Reception: Contemporary Perspectives
Résumé
This issue explores the notion of reception as it informs the fields of intellectual history, literary theory and the visual and performance arts. Returning to the seminal insights of Hans-Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, the contributors mobilize related notions, such as “interpretive community”, and assess their continuing relevance in contemporary critical contexts. They also explore forms of embodied reception, registering a ‘material’ turn which calls for a multisensory apprehension of the phenomenal world. Reception is investigated, finally, as a political act, a critical response to oppressive or discriminatory discourses and regimes. This collection examines a broad and varied corpus, ranging from the XVIth century political treatise to the contemporary graphic novel, from the XIXh century reception of colour to XXIst century performance art.