Oct 21, 2009
Class Discussion about Construction Diagram
Professor Graban asked us if there was any novel or literature piece that doesn’t follow the diagram of audience construction. I think that every literature piece has to follow this diagram. I think that every piece does because, at least for me, I always visualize what I perceive, regardless if I am reading, listening or looking at literature. I found this lecture interesting because in a lot of ways, current media corrupts viewers in such a way of wanting to be just like what they see and read about. Every aspect of what individuals take in as information is processed and is usually acted upon. This can be a good but also a bad thing because it would inflict positive behavior but also maybe negative behavior. Overall, I do not think that there is any type of media such as novels and literature that does not follow Ryosuke’s diagram.
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The idea of audience construction and the diagram that Ruosuke gave us in class piqued my interest in relation to the diary. At first I thought that the audience of the diary writer might not fall under the umbrella of Ryosuke's diagram because I could not see a difference between the diary's "immediate relationship" and "mediated relationship". However, going back over "What is an Autobiography?" by Roy Pascal helped me understand the diary in the audience construction diagram.
ReplyDeletePascal says that perhaps the best diarists are those "least concerned with long-range significance". This idea flummoxed me in relation to audience construction. If the diarist is unconcerned with future impact, then it is difficult to understand how one should synthesize the given work. The answer that best satisfies me at this point is this: A diarist constructs his or audience to be impartial. As Pascal says, "we, readers... have to try to synthesize... out of their infinite fragmentation" (Pascal 3,4). Looking at the diary through the audience construction diagram it seems that the desire of the diarist is to construct the audience in the least obtrusive way, to almost deconstruct it, so that the diarist's writing, itself may be what is constructed by the reader and writer.