

box 3, folder 23

"Indeterminacy and reader's response" 1971

box 3, folder 24

"The reading process" 1971

box 3, folder 25

"Fiktionalität" circa 1972

box 3, folder 26-29

"Hermeneutics of reading." 1974

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Note

See also Series 2. Teaching material, 1974.

box 3, folder 30

"Die Leerstellen im Text" 1974

box 3, folder 31

"Figur der Negativität in Becketts Prosa" 1974

box 3, folder 32

"Phänomenologie des Lesens" 1974

box 4, folder 1

"Selbstdarstellung in der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft" 1975

box 4, folder 2

"Negativität in Beckett," German and English versions 1975

box 4, folder 3

"Changing functions of literature" circa 1978

box 4, folder 4

"Feigning in fiction" circa 1978

box 4, folder 5

"Akte des Fingierens" 1979

box 4, folder 6

"Artistik des Misslingens" 1979

box 4, folder 7

"Literatur und Geschichte" 1981

box 4, folder 8

"Wirkungsästhetik." 1981

Scope and Content Note

Includes additional conference material.

box 4, folder 9

"The art of failure" 1981

box 4, folder 10

"Fictionalizing acts" circa 1982

box 4, folder 11

"Anglistik in Deutschland" 1983

box 4, folder 12

"Anglistik: eine Universitätsdisziplin ohne Forschungsparadigma?" 1984

box 4, folder 13-14

"Schäferdichtung." circa 1985

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 4, folder 15

"On imagination and play" circa 1990

Video cassettes 1994

"Authority and circularity: the rise of hermeneutics," Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica 1994

box AV-1, item MS-C06-V1

Duplicating master

box AV-12, item MS-C06-V1U

Viewing copy

"Recursive looping: the cross-cultural relationship," Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University 1994

box AV-1, item MS-C06-V2

Duplicating master

box AV-12, item MS-C06-V2U

Viewing copy

"The traveling differential: converting God into cognition," Institute of Literature, National Tsing-Hua University 1994

box AV-1, item MS-C06-V3

Duplicating master

box AV-12, item MS-C06-V3U

Viewing copy

"Growing up as an intellectual in postwar Germany: improvised autobiographical remarks," Department of English, National Normal University 1994

box AV-1, item MS-C06-V4

Duplicating master

box AV-12, item MS-C06-V4U

Viewing copy

Teaching material Series 2. 1957-1998

Physical Description: 7.6 Linear Feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains files documenting Iser's career as a professor and international scholar. It includes texts and notes for lectures on English literature and literary theory, mostly given in Konstanz and Irvine; course readings and notes on readings; and related materials such as student notes and grading sheets.

Series Arrangement

This series is arranged chronologically. An exact date could not be determined for many items and approximate dates were supplied. Dates relating to a particular class or lecture do not always correspond to the time the material was created: Iser often taught certain classes more than once and reused older notes, which he corrected and revised, or substantially expanded. Course files can therefore contain documents created and reused across time periods, the older ones often designated by Iser with the indication alt (old) or ganz alt (oldest). The date on the folder normally indicates the year a particular class was taught for the last time. Course and lecture titles in German indicate material in German, and English titles indicate material in English.

Original order was maintained during processing of this collection. Iser also supplied a number of single-page notes with short content descriptions for individual folders. These notes were photocopied and included with their related files during processing. The material for a course or lecture is commonly subdivided into chapters, each probably reflecting a single session. Some early lecture material, however, is paginated throughout and not separated into chapters. All other materials that could not be associated with a chapter or within a paginated sequence are filed with their associated courses under "course-related miscellaneous material." In a few cases, Iser did not impose an order on the material, and so one was imposed during processing. Such cases are indicated in the container list by the note "Material arranged by topic during processing."

Since Iser's teaching was always closely related to his writings, further course-related material can be found in Series 3 under respective publications.

Walter Pater und der englische Ästhetizismus 1957

box 4, folder 16

Pater und Wilde

box 4, folder 16

Impressionismus

box 4, folder 17-18

Pater

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Marvell und Donne 1957

box 4, folder 19-20

Definition of love

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes.

box 4, folder 21

Marvell: Garden

box 4, folder 22

Related course material

Thomas Carlyle 1957

box 4, folder 23

Allgemeines, Ideologie, Helden

box 4, folder 24

Past and Present

box 4, folder 24-25

Sator Resartus

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 4, folder 26

Related course material

Bunyan und Butler 1957

box 4, folder 27

Anfänge des Puritanismus

box 4, folder 27

Bunyan's Heilslehre

box 4, folder 27

Allegorie

box 4, folder 28

Erzählhaltung

box 4, folder 28

Vers und Prosa

box 4, folder 28

Traumerzähler

box 4, folder 28

Linearität

box 4, folder 29

Abweichung von der Linearität

box 4, folder 29

Figuren

box 4, folder 29

Vanity Fair

box 4, folder 30

Butler: Hudibras

box 4, folder 30

Vorstellung des Helden

box 4, folder 31-32

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Swift: Gulliver's Travels 1958

box 4, folder 33

Lilliput

box 4, folder 34

Brobdingnag

box 4, folder 34

Laputa

box 4, folder 34

Pferde

box 4, folder 34

Komik

box 4, folder 34

Ironie

box 4, folder 35

Zusammenfassung

box 4, folder 36

Related course material

Walter Pater: Marius 1958

box 4, folder 37

Marius

box 4, folder 38

Mona Lisa

box 4, folder 38

Zusammenfassung

Oscar Wilde 1958

box 4, folder 39

Wilde, Pater

box 4, folder 39

The Critic as Artist

box 4, folder 40

Dorian Gray

box 4, folder 40

Importance of Being Earnest

box 4, folder 41

Related course material

box 5, folder 1-9

Englische Barocklyrik 1958

box 4, folder 42

Einleitung

box 5, folder 1-8, box 4, folder 43-46

Notes

Physical Description: 12 folders.

box 5, folder 9

Related course material

Höfische Dichtung des Englischen "Mittelalters" 1958

box 5, folder 10

Einleitung

box 5, folder 11-21

Notes

Physical Description: 11 folders.

Altenglische Lautlehre 1961

box 5, folder 22-25

Notes

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Shakespeare: Richard III 1962

box 5, folder 26

Methode, Die Chronik, Sprache

box 5, folder 27

Der Mechanismus des Dramatischen Geschehens, Akte I-IV

Bürgerliches Trauerspiel und Sentimentale Komödie 1962

box 6, folder 1

Einleitung

box 6, folder 2-11

Notes

Physical Description: 10 folders.

Das Komische 1964

box 6, folder 12

Spenser, Chaucer

box 6, folder 13-16

Notes

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Dichtungstheorien des 19. Jahrhunderts 1964

box 6, folder 17-20

Notizen

Physical Description: 4 folders.

box 7, folder 1-5, box 6, folder 21-26

Notes

Physical Description: 11 folders.

Dickens und Thackeray 1964

box 7, folder 6

Einleitung

box 7, folder 7

Oliver Twist

box 7, folder 8-9

Vanity Fair

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 7, folder 10

Notizen

box 7, folder 11-13

Related course material

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Moderner Englischer Roman 1964

box 7, folder 14

Notizen

box 7, folder 15-27

Notes

Physical Description: 13 folders.

Historischer Roman: Scott's Waverly und Thackeray's Henry Esmond. 1964

Note

See also Subseries 3.1. Published material, " Möglichkeiten der Illusion im historischen Roman."

box 8, folder 1

Historischer Roman, Lukács

box 8, folder 2

Scott, Vorwort, Problem der Wahrscheinlichkeit

box 8, folder 3

Erzählhaltung, Ironie

box 8, folder 4

Thackeray, Vorwort, Differenzen

box 8, folder 5

Historischer Roman, Lukács, Notizen

box 8, folder 6

Scott, Notizen

box 8, folder 7

Waverly, Notizen

box 8, folder 8-9

Esmond , Notizen

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 8, folder 10

Walpole, Notizen

box 8, folder 11

Eliot: Romola, Notizen

box 8, folder 12-13

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Sterne und der englische Roman des 18. Jarhunderts 1965

box 8, folder 14

Einleitung

box 8, folder 15

Romanformen

box 8, folder 16

Defoe

box 8, folder 17

Fielding

box 8, folder 18

Smollett

box 8, folder 19-21

Tristram Shandy

Physical Description: 3 folders.

box 8, folder 22

Notizen zur Vorbereitung

box 8, folder 23-25

Course-related miscellaneous material.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Also includes material from Tristram Shandy.

Moderne Lyrik 1965

box 8, folder 26-27

Preparatory notes

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 8, folder 28-36

Notes

Physical Description: 9 folders.

box 8, folder 37

Related course material

Shakespeare, Späte Tragädien und Romanzen 1966

box 8, folder 38

Einleitung

box 9, folder 1-11, box 8, folder 39-40

Notes

Physical Description: 13 folders.

Fielding 1967

box 9, folder 12-13

Joseph Andrews

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 9, folder 14-15

Tom Jones

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 9, folder 16-21

Related course material

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Sidney: Arcadia 1968

box 9, folder 22

General

box 9, folder 23

Related course material

Kafka and modern German literature 1968

box 9, folder 24-25

Hesse: Der Steppenwolf

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 9, folder 26-27

Thomas Mann: Felix Krull

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 1-2

Günter Grass: Tin Drum

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 3

Dürrenmatt: Der Besuch der alten Dame

box 10, folder 4

Short story

Methodologische überlegungen zu einem funktionsgeschichtlichen Modell der Literatur 1969

box 10, folder 5, 8

Brown

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 6

Marcuse

box 10, folder 7

Lorenzer

box 10, folder 9

Simmel

box 10, folder 10

Albert

box 10, folder 11

Luhmann

box 10, folder 12

Popper

box 10, folder 13

Collingwood

box 10, folder 14

Schmidt

box 10, folder 15

Bertram

box 10, folder 16

Barthes

box 10, folder 17

Albers, Interaktion

box 10, folder 18

Vodička

box 10, folder 19

Mukařovsky

box 10, folder 20

Zusammenfassung

box 10, folder 21

Interaktion von Text und Situation

Der moderne englische Roman 1969

box 10, folder 22

Einleitung

box 10, folder 23-24

Conrad: Lord Jim

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 25-28

Galsworthy: Forsyte Saga

Physical Description: 4 folders.

box 10, folder 29-30

Huxley: Brave New World

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 31

Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

box 10, folder 32-33

Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 34

Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

box 10, folder 35

Walker: Jubilee

box 10, folder 36-39

Course-related miscellaneous material

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Romantische Odendichtung 1970

box 10, folder 40

Einleitung

box 10, folder 41

Ode

box 10, folder 42

Shelley

box 10, folder 43

Keats

box 10, folder 44

Pater

box 10, folder 45

T.E. Hulme: Speculations

box 10, folder 46-47

Notizen

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 10, folder 48

Related course material

Ästhetik und ästhetische Theorie 1970

box 10, folder 49

Anmerkungen zum Katalog, Katalog der Elemente

box 10, folder 50

Langer

box 10, folder 51

Dewey

box 10, folder 52

Köhler

box 10, folder 53

Gombrich

box 11, folder 1

Arnheim

box 11, folder 2

Ingarden

box 11, folder 3

Bense

box 11, folder 4

Semiotisches Beschreibungsschema

box 11, folder 5

Weitz, Zusammenfassung

box 11, folder 6-9

Related course material

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Modernes englisches Drama 1970

box 11, folder 10-11

Preparatory notes

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 11, folder 12-18

Notes

Physical Description: 7 folders.

