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In a short article designed to refute Anthony Close’s Hirschian approach to Don Quijote,1 i.e., the search for an understanding based on Cervantes’ possible intentions in the novel as opposed to subsequent Romantic interpretations, Inés Azar attacked the theoretical basis of Close’s work in the following words:
A written text is the permanent mark of an exclusion: the absence of the reader in the act of writing, the absence of the writer in the act of reading, the absence of the reader and writer in the text itself.2
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Anthony Close, The Romantic Approach to “Don Quixote” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).
Inés Azar, “Meaning, Intention and the Written Text: Anthony Close’s Approach to Don Quixote and its Critics,” Modern Language Notes, Vol. 96 (1981), pp. 440–444 (p. 444).
Ralph Freedman, “Intentionality and the Literary Object,” in Murray Krieger and L. S. Dembo (eds.), Directions for Criticism. Structuralism and its Alternatives (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977), pp. 137–159.
Félix Martínez Bonati, “Fenomenología y crítica (notas para una discusión),” Dispositio Vol. IX (1984), pp. 91–107 (p. 103).
Wayne Booth, La retórica de la ficcíón (Barcelona: Bosch, 1978), p. 129.
Wolfgang Iser, El acto de leer (Madrid: Taurus, 1987), p. 69.
Didier Coste, “Trois conceptions du lecteur et leur contribution à une théorie du texte littéaire,” Poétique, Vol. 43 (1980), pp. 354–71 (p. 360).
José María Nadal, “La enunciatión narrativa,” Investigaciones semióticas, I, Madrid, CSIC, 1986, pp. 367–90.
Claudio Guillén, Entre lo uno y lo diverso (Barcelona: Crítica, 1985), p. 203.
M. Bakhtine, Esthétique de la création verbale (Paris: Gallimard, 1984), p. 336.
G. Molinié, “Sémiotique du narrataire dans les romans baroques,” Cahiers de Littérature du XVIFe siécle, Vol. 10 (1988), pp. 17–25.
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Aseguinolaza, F.C. (1991). Phenomenology and the Reception of Literary Texts: The Implied Reader as an Element of a Genre. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Analecta Husserliana, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3394-4_19
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