Naturalization--to bring a text into relation with a type of discourse or model which is already natural and legible
~Zarweck (2001)
Reading does not take place in a vacuum; it is an active process which demands a give and take relationship with the reader. When readers are confronted with a text which challenges their notions of reality, morality, or cultural norms, the reader will then search for a way to reconcile such interpretive difficulties. This reconciliation generally takes the form of five distinct principles:
(1) The Genetic--Readers resolve textual contradictions by interpreting them within the authorial or the historical context of the work.
(2) The Generic--Allows the naturalization of textual oddities within the framework of particular genres and their conventions.
(3) The Existential--Governs the reader's resolution of textual inconsistencies in terms of real-world models.
(4) The Functional--The "work's aesthetic, thematic and persuasive goals [...] operate as a [...] guideline to making sense of its peculiarities." ~Quoted by Zarweck (2001) from Yacobi T. (1981)
(5) The Perspectival--Allows the reader to attribute problematic elements of a narrative text to the individual perspective of a fictional reflector.
The most common result of reconciling interpretive difficulties through the above five principles is the declaration of mediator's unreliability.
Reading does not take place in a vacuum; it is an active process which demands a give and take relationship with the reader. When readers are confronted with a text which challenges their notions of reality, morality, or cultural norms, the reader will then search for a way to reconcile such interpretive difficulties. This reconciliation generally takes the form of five distinct principles:
(1) The Genetic--Readers resolve textual contradictions by interpreting them within the authorial or the historical context of the work.
(2) The Generic--Allows the naturalization of textual oddities within the framework of particular genres and their conventions.
(3) The Existential--Governs the reader's resolution of textual inconsistencies in terms of real-world models.
(4) The Functional--The "work's aesthetic, thematic and persuasive goals [...] operate as a [...] guideline to making sense of its peculiarities." ~Quoted by Zarweck (2001) from Yacobi T. (1981)
(5) The Perspectival--Allows the reader to attribute problematic elements of a narrative text to the individual perspective of a fictional reflector.
The most common result of reconciling interpretive difficulties through the above five principles is the declaration of mediator's unreliability.