Moderne englische Lyrik 1970

box 11, folder 19-20

Notes

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 11, folder 21

Vorgeschichte

box 11, folder 22

Imagistische Manifeste

box 11, box 23

Pound: In a Station of the Metro

T.S. Eliot

box 11, folder 24

Prufrock

box 11, folder 25

Waste Land

box 11, folder 26

Ginsberg: Howl

box 11, folder 27-29

Related course material

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Shakespeares Historien 1971

box 11, folder 30

Ziele, Funktionsgeschichte, Shakespeare

box 11, folder 31

Das Problem der Neuzeit

box 11, folder 32

Richard III

box 11, folder 33

Richard II

box 12, folder 1-2

Heinrich IV

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 12, folder 3

Heinrich V

box 12, folder 4

Schluss der Historien

box 12, folder 5-7

Related course material

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Theorie literarischer Wirkung I 1971

box 12, folder 8

Grundrissskizze

box 12, folder 9

Holland, Vorlage

box 12, folder 10

Ingarden

box 12, folder 11

Textbefund

box 12, folder 12

Negativität

box 12, folder 13-14

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Theorie literarischer Wirkung II 1971

box 12, folder 15

Einleitung, Status der Theorie

box 12, folder 16

Phänomenologie des Lesens

box 12, folder 17

Leerstelle

box 12, folder 18

Richards

box 12, folder 19

Semiotik, Austin

box 12, folder 20

Diskussion

box 12, folder 21

Tom Jones, A Heritage and its History

box 12, folder 22

Lesser

box 12, folder 23

Hardung, Morris

box 12, folder 24-25

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Idole, Fiktionen und Fiktionsbegriffe in der Tradition des Empirismus circa 1971-1972

box 12, folder 26

Einleitung

box 12, folder 27

Bacon

box 12, folder 28

Locke

box 12, folder 29

Zwischenbilanz Bacon-Locke

box 12, folder 30

Bentham

box 12, folder 31

Vaihinger

box 12, folder 32

Goodman

box 12, folder 33

Schlussbetrachtung

Literary Theory circa 1971-1972

box 12, folder 35

Gurwitsch, Bewusstsein

box 12, folder 36

Simmel

box 12, folder 37

Norbert Elias

box 12, folder 38

Plessner

box 12, folder 39

Jameson

box 12, folder 40

Bell

box 12, folder 41

Cohen

box 12, folder 42

Collingwood

box 12, folder 43

Strohschneider-Kohrs

box 12, folder 44

Enzensberger

box 12, folder 45

Related course material

Die Elegie in Barock und Aufklärung circa 1971-1972

Processing Note

Material arranged by topic during processing.

box 12, folder 46

Einleitung

box 12, folder 47

John Donne

box 12, folder 48

Milton

box 12, folder 49

Pope

box 13, folder 1

Dryden

box 13, folder 2

Related course material

Fiktionstheorie in der Renaissance 1972

box 13, folder 3

Literarische Fiktion allgemein

box 13, folder 4

Apophantischer Text

box 13, folder 5

Heuristische Annahmen

box 13, folder 6

Fiktionsthematik in historischer Perspektive

box 13, folder 7

Curiositas

box 13, folder 8

Sidney

box 13, folder 9

Die Säulen des Herkules

box 13, folder 10

Notizen

Englische und Amerikanische Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts 1972

box 13, folder 11

Moderne Lyrik

box 13, folder 12

Keats

box 13, folder 13

Imagistische Dichtung

box 13, folder 14

Pound

Eliot

box 13, folder 15

Prufrock

box 13, folder 16

Waste Land

box 13, folder 17-18

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Fiktionstheorie von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart 1973

box 13, folder 19

These der Untersuchung

box 13, folder 20

Fiktion im Bereich der Erkenntnis

box 13, folder 21

Locke

box 13, folder 22-23

Sterne

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 13, folder 24

Bentham

box 13, folder 25

Bentham, Dickens

box 13, folder 26

Vaihinger

box 13, folder 27

Zwischenüberlegung

box 13, folder 28

Notizen

box 13, folder 29

Related course material

Bürgerliches Trauerspiel und sentimentale Komödie 1973

box 13, folder 30-31

Einleitung

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 13, folder 32

Aristoteles

box 13, folder 33

Methodische Orientierung

Addison

box 13, folder 34

General

box 13, folder 35

Cato

box 13, folder 36

Lillo

box 13, folder 37

Moore

box 13, folder 38

Sentimentale Komödie

box 13, folder 39

Zusammenfassung

box 13, folder 40

Related course material

Der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts 1974

box 14, folder 1

Einleitung

box 14, folder 2-8

Notes

Physical Description: 7 folders.

box 14, folder 9-11

Related course material

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Kunsttheorien der Gegenwart 1974

box 14, folder 12

Einleitung

box 14, folder 13

Ingarden

box 14, folder 14

Becker

box 14, folder 15

Zwischenbilanz

box 14, folder 16-17

Gestaltpsychologie

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 14, folder 18-19

Gehlen

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 14, folder 20

Ehrenzweig, Lukács

box 14, folder 21

Mead

box 14, folder 22

Zusammenfassung

box 14, folder 23-31

Related course material

Physical Description: 9 folders.

