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An obituary for Wolfgang Iser (1926—2007), a great scholar and a kind and generous person. An overview of the history of Iser’s theoretical thought is followed by a record of an episode of private life.
Born in Jerusalem, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of The Concept of Ambiguity, the Example of James (1977), Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983), and A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity (1996); she is the editor of Discourse in Literature and Psychoanalysis (1987). Her current fields of research are Illness Narratives and Theory of Interdisciplinarity.