Co reprezentují historické reprezentace? : gnozeologická skepse mezi konstatováním a performací

• Authors: Lenka Řezníková

Title variants

EN

What do historical representations represent? : gnoseological scepticism between assertion and performance

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study is concerned with the question ofliterary historical representations in fiction around 1900 and towards the end of the 20th century. It compares the nature and form of the gnoseological scepticism about the possibilities and meaning ofhistorical knowledge articulated by writers in both these periods. On the basis of a number of texts from Czech, French and British literature the author shows that the genre known as “historical metafiction”, which is one medium for the expression of such scepticism, is notjust a product ofthe later 20th century as might appear from the studies by Linda Hutcheon or Ansgar Niinning. Similar reflective texts had been written at the turn ofthe 19th/20th century, when in the context of the deepening crisis of historicism, writers had expressed a gnoseological scepticism similar to that of contemporary writers influenced by postmodernism. The writers in the early period employed rather different literary strategies, however, and their transformation can be defined as a shift from assertion to performance.

Keywords

CS

historiografie; dějiny

EN

historiography; history

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika (History - Theory - Criticism)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-64
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lenka Řezníková

• Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika, redakce, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic