Pojem čtenář v anglosaské kulturně-analytické tradici Cultural Studies: možné spojnice, parelely a přesahy

• Authors: Jiřina Šmejkalová

Title variants

EN

THE TERM ‘READER’ IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TRADITION OF CULTURAL STUDIES: POSSIBLE LINKS, PARALLELS, AND OVERLAPS

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is concerned with readership and reading, a key theme in the work of the founding fathers of British Cultural studies, like Hoggart, Thompson, and Williams, and related American scholars, such as Altick. The article offers links with research areas related to this tradition in terms of time and concerns, that is, analyses of the centrally controlled readership in the ‘socialist’ countries. In addition to a Marxist orientation, the common features include an attempt to critically challenge the privileged position of the ‘elite culture/text’ as an object of enquiry, the rehabilitation of the non-elite (common) reader, as well as a search for the relation between the phenomena of reading, the reader, and literacy on the one hand and socio-economic progress on the other. In both traditions, reading is burdened with enormous social expectations and tends to be transformed from an analytical category into a prescriptive, axiological one.

Keywords

EN

READER; CULTURAL STUDIES; SOCIALIST COUNTRIES; WILLIAMS RAYMOND; PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 464-475

Contributors

author

Jiřina Šmejkalová

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic