Literary text as an object of scientific study: on relevance of cultural context
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https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2013-06-08Keywords:
literary text, cognition, interpretation, complexity, “man-measured” nature of science and text, cultural contextAbstract
This paper argues that studies of literary text are biased by a wide cultural context, and specifically by a scholarly paradigm as a part of culture. The author substantiates this idea with a number of examples from the history of science. It is maintained that the basic properties of literary text – its complexity and “manmeasured” nature – depend on characteristics of the scholar’s / interpreter’s environment. Diversity of construals in the studies of literary text is viewed as an exposure of humanizing and axiological vantages of contemporary thought.
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