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alcesverdes) wrote2010-07-09 03:12 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2010-07-09 03:12 pm
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This is just me thinking
Well, I finished The Poetics of Reverie and I must say that I ended up loving many parts of it. Specially the part where it says that to enjoy art*, one should embrace it with childish wonder. Otherwise, suspension of disbelief becomes impossible. To enjoy a metaphor becomes impossible. Thus, "only the child within can lead us to fabulous worlds."** I agree with that, and I say that can go for all the good things we experience in life.
What's the point of forcing ourselves to be all serious and "dignified" when we have every right to be wide-eyed and bouncy and to show the happiness we feel? But Rotterdam already covered that up a long while ago. (I need to re-read that one--when I get an edition that doesn't have the tiniest font ever :|)
And, all of that ties very good with the book about "Aesthetic Considerations About Gadamer's Hermeneutics" with the pink and cutesy cover I started reading this morning. I wish I could plan my readings this neatly, but chance makes a better job than I could.
The first chapter goes to explain that the the work of art is game that plays itself, and that the reader/spectator is indeed a player but, according to Gadamer, she doesn't play the game; she is played by the game because she buys into the make belief and follows the rules of the new world she's in.
The second chapter is supposed to go deeper into the matter of the spectator as the player, but I don't think I'll be reading it today.
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* The book specifically refers to poetry, but I'm including all arts because all of them can be poetic in their own way, and that's the whole point.
** I'm giving an English translation to a work that's originally in French and I read in Spanish. I believe I should go into hiding.
What's the point of forcing ourselves to be all serious and "dignified" when we have every right to be wide-eyed and bouncy and to show the happiness we feel? But Rotterdam already covered that up a long while ago. (I need to re-read that one--when I get an edition that doesn't have the tiniest font ever :|)
And, all of that ties very good with the book about "Aesthetic Considerations About Gadamer's Hermeneutics" with the pink and cutesy cover I started reading this morning. I wish I could plan my readings this neatly, but chance makes a better job than I could.
The first chapter goes to explain that the the work of art is game that plays itself, and that the reader/spectator is indeed a player but, according to Gadamer, she doesn't play the game; she is played by the game because she buys into the make belief and follows the rules of the new world she's in.
The second chapter is supposed to go deeper into the matter of the spectator as the player, but I don't think I'll be reading it today.
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* The book specifically refers to poetry, but I'm including all arts because all of them can be poetic in their own way, and that's the whole point.
** I'm giving an English translation to a work that's originally in French and I read in Spanish. I believe I should go into hiding.