Lots of great summary in here, and a good overview of the development of the theory, but there’s so much summary you might as well just go ahead and read the theorists themselves. I rarely mark a book as finished before I’ve read the whole thing but I was finding this drier and drier as I went along. Probably didn’t help that I had read some Iser and was getting a summary of what I already knew. Probably a good supplemental text for a course or intro for people unfamiliar with the theory, though.