The Function of the Reader as Subject in Literary Activities

The rise in the late 1960s and in the 1970s the rapid development of accepted theory and reader response criticism, unprecedented enhance the reader's position. Literary sense, the traditional literary theory, or belongs to the author, or part of the text, the reader only works convey information and given the significance of the work of the recipient. To accept the aesthetic and literary critic of Hughes, literary significance remains to be readers played music; Iser, literary sense reification of the text by the reader; reader response to literary critic of the literary sense only equivalent the reader experiences and feelings, as well as the discovery and validation of their own identity. In short, the reader's awareness of the subject thus be recognized and consolidate. Chinese and foreign scholars and enthusiastic people in the study of literary theory and literary criticism, from different perspectives, and study the role of the reader in literary activities. However, to date, the dynamic role of the reader base point, around the reading activities to explore the literary significance of the role of research is still rare. This article aims to seriously study the reader reading activities, combined with the classic literary works of ancient and modern, in all aspects of reading, highlighting the reader's consciousness, to explore its active role in the creation and realize the significance of literary value. According to the different forms and levels of the main identity of the reader in literary activities, combined with the specific analysis of the text, expand Readers of literary reading activities identity role of this article. This article consists of the following five parts. The first chapter: the reader to re-establish the dominant position in the history of literary theory. The paper first outlines the status of readers in the history of literary theory, pointed out that the understanding of the status of the reader, emphasis and attention can be traced back to the classical period, and in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Dryden and Johnson has discussed in detail. With the rise of the Romantic literary theory, literary theory in the history of the first research center appear transfer to expressionism criticism from a practical theory, the reader is moved from the center to the edge the stead of status promoted; With the form the center of the transfer of literary theory, the text of criticism, \with their readers. However, even in this context, the reader figure did not disappear completely, but from time to time to appear in the discussion of Richards, Yan Pu Gibson et al. Reception aesthetics emerged in the 1960s in Germany, in a certain sense, formalism, New Criticism and structuralism Backwash, Hughes, the Iser and accepted aesthetic form of development in the United States - reader response literary theory representatives Mardy Fish, Blackie, Holland, and so give the readers to the dominant position. Yao believes the history of literature in the past ignored the role of the reader, literary history is the history of the acceptance of the reader; Iser literary sense in the non-stop dialogue text and reader; reader response Criticism home to the reader the position to the extent to that later canceled the objectivity of the text. And Praise readers dominant position advocated the concept of readers attendant literary significance can not be separated from the reader's active participation, the concept of these readers are: Gibson's \\Chapter II: the importance of reading in contemporary literary theory. The manifestation of literary significance depends on the reader's because only through readers reading activities, literary works to complete the existence of its reality. Otherwise, the profound meaning of the literature, meaning, literary value, only the potential existence of which can not be readers find and grasp. Due to the impact of aesthetics, reader response literary theory attaches great importance to the importance of reading in literary activities. General legible form - usually we are talking about recreational reading, appreciation of reading and critical reading, divided based on readers' reading attitudes and motivation to read, the starting point - and a variety of other forms of reading, the reader Center text On more emphasis on the positive reading of the reader to the specific form of the active participation of the reader in the literary sense. Chapter III: Reading and second creation. Readers in reading activities with a specific horizon of expectation, which is the motivation of the readers of creation. Literary works \This is a restricted, creative activities under the guidance of the text, which is called secondary creation or re-creation. This chapter is the key part of the readers read the Chinese version of the process, including the readers look forward to in the pre-reading, reading to look forward to the adjustment of the field of vision and concrete filled activities. In view of the reader's subjective factors and characteristics of the ambiguity of the literature, different readers achieve specific differences showed significant level features.