The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

0488269 - ÚČL 2018 RIV GB eng M - Část monografie knihy
Koten, Jiří
The Novel and the Aesthetic Illusion.
The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 - (Koblížek, T.), s. 225-234. ISBN 978-1-3500-3258-3
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA13-29985S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378068
Klíčová slova: literary theory * novel * aesthetic illusion * Bakhtin, M. M. * fictional communication
Obor OECD: Specific literatures

The study deals with the issue of aesthetic illusion in relation to the genre of the novel. The argumentation is based on the so-called disjunctive model of fictional communication. It has two levels including 1) the author and the reader, whose communicative transaction frames the imaginary communication between 2) the fictional narrator and his or her fictional audience. The model was introduced to literary studies by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin. Based on the disjunctive model’s possible characterization as a layered telling of the author and the narrator, illusive reading can be seen as the reader’s temporary relocation to an embedded communicative level. Anti-ilusive novels (e. g. pre-realist novels of the eighteenth century and postmodern metafictions), on the contrary, lead the reader to pay attention not only to the world depicted by fictional narrator, but also to the authorial strategies used in its depiction.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0282869