Un viaje por las emociones de la actividad lectora: San Agustín a través de Derrida
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Eguía Armenteros, Diana
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2023
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Álabe: Revista de Investigación sobre Lectura y Escritura ISSN 2171-9624 Nº. 27, 2023, pags. 155-171
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This article works with the expressions of pleasure associated with the act of reading and writing through Augustinian rhetoric thinking and poststructuralism. The present research attempts to alleviate the scarce attention traditionally given to feelings as a cognitive tool. Therefore, here we use emotions as instruments to understand texts differently and challenge them from new perspectives. In this case, we work with the emotions provoked by reading activity in two fundamental authors: Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) and Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Focusing on how reading generated different sensations in both writers helps us to understand their fundamental questions: the Augustinian notions of "sign" and "thing" and Derrida's critique of the hermeneutics of truth. To accomplish this, I employ the methodology developed by the affective turn, in line with the many studies that have found in the historization of emotions an effective stimulus for rethinking the written tradition