文学研究における「作者」と「読者」
1980 年 31 巻 1 号 p. 13-23
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1980 年 31 巻 1 号 p. 13-23
Despite the apparently contradictory views of the role of the author and that of the reader in the study of literature by E. D. Hirsch and Stanley E. Fish, the present writer believes that the author and the reader are not exclusive rivals but partners. The author wishes to resist death by means of letters ; but, paradoxically these same letters confine the author and make him sink into silence. The role of the reader is to save the author from this paradox. The reader must wake the author who is silent among his own expressive letters and must bring the wakend author into dialogue with the reader. Because of the gap between linguistic competence of the author and that of the reader, language is not only a means of communication but also a cause of a break in communication. The reader reaches the author by means of, and sometimes despite of, language, and both the reader and the author cooperate to search for the meaning of our existence.
