The Literary Reception: How Can It Be Understood in 
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Recepcja literacka – jak może być rozumiana we współczesnym literaturoznawstwie?
The Literary Reception: How Can It Be Understood in Contemporary Literary Studies?

Author(s): Anna Jarmuszkiewicz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: literary reception; interpretive communities; interpretive strategy

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the problem of contemporary research in literary perception and the possible ways of its development. The analysis is carried out in the context of the perspective offered by the connections between literary reception and literary sociology. Especially much attention is paid to the understanding of interpretive communities—the term coined by an American literary scholar and pragmatist Stanley Fish. The idea of communities underline the readers’ freedom due to which they may select different variants and learn new readings of literature. Following this way of reasoning, the article supports the view that the situation in which a new text is adopted by the interpretive community to become a certain key, a picklock, an interpretive strategy, is the essence of literary reception

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 139-148
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish