Stealing Crimson : Being a Reader and Writing to the Reader(<Special Issue>The Transforming of Reading and Reader Theories)

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  • 朱を奪う : 読者となること・読者へ書くこと(<特集>変容する読書論・読者論)
  • 朱を奪う--読者となること・読者へ書くこと
  • シュ オ ウバウ ドクシャ ト ナル コト ドクシャ エ カク コト

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By introducing the role of readers into literary studies, reader-response criticism has challenged both the author's omnipotence and the self-sufficiency of a text. As reader-response critics insightfully point out, it is not the author and the text alone but the relation between the two and the reader that makes literature possible. But they sometimes put too much emphasis on the reader to pay enough attention to the author. Indeed, the function of the author in the triad is no less important because the author plays a double role in making a literary text; that of the reader who reads his or her own work and that of the writer who self-reflectively writes to his or her self as the reader. Here I will explore this complicated process of writing/reading while interpreting Fumiko Enchi's early novels.

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