Hermeneutics of reading 1974

Note

See also: Series 1, Talks.

box 15, folder 1

Introduction

box 15, folder 2

Repertoire

box 15, folder 3

Strategies

box 15, folder 4

Speech-act model

box 15, folder 5

Psychoanalytical models

box 15, folder 6

The moving viewpoint

box 15, folder 7

Consistency-building

box 15, folder 8

Situation-building

box 15, folder 9

Passive synthesis as composite pictures

box 15, folder 10

Imaging

box 15, folder 11

The concept of the reader

box 15, folder 12

Interaction

box 15, folder 13

What happens to the reader

box 15, folder 14

Gaps

box 15, folder 15

Negation

box 15, folder 16-17

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Shakespeares Historien 1974

box 15, folder 18

Einleitung

box 15, folder 19-26

Notes

Physical Description: 8 folders.

Phänomenologie des Lesens 1974

box 15, folder 27

Allgemeine Gesichtspunkte

box 15, folder 28

Partiale Kunst, Der Leser

box 15, folder 29

Textmodell, Verhältnis von Leser und Text

box 15, folder 30

Ausgangsüberlegung

box 15, folder 31

Figure in the Carpet

box 15, folder 32-35

Phänomenologie des Lesens

Physical Description: 4 folders.

box 16, folder 1

Interaktion von Text und Leser

box 16, folder 2-3

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Der englische Roman der Aufklärung 1974

box 16, folder 4

Einleitung

box 16, folder 5

Bunyan

box 16, folder 6

Defoe

box 16, folder 7

Richardson

box 16, folder 8

Fielding

box 16, folder 9

Tom Jones

box 16, folder 10

Mackenzie

box 16, folder 11

Bibliographie

box 16, folder 12-13

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Moderne Englische Lyrik 1975

box 16, folder 14

Ziele

box 16, folder 15

Methoden

box 16, folder 16

Lotman

box 16, folder 17

Smith

box 16, folder 18

Brooke

box 16, folder 19-21

Yeats

Physical Description: 3 folders.

box 16, folder 22

Pound

box 16, folder 23

Related course material

Shakespeares Tragödien 1975

box 16, folder 24

Lear

box 16, folder 25

Macbeth

box 16, folder 26

Hamlet

Begleitkurs

box 16, folder 27

Shakespeare-Kritik

box 16, folder 28

Titus Andronicus

box 16, folder 29

Related course material

Ausgewählte Paradigmen der Funktionsgeschichte der Literatur circa 1976

box 16, folder 30

Einleitung

box 16, folder 31

Spenser

box 16, folder 32

Spenser: April

box 16, folder 33

Zwischenbilanz Spenser-Sterne

box 16, folder 34-35

Dickens

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 16, folder 36

Weimann

box 16, folder 37

Beckett

box 16, folder 38

Schlussbemerkung

box 16, folder 39

Related course material

Schäferdichtung der Renaissance 1977

box 16, folder 40

Einleitung

box 16, folder 41

Arkadien, Historisch, Typologisch

box 16, folder 42

Foucault

Spenser

box 16, folder 43

Kalenderform und Vorwort

box 16, folder 44-45

Januar-Juni-Eklogen

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 16, folder 46

Sidney

box 16, folder 47-48

Lodge

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 16, folder 49

Jonson

box 16, folder 50

Related course material

Spenser 1977

box 17, folder 1

Arkadien

box 17, folder 2

Pöschl, Kraus

box 17, folder 3

Katalog der Absichten

Eclogues

box 17, folder 4

January-June

box 17, folder 5

July-December

box 17, folder 6

Cervantes

box 17, folder 7-10

Related course material

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Das Imaginäre 1980

box 17, folder 11

Einleitung

box 17, folder 12

Sartre

box 17, folder 13

Sidney, Coleridge

box 17, folder 14

Related course material

James, Conrad 1981

box 17, folder 15

Einleitung

Conrad

box 17, folder 16

Erzählsituation

box 17, folder 17

Der Romanheld, Das Kommunikationsschema

box 17, folder 18

James

box 17, folder 19

Related course material

Das Imaginäre 1981

box 17, folder 20

Einleitung

box 17, folder 21

Das Fiktive des Fiktionalen Textes

box 17, folder 22

Sidney

box 17, folder 23

Coleridge

box 17, folder 24

Sartre, Bewusstsein und Imaginäres

box 17, folder 25

Bilder

box 17, folder 26

Brentano

box 17, folder 27

Sprachproblem

box 17, folder 28

Resultate

box 17, folder 29

Schlussbetrachtung

box 17, folder 30

Related course material

Bukolik: Zur historischen Genese der literarischen Fiktion 1983

box 17, folder 31

Einleitung

box 17, folder 32

Theokrit

box 17, folder 33

Vergil

box 17, folder 34

Longus

box 17, folder 35

Sannazaro

box 17, folder 36

Sidney

box 17, folder 37

Liebe und Verwandlung im Schäferroman

box 17, folder 38

Related course material

Kafka and Joyce 1983

box 17, folder 39

Introduction

box 17, folder 40

Narrative technique

box 17, folder 41

The hero

box 17, folder 42

Characters

box 17, folder 43

Plot

box 17, folder 44

Interpretation

The Trial

box 17, folder 45

Narrator

box 17, folder 46

Characters

box 17, folder 47

Plot

Joyce

box 17, folder 48

How do we get inside?

box 17, folder 49

The oxen of the sun

box 17, folder 50

Telemachus

box 17, folder 51

Proteus

box 17, folder 52

Circe

box 17, folder 53

Aeolus

box 17, folder 54

Conclusion: Joyce and Kafka as paradigms of modernity

box 18, folder 1-11

Related course material

Physical Description: 11 folders.

Phantasie und Phantasietheorien 1983

box 18, folder 12

Historische Dimensionen

box 18, folder 13

Sidney

box 18, folder 14

Das romantische Problem, Coleridge

box 18, folder 15

Erste Zwischenbilanz

box 18, folder 16

Psychoanalyse, Gehlen

box 18, folder 17

Sartre, Callois

box 18, folder 18

Casey, Vorlage Warnock

box 18, folder 19

Irwin, Jackson

box 18, folder 20

Theorie des Imaginären

box 18, folder 21-22

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Renaissancebukolik als Paradigma der Literarischen Fiktion

box 18, folder 23

Einleitung

box 18, folder 24

Spenser

box 18, folder 25-26

Sidney

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 18, folder 27

Lodge

box 18, folder 28

As You Like It

Pastoralism as a paradigm of fictionality 1983

box 18, folder 29

Arcadian fiction

box 18, folder 30

Spenser

box 18, folder 31

Calendar as a schema

box 18, folder 32

January-February eclogues

box 18, folder 33

Product of conduct

box 18, folder 34-37

Sidney

Physical Description: 4 folders.

box 18, folder 38-39

As You Like It

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 18, folder 40-41

Summing up

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 18, folder 42

Related course material

Darstellung circa 1984

box 19, folder 1

Einleitung

box 19, folder 2

Gehlen, Worringer

box 19, folder 3

Husserl

box 19, folder 4

Adorno

box 19, folder 5

Foucault

box 19, folder 6

Derrida

box 19, folder 7

Darstellung

box 19, folder 8

Notwendigkeit von Darstellung

Sterne und Diderot 1985

Tristram Shandy

box 19, folder 9

Romaneingang

box 19, folder 10

Digression

box 19, folder 11

Äquivokation

box 19, folder 12

Unterbrechung

box 19, folder 13

Cervantes, Shakespeare

box 19, folder 14

Diderot

box 19, folder 15

Intertextualität

box 19, folder 16

Auswertung der Subjektivität

box 19, folder 17

Spiele des Textes

box 19, folder 18

Humor

box 19, folder 19

Sterne und Diderot

box 19, folder 20-21

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Spieltheorien 1985

box 19, folder 22

Einleitung

box 19, folder 23

Spariosu, Fink

box 19, folder 24

Huizinga, Goffman

box 19, folder 25

Huizinga, Hutchinson

box 19, folder 26

Hans, Bateson, Eigen

box 19, folder 27

Piaget

box 19, folder 28

Spieltheorie, Bruner, Vygotsky

box 19, folder 29

Rapp, Derrida

box 19, folder 30

Zwischenbilanz

box 19, folder 31

Struktur

box 19, folder 32

The play of the text

box 19, folder 33

Related course material

Theories of art 1986

box 19, folder 41

Introduction

box 19, folder 42

Current situation in literary theory

box 19, folder 43

Ingarden

box 19, folder 44

Vaihinger (alt)

box 20, box 1

Ingarden, "The issue of fiction…"

box 20, folder 2

Gestaltpsychologie

box 20, folder 3

Semiotics, Eco

box 20, folder 4

The speech-act model

box 20, folder 5

Gadamer

box 20, folder 6

Conclusion, The function of theory

box 20, folder 7

Ingarden/Gestaltpsychology: application to text

Representation in narrative

box 19, folder 34

Outline of representation as a performative act

box 19, folder 35

Tristram Shandy

box 19, folder 36

Lord Jim

box 19, folder 37

Beckett

box 19, folder 38

Summing up

box 19, folder 39

Representation: A performative act (alt)

box 19, folder 40

Tristram Shandy (alt)

Institutionen der Interpretation 1991

box 22, folder 10

Einleitung

box 22, folder 11

Kanonisierung heiliger Texte

box 22, folder 12

Johnson

box 22, folder 13

Arnold

box 22, folder 14

Schleiermacher

box 22, folder 15

Droysen

box 22, folder 16

White

box 22, folder 17

Das naturwissenschaftliche Paradigma

box 22, folder 18

Schlussbetrachtung

box 22, folder 19

Related course material

Fictionality in philosophy and literature 1987

box 20, folder 8

Fictionality in philosophy and literature

box 20, folder 9

Bacon

box 20, folder 10

Locke

box 20, folder 11

Bentham

box 20, folder 12

Vaihinger

box 20, folder 13

Goodmann

box 20, folder 14

Chameleon of recognition

box 20, folder 15

Dickens

box 20, folder 16

Beckett

box 20, folder 17

Sidney

box 20, folder 18

Fiction in philosophical discourse (alt)

box 20, folder 19

Bacon (alt)

box 20, folder 20

Bentham (alt)

box 20, folder 21

Related course material

Kanonbildung 1988

box 20, folder 22

Traditionsbildung

box 20, folder 23

Canon-formation

box 20, folder 24

Arnold

box 20, folder 25

Das wissenschaftliche Paradigma

box 20, folder 26

Related course material

Shakespeare: As You Like It

box 20, folder 27

Die pastorale Tradition

box 20, folder 28

Die Doppelstruktur als komisches Paradigma

box 20, folder 29

Sprache im Forest of Arden

box 20, folder 30-34

Related course material

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre 1988

box 20, folder 35

Einleitung

box 20, folder 36

Theokrit

box 20, folder 37

Vergil

box 20, folder 38

Renaissancebukolik

box 20, folder 39

Die zwei Welten des Schäferromans

box 20, folder 40

Spenser

box 20, folder 41

Sidney

box 20, folder 42

Thematisierte Fiktion

box 21, folder 1

Idole

box 21, folder 2

Modalität

box 21, folder 3

Setzung

box 21, folder 4

Weltherstellung

box 21, folder 5

Akte des Fingierens

box 21, folder 6

Der ekstatische Charakter

box 21, folder 7

Related course material

The play of the text 1989

box 21, folder 8

Fictionalizing acts

box 21, folder 9

Preliminary remarks

box 21, folder 10

Map and territory relationship

box 21, folder 11

The games

box 21, folder 12

Conclusion

box 21, folder 13

Sartre

box 21, folder 14

Interaction

box 21, folder 15

Imaginary

box 21, folder 16

Coleridge

box 21, folder 17

Introduction (ganz alt)

