Functionality, non-functionality and experienceness (on the materials of fairy-tale fiction)

Abstract

The author goes into the questions of functionality, non-functionality and „experienceness“ in communicational situation in which a literary work is looked upon as a configuration of „text“ and „non-text“ space. „Experienceness“ is a reactive part of communicational functioning of the work. Contrary to the literature of popular and ideological character, it is stimulated by such form of effectivenes that is covered by authenticity in mimetic and deforming type of fiction. The paper explores the antinomy of functionality and non-functionality in relation to an experience in children’s, adult and partly also teenager literature. On particular fairy-tales, the author follows the role of artistic orientation of the theme towards subject matter, of substitution processes and of text explication of functionality as well as its counterpart in comparison with non-fairy-tale literature.

Keywords

• functionality
• non-functionality
• text
• non-text
• fairy-tales
• non-fairy-tales