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Reception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss (1922±1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926±) and the School of Konstanz The Konstanz School is named after the university founded in the early 1960s in southern Germany on the shore of the Bodensee, or Lake of Konstanz, and it denotes the group of scholars and critics who established in the late 1960s and developed through to the late 1980s the critical orientation known variously as the aesthetics of reception (Rezeptionsa Èsthetik), the aesthetics of literary response and effect (Wirkungsa Èsthetik), or more broadly as reader-response theory. As a fairly loosely affiliated and liberal academic community, it drew together researchers from various German universities and also formed international links, especially with France and the USA. Its ongoing work was published in a series of volumes, largely untranslated, from 1964 until the early 1980s, under the general title Poetik und Hermeneutik (Poetics and Hermeneutics). As Paul de Man has observed, the linkage of these two terms indicates the ambition of the project: to unite the formalistic and rhetorical approaches to literature with the interpretative ± to understand at once how

Author

Jeremy Lane

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN