Original scientific paper

STUDYING THE RECEPTION AND HISTORY OF READING

David Šporer

Abstract

The article offers a comparison between history of the reading and previous approaches in explorations of reading, such as German „reception aesthetics” or „reception theory”. But while Croatian literary studies were familiar with reception aesthetics already in the early 1970’s, the same cannot be said about history of the reading which has attracted more attention in the last few decades. Therefore some typical perspectives and topics in the history of the reading are briefly contoured for such perspectives might be useful in the literary studies, especially given the manner in which history of the reading surpasses and completes reception theory by placing focus on the reading as a social practice and activity.

Keywords

reception; history of the reading; meaning; „reading revolutions“

Hrčak ID:

158045

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158045

Publication date:

9.5.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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