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Den individuella läsupplevelsen : En komparativ receptionsstudie av Sven Delblancs roman Änkan och Mara Lees roman Ladies utifrån tre teorier om litterär kompetens / The Individual Reading Experience : A comparative reception study of Sven Delblanc's novel Änkan and Mara Lee's novel Ladies based on three theories about literary competence

The purpose with this essay is to investigate how different theories about literary competence can help us understand why Sven Delblanc’s novel Änkan and Mara Lee’s novel Ladies have generated so many various interpretations as they have. To fulfill this purpose a comparative study of book reviews about the two novels Änkan and Ladies has been made. The theories about literary competence that have been used in this study are Joseph Appleyard’s theory about reader-roles, Judith Langer’s theory about imaginary worlds and Magnus Persson’s theory about genre perspectives. The results that are presented in this study are that those book reviews that express expectations about the novels as being genre-typical are often more disappointed about the reading experience than those readers who have expectations about the novels as being genre-transgressing and with deeper meaning. The discussion about genres has therefore given an interesting perspective about the correlation between the readers’ expectations and the many, various interpretations that follow.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-72200
Date January 2018
CreatorsLord, Agnes
PublisherKarlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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