Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
by
Martha Pulido
Graduate Programme on Literary and Humanistic Translation August 2004
Based on:
For Roland Barthes: A Text is self-conscious and productive. The Text is an activity of production that is endless.
Modernism
Characterized by a Absence of authorial
loss of faith. Human sensibility has been destroyed by industrialized mass culture. Multiple points of view. Discontinous narrative Fragmentary structure
centre. Experiments with textual means (work) The most famous of these is Stream-ofconsciousness. From meaning-tosay to meaning-asplay
Postmodernism
Everything is a text Literary Studies
as differentiated from a work. Denying special value to literary texts. Nothing is central. Texts are assemblages of surface. Meaning-as-play.
should be seen as the pragmatics of writing. Such an object is closer to a text. A text that allows pragmatics to be understood as ethics.
others
to have value and history have to matter: But, history is a lie by which culture disguises the fact of its naturally savage interests and practices in the name of human progress and welfare. Then it cannot be possible to have faith in the power of language to convey plain truth.
(romanticism).
Benengeli Alonso Quijano pretending to be Don Quixote Pierre Mnard pretending to substitute Cervantes
multimedia possibilities. Literature then, cannot be regarded as a stable structure. Any literary text cannot be exhausted by any act of reading or interpretation. Literature has no essence.
literature
theory is an obstacle if it pretends to be prescriptive: it obstructs the passage to a love or a feeling for the aesthetic.
For Foucault
Theory is an art
Politics is an art
Ethics is an art (a practice of Concept Creation)
Pragmatics is an ethics they require skills on how to proceed; they require certain judgment as opposed to determining laws; dispersion as opposed to synthesis; from the what to the how.
possible to appreciate the cultural values of literature we are thus engaged in a social practice. Such an ethics is based on the knowledge that every system is dysfunctional.