ГРОТЕСКА КАО КОГНИТИВНИ ФЕНОМЕН ПОЕТИЧКОГ ДИСКУРСА У ПРЕДРОМАНТИЗМУ И РОМАНТИЗМУ

Following our research on the apprehension of the notion of grotesque from antiquity to pre-Romanticism (Marković 2018) and starting from the thesis that the nature of the phenomenon under scrutiny is pragmatically conditioned, i.e. that a diachronic investigation will not give the same answer to the question of what the given category is, we approach the phenomenon from the position of cognitive sciences, and define it as a cognitive frame modeled by factors of different levels (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic). We define the grotesque as a liminal phenomenon shaped by its difference towards the historically changeable category of beauty, or ugliness, that is, which makes the type of eventfulness (the emotional reaction) it produces variable as well. Thus, we conclude that even though the invariance of the given category may be discussed in relation to its syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels, none of those levels are strictly fixed, which makes the category open and contextually dynamic. The paper pays special attention to the relations between the grotesque and the humor, as well as to the possibilities of studying this relation in the diachronic context. At the end of the paper, we point out some possibilities of investigating the grotesque and the humor in their relation to the incongruity and point to the Multi-level grounded semantics (Antović 2016, 2021) as an alternative methodological apparatus that may be utilized in a search for a deeper understanding of the semantic and pragmatic distance that exists between the two concepts of a grotesque joint.