TANGENTIALITY OF THE THEORETICAL-LITERARY MOVEMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: MODERN ROMAN, READING THEORIES, DIALOGISM
TANGENTIALITY OF THE THEORETICAL-LITERARY MOVEMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: MODERN ROMAN, READING THEORIES, DIALOGISM

Summary/Abstract: The communication makes an incursion into the history of literature and literary theory from the last century and tries to establish the tangentiality between the new literary forms of the modern novel and the most important directions of theoretical interpretation: on the one hand, the theories of reading and the theories of reception, on the other, the dialogism of Mihail Bahtin. Mihail Bahtin's dialogism appears as a reaction to the rigidity of the formalists’ interpretations, independent of this movement from Soviet Russia, a few decades later, in Western Europe, as a reaction to structuralism, appears theories of reading and reception. Both dialogism and reader-oriented theories were conditioned first by the specificity of the new literary discourse, which, from the desire to escape the author's biography or the rigidity of strictly linguistic interpretations of the structuralists and formalists, broke away from the traditional form. Unlike the theories of reading and reception, which have divided the process of literary communication, the dialogical perspective intersperses the intratextual dimension (implied reader, implied author, narrator, characters) with the extra-textual one (the concrete reader and author with all the determinations and influences related to their specific socio-cultural contexts). For the Russian scholar, all these intrinsic and extrinsic courts become "voices", framed in a continuous dialogue from which the text's meaning is subsequently crystallized. The study of literature from the perspective of dialogue can solve many dilemmas of reading and interpretation process.

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