Sobre la lectura literaria

Abstract

In this article I explore the historical character of reading, understood as a social practice that aids in regulating the way literary texts function, the development of which has been influenced by factors such as writing reproduction techniques, its modes of transmission and reception as well as the variations that the status of the reader has undergone in the process of literary communication. Additionally, I address the central role that reading has played in two main schools of thought within literary theory, namely, structural-semiotics and reception aesthetics, both of which have provided various models for analyzing and understanding this activity. I will revise works by Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser.