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Title: | Breaking the barriers between aesthetics and theory in literature |
Authors: | Attard, Josette |
Keywords: | Aesthetics in literature Literature -- Theory Fiction -- Themes, motives Imagination in literature Ambiguity in literature Opacity (Linguistics) |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Junior College |
Citation: | Attard, J. (2018). Breaking the barriers between aesthetics and theory in literature. Junior College multi-disciplinary conference : research, practice and collaboration : Breaking Barriers : annual conference 2018, Malta. 47-56 |
Abstract: | Up to few decades ago, aesthetics and theory were considered two separate disciplines in the realm of literature. More recent studies have indicated that the experience and also the study of literature are breaking these existing boundaries by revealing common factors present in both aesthetics and theory. Several literary theorists and aestheticians have emphasized this close relation which is woven within literature itself. John Gibson, Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque are few of the theorists who argue in favour of such a relation. They contend that the perspectives of both aesthetics, as a branch of philosophy, and theory, do not exclude each other. Furthermore, they suggest that both aesthetics and theory can be complementary to each other and combine the philosophical concern with clarity, and the creativity which pertains to theory. The aim of this paper is to show how the study of literature can break the barriers between aesthetics and theory by combining them together in several ways, suggesting possible ties within the creation and the act of reading literature, with particular reference to fictitious narratives. In this paper I shall discuss firstly how ambiguity and imagination can have the potential to effect both literary aesthetics and literary theory offering different results. Secondly I shall focus on fictitious narratives from both the aesthetical and the theoretical points of view. I intend to emphasize the manner we view and discuss literature in the process of reading it. My literary discussion will include theories proposed by the literary philosophers Attridge, Lamarque and McGregor and how these theories can be combined through particular readings, thus breaking the barriers between aesthetics and theory in literature. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38661 |
Appears in Collections: | Breaking Barriers : Proceedings Scholarly Works - JCMal |
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