box 21, folder 18

Feigning in fiction

box 21, folder 19

Related course material

Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre II 1989

box 21, folder 20

Problemtopographie

box 21, folder 21

Begriffsgeschichte

box 21, folder 22

Phantasieproblem

box 21, folder 23

Theorie des Fiktiven

box 21, folder 24

Coleridge

box 21, folder 25

Sartre

box 21, folder 26

Castoriades

box 21, folder 27

Nachahmung und Symbolisierung

box 21, folder 28

Map and territory

box 21, folder 29

Textspiel

box 21, folder 30

Spielen und Gespieltwerden

box 21, folder 31

Zusammenspiel: Allgemein

box 21, folder 32

Das Imaginäre: Zusammenfassung

box 21, folder 33

Anthropologischer Index

box 21, folder 34

Related course material

Theories of art 1990

box 21, folder 35

Gestaltpsychologie

box 21, folder 36

Gadamer

box 21, folder 37

Zwischenbilanz

box 21, folder 38

Related course material

Spielstrukturen in Shakespeares Komödien circa 1991

box 22, folder 1-2

Spieltheorie

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 22, folder 3-4

Sommernachtstraum

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 22, folder 5

Twelfth Night

Thomas Carlyle: Die übersetzbarkeit von Kulturen 1991

box 22, folder 6

Einleitung

box 22, folder 7

Past and Present

box 22, folder 8-9

Sartor Resartus

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Staging as an anthropological category 1992

box 22, folder 20

Introduction

box 22, folder 21

Fictionality in literature

box 22, folder 22

Imaginary, Coleridge, Sartre

box 22, folder 23

Interaction

box 22, folder 24

Staging

Institutions of interpretation 1992

box 22, folder 25

Introduction

box 22, folder 26

Holy texts

box 22, folder 27

Schleiermacher

box 22, folder 28

Droysen

box 22, folder 29

Arnold

box 22, folder 30

Ricœur

box 22, folder 31

White

box 22, folder 32

Johnson

Carlyle: cross-cultural translatability 1993

box 22, folder 33

Historical introduction

box 22, folder 34

Past and Present

box 22, folder 35-36

Sartor Resartus

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 22, folder 37

Cavell: preliminaries, argument

box 22, folder 38

Conclusion

box 22, folder 39

Related course material

Anatomy of interpretation 1994

box 23, folder 1

Introduction

box 23, folder 2

Canonization of holy texts

box 23, folder 3

Droysen

box 23, folder 4

Cybernetics

box 23, folder 5

White

box 23, folder 6

Arnold

box 23, folder 7

Ricœur

box 23, folder 8

Johnson

box 23, folder 9

Rosenzweig

Modern theories of art 1994

box 23, folder 10

Introduction

box 23, folder 11

Ingarden

box 23, folder 12

Keats

box 23, folder 13

The speech-act model

box 23, folder 14

Gestalt-Psychology

box 23, folder 15

Gombrich

box 23, folder 16

Gadamer

box 23, folder 17

Eliot: The Fire Sermon

box 23, folder 18

Semiotics, Eco

box 23, folder 19

Conclusion

box 23, folder 20

Current situation in literary theory

box 23, folder 21

Related course material

Variables of interpretation: Iterations of translatability 1994

Processing Note

Material arranged by topic during processing.

box 23, folder 22

Typescript of the Wellek lectures

box 23, folder 23

Authority and circularity

box 23, folder 24

Recursive looping

box 23, folder 25

The traveling differential

box 23, folder 26

Rosenzweig

box 23, folder 27

Authority and circularity, Taipei lecture

box 23, folder 28

The traveling differential, Taipei lecture

box 23, folder 29

Conclusion, Taipei lecture

Translatability 1995

box 23, folder 30

Introduction

box 23, folder 31

On translatability

Unfolding interpretation 1998

box 23, folder 32

Introduction

box 23, folder 33

Canonization of holy texts

box 23, folder 34

Johnson on Shakespeare

box 23, folder 35

Schleiermacher

box 23, folder 36

Droysen

box 23, folder 37

Ricœur

box 23, folder 38

Hermeneutics

box 23, folder 39

Paradigm

box 24, folder 1-2

Cybernetics

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 24, folder 3-4

Rosenzweig

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 24, folder 5

Configurations of interpretation

box 24, folder 6

Conclusion

box 24, folder 7-8

Related course material

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Writings Series 3. 1964-2000

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of material that is immediately related to the books, pamphlets, articles and reviews Iser published or prepared for publication during his career. The bulk of the files in this series consists of preparatory notes for books, and includes offprints and correspondence related to his publications. This series also contains interviews with Iser. Since Iser's writings are closely related to his teaching, many of the papers contained in this series have served as preparatory notes for courses, or were used for and during his courses.

Series Arrangement

This series is organized into 2 subseries:

Subseries 3.1. Published material, 1964-2000. 2.0 linear ft.
Subseries 3.2. Unpublished material, undated. 1.0 linear ft.

Published material Subseries 3.1 1964-2000

Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains all published writings and related material.

Subseries Arrangement

The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the publication title and original order was maintained during processing. Dates of publication are indicated within parentheses following publication titles. The bulk of the material associated with these publications, however, is undated.

