Naslov
Imagining (the) world(s): the grand play called literature

Autori
Grbić, Igor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Zbornik radova Jezik, književnost i igra / Book of Proceedings Language, Literature, Play and Games

Urednik/ci
Tomić, Svetlana ; Panajotović, Artea ; Prnjat, Aleksandar

Izdavač
Alfa BK Univerzitet

Grad
Beograd

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
64-75

ISBN
978-86-6461-038-4

Ključne riječi
play, literature, literary autonomy, creation, grotesque

Sažetak
In the West, play as a crucial dimension of literature has traditionally featured on the margins of professional literary criticism. This was not the traditional position of non-Western criticism, partly for the reason that non-Western literary critics were normally writers, too, and so better aware of literature's inherent playfulness. The paper starts from some non-Western considerations on literary creation as play, as well as from some playful literary practices. The latter include anything from various forms of pun, that recognize language as an inexhaustible realm of witty creation, all the way to drawing on the innermost potential of language for a continuous re-enactment of the universe. Experiences are also offered from pre-Christian Western practices, closely connected to the magical power of the word. The pivotal point of the paper includes understanding and practising literature as a demiurgic activity prompted by laws of its own, a disinterested, free, indeed ludic creation of worlds unbound(ed) by the common urges and expectations of man as a being of necessity. The final part samples the grotesque as a particularly impressive phenomenon of bending the non-imaginative tastes, criteria and values to the needs of a more profound layer of being human, prompted only by the imaginative.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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