This article analyses the interpretation method devised by Přemysl Blažíček, based on his phenomenology-oriented philosophy and hermeneutics. It raises the question whether it is possible for an interpretation to go beyond a literary-historical and formal analysis of literary texts and to refer to a new experience of the world that is offered to the reader. It also incidentally atempts to seek out the philosophical foundations on which an interpretation of this kind is based.
The study is devoted to the work of Lubomír Doležel, a linguist and literary theoretician, in light of his ninetieth birthday. Based of an analysis of two of his books, Studie z české literatury a poetiky (2008) and Fikce a historie v období postmoderny (2008) the study maps key concepts in his scholarly inquiry in the fields of Czech literature, history and metodology of the investigation of the Prague School, narrative semantics of fictional worlds and an application of the semantics to historical worlds.
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