Between material, theory and ideology. On the position of literary history Cover Image

Mezi materiálem, teorií a ideologií. K pozici literární historie
Between material, theory and ideology. On the position of literary history

Author(s): Dalibor Tureček
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Literary historicism. Czech literature. 19th century.

Summary/Abstract: The lecture, which arises from concrete research done at the Institute of Bohemian Studies at Jihočeská univerzita, České Budějovice, focuses on the possible methodological approaches in studying 19th-century Czech literature. Step-by-step, it recapitulates the way of gradual creation of a methodological position, and at the same time illuminates the practical meaning of the instrumentalization of each individual theoretical postulates for literary historicism. Literary historicism is understood as an arbitrary alghorithm, used in each step to define the point of view, the summary of the work tools and the terminological inventory. The goal is to liberate literary historicism from the constriciton of the traditional, causal, linear understanding, yet at the same time prevent the break-down of the literary historical position in the windstorm of widely understood cultural studies.

  • Issue Year: II/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 3-11
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech