THE INVISIBLE WORLD OF LITERATURE AND ITS INTERPRETATION


Nicolaescu C.

Cogito, vol.15, no.1, pp.181-189, 2023 (Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 15 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Journal Name: Cogito
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.181-189
  • Keywords: hermeneutics, literary texts, literature, meaning
  • Yozgat Bozok University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This paper investigates how the unsaid, invisible meanings can be brought to light by a process of validated interpretation. Given the variety of literary texts, a single reception procedure cannot be practiced. Poetic writings, novels, essays, and volumes in the field of correspondence or journalism are addressed to different types of readers. Acting as relatively independent elements, textual discourses stand out especially for their communicability insofar as they are coherent and are designed to convey something. The text is not an independent institution but multi-institutional. Books have no value in themselves; literary or scientific productions are waiting to be caught in the global circuit of communication and hope to enter the interpretive radius of the receivers. Interpretive strategies end with the unearthing of meaning. The careful capture of the meaning requires from the reader a strong personal commitment as a result of which the sweet taste of the dialogue with the book is cultivated. This dialogue allows the readers to talk to authors from different times, becoming a universal interlocutor, contemporary with the whole world.