FUNKCIE FIKČNÉHO NARATÍVU A KONANIE ČITATEĽA

• Authors: Ivan Jančovič

Title variants

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Functions of fictional narrative and the reader’s activity

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The study deals with the reference of fictional narrative and the theoretical conceptualization of the reader’s activity. It is a response to a study by the philosopher Peter Koťátko, in which he argues that a narrative fictional text directs our thinking and imagination at a real world. Thereby Peter Koťátko disputes the theory of ontologically independent fictional worlds. The result of the comparison of both approaches is the author’s belief, that there is a tension between Peter Koťátko’s attempt to simplify the fictional reference and the substantial feature of the fictional narrative reader’s activity. The reader has to act in two ways: on one hand he believes, that what he reads really happens, on the other hand he understands that what he reads is a fiction. Constant relating text and reality to each other using the operator “as if“ (Peter Koťátko) rather disturbs the game-like character of the activity (especially when reading non-mimetic texts). On the contrary the theory of fictional worlds (Marie-Laure Ryan, Lubomír Doležel) takes into account two levels of the reader’s activity.

Keywords

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FICTIONAL NARRATIVE; FICTIONAL WORLDS; THEORY OF FICTIONAL WORLDS; LITERARY FUNCTIONS; KOŤÁTKO PETER

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 670 – 679

Contributors

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Ivan Jančovič

• Katedra slovenskej literatúry a literárnej vedy, FF UMB v Banskej Bystrici, Slovak Republic