Politics of Reading: Don Quijote’s Characters as Interpretative Communities
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i16.4925Keywords:
reading theory, interpretive communities, reading practices, Cervantes, Don QuixoteAbstract
The aim of this paper is focused in analysing the practice of reading in the Cervantine novel, through the study of the interpretative practices of the readers depicted by the author in the novel. We can define these groups of characters as interpretive communities, following the definition given by Stanley Fish within the reader-oriented literary criticism. These historically and socially determined communities, with their own appropriation and comprehension mechanisms, usually apply, spread and establish as “normal” a particular interpretation that cannot overlook the limitations of a legitimate and no-arbitrary reading.Downloads
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