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This article presents an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov’s story “The Vane Sisters” in the light of Jan Mukařovský’s concepts of semantic gesture and unintentionality (nezáměrnost). At the same time, medial implications of Nabokov’s text are recognized, forcing a certain modification of the aforementioned concepts, taking into account the phenomenon of medial self-reflectivity.
Erin Hurley and Sara Warner in their insightful study “Affect/Performance/Politics” (2012) remind us that humanities and social sciences today experience a new sweep of theoretical inquiry, focusing on studying affect as a leading mechanism of our cognition and communication, as well as making and receiving art products. This paper takes this theoretical proposition further. I argue that although...
2_Both Cassirer and Mukařovský credit man with self-realization skills with regard to his biological and social environment. In both cases these skills are conceived as powers that are called functions. The source of these functions is in both cases the subject. Mukařovský shared faith in man as a polyfunctional being with Casssirer, while prioritizing the esthetic function. The problem of the individual...
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