Turning history into culture (original) (raw)

European Journal of English Studies, 2007

Abstract

The central premise of this essay is that literature is one of the realms of epistemology that should not, and actually cannot, be discussed in opposition with science, simply because they are two parallel ways of articulating human experience into coherent forms. Structured at the intersection of philosophy, aesthetics, semiotics and sociology, the article is an attempt to reveal the particular way in which the narrative discourse assimilates and restores experience, so that the text becomes the space within which ‘the museum’ of humanity is perpetually reassessed and invested with new significance. This ‘bringing back to life’ of the museum, with its trajectory from explanation to comprehension, from syntactic to hermeneutic relations, from iconology to archaeology, and from rigid patterns to flexible frames, reveals more subtle relations between ontology and epistemology, offering a more adequate perspective on our own ambiguity as cultural beings.

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