Der Akt des Lesens: Theorie ästhetischer Wirkung 1976

Notes

box 24, folder 9

Anthropologie, Ästhetik

box 20, folder 10

Das Ästhetische, Ästhetische Dimension, Ästhetische Erfahrung

box 24, folder 11

Bewusstsein, Bild, Darstellung, Emanzipation

box 24, folder 12

Ergänzung, Fiktion, Form

box 24, folder 13

Formulierung, Gegenständlichkeit, Geschichte, Interpretation

box 24, folder 14

Illusion, Kommunikation, Lesen

box 24, folder 15

Literatur, Mehrdeutigkeit, Montage

box 24, folder 16

Mythisierung, Mythos, Nachträge

box 24, folder 17

Negativität

box 24, folder 18

Reduktion, Reflexion, Rezeption, Roman, Setzung

box 24, folder 19

Subjektivität, Symbol, Schema, Struktur

box 24, folder 20

Text, Theorie, Toleranzen, Trivialliteratur

box 24, folder 21-22

Unbestimmtheit

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 24, folder 23

Wahrnehmung, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Wert, Wirkung

box 24, folder 24

Wissenschaftlichkeit, Zeichen

Vorworte

box 31, folder 20

Zur deutschen Ausgabe

box 31, folder 21

Zur franzölsischen übersetzung

box 31, folder 22

Zur japanischen übersetzung

box 31, folder 23

Zur koreanischen übersetzung

box 30, folder 16

Miscellaneous

box 30, folder 17

"Akte des Fingierens, oder: Was ist das Fiktive im fiktionalen Text?" 1983

box 30, folder 19

"The art of failure: the stifled laugh in Beckett's theatre" 1989

box 27, folder 11

"Concluding remarks: institutions of interpretation" 1991

Physical Description: Offprint.

Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre 1991

box 25, folder 1-6

Holograph

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Notes

box 25, folder 7

Aleatorik, Bukolik

box 25, folder 8

Darstellung, Dazwischen, Einleitung

box 25, folder 9-14

Fiktion

Physical Description: 6 folders.

box 25, folder 15

Fiktion im philosophischen Diskurs, Form, Formulierung, Empirie

box 25, folder 16

Das Imaginäre, Inszenierung, Intentionalität

box 25, folder 17

Kritik, Lesbarkeit, Literaturanthropologie

box 25, folder 18

Nachträge, Negation, Negativität, Spiel, Schein, Traum, Verstehen

box 25, folder 19

Bacon

box 26, folder 1

Barfield, Bentham

box 26, folder 2

Goodman, Hoops

box 26, folder 3

Kermode, Howell, Hewitz

box 26, folder 4

Astañeda, Routley

box 26, folder 5

Vaihinger

box 26, folder 6

Kennedy, Bayley, Newman

box 26, folder 7

Grimm, Copenhaven

box 26, folder 8

Schmidt, Merkelbach

box 26, folder 9

Alpers, Erler, Fuhrmann, Young

box 26, folder 10

Adorno

box 26, folder 11

Bibliographie, Casey

box 26, folder 12

Caillois, Castoriadis

box 26, folder 13

Engell, Gehlen, Grimm

box 26, folder 14

Irwin, Jackson, Mac Farland, Naud

box 26, folder 15

Pagel, Pesch, Sartre

box 26, folder 16

Ritter, Vogt, Todorov

box 26, folder 17

Warnock, Zolla

box 26, folder 18

Vietta, Grassi, Schöpf, Freud

box 27, folder 1

Menninghaus, Theorie der Fiktion

box 27, folder 2

Doppelung, Akte des Fingierens, Marquard

box 27, folder 3

Ergänzungen, Literarische Fiktion, Darstellung

box 27, folder 4

Lodge, Traum, Sidney, Masken

box 27, folder 5

Sannazaro, Davis, Ikonologie

box 27, folder 6

Allegorie, Zwelten, Angeschlossensein

box 27, folder 7

Liebe, Magie, Renaissancearkadien

box 27, folder 8

As You Like It, Vergil, Renaissance Bukolik

box 27, folder 9

Renaissance, Schäferroman, Anthropologischer Bezug

box 27, folder 10

Cervantes, Lodge, Sidney

box 30, folder 20-21

Fingieren als anthropologische Dimension der Literatur 1990

Physical Description: 2 folders.

box 30, folder 25

"Interview", with Nabila Salem Ibrahim 1985

box 30, folder 26-27, box 31, folder 1

"Interview", with Shan Te-hsing 1990

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy: Inszenierte Subjektivität 1987

box 27, folder 12-18

Notes

Physical Description: 7 folders.

box 31, folder 7

Nachwort

"Mimesis-->Emergenz" 1998

box 27, folder 19

Offprint

box 27, folder 20

Manuscript, notes

box 27, folder 21

"Möglichkeiten der Illusion im historischen Roman: Sir Walter Scotts Waverly" 1964

Physical Description: Offprint.

