Theory of Literature and Aesthetics

En este artículo me ocupo de la relación entre Teoría de la Literatura y Estética como disciplinas que estudian la literatura y el arte respectivamente. La atención prestada por los tratados de Poética a la literatura como arte así como a otras artes es considerada uno de los fundamentos de esta relación y uno de los caminos hacia la Estética como una teoría global del arte. La conexión de la Teoría de la Literatura con la Estética se observa dentro del campo de la conexión de las teorías de las artes con la Estética, de tal modo que a todas las teorías les proporcione enriquecimiento una relación dialéctica entre todas ellas. Por su alcance amplio y comprehensivo, la Semiótica como teoría general de los signos puede ofrecer una armazón teórica para mejorar la conexión entre Teoría de la Literatura y EstéticaIn this article I am dealing with the relationship between Theory of Literature and Aesthetics as disciplines that study literature and art respectively. The attention paid by the treatises of Poetics to literature as an art as well as to other arts is considered to be one of the foundations of this relationship and one of the paths towards Aesthetics as a global theory of art. The connection of Theory of Literature to Aesthetics is viewed within the field of the connection of single theories of arts to Aesthetics, in such a way that a dialectical relationship between all of them provides enrichment for all theories. Because of its broad and comprehensive range, Semiotics as the general theory of signs can offer a theoretical framework to improve the connection between Theory of Literature and Aesthetic

On the role of computers in creativity-support systems

We report here on our experiences with designing computer-based creativity-support systems over several years. In particular, we present the design of three different systems incorporating different mechanisms of creativity. One of them uses an idea proposed by Rodari to stimulate imagination of the children in writing a picture-based story. The second one is aimed to model creativity in legal reasoning, and the third one uses low-level perceptual similarities to stimulate creation of novel conceptual associations in unrelated pictures.We discuss lessons learnt from these approaches, and address their implications for the question of how far creativity can be tamed by algorithmic approaches