Unprecedented. Wolfgang Iser about the Imagined Image Cover Image

Fără precedent. Wolfgang Iser despre imaginea imaginată
Unprecedented. Wolfgang Iser about the Imagined Image

Author(s): Dorin Ştefănescu
Subject(s): Poetry, Aesthetics, Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Wolfgang Iser; protention; retention; passive syntheses; image;

Summary/Abstract: The interpretation below focuses on one of the most important aspects of Wolfgang Iser’s theory of the esthetic effect: the so called imagined image. Involving the act of reading, these images have a main role in establishing the relations between the textual signs, creating the passive syntheses in which the anticipative vision (the protention) and the remembering one (the retention) are working together. In this phenomenological horizon, to imagine the image means to recreate, to raise the world in the sense of its new unprecedented beginning, as it appears in the hidden structure of a poem.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 27-31
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian
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