Problem odbiorcy i czytelnika. Wokół problemu fikcjonalizacji w korpusie „literatury mieszczańskiej” Karola Badeckiego
The problem of receiver and reader. On the problem of the fictionalization in the corpus of the “bourgeois literature” by Karol Badecki

Author(s): Witold Wojtowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The paper “The problem of a receiver and reader. On the problem fictionalization in the corpusof the ‘bourgeois literature’ by Karol Badecki” is an attempt to capture a way of work receptionpostulated or intended by the authors of the “bourgeois literature” and what we can say about theactual perception on the part of the audience. Also, an attempt has been made to show the conditionsconnected with a different role of a reader one can name a “fictionalization” of reception (W. Ong).An intended receiver becomes the subject of the author’s efforts as a reader, not as a listener. Onecan point to the otherness of this role, visible in a series of author’s efforts, in other words, the roleof a reader (the fictional character of performative signals is emphasized). The message undergoesits adaptation connected with the performance of particular actions or underlined by even a gesture.The mechanism of the fictionalization leads to the creation of the fabricated orality and performa‑tiveness.The emphasis is put on the problem of the performative nature of the text. The centre of interestconstitutes the influence of the text on an audience through reception or co‑participation, includedin the techniques of a performative act. Performativeness as a tool of researching the text does notmean exclusively discovering the ord residues and performative techniques typical of the oral cul‑ture mainly because the very traces were literalised and consciously included by an author as con‑ventions, they already constitute a textual strategy. It seems that for the majority of texts in questionan oral model of communication is still binding and thus, a repeated “imitation” of performativeand theatrical elements which have already become a convention. The authors share and partake inthe codes of the high literature. “Popular literature” is not an autonomous and relatively retardedproduct. What matters is a recognition of a conscious usage of the convention of fiction, constantlyavoided in favour of the social conditions of writers— authors of the “bourgeois literature”. Unrec‑ognising the mechanisms of the fictionalization was in a sense a foundation stone of older studies onthe “bourgeois literature” with its orientation on the exploration of social contexts.

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