Publication details
K čemu je literární historie
| Title in English | What Is Literary History For? |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slavica litteraria |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/cs/handle/11222.digilib/digilib.80782 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SL2024-1-3 |
| Keywords | literary history; periodization; alternation of epochs; literary movements; |
| Description | The author of the present article deals with the sense of literary history in the contemporary turning point of history. His treatise covers the problems of the periodization of the literary process as well as of the potential regularities of the changing of cultural and artistic epochs, the conceptions of literary currents, the theory of literary history, the relation of literary history and general history, the disappearence of literary theory, and the axiological aspect in literary history. On the basis of the creation of Dmytro Chyzhevsky, René Wellek, Igor Smirnov, István Sötér, František Kautman, and others the author who dealt with these issues in many articles and studies in the past, recently in three treatises concerning the relation of literary criticism and general history, asserts that the significance of literary history consists in its function as a reflection of historical memory. Literary history is not only the reflection of general history, but also the record of memory and in this sense the defence against forgetting, but also against rewriting history as it has always happened nad happens: all that happened any time in the past, left the ineradicable traces in evolution though they seemed to be completely wiped out and removed from memory; something might always now or in the future appear, emerge as it has often happened and we were its permanent living wintesses. |
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