L'acte de lecture: Théorie de l'effet esthétique

by Wolfgang Iser

L’acte de lecture fait partie de ces rares ouvrages fondateurs et fondamentaux qui s’imposent par-delà les modes successives. L’idée de départ est assez simple : on peut interpréter une oeuvre de multiples façons, et il n’y a aucun moyen de départager la « bonne » interprétation des autres. L’unité du texte, son sens, émerge de la lecture : c’est la réception du texte qui permet de lever les questions et de donner une réponse sur le texte. Que montre Iser ? Que le lecteur est impliqué, contenu, pourrait-on même dire, dans le texte, et qu’il en a toujours été ainsi ; le processus est simplement plus accentué dans les constructions littéraires actuelles.

Genres: Nonfiction, Theory, Literary Criticism, Writing, Criticism, Academic, Literature

406 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[هدى يحيى · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very academic book with no sense of passion whatsoever !
The author writes it with such dry way that i hardly completed it.

It doesn't express any of the writers' nor readers' emotions .

So , if you're looking for a book about the passion of reading, that's definitely Not your book.

It lacks the zeal , the enthusiasm , and even the enjoyment and delight of knowledge itself!

Anyway , it could be good for researchers or something !

[Heba]

تخيل معي أن ثمة عدسة ترصدك وانت مُنهمكاً في قراءة نص أدبي ، التقطت لك صورة خاطفة ، تسلمت الصورة وتساءلت ترى ما الذي كان يحدث في تلك اللحظة ؟
هذا الكتاب يجيبك على هذا السؤال اجابة تفصيلية منهجية ولكن كن على علم أن النصوص الأدبية لا تبلغ بالكتابة كمالها ولا بالقراءة تمامها ..اتفقنا 😊
القراءة ليست مساراً احادي الجانب بل هى تفاعلاً بين النص والقارىء ، معنى النص ليس مطابقاً للنص ولا لتحققه من القارىء بل واقعاً فعلياً فى مكان ما بينهما.
تحدث بنية النص متتالية من الصور الذهنية لدى القارىء تقود الى معنى النص وهو يترجم نفسه داخل وعي القارىء، لن يمكن ادراك معنى النص دفعة واحدة بل وجهة نظر القارىء تتجول فى نزهة داخل النص تتنقل فيما بين المنظورات النصية وبالترابط فيما بينها يجد القارىء نفسه ما بين استعادة ماضي من خلفية الذاكرة ، تعديلات على اللحظة الراهنة ، وترقب لتوقعات مستقبلية للنص.
ثمة فراغات تترك الروابط مفتوحة بين المنظورات النصية هنا يتم ملئها باسقاطات القارىء تحقيقاً للتناسق بين تلك المنظورات ( الحبكة والشخوص والسارد) ، وهذا يقدم تفسيراً للتأويلات المتباينة للنص الواحد اعتماداً على انتباه القارىء وذاكرته وكفاءته الذهنية ..
عندما يقدم لك النص شيئاً غير مألوفاً يمنح تجاربك القديمة روحاً جديدة ويكشف لك جانباً من شخصيتك لم تكن لتتعرف عليه في وعيك..
اخيراً القارىء هو صاحب السلطة في توجيه النص وتحديد قيمته واتدري متى تشعر بالمتعة عندما تشعر أنك مندمجاً مع النص ومنتجاً ولست شريكاً فحسب في لعبة الخيال .
والله فعلت كل ما باستطاعتي لتبسيط المادة المطروحة بالكتاب ، كانت جافة وصعبة جدا ولكن أى كتاب يتحدث عن القراءة لابد وأن يستأثر مكانة خاصة بقلبك لامحال...💕

[Franco Cárcamo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lo terminé porque soy terco. No lo recomiendo, no se deje engañar por el título invitador. Cuando la gente se refiere a la academia como una lengua complicada, se refiere a libros como este. A no ser, por supuesto, que hable esa lengua.

[Eden Bowditch · Rating 5 out of 5]

The act of writing is a topic of investigating in every classroom. But what does it mean to read? Reading is a strange act as we embark on journeys through words and worlds created by them. This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in thinking about what it means to read.

[Lis Molina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este texto me dejo con muchas respuestas a preguntas que no me habia formulado precisamente sobre el acto de leer y todo lo que hay detras de algo tan simple como eso y la verdad es que estoy encantada con lo que esto significa para mi como lectora y estudiante del lenguaje.

[Michael Audet · Rating 5 out of 5]

check out the brain on wolfgang

[Nathaniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Blanks and negations denote the missing links and the virtual themes along the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of the text. They make it possible for the fundamental asymmetry between text and reader to be balanced out, for they initiate an interaction whereby the hollow form of the text is filled by the mental images of the reader. In this way, text and reader begin to converge, and the reader can experience an unfamiliar reality under conditions that are not determined by his own disposition. Blanks and negations increase the density of fictional texts, for the omissions and cancellations indicate that practically all the formulations of the text refer to an unformulated background, and so the formulated text has a kind of unformulated double. This ‘double’ we shall call negativity, and its function deserves a few concluding remarks.

Unlike negation, negativity is not formulated by the text, but forms the unwritten base; it does not negate the formulations of the text, but—via blanks and negations—conditions them. It enables the written words to transcend their literal meaning, to assume a multiple referentiality, and so to undergo the expansion necessary to transplant them as a new experience into the mind of the reader. There are at least three different aspects of this expansion that may be distinguished and described in referential language. But we must not forget that negativity is the basic force in literary communication, and as such it is to be experienced rather than to be explained. If we were able to explain its effect, we would have mastered it discursively and would have rendered obsolescent the experience it provides.”

Iser’s a little to structuralist for me, and I disagree with some fundamental things about the ways he views texts, but damn, there’s so much in here that’s hugely thought-provoking and that will be, I think, extremely productive to work with (or at least to be in conversation with) going forward. especially noteworthy, I think, is the discussion of blanks, negation (although it gets a bit bogged down by his examples from Fielding), and negativity in the last chapter, but there’s useful stuff across the whole book; I took almost as many notes about this as I did from Del sentimiento trágico de la vida.

[Marilena · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book contains one of the most original theories about reading fiction. Yet I cannot agree entirely with the way Iser sees fiction. Maybe I can partially understand what he tries to prove about the process of reading but fiction for him is seen in another light than I would see it. Cause even fiction has several categories...and for him there is only one!!!

[S.R. Toliver · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is heavily theoretical, but full of useful information!

[Rachel]

Currently reading this for Dr. Porter's class. I like it so far. Scary! :D

[Robert Tate Morrison]

I can’t remember. I think I liked it.

[Abde Lmajid]

كتاب عسير التتبع

[Fatma · Rating 3 out of 5]

الكتاب جميل ,لكن لغته جافة جدا وهذا راجع للترجمة

[Nat · Rating 2 out of 5]

honestly there is just no reason to ever read this book in its entirety (as i did)... just read the introduction and the last 30ish pages on blanks/negations and you'll get it all

[cindy]

rec: Re-Reading John, the Graduate Theological Union

[Livlaa]

The question is... will I finish my lit degree? Or will it finish me?🧐

[Noora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tästä voi sanoa samaa kuin edellisestä tenttikirjasta, mielenkiintoinen aihe, mutta osa meni auttamatta ohi, osittain kielen, osittain oman huomion harhailemisen takia. Ihmetyttää, minkä takia alan selviä klassikoitakaan ei ole suomennettu.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the more succcessful attempts, by the pimps of postmodernism, to steal authorship away from the creators?

Why must accademics be so full of mediocrity?

[Ivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Penjelasan yang menarik, walau tak sederhana, tentang sesuatu yang make sense (bagiku)

[Dedrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This seemed a bit dry for my taste, although I did get into enough to get a few interesting points from it. I finished at page 60 and shelved it, though.

[Giovanni Gregory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good messy.

[Noura · Rating 4 out of 5]

i need so much to read this book for my thesis please