Reader, Spectator, Viewer, Player, Influencer : The Changing Paradigms of Reception as a Challenge to Literary History

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reader, Spectator, Viewer, Player, Influencer : The Changing Paradigms of Reception as a Challenge to Literary History

Original language description

This article examines how recent transformations in media and cultural production challengetraditional literary historiography. Drawing on Hans Robert Jauss&apos;s reception aesthetics and his conceptof the &quot;horizon of expectation,&quot; the study argues that literature must increasingly be understood throughthe lens of its reception across diverse media platforms. Integrating insights from media theory (McLuhan,Benjamin, Bolter and Grusin), the article explores how remediation and adaptation alter both the circulationand interpretation of literary texts. Through examples such as the adaptation history of Oroonoko andthe Czech reception of Jane Eyre, it shows how literature is reshaped by visual and participatory mediacultures. The study further highlights the role of new agents-such as social media influencers and onlinefan communities-in shaping contemporary literary canons. Ultimately, the paper calls for a rethinkingof literary historiography as a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and globally informed endeavour thatreflects the evolving modes of authorship, readership, and textual authority in the digital age.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

2571-032X

Volume of the periodical

2025

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

90-97

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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