A selection of reviews on the Spanish translation of Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, published 1947-1948 in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Cuba. The authoress has translated and edited the articles collected and wrote a foreword thereto.
Literary-critical responses to R. Kapuscinski's recently published verse book 'Prawa natury' (The Laws of Nature) is analysed. Kapuscinski made his debut as a poet, yet his first volume was issued in as late as 1986, and his poetry was always received in a specific manner. This analysis concerns texts known and published after the volume was issued, but before Kapuscinski died. The issue of 'The Other' or 'Alien' is used for the analytical purposes, as the one which took quite a major place in both Kapuscinski's utterances and commentaries on this author in the recent few years.
The study analyses the situation in literary reception. The first part, in short, deals with the most relevant Slovak works about reading. The second part explains the cognitive turn in literary research, its embodied mind standpoint and interdisciplinary approach, which involves also the scientific methods in the research. The third and fourth parts introduce the contemporary cognitive projects and new tasks in reception research, mainly in the British American world. The fifth part attempts to analyse and revise the reception works of Slovak scholars. A confrontation of methods and conclusions between the Slovak hermeneutical approach and the contemporary cognitive research shows the differences between the traditional autonomous perspective and interdisciplinary literary studies based on embodiment and neurophysiology. Extending cognitive research in brain processes during reading and afterwards as well as the scientific examination of the influence of literature on the recipient and society allow the formulation of testable hypotheses about literary communication. The cognitive science conclusions are an inspiration also for the general research of fiction and literariness. Only general interdisciplinary systemization of new understandings, methods and perspectives connected with literature, invented in contemporary sciences and humanities leads to deeper understanding of the emergent meaning of literature.
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