READER & TEXT: INTERMEDIAL INTERACTION

Abstract

The article represents the actual problem of the interaction of different kinds of art within the framework of a literary text, which happens due to the increasing value of the encoding and transcoding texts as semiotic systems. When approaching the issue of understanding and interpreting the text, it is important to mind several factors. Except for the understanding of explicit features of the text like plot development, it is important to focus on the implicit elements. The linguistic signs are the determiners which play important role in creating the interaction. Signs are stored on various media (mass storage and transmission of information), a key parameter which is also a focus on different perceptual channels. If signs target different perceptual channels, then the media on which they are kept focused on different perceptual channels. To percept the components of the literary text the reader applies several systems of cognitive perception such as extrasensory (includes reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind), sensory (a holistic reflection of objects, phenomena and events as a result of the direct impact of objects of the real world on the senses), sense perception (visual, audial, tactile, olfactory, taste). For such a reason the use of the term "intermediality" is actual as it represents the interaction of artistic references in a literary text. Text tends to be a place of intersection of the multiple media because the writer is influenced by various discourses which are interweaved between each other in his conscious, thus this interaction is expressed in the text. The theory of intermediality involves the study of the semantic and imaginative interaction of different arts in the literary text.

The results obtained in the present study permit to make the conclusion that the literary text is a complex system which is open to intermedial interactions, combining in its structure elements belonging to different media. The findings of this narrative study in the intermedial features of the literary text demonstrated that the author appeals to various pieces of art within the novel.