Publication details
Sociologie a literatura: umělecký text jako forma výpovědi o sociální realitě, literární pole a pravidla jeho fungování
| Title in English | Sociology and literature: artistic text as information about social reality, literary field and the rules of its functioning |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | The goal of this work is to explore how discontinuity, respectively continuity, is represented in prozaic texts referring to two legal Czechoslovak regimes which are historically separated by sequence of events generally known as The Velvet Revolution. The prozaic text, as I suppose, perfectly fits for studying phenomenon of historical dis/continuity in cultural context. Similarly to journalistic text or scientific paper, the prose provides us certain evidence about the world in which we live in. In contrast to these two styles, though, the prose is subjected to the rules of artistic – or literary – field which bears certain qualities regarding the communicated information. Prosaic text communicates particular historical experience using certain form of phenomenological reduction with which the author plays down phenomena considered as irrelevant and emphasizes phenomena considered as the most essential. The prism of literary field allows us also to see how a literary work reflects socio-historical phenomena in broader context – in which way the dis/continuity discourse circulates between cultural artifacts and social sphere. |