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REPAIRING THE BROKEN PILLAR: AUTHOR, TEXT AND READER IN LITERARY CRITICISM
Abstract
While questioning the relations between the author, the text and the reader in literature studies, it is
a common approach to distinguish these three elements from each other and to keep one higher than
the other. While romantics glorify the writer, modernists put aside the writer and glorify the text. In
postmodern theories, it is seen that the reader is emphasized and the views that argue that the text
will not make sense without the reader gain weight. Just as it is wrong to put the text aside and focus
on the life of the author, it may be equally wrong to ignore the biographical elements in the text.
Giving the reader limitless possibilities for interpretation and ignoring the limited but meaningful
possibilities of interpretation of the text can also be an inadequate interpretation. Likewise, suppressing
the creative imagination of the reader and narrowing the possibilities of meaning of the text may be a
flawed approach. This article suggests that the author, the text and the reader are the pillars of a literary
event. A literary work can only be realized by the combination of these three elements. For this reason,
highlighting one of these elements in literature studies and seeing the other insignificant may disrupt the
dynamics of the literary event. Biographical features in one text, language and style features in another
text, and the creative implications of the reader in another text may gain weight, but all these should be
considered as part of the dynamic relationship between the author, the text and the reader.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Alphan Akgül
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0000-0002-2381-0247
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
20 Ekim 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2020
Kabul Tarihi
11 Ağustos 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Sayı: 22