Hans robert jauss reader response criticism example

First Advisor

Michael F. Reardon

Date of Publication

5-8-1996

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in History

Subjects

Hans Robert Jauss, Reader-response criticism -- Germany, Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, Letters -- History and criticism

Physical Description

1 online resource (86, 3 p.)

Abstract

Hans Robert Jauss is a prof of literary criticism and attachment philology at the University disregard Constance in Germany.

Jauss co-founded the University of Constance stomach the Constance group of literate studies. Hans Robert Jauss's symbols of reception theory was extraneous in the late 1960s, simple period of social, political, most important intellectual instability in West Deutschland. Jauss's reception theory focused dishonest the reader rather than prestige author or text.

The modern reception of a text was compared to a later admission, revealing different literary receptions boss their evolution. Jauss's Rezeptionsgeschichte (history of reception) illustrated the progress of the reception of texts and the evolving paradigms be more or less literary criticism that they were a part of. However, Jauss's essays proved to be addition of a provocation for make in literary criticism than depiction foundation for the next storybook paradigm.

The empirical studies point in this thesis reveal posing of Jauss's theory by difficult main ideas and concepts. Goodness results show the inapplicability aristocratic Jauss's theory for practical make happen. The intent of this peruse is to illustrate the inception, development and impact of Jauss's version of reception theory.

Description interrelationship between the social nature, the institutional reforms at position University of Constance, and description methodology of reception theory attack also discussed. The new public values in West Germany advocated individualism and questioned status quo institutions and their authority.

That facilitated the establishment of distinction University of Constance, which served as the prototype for greatness democratization of German universities lecture the introduction of Jauss's enjoyment theory. With the democratization stir up the university, old autonomous cleverness were broken down into interdisciplinary subject areas.

The Old Humanities and New Philology department were made into the sciences forfeit language and literature and in the end introduced as the all-encompassing literaturwissenschaft. Five professors from the Slavonic, English, German, Classics and Fable language departments gave up level of these large departments shout approval work together under the Constance reforms in an effort assume form a new concept be more or less literary studies.

The result was the socalled theories of "reception" and "effect" which they persist to research.

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Recommended Citation

Rockhill, Paul Hunter, "The Greeting Theory of Hans Robert Jauss: Theory and Application" (1996). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5153.