LITERARY TEXT INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF SYMBOLIC PATTERNS
LITERARY TEXT INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF SYMBOLIC PATTERNS

Summary/Abstract: The genre of literary interpretation has caused many arguments over the best ways literary texts can be interpreted. As a result, many schools or theories of criticism have emerged developing sophisticated and even abstract theoretical approaches. The meaning comes out of an interaction between message and its reader (audience). That is why, while handling a text, one must consider not only its components but also the relation between those components, all the impressions it has created and the techniques used for creating such impressions as well. The same way images – visual symbolic patterns – urge us to react and make us aware of the meaning transmitted, the phonemes – sound symbolic patterns – can be assigned the role of iconic, analogical symbols in text interpretation. The euphonic qualities of language, especially of literary language can be looked for in the arguments brought in favour of the natural theory of languages, according to which, in the process of word formation, the choice of proper sounds occupied a central position.

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