Place, perception and interpretation of literary narrative.

Abstract

This article aims to discuss what is a narrative place from the perspectives of the phenomenology of perception, humanist geography and narratology. For this analytical study, we consider that the readers perceptual experience enables the rise of a certain perspective, since it implies, in the first instance, the constitution of na epistemological and methodological basis for the study of a narrative place. It is the institution and constitution of this place, based on the prior mentioned perspectives, that allows us to develop the theses of locational unfolding, of metonymic and ideological filtering, of intersection and instantaneous connections. Furthermore, this also enables us to highlight the direct and intrinsic interrelationship between the perceptive experience of place and literary decoding as a process that merges, in this case, the (ac)knowledge of the literary code with the (ac)knowledge and spatial skills of the reader.