고차 지향적 서사 전략과 화자의 지향적 변신: 인지비평적 관점에서『인간의 오점』 다시 읽기 1

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This paper has two aims: First, to approach the passing narrative of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain from the mind-reading perspective of Cognitive Criticism; secondly, to resolve the narrative inconsistency or contradiction by applying the intentionality theory to the relationship between the novelist and his/her first-person narrator. For this purpose, I have recourse to the two mutually supplementary sources, that is, the theoretical base of Daniel Dennett’s cognitive philosophy and the practical way of Lisa Zunshine’s novel-reading as mind-reading. In this cognitive context, the high-stakes role play of passing which enters into the “skin” of other humans can be reconsidered as a game between intentional systems drawing on what Dennett calls higher order intentionality. By the same or somewhat extended token, Zuckerman’s decision to launch the book entitled The Human Stain is to be interpreted as the narrator’s provocative proposal to invite the author to a risky intentionality game. Then I suggest that the narrator who breaks through the homodiegetic conventions and transforms into a heterodiegetic one should be called a higher-order intentional system that can hop out of the author’s brain.

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