Plays, Words, and Meaning
摘要
Aesthetic appreciation of literary works seemingly has to do also with the ability to understand what is explicitly and implicitly said in the texts. But what about those works that (literally) ask readers/audience not to grasp any sense whatsoever? For instance, in most of Beckett’s plays we have texts somehow lacking their proper meaning, and any power to refer, to communicate, or to produce any effect seems to be lost. Is it so? And how to consider language, on the one hand, and artistic experience, on the other?