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Svět slov Věry Linhartové
Věra Linhartová’s World of Words

Author(s): Michaela Křivancová
Subject(s): Epistemology, Short Story, Czech Literature, Existentialism, Philosophy of Language, Ontology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Epistemological-philosophical dimension of words; Ontological-existential dimension of words; Metalinguistic commentaries; Speaking subject; Literary communication;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Věra Linhartová’s prose texts published between 1964 and 1968. Its aim is to present the main features of her poetics, above all the epistemological-philosophical and ontological-existential dimension of words. It also seeks to demonstrate how both aspects determine the intra-textual reflection of the construction of literary utterances and that the epistemological principle affects language and contextual transformations in the author’s artistic formulation of texts. Furthermore, it shows that in Linhartová’s poetics the manner of formulating literary utterances is not merely a self-contained reflection of the epistemological (and ontological) principle, but also has communicative aims.

  • Issue Year: 14/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 17-28
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech