Representing the perspective of the implied reader based on the clear cut gaps of Aiden Chambers in the novel “Light a candle for me”

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MA. Department of Persian language and literature. Persian literature group. The University of Kordestan. Sanandaj Iran.

2 department of persian languge and literature. persian literature group. the university of kordestan. sanandaj. iran

10.22099/jcls.2023.45155.1963

Abstract

One of the functions of reader-response criticism is to provide a suitable platform for the reader's discovery and participation in creating meaning in the text. The Clear cut gaps are among the components that determine the reader's participation in expanding or limiting the meaning in the reading process. The subject of this research is the novel “Light a Candle for Me” from the list of the Flying Turtle in the research quarterly for children and teenagers, with the approach of Chambers, which has received five Flying Turtle awards. The author entrusted parts of the narrative to the narrator to develop in the text and in the form of direct and indirect description of the emotional and value world of the characters, especially describe the protagonist who is a teenage girl. However, in some parts of the novel, he has created Clear-cut gaps that draw the implied reader perception into the text, and he describes and splits the hidden layers of meaning and interprets them at different formal and meaningful levels such as stylistic, descriptivel levels, characterization, communicative and ideological ones. it deals with the emotional ideological concerns of the main character of the story

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  • Receive Date: 10 November 2022
  • Revise Date: 05 April 2023
  • Accept Date: 19 April 2023

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