„Hustý popis“ jako literárněvědná metoda?

• Authors: Paitlová Jitka

Title variants

EN

“Thick description” as a method of literary theory?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with a selected example of the understanding of the Anglo-Saxon New Historicism by German literary scholars. It focuses on the method of “thick description” as formulated by the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz and as criticized by German literary scholar and ethnologist Thomas Fechner-Smarsly. In connection with the so-called anthropological turn, it consists in the application of ethnology in literary criticism. According to Geertz a semantic density arises from the complexity of described, but Geertz fails to formulate a general theory. Fechner sees a greatpotential for literary studies in the method of “thick description”, but he criticizes the lack of system in Geertz’, when he is reluctant to formulate a generally applicable model of this method. Fechner therefore calls for contextualization, organization and instantiation methods of “thick description” in literary studies and, moreover, emphasizes the interdisciplinary overlap.

Keywords

CS

hustý popis; Clifford Geertz; nový historicismus; Thomas Fechner-Smarsly

EN

thick description; Clifford Geertz; new historicism; Thomas Fechner-Smarsly

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 52-64

Contributors

author

Paitlová Jitka

• Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Filozofická fakulta