Teorijų ir teksto sąveikos laukuose : skaitymo poetika

Abstract

The essay looks into possible applications of literary theory to several selected texts, most of them poems. A given text is considered in the light of different theoretical perspectives - those of Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism, and Structuralism - in an effort to discover how each can enrich the experience and redefine the act of reading. This encounter between theory and practice helps us to understand to what degree the basic propositions and methodologies of the given theoretical approaches may apear useful or even meaningful and how they can function in the context of concrete literary materials. The results of such procedures show that there is no need to evaluate which of the theories in question is „better” or more suitable to any particular texts, because each theory appears to bring its own unique insights that can be correlated with those of the others for a more complex and profound comprehension of the text as whole. Conceived as an exercise in applied literary theory, the essay does not attempt to develop any new theoretical approach of its own.