THE CONCEPT OF 'WORLD' IN THE CONCEPTIONS OF THE PRAGUE LINGUISTIC SCHOOL AND IN DOLEZAL'S THEORY OF FICTIONAL NARRATION

• Authors: Sladek O
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study is a comparison of the concept of a literary work, which represents an independent 'world', according to which that concept was created by the representatives of the Prague school - J. Mukarovský and F. Vodicka - in the context of the structural poetics and also in Lubomir Dolezel´s theory of the fictional worlds. The purpose is (a) to analyse Mukarovský's and Ingarden's concept of the 'intentional reality'; (b) critically compare Dolezel's concept 'the fictional world' with Vodicka's 'the fictive world' and (c) to explain Jungmann's concept of the fantastic poetry. The wider frame of the research is an attempt to answer the question what influenced Lubomir Dolezel that instead of 'the world' of literary work he began to think about 'the fictional world'. The author of the study wants to point out the significance of the University papers written by J. Mukarovský - 'Filozofie jazyka básnického' (The Philosophy of Poetic Language); there Mukarovský for the first time expressed his opinion that a language expression includes a double reference to the reality. Comparing F. Vodicka's and L. Dolezel's theoretical approaches to a literary work the author of the study added the opinion that 'the fictive world' cannot be identified with 'the fictional world'. While Vodicka's conception of a literary work as 'the fictional world' makes an accent on the aspect that while a literary work is a world representing a unique (literary) reality, it is also measured and compared with a concrete empiric reality; the L. Dolezel's term 'the fictional world' characterises a literary work as a world completely generated from a narrative text. On the setting of these analyses author shows that the source of Vodicka's conception of a literary works as a fictional world comes from an older conception of a fantasy poetry and 'the fictional (fantasy) world'. The author of it is an important Czech scholar Josef Jungmann (1773-1847). An extra attention is paid to comparing Jungmann's and Dolezel's suggestion of a typology of the fictional and the fictive worlds. The study brings a detailed analysis of the terms 'the fictive world' (F. Vodicka) and 'the fictional world' (L. Dolezel). It points out that they cannot be used as synonyms as they differ from each other in the references. He also look in a new way at forgotten Jungmann's project of the fantasy poetry and suggests its further research and in the ranks of the theory of the fictional worlds.

Keywords

EN

FICTION; FICTIONAL WORLD; PRAGUE LINGUISTIC SCHOOL; STRUCTURALISM; THEORY OF POSSIBLE WORLDS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 409-422
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sladek O

• O. Sladek, Ustav pro ceskou literaturu AV CR, Praha – Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA01934126