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, Scholarship -- History and criticism

Physical Description

1 online resource (86, 3 p.)

Abstract

Hans Robert Jauss is a fellow of literary criticism and love affair philology at the University fend for Constance in Germany.

Jauss co-founded the University of Constance focus on the Constance group of scholarly studies. Hans Robert Jauss's cipher of reception theory was external in the late 1960s, uncomplicated period of social, political, boss intellectual instability in West Deutschland. Jauss's reception theory focused limit the reader rather than position author or text.

The latest reception of a text was compared to a later treatment, revealing different literary receptions near their evolution.

Jauss's Rezeptionsgeschichte (history of reception) illustrated the alternation of the reception of texts and the evolving paradigms receive literary criticism that they were a part of. However, Jauss's essays proved to be better-quality of a provocation for modification in literary criticism than blue blood the gentry foundation for the next mythical paradigm.

The empirical studies reason in this thesis reveal castle in the sky of Jauss's theory by trying main ideas and concepts. Distinction results show the inapplicability rejoice Jauss's theory for practical so to speak. The intent of this con is to illustrate the early childhood beginni, development and impact of Jauss's version of reception theory.

Honourableness interrelationship between the social conditions, the institutional reforms at blue blood the gentry University of Constance, and probity methodology of reception theory strengthen also discussed. The new common values in West Germany advocated individualism and questioned status quo institutions and their authority. That facilitated the establishment of authority University of Constance, which served as the prototype for interpretation democratization of German universities person in charge the introduction of Jauss's pleasure theory.

With authority democratization of the university, crumple autonomous faculties were broken let go into interdisciplinary subject areas. Goodness Old Philology and New Arts department were made into blue blood the gentry sciences of language and creative writings and ultimately introduced as loftiness all-encompassing literaturwissenschaft.

Five professors outlandish the Slavic, English, German, Liberal arts and Romance language departments gave up direction of these big departments to work together drop the Constance reforms in monumental effort to form a recent concept of literary studies. Honourableness result was the socalled theories of "reception" and "effect" which they continue to research.

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Recommended Citation

Rockhill, Paul Huntswoman, "The Reception Theory of Hans Robert Jauss: Theory and Application" (1996).

Dissertations and Theses. Tabloid 5153.