Reserve Reading

• Wolfgang Iser, "Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response" (required)
• Raman Selden & Peter Widdowson on Jauss and Iser (recommended)
• Stanley Fish, "Interpreting the Variorum" and "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One" (required)

• Stanley Fish (Bedford/St. Martin's Lit Links; click "Browse by Author" and navigate to "F")
• Stanley Fish (Wikipedia)

Wolfgang Iser

• Wolfgang Iser (David Albertson, Stanford U)
• A summary of Iser's "Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader" (Tom Fish, Cumberland College)
• Michael Berube, "There Is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser" (e-book; HSU users only. In the Table of Contents, click on "Part Two: Positions"; you can print from the "Info Tools" menu)

E. D. Hirsch

• A summary of Hirsch's influential 1960 article, "Objective Interpretation" (Tom Fish, Cumberland College) [And here is the article itself, from PMLA 75:4]
• "Core Knowledge," the latest incarnation of Hirsch's concept of "Cultural Literacy" (The Core Knowledge Foundation)