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dc.contributor.authorMehrstam, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-12T11:48:59Z
dc.date.available2009-05-12T11:48:59Z
dc.date.issued2009-05-12T11:48:59Z
dc.identifier.isbn9789163343391
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/20283
dc.descriptionAvhandlingen kan beställas från http://www.books-on-demand.com, 240 kronor + frakt.en
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation examines a prevalent problem in reception studies: how can we actually observe and describe the text (defined as an element that enables and restricts reading experiences) as either given and transcendent to any reading practice or as uniquely produced in each reading? The author tries to find a solution by aid of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, Kenneth Burke's socio-rhetorics and Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. These perspectives are discussed in turn and tested in readings of a few pages on Mayakovsky and futurism taken from a textbook. The reading practices are constructed from national upper secondary school curricula. Wittgensteinian life-forms, language games, rules, family resemblances and aspects are found to be sufficient to outline the principles but not the details of a functional text theory. Burkean form, identity and dramatism provide a lot of detail, but cannot answer important questions about artifacts and self-observation. These answers can be provided by use of Luhmann's autopoiesis, form, structural couplings, persons and self-reference, but at the cost of great abstraction and loss of analytical clarity. The last chapter presents the conditions that need to be filled by any text theory with the ability to solve the problem. Most importantly, text, reader and reading practice must be considered as immergent, meaning that they are properly visible only from inside practices, which are always communal. In order to observe any text, the scholar must learn to immerse himself in the specific reading practice by way of its outward tokens (written rules, verbal accounts etc). The aspect seeing needed to perceive the text and describe its potential effects on reading experiences can only be acquired in the identity of a member of the specific reading community.en
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dc.subjectText theoryen
dc.subjectreader-resonse theoryen
dc.subjectreception aestheticsen
dc.subjectsystems theoryen
dc.subjectlanguage gamesen
dc.subjectdramatismen
dc.subjectepistemologyen
dc.subjectinteractionen
dc.subjecttransactionen
dc.subjectdidacticsen
dc.subjectLudwig Wittgensteinen
dc.subjectKenneth Burkeen
dc.subjectNiklas Luhmannen
dc.subjectVladimir Mayakovskyen
dc.subjecttextbooksen
dc.subjectnational curriculaen
dc.titleTextteori för läsforskare. ('Text theory for reading scholars')en
dc.typeText
dc.type.svepDoctoral thesiseng
dc.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophyen
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dc.gup.originGöteborgs universitet. Humanistiska fakultetenswe
dc.gup.originUniversity of Gothenburg. Faculty of Artseng
dc.gup.departmentDepartment of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion ; Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionen
dc.gup.defenceplaceFredagen den 29 maj 2009, kl 10.15, Lilla hörsalen, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborgen
dc.gup.defencedate2009-05-29
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