Is Intra-Reception Possible? The Literatures of Anthropologists, Marc Augé and Otherness
Is Intra-Reception Possible? The Literatures of Anthropologists, Marc Augé and Otherness

Summary/Abstract: If one speaks of ‘reception’, one may have in mind a specific phenomenon called ‘literature’ and one may think of reception as something belonging above all to an artistic fact or effect. This association between ‘literature’ and ‘reception’ is even more justified if one has to present a paper on the reception of world literature. If this association is somewhat justified by the specific subject, by adopting this attitude one may give for granted what ‘literature’ is and what ‘reception’ is. My viewpoint is, on the contrary, that ‘literature’ and ‘reception’ are two concepts differently defined in time according to different theories: not only are they not universal but their meaning changes on the base of historical evolution. To grasp these concepts, in addition to historical considerations we also need to take into account the larger organization of cultures within which these concepts are ‘situated’.

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