Dyskurs antropologiczny. O antropologii literatury. Zasady pierwsze

• Authors: Edward Kasperski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Anthropological discourse defines the approach of its participants, i.e. human beings, to themselves, other human beings and the surroundings. It takes a collective dialogue form, its potential participant being each individual able to see, reflect upon things and communicate, and interested in one’s own existential and generic identity. Anthropological discourse has a long history. In the modern times the idea of getting to know the “man as a whole” appeared among the thinkers of the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romanticism. In the second half of 19th century the positivist scientism and naturalist anthropology questioned the universalists’ apriorism and theological historicism of philosophical anthropology. The discourse on man became autonomous, diversified and specialised. One of the fields of the modern anthropological thought is the anthropology of literature. This term is used to describe all written discourses on man: religious, philosophical, political, scientific or colloquial. It can also be narrowed to denote the so called belles-lettres (artistic fiction). This article deals mainly with the contemporary issues on the anthropology of literature: its traditions, object, research aims, approach to poetics, literary history and theory. It particularly concerns the discourse on man in artistic fiction and its characteristic features. The author concludes that if this discourse is in various rela-tionships with other discourses on man (philosophical, theological, scientific or political), it often takes its own shape, conditioned by the language, means and forms of artistic expression and literary imagery. The category of man in literature is determined not only by the content of a given literary work but also by its formal properties (language, style, composition, genre, speaker, plot, construction of characters) as well as the very historical fact of coming into being, existing and functioning of artistic literature. This is why the article differentiates between the “literary anthropology”, communicating images of man through artistic means, and the anthropo-logy of literature, which uses scientific tools to examine in what way and through what means literature may form (express, shape, present, communicate) the world of man and what ideas, images, meanings and emotions are linked to this world.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe AP
• Journal: Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 153-169
• Physical description: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Dates

published

2007-12-01

Contributors

author

Edward Kasperski

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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ISSN

1643-4668