THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CULTURES BEYOND THE READABLE TEXT
THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CULTURES BEYOND THE READABLE TEXT

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates new strategies of cultural interpretation of literary texts in order to probe depths of meaning with which the blank spaces can be filled in. Either a semiotic or a semantic approach can reveal various facets of a cultural product. The text refers to something, to a reality that is recreated, and projected into a fictional reality. The narrative acts as an attempt to shape a world after the resemblance of the real one. The temporal background of human experience always offers an intrigue for the complex interplay between the indirect reference to the past and the shaping reference to fiction. The essential step in the exploration of textual semantics can be achieved through multiple readings. The concept of how the reader understands the texts of artistic literature is a synthesis of learning theories in psychology and text theories in semiotics, pragmatics, and linguistics of the twenty first century and subsumes the stated intention to study interpretation as a complex process. The issue of the subjective dimension of understanding was addressed in the sequence devoted to reading literary texts justified by the different profile of readers specified in different cognitive structures, affective structures, and reading intentions. The personal character of reception is highlighted in the case of comprehension and interpretation of literary texts, whose structure creates spaces, manifestation of subjectivity, and type of text that places readers with different profiles. Outlined from the perspective of these demands, the literature lecture should be a space for initiation in reading and culture, and a space for intellectual debates and critical thinking.

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