نظام التفجية وحوارية القراءة

Ibrahim Taha, in his article "The system of gap making and the dialectics of reading" (pp. 95-130), discriminates between two categories of gaps: text gaps (writable gaps) and reader gaps (readable gaps). The first catagory contains five techniques (typs) of gaps: digression, flash back, stair case, misleading and obstruction. Employed in a narrative text, these techniques enable the author to tranfer various textual data from their 'original' places in the level of the fabula; these places then seem vacant to the reader. In other words, these techniques delay the motion of the reader process, particularly on its sensational level, the first contact between text and reader. The second catagory also includes five techniques: omission, symbolization, defamiliarization/making strange, intertextuality and contradiction. However, unlike text gaps, which both create gaps and fill gaps, reader gaps are based on a definite separation between these actions. That is to say, in readable gaps the reader fills in the gaps which the text has made. Making gaps is the reader's respones to these questions. This interaction of questioning and answering assures the author of very tight interrelations between text and reader. The focal point of these interrelations is the conceptual nature of the final contact between text and reader. Taha uses various texts of modern Arabic narrative fiction as illustrations.