Summary
Miguel Tamen, Maurizio Ferraris: Works of art as persons
If we start from the premise that works of art behave like living persons and are therefore able to "say" something, the question arises whether this is a defective metaphor. She - it's obvious - literally can't do it. And yet, this type of expression is found both in everyday conversations and in theoretical writings. The statues of Phrasicles and Moses tell us about ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy. This type of verb is, of course, also applied to literary works. A novel tells something about a certain historical period in which it was created, a poem about the state of the author's soul, his experience of the world, and the like. Is the power of metaphor in the fact that the reader or listener does not notice them? The closeness between "saying" and "being-about-something" is undeniable to such an extent that the difference between them is seen and eventually lost. (U24)
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