A NEGATIVE RECEPTION: THE CRITIC(AL) READING

Authors

  • David Pruneda Sentíes Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keywords:

critical reading, receptive reading, reception theory, reader-response theory, phenomenology, hermeneutics

Abstract

This article discusses the differences between reading as an activity of reception and reading as an activity of criticism. By means of a revision of Wolfgang Iser’s, Hans Robert Jauss,’ and Stanley Fish’s proposals, this paper’s argument is that the condition of possibility for critical reading is the refusal to receive the literary text. Therefore, critical reading must elaborate its own object of study in order to produce a critical discourse. Instead of a commentary on a literary text, from this perspective literary studies become an analysis of an act of reading.

Author Biography

David Pruneda Sentíes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Maestro en Letras Modernas Inglesas por parte de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ha participado en diversos congresos internacionales en instituciones superiores del territorio mexicano. En el 2013 realizó una estancia de investigación en Gales, Reino Unido, para escribir su tesis de maestría. Actualmente es profesor en la licenciatura en Letras Modernas Inglesas en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y se encuentra desarrollando una propuesta de doctorado en crítica y teoría literarias.

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Published

2018-01-31

How to Cite

Pruneda Sentíes, D. (2018). A NEGATIVE RECEPTION: THE CRITIC(AL) READING. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (18), 163–179. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/18575

Issue

No. 18 (2018): The Paradigm of the Archive in Contemporary Narrative and Visual Culture

Section

Miscellaneous

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