Ztracená literární historie aneb Hledání Levelu 2

• Authors: Janousek Pavel

Title variants

EN

LOST LITERARY HISTORY, OR IN SEARCH OF LEVEL 2

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Following Thomas Kuhn's conception of paradigms, the article attempts to delineate the dominant features of current Czech thought in literary history, particularly in reaction to Vladimir Papousek, Dalibor Turecek, and Petr A. Bilek in 'Hledani literarnich dejin' (In search of literary history, 2005). The work of these three men serves the author as a reservoir of theses and terms - the opposition of construction/reconstruction; the rejection of the constructs of continuity; diachrony; Zajac's 'nodal point' metaphor; Bilek's idea of productive interpretation; the text instead of the work; the relativization of the values of the canon; and claims of 'novelty', 'otherness', 'differentness'. These are subjected to critical, polemical analysis based on the assumption that promoting them (and the rhetoric connected with them) has more to do with an overall attempt to draw attention to the authors themselves and to achieve 'social success' in the community of literary scholars. The author of the article - in clear opposition to this - emphasizes the role of (literary) history as the 'memory of the collective', and supports the idea of literary history as a institution that preserves, instructs, and orients the national community.

Keywords

EN

KUHN THOMAS; LITERARY HISTORY; PAPOUSEK VLADIMIR; TURECEK DALIBOR

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Janousek Pavel

• Pavel Janousek, Ceska literatura, redakce, Ustav pro ceskou literaturu AV CR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/5837/

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CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA082525