Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory¶
Jauss, H. R. (1967/1970). Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory. Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, trans. Timothy Bahti, Theory and History of Literature vol. 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press); German original 'Literaturgeschichte als Provokation der Literaturwissenschaft' (1967/1970), 2.
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- Horizon of Expectations
- The horizon of expectations (Erwartungshorizont, Hans Robert Jauss) is the structured set of prior dispositions — generic conventions, familiarity with related works, prevailing norms of form and subject, shared literary and cultural codes — that a community of readers brings to a work at the moment of its reception, and against which the work registers its effects
This sourceJauss's own three-factor account of the horizon of expectations - genre poetics, the implicit relation to familiar works, and the fiction/reality opposition - and of aesthetic distance as the disparity a new work opens against it. Jauss's account of aesthetic distance objectified in the audience's reactions and of reception changing as the horizon shifts, demonstrated by the Bovary/Fanny reversal and dated by him to the audience's horizon of expectations in 1857; the modern-reader half of the sentence is the article's own gloss. Jauss's own worked demonstration of aesthetic distance - Madame Bovary set beside his friend Feydeau's Fanny, 'today forgotten', both appearing in 1857. Jauss on Flaubert's 'impersonal narration' as the innovation that shocked the 1857 audience, and on the novel's trial for offending public morals - though Jauss stresses that Bovary was at first commercially overshadowed by Fanny.
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- The horizon of expectations (Erwartungshorizont, Hans Robert Jauss) is the structured set of prior dispositions — generic conventions, familiarity with related works, prevailing norms of form and subject, shared literary and cultural codes — that a community of readers brings to a work at the moment of its reception, and against which the work registers its effects
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