Comparative Literary Studies, Central-European Cultural Space, and Theory of Literary History

POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Comparative Literary Studies, Central-European Cultural Space, and Theory of Literary History. Primerjalna književnost. Ljubljana: Društvo za primerjalno književnost SR Slovenije, 2008, roč. 31, č. 2, s. 137-148. ISSN 0351-1189.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Comparative Literary Studies, Central-European Cultural Space, and Theory of Literary History
• Název anglicky: Comparative Literary Studies, Central-European Cultural Space, and Theory of Literary History
• Autoři: POSPÍŠIL, Ivo (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí).
• Vydání: Primerjalna književnost, Ljubljana, Društvo za primerjalno književnost SR Slovenije, 2008, 0351-1189.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: slovinština
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: 60205 Literary theory
• Stát vydavatele: Slovinsko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14210/08:00107079
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• UT WoS: 000262626500008
• Klíčová slova anglicky: comparative literary studies; literary history; East-Central Europe; national literatures; cultural identity

Anotace

This article deals with current crucial issues concerning not only the history and theory of national literatures, but also comparative studies and their methodology in general. The author comments on the volumes of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. In addition to his generally positive evaluation of this scholarly achievement, he draws several critical conclusions, beginning with the terms in the title of this immense project - "literary cultures" and "East-Central Europe." He proceeds from the basic meaning of comparative literary studies and a certain tension between supranational and national literary structures in their diachronic and synchronic, as well as partial and general (or universal), aspects. He emphasizes the need to exercise great care and take into account not only the contemporary state of affairs - today's more or less political status of literature - but also the diachronic structures that emerge from the deep basis of mentalities and cultures of the past. He comes to the conclusion that one can neither apply a strictly historical approach that transfers past situations into the current position, nor modernize the past. In this sense he offers several examples typical of these manipulations. These cannot serve as definite conclusions, but only as basic principles oscillating between universal and specific points of view in the form of a Decalogue.

Anotace anglicky

This article deals with current crucial issues concerning not only the history and theory of national literatures, but also comparative studies and their methodology in general. The author comments on the volumes of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. In addition to his generally positive evaluation of this scholarly achievement, he draws several critical conclusions, beginning with the terms in the title of this immense project - "literary cultures" and "East-Central Europe." He proceeds from the basic meaning of comparative literary studies and a certain tension between supranational and national literary structures in their diachronic and synchronic, as well as partial and general (or universal), aspects. He emphasizes the need to exercise great care and take into account not only the contemporary state of affairs - today's more or less political status of literature - but also the diachronic structures that emerge from the deep basis of mentalities and cultures of the past. He comes to the conclusion that one can neither apply a strictly historical approach that transfers past situations into the current position, nor modernize the past. In this sense he offers several examples typical of these manipulations. These cannot serve as definite conclusions, but only as basic principles oscillating between universal and specific points of view in the form of a Decalogue.