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Преосмисляне на „литературните часовници“ на света: да придадем пространство на времето (Българският пример)
Re-Thinking the Literary Clocks of the World, Giving Space to Time (The Case of Bulgaria)

Author(s): Marie Vrinat-Nikolov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: literary space; literary temporality; literary history; backwardness; accelerated development; Gatchev; Tanzimat; Bulgarian national awakening; Koselleck; time strata

Summary/Abstract: Since postcolonial studies and the renewal of questions about World literature, literary history can no longer be confined to a national perspective. Addressing the literary fact in a transnational and transdisciplinary approach opens up fertile perspectives. In my research on the history of the Bulgarian literary space, one of the points that seems crucial to me because it has not been sufficiently studied is the question of literary temporality. How can we escape from “Western European centrism” without neglecting the fact that Paris, London, Berlin, New York are the “Literary Greenwich” (Casanova)? How can we put into perspective without compaing them in terms of “advance” or “backwardness” the temporalities of each literary space within the global space? This is what I am trying to sketch by injecting geography (or even geology) into literary history.

  • Issue Year: XV/2021
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 134-155
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian