... late fiction, a countercurrent the article reads in terms of Jamesian camp. Combining the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser with recent work in affect theory—specifically Sianne Ngai’s work on tone—the article offers readings of James’s The Sacred Fount (1901) and The Golden Bowl (1904) in terms...

... of ironic identification from her own (see Jauss 1982a : 152–88). Like his fellow reader response theorist Wolfgang Iser, Jauss is mostly overlooked in Character , as if the book's insistence on the unbroken dominance of formalism, and hence on its own novelty, requires that precedents be forgotten...

... the consumption of any other commodity, the consumption of art is a far from passive process, he makes reference to the model of reception aesthetics offered us by Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, according to which the work's artistic status fluctuates as it encounters the varying values...

... is primarily the allegory of its own reading."60 For Ivanov, however, this idea has deeper 57Renate Lachmann, Memory and Literature: Intertextuality in Russian Modernism, Foreword by Wolfgang Iser, trans. Roy Sellars and Anthony Wall (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press,1997) p.15...