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Book News Annotation:
The main part of this text is an essay constructed from passages
found in 35 years of Schutz's writings and based on the notes he
wrote for a 1955 lecture the sociology of how audiences and writers
relate to each other. The editor argues that the result can be
considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of
literature. Then, ten invited essays, written by German, American,
and Japanese scholars, comment on such issues raised by the
construction as the role of autobiography, the nature of ethnographic
texts, and Schutz's interpretation of Don Quixote.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
Using outlines and scattered passages of relevance, this work includes first of all a construction of the work Schutz did not but was clearly prepared to write on how authors and audiences relate to one another in lyric poetry, drama, and the novel. This construction shows how Schutz anticipated reader-response theory and provides a basis not only for his theory of literature but also - along with his writings on music - for his theory of art. In addition, this work contains essays commenting on the construction by Ilja Srubar, Michael McDuffie, Martin EndreA, Hisashi Nasu, and Fred Kersten, and works developing aspects of Schutz's account further by Lewis Gordon, Daniel CefaA, Stanford Lyman, George Psathas, and Michael Barger.
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