Literatura popularna a jej odbiorcy

• Authors: Alicja Rokuszewska-Pawełek

Title variants

EN

Popular Literature and Its Readers

Abstracts

EN

In the article there are presented initial results of empiric researches on reception of the popular literature. The researches were based on an example of the social reception of one of its basic types - the detective story. Presentation of researches findings is preceded by a short description of the type of message being subject to reception. The researches were carried on a small purposing sample. The author conducted 80 free interviews with respondents differentiated mainly with regard to their educational background. The object of the analysis was this fragment of colloquial responses in which different reception attitudes and different trends in readers' areas of interest were revealed. They were connected with a procedure of partial autonomization of different components of a literary work being performed by readers in the course of reading as well as with organization of the reception around different substantiation norms. The analysis pointing at clear limitation of the social reception conditions in relation to popular novels simultaneously shows that from the point of view of reception, readers, attitudes, and real functions it is not a homogeneous and fully standardized area.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica
• Year: 1982
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 149-163

Dates

published

1982

Contributors

author

Alicja Rokuszewska-Pawełek

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20874694