Artistic verbal fiction as a medium: polemical reflection on the possibilities and limits of interpretation Cover Image

Umělecká slovesná fikce jako médium: polemická úvaha nad možnostmi a mezemi interpretace
Artistic verbal fiction as a medium: polemical reflection on the possibilities and limits of interpretation

Author(s): Alexej Mikulášek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: fiction;Media;creation of fiction;interpretation;ambiguity;stereotype;pseudo-stereotype

Summary/Abstract: Following study is shaped as analytic notes, which describes a various types of „essences” of fiction and search to better understand how we can study some literary work as „medium” or „agency”, e.g. newspaper messages with functions information, persuasive and entertaining: it is concerned about textes with any imitative function. One and the same fictitious event which was depicted with the help of discursus, persuasive declamation, e.g. report on clashes between protesters and policemen during unrest, can be created in two ways. However, one and the same literary work can be understood in two interpretations as well, without cutting a semantic possibilities of literary text. We bring two different views of Jan Neruda´s poem Dědova mísa (Grandfather´s Bowl) and we are convinced that nowadays it offers two horizonts of perception, controversial ideas. At the close of this paper we ask questions about so called image stereotypes, misunderstanding and our stereotyped „thresholds of interpretation” (not only of „fiction”).

  • Issue Year: XXI/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 143-168
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Czech