Cognitive and Narrative Aspects of Perceiving a Literary Work

Abstract

The problem of the reader occupies the leading position in the modern literary criticism discourse and becomes a focus of increasingly active interest, undergoing dynamic transformation in terms of research methodology and projections on the framework of a literary text. In terms of cognitive aspects of artistic and aesthetic phenomenon, the sequence of presentation of all conceptual elements occurs as a self-sufficient communicative process. At the same time, its integrity and authenticity is ensured, above all, by the reader, who is ready for an appropriate aesthetic dialogue. Hence, the problem of the reader / reading is particularly relevant in the context of developing a methodology, in particular, for the cognitive and narratological study of both individual literary works and the author’s style or certain parameters of poetics.