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Aвтор и герой в естетическата дейност
Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity

Author(s): Mikheil Bakhtin
Contributor(s): Vyara Popova (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: author;hero;the author's attitude;character;subject;structure;image of the character; unreflexiveness;consciousness;incarnation; feeling;

Summary/Abstract: Essentially important for the adequate understanding of Bakhtin’s multi-layered aesthetics is his great work Aesthetics of Verbal Creativity, written in the early 1920s and dealing with the correlation between author and character in aesthetic activity, in the act of artistic creativity and in the work of art. The book, for its part, belongs to its time, which is reflected in its difficult, complex and multi-faceted terminology. But it assumes the topical significance that the problem of the author acquires not only for Bakhtin, but also for contemporary aesthetics and poetics in general. Bakhtin's scientific position in the 1920s can be defined as a withdrawal and repulsion from those fields of art and poetics that he generally defines as "material aesthetics". The work in question also provides a thorough and precise critique of the author's attitude towards the hero – philosophically developed here as a critique of the reduction of vital values to material ones. Another object of fundamental critique is the concept of "feeling"(Einfuhlung), which was highly influential in aesthetics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, Bakhtin defines his own field of study as "the aesthetics of verbal creativity", and this too broad and multi-layered in its meaning formula was justifiably chosen by the publishers as the title of the manuscript book.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 72-84
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Bulgarian