La reseña literaria. Implicaciones discursivas y textuales

Abstract

The review - like the summary - is a genre that deserves the previous reading of a text, therefore, both processes (reading and writing) are involved in the construction of that one. One of the functions of the review is to bring the reader to the work reviewed, so it is a type of text that promotes reading (and also writing), hence it is significant to identify those enunciative structures that allow to achieve this purpose In addition to investigating the textual and discursive mechanisms that intervene in the writing of literary reviews, this study explored the way in which the reviewer, as an interpreter, manifests his experience as a reader. The methodology of this work consisted of an exploratory-descriptive study and had as a corpus literary reviews published in journals on literary studies such as, Voice and Writing, Context and Current. In addition, interviews were applied in order to put into dialogue what was found in the selected reviews with what was collected in them. Finally, the results showed that unlike argumentation, which according to some authors should prevail, it was the explanation and the description (in second place) that stood out in the configuration of literary reviews.