Indonesian Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN 1978-760X
Vol. 4 / No. 1 / Published : 2012-01
Order : 3, and page :23 - 30
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Original Article :
Problems in reading chatwin’s the songlines: a reader-response perspective
Author :
- Diah Ariani Arimbi*1
- Department of English Literature, FIB, Airlangga University, Surabaya
Abstract :
Bruce Chatwin’s the Songlines purposes problems that need to be taken into account before the object-whether the world or the text-can be treated. As the author, Chatwin problematizes his text in order to obligate the involvement of the reader in the text substantially, in the process of signifying the text. By making the text's genre controversial, Chatwin challenges the reader and intrigues him/her with such a problematic categorization. He constructs and deciphers a text within a text which may lead into a crisis of interpretation. He also fills the text with numerous other texts which accordingly places the text in the intertextual networking. And this what makes this particular writing becomes the source of dialectical dialogue between the text, its author and its reader as well.
Keyword :
text, reading process, reader, genre, intertextuality,
References :
Barthes R,(1977) Image-Music-Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York : Hill and Wang.
Chatwin B,(1987) The Songlines. New York : Penguin Books
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