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Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory de Terence Cave

Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory

Editat de Terence Cave, Deirdre Wilson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2018

Notăm cu interes apariția volumului Reading Beyond the Code, o lucrare care vine să umple o lacună semnificativă în peisajul academic actual: lipsa unei punți metodologice solide între pragmatica cognitivă și critica literară tradițională. Deși teoria relevanței, formulată inițial de Dan Sperber și Deirdre Wilson, a revoluționat lingvistica, aplicarea ei sistematică în analiza textului literar a rămas, până acum, fragmentară. Găsim în această carte o demonstrație riguroasă a modului în care modelul comunicării umane poate transcende simpla descodificare, oferind instrumente precise pentru a înțelege cum cititorii extrag sensul dincolo de litera textului.

Structura volumului este una aplicată, dedicând nouă din cele zece eseuri unor analize de caz pe texte fundamentale, de la lirica lui Yeats și Seamus Heaney până la proza lui Cervantes sau Edith Wharton. Această abordare practică distinge volumul de lucrări precum The Relevance of Metaphor de Josie O'Donoghue; în timp ce O'Donoghue se concentrează specific pe mecanismul metaforei, Reading Beyond the Code acoperă o arie mult mai largă, propunând o teorie a comunicării cvasi-aristotelică, adaptată complexității literaturii.

Din perspectiva operei editorului, volumul se plasează într-o continuitate firească cu Thinking with Literature. Dacă în lucrarea anterioară Terence Cave argumenta că literatura este o formă esențială de cunoaștere umană, aici el oferă, alături de Deirdre Wilson, fundamentul tehnic pentru această afirmație. Ritmul analizelor este dens, dar clar, refuzând jargonul gratuit în favoarea unei perspective cognitive „întrupate”, care tratează lectura ca pe o activitate umană ancorată în realitatea biologică și socială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198794776
ISBN-10: 0198794770
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 164 x 238 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la filologie care doresc să depășească limitele structuralismului. Cititorul câștigă un set nou de instrumente analitice bazate pe pragmatica modernă, învățând să explice nu doar ce spune un text, ci și cum reușește acesta să transmită intenții complexe prin inferență. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine este interesat de intersecția dintre științele cognitive și estetică.

Despre autor

Terence Cave este un distins profesor de literatură franceză și membru al British Academy, recunoscut pentru abordările sale interdisciplinare care unesc istoria literară cu perspectivele cognitive. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Thinking with Literature și traduceri critice precum The Princesse de Clèves, reflectă un interes constant pentru modul în care ficțiunea modelează gândirea umană. În calitate de editor, el colaborează aici cu Deirdre Wilson, figură centrală a lingvisticii contemporane și profesor la University College London, pentru a valida relevanța pragmaticii în studiul beletristicii.

Descriere

This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as a broad framing perspective and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final essay, by Deirdre Wilson, co-founder (with Dan Sperber) of relevance theory, takes a retrospective view of the issues addressed by the volume and considers the implications of literary studies for cognitive approaches to communication. Relevance theory, described by Alastair Fowler as 'nothing less than the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle's', offers a comprehensive pragmatics of language and communication grounded in evidence about the ways humans think and behave. While designed to capture the everyday murmur of conversation, gossip, peace-making, hate speech, love speech, 'body-language', and the chatter of the internet, it covers the whole spectrum of human modes of communication, including literature in the broadest sense as a characteristically human activity. Reading Beyond the Code is unique in using relevance theory as a prime resource for literary study, and it is also the first to claim that the model works best for literature when understood in the light of a broader cognitive approach, focusing on a range of phenomena that support an 'embodied' conception of cognition and language. This broadened perspective serves to enhance the value for literary studies of the central claim of relevance theory, that the 'code model' is fundamentally inadequate to account for human communication, and in particular for the modes of communication that are proper to literature.

Recenzii

...the important contribution this volume makes to the understanding of relevance theory and its relation to literary interpretation. It shows explicitly what relevance theory shares with other cognitive approaches and how it differs. In respecting the power of literary language as ostensive performance, it invites rather than imposes interpretative strategies that inform the best of literary criticism.
To what extent do the principles of a theory of spontaneous face-to-face communication carry over to the interpretation of carefully crafted literary texts (novels, plays, poems)? That is the central question addressed by this book. The literary studies presented here are deeply informed by Relevance Theory's cognitive-inferential account of communication while remaining acutely alert to the sensorimotor, kinesic, affective and other non-propositional effects that a work of literature may have on a receptive reader. This engaging set of essays is for students of literature, communication theorists, and anyone who has ever marvelled at the rich experience of reading fiction.
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's Relevance: Communication and Cognition (1986) revolutionized the understanding of communication: they showed it to depend not simply on decoding, but on selecting optimally relevant results. Reading Beyond the Code, edited by Terence Cave and Deirdre Wilson, now takes up the same relevance theory and applies it to literature. Again the outcome is an important contribution.
The relevance of 'Relevance' to literary understanding was clear from Sperber and Wilson's inauguration of the concept. After literary theory's long wanderings in the wilderness, it brought literary studies back to the conditions of everyday life and thought. Its claims have since been strengthened by interaction with cognitive science and a three-year Balzan research programme. As a sequel, the present essay collection shows how subtly the central idea has been developed and how fruitfully it can be applied to a wide range of texts and genres.

Notă biografică

Terence Cave CBE FBA is Emeritus Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He holds an honorary doctorate at Royal Holloway University of London. and is Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite (France). He is recognized as a leading specialist in French Renaissance literature, but has also made landmark contributions to comparative literature and the history of poetics. In 2009, he won the Balzan Prize for literature since 1500 and subsequently directed the Balzan project 'Literature as an Object of Knowledge' (2010-14). His most recent work focuses on cognitive approaches to literature.Deirdre Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at UCL and co-director of the Linguistic Agency project at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo. Her book Relevance: Communication and Cognition, co-written with Dan Sperber, was described in the London Review of Books as 'nothing less than the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle's' and in Rhetoric Society Quarterly as 'probably the best book you'll ever read on communication.' Translated into twelve languages (including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Malay, Indonesian, and Arabic), it has had a lasting influence in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics and is now regarded as a classic.