القارئ الضمني في "رسالة الغفران" لأبي العَلاء المعري

الملخص EN

The contribution of Wolfgang Iser in theory of literature critic could be noted when he started lecturing in Constance University.

He became famous after his esthetical response theory which was followed by another theory; the implied reader and the act of reader theories.

Iser thought that the production of meaning is the result of interaction between the text and the reader, and this led him to propose a practical new concept that he termed as ‘the implied reader’ that he defined as textual situation and process of meaning production.

This paper tries to uncover the aspect of ‘implied reader’ in the Ghufran Letter of al-Maʿarri which is regarded as the most significant aspect in the theory of reading and reception.

The research starts with an introduction to shed lights on this aspect.

The introduction is followed by two sections, the first one are the signs of manifestations of the implied reader aspect which includes the text title, defamiliarization techniques, the wondering view point and dialogues; while the second one is entitled the narrative gaps and negation in the text through the techniques such as narrative division, optimizing figurative descriptions, intertextuality through paronomasia and the breakaway rom religious norms.

Among the conclusions of the study: among the tools to identify the intentionality of a text is the omniscient narrator whose narration is characterized by language defamiliarization.

The importance of retrieval of the narrative structure lies in the forms of the structures that manifest the presence of the implied reader.

The implied writer has contributed significantly to the construction of the implied reader through his linguistic, literary, religious, social and political expressions.

The construction of the implied reader was through the mechanism of marginal characters.