International Journal of Language and Literature December 2017, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1-8 ISSN: 2334-234X (Print), 2334-2358 (Online) Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/ijll.v5n2a1 URL: https://doi.org/10.15640/ijll.v5n2a1 Limits of Reading as an Ideological Ritual (A Case of Reading Albanian Contemporary Poetry) Dr. Ermir Xhindi 1 & Erjona Xhindi 2 Abstract What causes the reading crisis in today's Albanian literature, especially in poetry? Can there be a sufficient structure of interconnected causes which might produce a possible explanatory model? We are trying to find answers using a hybrid Eco (Umberto) - Fish (Stanley) model, ranging from radical structuralism to pure phenomenology. Despite of reasonable theoretic doubts, the structural formula of Eco as the inimitable semiotic rationalization on poetic text and the structure of experience on the finished fictional text offered by Fish, as a process at a time, construct an open, liberal and less speculative instrument than usual. His exploitation has allowed us to discover a relative limit where literature leads its relationship with reading, asking the reader to decide whether there is a literary text or not. What happen with the reader and the reading this circumstances? We found that during a process, when the reader is urged to making decisions, the structure of his identity faces significant changes that critically condition his relationship with literary text. The new poetry ends usually as a counterpart of socialist realism, as an ideological act which banishes the reader and destroys the reading. Keywords: limits of reading, Eco – Fish model, experience meaning, ideological ritual, new poetry. Introduction How does the modern Albanian poetry exist as a structure of experience that promotes to its readers? Can we extract and define an Integral of a Meaning Matrix produced by the readers of today's Albanian poetry? Lately we have asserted a thesis about a certain perspective of reading, mainly as the decline of a model that possessed Albanian literature for relatively long periods, and further its reconstruction in the new circumstances (Xhindi, 2017, February, p. 88) after the fall of socialist realism as the ideo-stylistic doctrine in Albanian literature (Xhindi, 2017, March, p. 51). But, nevertheless, we are only caught up in the fictional prose, mostly of dynamically clear authors. This time, our goal is to offer, if possible, the answer to the above questions through a determinant model of poetry, which, in any case, manages to unite some of today's inclinations. We have reviewed the work of some relatively young poets, with enduring and appreciated creativity in today's literary environment in Albanian: Romeo Çollaku, Alket Çani, Arian Leka, Gentian Çoçoli, Ermir Nika etc. The extracts we have used for these authors - the poetry of Romeo Çollaku's (Elsie, R., Albanian Authors, n.d.) Uncertainty (Pasiguri), in the book All Sun and Night (Gjithë diell e natë) (Çollaku, R., 2003) - is not among his best poems, but marks a commonly present structure for all the aforementioned poets and not just for them. I. A theoretical premise The concept of Meaning appears as an indisputable phenomenological matrix, being associated with the so- called "text message". 1 Department of Albanian Language and Literature, University of Vlora „Ismail Qemali‟, 9401, Vlora, Albania. 2 Teacher of English, Non - Public School „Aulona‟, Vlora, Albania.