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https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.24.70.2
Beyond Reading: What it Means to Encounter a Literary Work of Art
Antonia Heigl
orcid.org/0009-0001-7369-4731
; University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Sažetak
What does it mean to encounter a literary work of art? When we talk about them, we refer to literary works as characterizable entities. In a genuine encounter with a literary work, instead, our focus shifts to “what it is about”: we bring to mind the intentional objects it invites us to direct our attention to, typically through reading. If what we encounter is a work of art, however, we are invited to do something beyond that even, namely to attune ourselves to disclose something more profound. Through shifting our focus from the individual to the typical and affectively responding to a work’s characteristics, we disclose a qualitative character that presents itself as of general relevance insofar as it characterizes a specific kind of thing potentially experienced in the world. Our focus shifts from individual intentional objects, such as a character’s view of her partner as standing in need of salvation, to the kinds of values and things manifested therein, such as the peculiar kind of ambiguity inhering a specific kind of commitment. To encounter a literary work of art, I conclude, means to follow the invitation to disclose value essentials, and thus to find a specific kind of truth.
Ključne riječi
Literature; phenomenology of literature; phenomenology of art; Roman Ingarden; artistic truth.
Hrčak ID:
314542
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.2.2024.
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