DIALOGISM, INTERTEXTUALITY THEORY, SOCIOCRITICS: A SYNCRETIC MODEL OF READING
DIALOGISM, INTERTEXTUALITY THEORY, SOCIOCRITICS: A SYNCRETIC MODEL OF READING

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to develop a syncretic model of reading. As a result of the research of Reading theories and Reception theories, it was concluded that these theories do not form a common body. Each is individual and describes the ”reading” or the ”reader” in a particular way, thereby further complicating the field. The two types of theories are as close (as purpose and object of study), as contradictory (some focused on the authority of the text and the author's intention, others on the subjectivity and freedom of the concrete reader). Therefore, we come back to the two fundamental ways of explanation: the intrinsic approach and the extrinsic approach of the literary work. Thus, at the crossroads between the two theoretical positions, the new paradigm of interpreting literary discourse, which understands literature as a specific communication, found itself in an unprecedented impasse. In a period prior to the theories of reading and reception that appeared in the West, Mihail Bahtin, through his reinterpretations of dialogue, intersperses the intratextual dimension (implicit reader, implicit author, narrator, narrator, characters) with the extratextual (reader and concrete author). For the Russian scientist, all these intrinsic and extrinsic instances become ”voices” framed in a continuous dialogue from which the meaning of the text is subsequently crystallized. The syncretic model of reading is, therefore, based on the principle of dialogism and on the idea of perspectivism.

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