Amorficzne kategorie estetyczne jako praktyki twórcze i poznawcze
Amorphous aesthetic categories as creative and cognitive practices

Author(s): Monika Błaszczak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: aesthetics; aesthetic categories; aesthetic experience; amorphousness; theory of literature; theory of cognition; literary studies; drama; theatre; performing arts; performance studies; polysensorialism
Summary/Abstract: The book is a proposal to look at contemporary 20st- and 21st-century cultural texts from a broad transdisciplinary perspective. The search for a new language of description, analysis and interpretation of phenomena in the humanities is carried out by the author "across" and through "entangling" various fields and disciplines. The difficulty in finding the correct language of theory is, of course, nothing new. However, the very search and attempt to find a language "between" discourses does seem to be a new quality. The author uses her extensive scientific background – primarily literary studies, as well as theater and cultural studies – to refer to examples from the field of literature, theater, and performance, as well as the performing and visual arts. The role of the researcher, creator and recipient is reinterpreted, as is the work itself, called an event, practice, process, experience. It is the aesthetic experience that constitutes the main axis of the discussion here. The primary direction of interest in this work concerns the transfer of concepts from science to art and to the literary area, and art is treated as a theory of cognition. The following aesthetic categories are analyzed: flowability, transparency, fluidity, roughness/roughness, viscosity, taste (tastiness) and smell, as well as roughness, noise and bustle. The titular amorphism refers both to these aesthetic categories and to the construction of the entire book and the way of writing. Amorphousness - shapelessness, and also polymorphism - multiform are two important concepts, the use of which in this dissertation oscillates between a literal approach, starting from what is physical, and a metaphorical one.

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