Krajiny tvořené slovy
Landscapes made of words

Theory of literary landscapes

Summary/Abstract: This study responds to the current growth of interest in the landscape, whose roots in humanities research go back to the latter half of the 1980s. The first part of the text focuses on the issue of sense perception of the world, with substantial input inter alia from Maurice Merleau-Ponty and David Abram; the second part shifts its attention to the literary depiction of space and its literary studies reflections. A basis for the author’s reflections in the middle section of the work on the phenomenon of the literary landscape is a book by Kurt H. Weber Die literarische Landschaft. Zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart from 2010, which does not, however, maintain a sufficient distance between the perceived landscape, i.e. a certain segment of nature arranged in the direct view of the observer, and the landscape constructed by artificial means. In the conclusion to the study, the author provides his own definition of the literary landscape as a specific thematic component of literary work and points out the value of landscape descriptions in their semantic construction.

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