We can portray or take on the role of someone whom we are not. For example, a professional actor can play the role of a fictional character who does not exist in the real world, although she believes she is not that person. This behavior is named “acting.” My aim here is to locate the necessary and sufficient conditions of acting. In my view, acting is a process of communication between actors and audiences. One of its necessary components is that (...) actors use their own features to represent those features that their characters have; another is that actors intend to make their audiences imagine that they are themselves identical to their characters. In this article, I specify these two components, critique other views of the definition of acting and distinguish acting from other similar processes. (shrink)

Straipsnyje keliamas klausimas, ar kritinis pliuralizmas neatveria kelio neribotai meno kūrinio interpretatoriaus laisvei. Interpretacijos laisvės ribų problema nagrinėjama remiantis analitinės estetikos autorių argumentais bei dialogine Hanso-Georgo Gadamerio interpretacijos samprata. Atskleidžiami skirtingi požiūriai į meno kūrinio tapatybę ir su tuo susijusios išvados, kaip, kokiu būdu pats kūrinys gali riboti interpretatoriaus laisvę. Svarstoma, ar skirtingos to paties meno kūrinio interpretacijos negriauna jo tapatybės. Hermeneutinė teisingo supratimo samprata pristatoma kaip atsvara objektyvizmui bei reliatyvizmui.

We analyse the role of a theatrical script and its relation to the literary work and the theatrical performance. We put forward an Argument from Modality, which demonstrates structural and functional differences between literary works and theatrical scripts. Next, we answer some potential challenges to our argument. We demonstrate that the failure to realize the far-reaching consequences of a clear distinction between the literary work and the theatrical script is a source of confusion in the debate on the relata of (...) the relation of interpretation. In particular, we show that the relation of interpretation does not hold directly between the literary work and the theatrical performance. It is mediated by the script. The script interprets the literary work by filling in its places of indeterminacy and adjusting it for stage purposes. Moreover, the script, which is a set of instructions, is executed rather than interpreted in a theatrical performance. (shrink)