The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism

Cocks, Neil

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“…As discussed above, the characters in the texts, who vacillate between being respected insiders and alienated outsiders throughout the series, often demonstrate the sort of critical thinking that fans take up (Booth, 2015). If implied readers are constructed not outside of but with and through a text (Cocks, 2004), and if we accept that Harry Potter celebrates the marginalized, the odd, and the nonnormative, so too must we consider that Harry Potter not only invites marginalized readers and readings but also invites readers to identify as and/or empathize with those who are marginalized.…”

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Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

Duggan

2021

Child Lit Educ

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The politics of children’s literature and the actors surrounding it have never been more visible than they are now, in the digital age. As one of the first children’s series to gain widespread popularity concurrently with the spread of the internet, the Harry Potter septet arrived on the global stage at the perfect moment to develop an avid, connected fandom. But the fandom has laid bare the many conflicting ideologies of the fans themselves and of the actors surrounding the texts. This article examines the contentious issue of gender nonnormativity and its relation to the Harry Potter texts, the queer/trans reading practices and political resistance common to the fandom, and the ongoing disagreements over gender, made visible on social media, between Rowling and the fans of her series. The article discusses the Harry Potter novels’ varied and conflicting ideologies; queer/trans readings of the Potter septet, including both invitations and resistances to queer/trans reading by Rowling herself; how gender is queered and queried in and through fan fiction; and finally, the recent hostilities between Rowling and her fans. It concludes by discussing the worsening relationship between Rowling and her fans and highlighting how fans are using their collective power to undermine Rowling’s gender politics through fan fiction. By doing so, the article traces the complex politics of the reception of books for young people in the digital age, demonstrating that authors’ powerful voices continue to shape readers’ responses to texts long after their publication but showing, too, that readers often resist authors’ attempts to influence not only their textual interpretations but their politics.

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Section: Fannish Transformationsmentioning

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Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

Duggan

2021

Child Lit Educ

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“…Nesse sentido, Neumann (2002) realça que um diário consubstanciase à luz de normas epistemológicas, de conteúdo ou de forma, em geral inacessíveis a outros gêneros literários. Em geral, o autor escreve com o objetivo de publicar, materializa-se como uma escrita intencional, ou seja, o escritor escreve com a presença de um leitor implícito (Cocks, 2004;Schmid, 2009); a escrita é direcionada a alguém (interlocutor), realçando Kristeva (1969) que os textos literários apresentam, em larga medida, uma tessitura de natureza polifônica, à luz da qual " [...] that texts can be read in a number of a different ways, not just in one correct way" (Cocks, 2004, p. 111).…”

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O diário: uma representação polifônica do Eu. Reflexões sobre a obra O diário, de Anne Frank

Martins¹,

Azevedo²

2016

Acta Sci. Human Soc. Sci.

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O artigo explicita o conceito de diário, remetendo a sua origem para os gêneros de cariz confessional. Enquanto expressão literária, esse gênero textual parece abalar as convenções da construção ficcional. É sob esta luz que os autores analisam a obra O Diário, de Anne Frank. Escrito pela conhecida adolescente judia, a obra tece um conjunto de considerações pessoais e familiares, mas também políticas, sociológicas e ideológicas sobre os lugares do homem no mundo.

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Readers: Characterized, Implied, Actual

Reimer¹

2010

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The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism

Cited by 5 publications

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Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

<b>O diário: uma representação polifônica do <i>Eu</i>. Reflexões sobre a obra <i>O diário</i>, de Anne Frank

Readers: Characterized, Implied, Actual

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