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New literary history, 1976-10, Vol.8 (1), p.107-126
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore, etc: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1976
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
It is argued that literary processes must be understood as communicative complexes in which writing, reading, author, work, & readers interact. This is explained using Marx's analyses of the production & consumption processes in general. Marx & Engels applied these analyses to art & spiritual activities in general. Artistic production is seen as a special mode of economic production. Art must be understood as appropriation rather than imitation activity. Art is a tool in historical, ideological, & class struggles. It is argued that through art, discoveries can be made & knowledge secured. Art has a humanizing function, helping men "to enlarge their power over nature & society." The network of relationships that a work entertains with other works, its audience, reality, & its author, is examined. Works await readers for their complete realization. Reading is a form of aesthetic reception combining activity & passivity. The relationship between works & readers is mediated by social institutions (eg, publishers & bookstores) as well as by social modes of reception: contemporary canons of evaluation. Reader-work interaction results in the constitution of a body of written & unwritten testimonials which in turn have demonstrable effects on the production process. A. Orianne