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Reader oriented Approaches (Receiver)
o reception aesthetics/reader-response approaches (concerned with potential mean-ing inherent in text) o empirical reception studies approaches (concerned with actual impact on real readers)
Context-oriented approaches
Historical reality as context Sociological and Marxist approaches Feminist approaches New historicism Cultural materialism Other texts a s contexts Sources and influence studies Studies in intertextuality and intermediality
Descriptive function (Theory, Model and Methods)
they enable us to identify and describe the characteristics of a literary text in a pre-cise way
Explanatory function
they can be used to express the premises of literary analysis, define basic terminolo-gy and explain the aims of the investigation
Typological function
they allow for a systematic classification of texts and their respective characteristics
Literary-historical function
they enable us to position texts within broader historical contexts
Defining Literature
Broad Concept All written documents are literature Problems Hardly viable Exclusion of oral traditions (e.g. story telling) Narrower Concepts Common denominator: exclusion of non poetic and non imaginative texts Beyond that little consensus
Characteristic Features of Literary Texts
Fictionality (often indicated by textual signals, e.g. “Once upon a time...”) Ambiguity replaces clarity and allows for a variety of interpretations Deviation from everyday language, which causesdefamiliarisation. Dominance of poetic rather than referential function of language Non-pragmatic discourse (literary texts usually neither serve an immediate purpose nor give direct instructions)
