Schemes of literary communication

A (adapted from Jakobson)

                code
author               text            addressee
(reader)
                context


romantic     structuralist     reader-oriented
(historicism)     formalist    (hermeneutics,
            marxist          reception theory)

B  Umberto Eco:

Sender   -- message -- channel -- meaning -- receiver
 (encoded)            (decoded)

CODE                CODE
linguistic                linguistic
secondary            secondary
ideological               ideological

Reader: naive, sentimental, discoursive
Literary work: fixed, universal meaning x shifting, unstable
meaning
Autor: How important is the author?
         - psychological
         - sociological
(from the Romatic genius to the Naturalist "eye of the
camera")
Roland Barthes: "the death of the author" -- "it is the
language that speaks" -- birth of the reader?