Reader-Response Theory Texts - The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Wolfgang Iser (1972)

Wolfgang Iser helped change the course of literary studies by bringing attention to the reader, as opposed to the author, in this famous study.

In what ways do texts imply a reader? And what does this suggest about the importance of the reader in the understanding of a literary text?

According to Iser, what does the interaction between the reader's mind and the text look like? How does the text act on the reader's mind, and vice-versa?