The Reader in Reading Theatre
The Reader in Reading Theatre

Summary/Abstract: "Since reception theory has grown out of the study of the reception of literary texts (we can just note Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish, Umberto Eco and others), the imagery of text and reading has become verbally and mentally entrenched in the study of the reception of other art forms as well. Thus during the 1980s many theatre semioticians treated performances as specific kinds of text, including the use of concepts such as “performance text” when referring to the audio-visual texture of the work. And the theatre researcher Marco De Marinis has coined the concept of model spectator (Marinis 1987), based on Umberto Eco’s concept of the model reader as a particular kind of textual strategy."

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