The pillars of the reception theory between Jauss and Izer Applying to the play "The Exception and the Rule" by Bertold Brecht

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Alexandria university- faculty of arts

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Postmodern approaches appeared to shift the focus of focus from the creator and his creativity to the recipient, including the theory of receptivity that was laid in the 1960s by two professors from the German University of Konstanz, Hans Robert Yaus and Wolfgang Eiser. In the postmodern period the receptive theory constituted a revolution in the study of literature. When the interaction between the text and the reader became one of the basic problems that the theory tried to delve into, based on its complete conviction that the text does not exist in reality unless it has been read and interpreted, and its meaning is complete thanks to the recipient.
The research aims to identify the main pillars of the receptive theory in its theoretical and practical framework, by reading the text of "The Exception and the Rule" by the German writer "Berthold Brecht", in order to reveal the role of the recipient as a participant in constructing the meaning of the text and interlocutor with it according to the principles of the horizon of expectations, and filling the gaps; Where the epic theater represents an applied model for this concept; Where "Brecht" shocked the horizon of the recipient’s expectations, by opposing the traditional theater style that the recipient is accustomed to reading and watching, so he goes out from the familiar to the innovator, and history states a modern trend in playwriting

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