LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE APORIAS OF READING LITERATURE
LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE APORIAS OF READING LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Literary Criticism and the Aporias of Reading Literature. In this article, we will note the fact that literary criticism, whether in the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, or even in later, in romantic and modern streams, has the text as basis of judgment. This judgment develops with regard to the fictional world retrospectively, whether as evaluation or interpretation, subjectively or with tendencies towards objectivity, bearing impressionistic or scientific claims, and its value is communicating on behalf of the literary art. Literary criticism, which needs to be derived from readings of literature, is nowadays construed as the hegemony of theories that have sometimes harmed its humanity. When transformed into our critical discourse, these theories have often managed to kill the pleasure game that is reading literature. Part of our literary criticism still prioritises the tendency towards the phraseology and rhetoric of terminological formulations and arbitrary notions rather than the direct confrontation with the nature and naturalness of the literary text. Hence, Cratylus’ ideality of motivation would suit our opinion on literature and our culture in general.

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