William Blake i piekielna po-etyka lektury
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The essay presents a study oli William Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell
attempting to formulate main theses concerning the ethics of reading. Focusing upon
two centrat elements of Blakes text - a group quality of an act oi reading shown in the
text as an act of iriendslnp and its "internal" character - and following certain suggestions
of Norman O. Brown, we try lo demonsirate that the poethics of reading (the
term itself borrowed irom Gerard L.Bruns) begins as a moment of recognition of the
importance and respect for the materiality of the everyday. Questioning such concepts
as "intention" and "authorial meaning poethics also reveals itself to be only to a limited
extent bound bv a traditional construction of the subject and represents or rewrites
a text always in the interrogative mode, as a sequence of expanding contexts. An act of
reading is thus demonstrated as already invaded by the Other and thus heterogeneous
in its character A text studied is m Blake, as well as in the philosophy of poethics, a
certain structure of desire and an arrangenmient of fissures in between the threads of
consecutive contexts. A text is intertwined with the lacunae of silences, and therefore
its body is constituled by the spaces hollowed out in it and disclosed by the act of
reading. The body oi discourse is a distancing and diiferentiation which always work
within language outlining meaning in, what Merleau-Ponty calls, the "inconceivable
atness of being” In a word, a text is never hermetic, but m always "leaks" its meaning
which, in its aleatoric character, delies our efforts at the stabilization of senses. Blakes
"hell" with its "Proverbs" is but a name for such a dynamic, metamorphie quality of
reading which rejects stasis and acts on the strength of the Dionysian anarchy.