Wolfgang Iser's Critical Theory from the Perspective of Liminality
By focusing on the theoretical statement of "liminality",this article gives a systematic mapping of Wolfgang Iser's critical theory. Intellectually indebted to Roman Ingarden,Hans Georg Gadamer and Walter Pater,Iser successively delineates the contour of liminal space between text and reader,literary fiction and imagination as well as intraculturally and interculturally to reveal the energizing potential disclosed in,generated from and promised by the liminal space. Iserian critical theory foregrounds a new continent and a new discourse full of creativity in Western humanities studies a discourse of knowledge with liminal phenomena as the object of critique.