What Makes the Fiction Becomes Performance?——A Study of Peter Kivy's Literary Ontology
Kivy tried to integrate the"autographic"which is Goodman's ontological classification of art,bringing lit-erary works,especially novels,into performing arts,together with music and drama.Kivy believes that the tokens of literary work are not the text,but the readers'every reading experience.Not only that,reading can exist as a sound performance.To some extant,it is like that reader impersonates the role of the storyteller to tell stories to himself in his mind.In addition,the silent reading performance is interpretation-driven performance,and the interpretation a-bility has been improved in every reading practice.Criticism is a more in-depth interpretation,which exists not only in the gap between two reading experiences,but also in the reflection after reading.Kivy's affirmation of the value of literary action is reflected in his granting of the right of interpretation and criticism to ordinary readers.This performa-tive literary ontology of Kivy fits into the performative turn in literary theory since the 1860s and 1870s,and his gene-alogical tracing of the performative literary tradition is also applicable to the historical context of literature in China.
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