Little Black Fish and Readers: From Passive Reading to Active Dialogue

In the middle of the twentieth century, the discourse of literary criticism was considered. The story of "Little Black Fish" (1347), for some reasons, including the type of text, its special structure, and the range of audiences has been faced with different interpretations. In this research, with a descriptive-analytical method and based on the approach of reader-oriented theories, the way of interaction between the reader and the text has been studied in a diachronically and synchronically manner. The results show that the readers' reaction before 1957, according to the dominant paradigm, was a critique of taste, based on ideology, and had a social approach in which the hero's action was highlighted and the readings were informative. There was no dialogue between the text and the reader and the meaning was imposed on the text. From 1957 to the end of the 80s, the receptions were combined criticism, and based on the literary expectation horizon, they had a frequency in the field of narratology. These readings created uncertainty, and the reader constructed a new form of textual object in a semi-active dialogue with the text. From the late 1980s to the late 1990s, readings were theory-based, and the semiotic approach had the highest frequency among other approaches. The readings were often dialectical with the readings of the previous period, and from the uncertainty until the receipt of correction was figured in the previous readings, and as a result of the integration of social and literary expectation horizons, they offered a wider semantic horizon.