In dubio pro-reader. Narrative ambiguity and reasonable doubt in the story “In a forest” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Among others, there are two narrative resources for the rhetorical construction of narrative ambiguity; the “unreliable narrator” and the “fictive reader”. This article studies the combined specificity of the two procedures in the story “In a Bamboo Grove” (1921) by the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Aku...

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Autor: Valencia, Leonardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista FORO: REVISTA DE DERECHO
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1284
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/foro/article/view/1284
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Literature and Law
narrative ambiguity
reasonable doubt
Japanese literature
literatura y derecho
ambiguedad narrativa
duda razonable
literatura japonesa
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Sumario:Among others, there are two narrative resources for the rhetorical construction of narrative ambiguity; the “unreliable narrator” and the “fictive reader”. This article studies the combined specificity of the two procedures in the story “In a Bamboo Grove” (1921) by the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa to make an aesthetic approach to the figure of in dubio pro reo and understand that in the hermeneutics of the judge there is a process of reading and interpretation, different from the literary one, but that can be illuminated comparatively to reflect on the imperfect evidence of the testimonies in the courts and the literary ambiguity of the narrative testimonies, their respective natures and conditionings.