A Reader-Response Exploration of Neuroaesthetics as Signifying Structure in Kwame Dawes’ Duppy Conqueror

Abstract

This study titled “A Reader-Response Exploration of Neuroaesthetics as Signifying Structures in Kwame Dawes’ Duppy Conqueror” offers alternative perspective to the aesthetic hermeneutics which, it demonstrates, is fundamental not only to scholarship but also to the epistemic space. It is set on the assumption that while earlier works on aesthetic ontology by I. A Richards, ELiot, Empson, Leavis, among others, set responded to question regarding structural, ideological and procedural issue, it examines the challenge posed by the relationship between language and the human mind and the way in aesthetics can be apprehended from psychic markers. It points that the application of the lenses of the Reader-Response theory to paradigms of Neuroaesthetics demonstrate ways in which alternative procedure for advancing the aesthetic question can be realized using poetic text. Through the qualitative approach the paper finds that the reading process can account for the mental operations of the reader as well as the markers that aid the perception of poetic text. By doing this, the paper concludes that psychic markers proposed by Neuroaesthetics are viable tools for understanding signifying structures that influence the perception and interpretation of poetic texts.