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What is the sense of the question “What is art?” It may seem that the only adequate answer will be the effort to define the notion of art, that is, the exclusive purpose of this question is the classification of art and encompassing all artefacts regarded as works of art and distinguishing them from those do not belong to art. The study points to the connection between our classification of artefacts...
This study returns to the question of concretization and the project of exploring the life of a literary work, as considered by its ‘founders’ Roman Ingarden and Felix Vodička. Considering the distinction between Vodička’s and Ingarden’s conceptions, the author tries to determine in which direction the ‘Ingardenian’ concept of exploring the life of a literary work could lead. After reflecting on Vodička’s...
The study turns back to Shklovkyʼs term defamiliarization and Jakobsonʼs poetic function to show that, despite they are still stimulating aesthetic conceptions exposing the social role of art, they cannot wholly explain what happens during reading a work of art. Theories of fictional worlds can clarify more, showing that the semantic energy rising from defamiliarization makes us to create an autonomous...
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