Note

See also Series 2. Teaching material, 1964.

box 27, folder 22

"Die Präsenz des Endes: King Lear-Macbeth" 1996

Physical Description: Offprint.

box 31, folder 9

"Zur Problemlage gegenwärtiger Literaturtheorie" 1979

The Range of Interpretation 2000

box 27, folder 23-28

Proofs

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Notes

box 27, folder 29

The Emergence of a cross-cultural discourse

box 27, folder 30

Enfoldings in Paterian Discourse

box 27, folder 31

White, Emergenz

box 28, folder 1

Nietzsche, Interpretation

box 28, folder 2

Variables of Interpretation

box 28, folder 3

Halbertal, Stern, Boyarin, Johnson

box 28, folder 4

The Hermeneutical Circle, Schleiermacher, Frank

box 28, folder 5

Droysen, Hermeneutik, Ricœur

box 28, folder 6

Wiener, Cybernetics

box 28, folder 7

Varela

box 28, folder 8

Paulson, Cohen, Rosenzweig

box 28, folder 9

Philosophy of Interpretation, Liminality, Turner, Lenz

box 28, folder 10

"Joachim Zelter, Sinnhafte Fiktion und Wahrheit" 1996

Physical Description: Offprint.

box 28, folder 11

"Spenser's Arcadia: the interrelation of fiction and history" 1982

Physical Description: Offprint.

box 28, folder 12

"Staging as an anthropological category" 1992

Physical Description: Offprint.

Theorien der Kunst 1982

box 28, folder 13

Correspondence

box 28, folder 14

Protokoll (early planning document)

The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between 1996

box 30, folder 12

Correspondence

box 30, folder 13

Forschungspläne, call for papers

box 30, folder 14

Reports on workshops

box 30, folder 15

Gershom Sholem, "Deutsch und Juden"

box 32, folder 2

"Wolfgang Iser: Koriphäe der Wissenschaft (Variationen der Leere)" 1995

Unpublished material Subseries 3.2 undated

Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains all unpublished and apparently unpublished writings, and related material, most of which are undated. Also included are items from a topical file maintained by Iser, containing research material for his writings and background reading for his courses.

Subseries Arrangement

The subseries is arranged alphabetically.

box 30, folder 18

Alpers, Rosenmayer, Anderson

box 30, folder 22

Funktionsgeschichtliches Textmodell der Literatur

box 30, folder 23

Zu Hans Robert Jauss

box 30, folder 24

On Henry Fielding, German and English versions

box 31, folder 2

Leo Ou-fan Lee introduction

box 31, folder 3

Literary history as the recodification of thought systems

box 31, folder 4

Literaturgeschichte als Funktionsgeschichte

box 31, folder 5

Mario

box 31, folder 6

Methoden der Literaturwissenschaft

box 31, folder 8

Die Präsenz des Endes: King Lear/Macbeth

box 31, folder 10

Rede anlässlich eines Jahrestages

box 31, folder 11

Rede auf Herbert Huscher

box 31, folder 12

Rede zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum der Universität Konstanz

box 31, folder 13

Renaissance Bukolik als Paradigma literarischer Fiktionalität

box 31, folder 14

Renaissance Bukolik als Paradigma literarischer Fiktionalität und ihre anthropologische Implikation

box 31, folder 15

Response to Stanley Fish

box 31, folder 16

Das Spiel des Textes

box 31, folder 17

Der Tod der Literaur

box 31, folder 18

Zum Tod des österreichischen Thronfolgers Rudolf

box 31, folder 19

T.S. Eliot, German and English versions

Topical file

"Ästhetische Theorie"

box 28, folder 15

Albers, Arnheim

box 28, folder 16

Austin, Dewey

box 28, folder 17

Gombrich

box 28, folder 18

Graumann, Ingarden

box 28, folder 19

Langer, Lever

box 28, folder 20

Morris

box 28, folder 21

Pollock, Rubin

box 28, folder 22

Related material

"Funktionsgeschichte"

box 28, folder 23

Bibliographie, Brown, Marcuse

box 28, folder 24

Funktionsgeschichte

box 28, folder 25

Gallie, Guillèn, Hughes, Lotman

box 28, folder 26

Popper, Simmel, Slawinski

box 28, folder 27

Schmidt, Vodička

box 28, folder 28

Related notes

"Moderne englische Literatur"

"Roman"

box 29, folder 1

Bibliographie, Faulkner

box 29, folder 2

Conrad, Huxley

box 29, folder 3

Galsworthy, Joyce

box 29, folder 4

Walker

box 29, folder 5

Woolf

box 29, folder 6

Related material

"Lyrik"

box 29, folder 8

Zum Problem der Montage

box 29, folder 9

Related material

box 29, folder 7

Bibliographie, T.S. Eliot, E. Pound

"Der Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts"

box 29, folder 13-15

Tom Jones

Physical Description: 3 folders.

box 29, folder 16

Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling

box 29, folder 17

Swift, A Tale of a Tub

box 29, folder 18

Baker, Bell, Booth, Coley, Coolidge, Crane

box 29, folder 19

Empson, Ehrenpreis, Erzgräber, Humphreys, Kermode

box 29, folder 20

Kettle, Lange, Mack, Mandel, Sherburn, Sherwood

box 29, folder 21

Spilka, Stanzel, Van Ghent, Watson, Watt

"Drama"

box 29, folder 10

Bibliographien

box 29, folder 11

Eliot, Fry, Shaw

box 29, folder 12

Wesker, Yeats

"Shakespeare"

box 29, folder 22

Bibliographien

box 29, folder 23

Hamlet

box 29, folder 24

Henry IV

box 30, folder 1

Henry V

box 30, folder 2

King Lear

box 30, folder 3

Macbeth

box 30, folder 4

Othello

box 30, folder 5

Richard II

box 30, folder 6

Richard III

"Spieltheorien"

box 30, folder 7

Bibliographie, Bruner, Bateson, Caillois

box 30, folder 8

Derrida

box 30, folder 9

Fink, Goffman, Hans

box 30, folder 10

Huizinga, Hutchinson, Krleža

box 30, folder 11

Piaget, Rapp, Storey, Vygotsky, Wuchterl

box accn2004-021 001

Unprocessed addition Accession 2004-021 2004

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet(1 half doc box)

Series Scope and Contents Summary

This accession consists of How to Do Theory, Winter Quarter 2004.