Etyka interpretacji jako doświadczanie lektury tekstu. Studium praktyczne: Theodore Roethke Walc mojego taty (1942)
Ethics of interpretation as experiencing of reading the text Practical study: Theodore Roethke My Papa’s waltz (1942)

Author(s): Anna Włodarczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: otherness, ethics of interpretation; ethical turn; reading; text experience
Summary/Abstract: Article Ethics of interpretation as experiencing of reading the text. Practical study: Theodore Roethke ‘My Papa’s waltz’ (1942) has been devoted to reflections on academic reading of the text in terms of the use of modern methodology and literary studies in Polish didactics. In the first part the author explicates what critical ethics is and what consequences the ethical turn has in the theory of interpretation. The major problem of research boils down to examining what relevant for the interpreter results from the relationship of ethics and literature. How does the Nussbaum thesis about school duty in supporting critical thinking foster the process of shaping a young person’s worldview and personal development, his /her existence and life style? In the first place, however, the teacher themselves must be prepared for it, that is, equipped with certain practices and skills, and ready to face the unknown, indefinable and difficult. In the second part of the article, based on the poem of Theodore Roethke My Papa’s Waltz (1942), a practical study of interpretation and translation of the text has been subjected to analysis. As a consequence, ethical reading took place on two levels: through perceiving the text as an event and an artifact from almost a hundred years ago, and also from today’s point of view. The ethics of reading is meant to show the process and reveal the full text of the reading.

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