For a New Sociology of Literature : Befriending Sociology and
Aesthetics

k 2019

For a New Sociology of Literature : Befriending Sociology and Aesthetics

VÁŇA, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

For a New Sociology of Literature : Befriending Sociology and Aesthetics

Autoři

VÁŇA, Jan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

14th ESA Conference 2019 in Manchester, UK, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50401 Sociology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

odkaz na stránky konference; Abstract book;

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/19:00110531

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova česky

kulturní sociologie; literatura; silný program; sociologie literatury; Pražský lingvistický kroužek

Klíčová slova anglicky

cultural sociology; literature; strong program; sociology of literature; Prague Linguistic Circle

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 20. 2. 2021 18:53, Mgr. Jan Váňa, PhD

Anotace

V originále

When analyzing literary fiction, sociologists still tend to the well-accustomed boundaries between the literary and the sociological, thus leaving literature dissected and stripped of its aesthetic qualities. Instead, I focus on the process of meaning-making as it occurs within the interaction between the reader and the novel. In return, it allows me to capture those aspects of understanding of social experience that are usually ‘lost in translation’ between fictional and sociological genres. My major claims are that, first, when referring to social reality, both sociological and literary texts employ aesthetic function to mediate understanding for the reader. Second, within literary genre, the aesthetic function operates on a much larger scale, which makes the texts especially suitable to communicate the existential and emotional aspects of social reality. Third, to maximize the benefit from the sociological inquiry of literature, we must treat the aesthetic function with due care, that is, we must be particularly sensitive towards the subtlety and ambiguity of meaning mediated by the aesthetic function. The research model I propose for a ‘new sociology of literature’ adopts the concept of landscape of meaning developed by Isaac Reed in combination with aesthetic structuralism of Czech linguist Jan Mukařovský. This model will be demonstrated through an analysis of the Czech novel Sestra (published in English as City Sister Silver) by Jáchym Topol

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1068/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Akronym: MIGSI)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

VÁŇA, Jan. For a New Sociology of Literature : Befriending Sociology and Aesthetics. In 14th ESA Conference 2019 in Manchester, UK. 2019.

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