Readers and Reading as Interaction with Literary Texts

Authors

  • Meta Grosman

Keywords:

reading, readers, reception theory, literary experience, interaction, digital literature

Abstract

The concept of reading as the interaction between the reader and the text makes it possible to examine some less studied dimensions of the reading process and the literary experience. It centres attention on what the readers do when they actually read and on their own contribution to the mental representation of the text. Such a concept also helps to understand the reader’s interaction with the electronic texts.

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Published

2017-10-16