ABSTRACT

The phenomenological theory of art lays full stress on the idea that, in considering a literary work, one must take into account not only the actual text but also, and in equal measure, the actions involved in responding to that text. As a starting point for a phenomenological analysis the people might examine the way in which sequent sentences act upon one another. The act of recreation is not a smooth or continuous process, but one which, in its essence, relies on interruptions of the flow to render it efficacious. The efficacy of a literary text is brought about by the apparent evocation and subsequent negation of the familiar. The need to decipher gives the reader the chance to formulate own deciphering capacity—i.e., the people bring to the fore an element of being of which they are not directly conscious.