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Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Philosophy, 2022

This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, on the one hand, the me... more This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, on the one hand, the mediated character of reducing interpretative trajectories to the actual translation into the language of narratives (A. J. Greimas) or the language of textuality (F. Rastier), and, on the other, the direct, apparently unmediated passage to the visceral physicality of the verbal signifying system, which make semantic and syntactic components perfunctory to interpretation in a way (J. Kristeva). Greimassian universal narrative grammar dismantles signifying units, navigating in the network of narrative utterances. Rastier's approach structures textual artifacts by unearthing semantic constituents crucial for semiotic analysis. Kristeva examines what is behind the curtain instead of sorting out the significance of the text's content as a special category and the possibility of procedure allowing its interpretation. These three authors are compared in the context of two approaches that come to grips with the author/reader pair.

Internation Journal of Slavic Studies Nr: 4 (2022) ISSN (on line) 2658-154X

This article is an inquiry into the analysis of textual actuality via the possibilities of plot d... more This article is an inquiry into the analysis of textual actuality via the possibilities of plot developments represented in actions and events. The topic of possible worlds is extremely important in narrative theories, particularly in those influenced by such a branch of modern logic as the possible world semantics. Scrutinizing approaches toward the narrative analysis and applying an array of methods to cinematographic piece, this paper circles around linguistics, narrative theories and cinema studies. The article mainly centers on the nature of narrative discourse and ways in which it might be brought down, getting Greimassean narrative grammar, Bremond's narrative sequences, and Ryan's classification of textual universes together. The cinematographic masterpiece The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruze directed by Luis Buñuel is used to apply methods of narrative analysis of three authors. Here lies the actuality of this article and its relevance to the academic studies of narrativity, not to mention non-academic probing into contemporary art: methods of structural and literary possible world analysis of narratives sketched in this paper might be exercised in interpreting not only texts of classical literature along with postmodern writings but also works of popular visual culture, such as cinema.

Українські культурологічні студії, 2020

This article tackles the issue of aesthetic experience from the pathologized everyday discourse v... more This article tackles the issue of aesthetic experience from the pathologized everyday discourse viewpoint in the system of relations between I and symbolic order, where transgressed and close to symbolic death I is predominant. The stage, in which I, crossing the symbolic borders, stay readable, appears to be the process of continuous constituting the aesthetic experience and its transforming into the primordial a priori structure of everyday discourse.
The problem lies deeply in the preserving of evanescent borders which are said to exist in the cultural palpability and simultaneously to be
exiled from the system. The article exemplifies pathological discourses by referring to the Beksinski' works, namely his numerous ways of
articulating the ineffable. However, articulated ineffable, similarly to such culturally conditioned reactions as abjection and melancholia, declares
double death of the discursive subject: the first time when the separation from primordial presymbolic world takes place and the second time
during problematizing the symbolic borders and paradoxical immortalization concerning postulated frontiers. The aim of this article is to dig out kaleidoscope of images and sub-images from Beksinski' works through the motive of crucifixion resulting in the specific value of Christ body and chimerical things inside the dehumanized catastrophic space. It is demonstrated how pathological discourse of melancholia could be intertwined with the discourse of abjection in the common point of transgressing the limits, making the symbolic space full of details indicating the risk of Ego being disintegrated, staying inside the transgressed limits as constituting aesthetical experience. Inexplicability of terrible post-apocalyptic world is readable via symbolic coordinates insofar as the main primal object (the body of Christ) occurs to be banished. Appearing of aesthetic experience is paralleled to the stages of psychosexual development in the existence of symbolic being where in opposition to classical freudism maternal authority is accentuated. That's how Kristevan style of psychoanalytic ruminations looks like.

Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Philosophy, 2022

This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, on the one hand, the me... more This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, on the one hand, the mediated character of reducing interpretative trajectories to the actual translation into the language of narratives (A. J. Greimas) or the language of textuality (F. Rastier), and, on the other, the direct, apparently unmediated passage to the visceral physicality of the verbal signifying system, which make semantic and syntactic components perfunctory to interpretation in a way (J. Kristeva). Greimassian universal narrative grammar dismantles signifying units, navigating in the network of narrative utterances. Rastier's approach structures textual artifacts by unearthing semantic constituents crucial for semiotic analysis. Kristeva examines what is behind the curtain instead of sorting out the significance of the text's content as a special category and the possibility of procedure allowing its interpretation. These three authors are compared in the context of two approaches that come to grips with the author/reader pair.

Internation Journal of Slavic Studies Nr: 4 (2022) ISSN (on line) 2658-154X

This article is an inquiry into the analysis of textual actuality via the possibilities of plot d... more This article is an inquiry into the analysis of textual actuality via the possibilities of plot developments represented in actions and events. The topic of possible worlds is extremely important in narrative theories, particularly in those influenced by such a branch of modern logic as the possible world semantics. Scrutinizing approaches toward the narrative analysis and applying an array of methods to cinematographic piece, this paper circles around linguistics, narrative theories and cinema studies. The article mainly centers on the nature of narrative discourse and ways in which it might be brought down, getting Greimassean narrative grammar, Bremond's narrative sequences, and Ryan's classification of textual universes together. The cinematographic masterpiece The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruze directed by Luis Buñuel is used to apply methods of narrative analysis of three authors. Here lies the actuality of this article and its relevance to the academic studies of narrativity, not to mention non-academic probing into contemporary art: methods of structural and literary possible world analysis of narratives sketched in this paper might be exercised in interpreting not only texts of classical literature along with postmodern writings but also works of popular visual culture, such as cinema.

Українські культурологічні студії, 2020

This article tackles the issue of aesthetic experience from the pathologized everyday discourse v... more This article tackles the issue of aesthetic experience from the pathologized everyday discourse viewpoint in the system of relations between I and symbolic order, where transgressed and close to symbolic death I is predominant. The stage, in which I, crossing the symbolic borders, stay readable, appears to be the process of continuous constituting the aesthetic experience and its transforming into the primordial a priori structure of everyday discourse.
The problem lies deeply in the preserving of evanescent borders which are said to exist in the cultural palpability and simultaneously to be
exiled from the system. The article exemplifies pathological discourses by referring to the Beksinski' works, namely his numerous ways of
articulating the ineffable. However, articulated ineffable, similarly to such culturally conditioned reactions as abjection and melancholia, declares
double death of the discursive subject: the first time when the separation from primordial presymbolic world takes place and the second time
during problematizing the symbolic borders and paradoxical immortalization concerning postulated frontiers. The aim of this article is to dig out kaleidoscope of images and sub-images from Beksinski' works through the motive of crucifixion resulting in the specific value of Christ body and chimerical things inside the dehumanized catastrophic space. It is demonstrated how pathological discourse of melancholia could be intertwined with the discourse of abjection in the common point of transgressing the limits, making the symbolic space full of details indicating the risk of Ego being disintegrated, staying inside the transgressed limits as constituting aesthetical experience. Inexplicability of terrible post-apocalyptic world is readable via symbolic coordinates insofar as the main primal object (the body of Christ) occurs to be banished. Appearing of aesthetic experience is paralleled to the stages of psychosexual development in the existence of symbolic being where in opposition to classical freudism maternal authority is accentuated. That's how Kristevan style of psychoanalytic ruminations looks like.