Some Aphoristic Reading Effects: The Experience of an Apparent Disproportion between Textual Size and Meaning

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  • Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara Author Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

Keywords:

Aphorism, Genre Theory, Disproportion, Textual Size, Meaning

Abstract

DOI: 10.5294/pecu.2013.16.2.6

Many contemporary readers have identified such a reading experience of aphorisms as an exceptional experience of a disproportion between textual size and meaning. Such an experience has been associated intrinsically with the genre and several have proposed their models of explanation for it. These models are mainly based on the ideas of text as container and meaning as content; in this essay I propose an alternative explanation relying on another set of concepts. DOI: 10.5294/pecu.2013.16.2.6

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Author Biography

Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

Profesor de Estudios Literarios

Facultad de Lenguas y Letras

 

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Published

2014-03-06

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2013)

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Research Articles

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