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Literární věda a historie : souvislosti, komplementarita, konkurence
| Title in English | Literary Criticism and History: Contexts, Complementarity, and Competition |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | The aim of the present contribution is the reflection on the relation between literary criticism and history as two scholarly disciplines. The author returns to American concept of metahistory as a specific individualized narration demonstrating European contexts which appeared approximately at the same time, i. e. in the second half of the 1970s (István Sötér, the Soviet functional-historical approach, pragmatic poetics and others) and led to literarization of some humanities. The analogy of the role and function of cultural anthropology in relation to other humanities manifests the methodological allurements and pitfalls of integrative approaches with the anchored dominance of one discipline. „The Queen of Sciences“, as history is sometimes called, and literary criticism should be rather complementary than controversial; on the contrary, a slightly conflicting relation of sciences and their bearers, though he/she would be a historian and a literary critic in one person, might be methodologically productive. |