He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

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So these are forms of the experience of reading fiction of which Iser disapproves because there's no work being done.

这就是那些阅读小说经历的形式,伊瑟尔不赞同这种形式，因为这种阅读没有任何成就。

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What is culinary in one generation for example, the devices of crime fiction prior to the work of Dostoyevsky, become absolutely central.

一代人的口味,比如说，陀思妥耶夫斯基前,犯罪小说中常用的表现手法，曾经是绝对主流。

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All of Iser's work is grounded in the notion of literature as fiction.

伊瑟尔的所有作品持有文学即虚构的概念。

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