Literary Discourse: Para-Topicality and the Scene of Pronouncement [trans. H. Konicka] Cover Image

Dyskurs literacki jako dyskurs konstytuujący [przeł. H. Konicka]
Literary Discourse: Para-Topicality and the Scene of Pronouncement [trans. H. Konicka]

Author(s): Dominique Maingueneau
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Constituting discourse; Literary theory; Humanities; Discourse analysis.

Summary/Abstract: Assuming that literary discourse, despite its peculiarity, is not an isolated entity but instead, participates in the verbal production area describable as the domain of constituting discourses, that is, such which present themselves as discourses of the Origin, validated by a determined scene of pronouncement which, in turn, gets validated by itself. An apparently circuitous and costly method of investigating into relations between various constituting discourses (literature, philosophy, religion, myth, and science) as well as between them and non-constituting discourses, leads to a better understanding of the literary fact, since the issue of authority of word essentially exceeds the limits of literature, as it is founded on a peculiarly ‘shamanistic’ status of the source of utterance that is associated with ordinary reality and forces exceeding the human world.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 159-170
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish