The age-old gap between humanities and sciences is being cynically bridged by the neoliberal subjection of both humanist and scientific theory to expert knowledge, in the humanities mostly to ...cultural studies, a key source of which is the conception of performativity. The article sketches the process leading from Austin's proto-theoretical 'nomothetic' exclusion of literature from his theory of the performative to Butler's ideological 'idiographic' grounding of her conception of performativity in literature. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Prismatic Jane Eyre Reynolds, Matthew; Drury, Annmarie; Frank, Mary ...
2023
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Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many ...re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë’s novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel’s feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion’ and ‘plain’ across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë’s novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
Insofar as the reading of literary artworks is increasingly limited to literary criticism, any study of reading of such works is a study of critical, that is, close reading. Yet even within ...criticism, close reading has been rejected by distant reading, which enables, precisely by way of this rejection, both the reading of uncanonised texts, neglected by close reading, anda new reading of the canon itself. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
A decade after Franco Moretti's plea for the distant reading of world literature, its critiques are culminating in, say, Michael Holquist's dismissal of distant reading on behalf of Jakobsonian ...philology. Distant reading, however, can indeed be charged with denouncing close reading, but not Jakobson. The formal "jumps" reconstructed by Moretti via quantitative analyses of the longue duree of forms activate what Roman Jakobson calls the "poetic function of language." Moreover, Jakobson is ignored by the very historiography that confronts Moretti's theory of world literature with local literary facts that are said to deserve canonisation. These critiques fail to see that theories can be falsified only by stronger theories, not by facts, and that Moretti's location of local facts not in the core's canon, but in the peripheries exploited by the core, may be a good starting point. Adapted from the source document
Desetletje po Morettijevem predlogu oddaljenega branja svetovne literature kritike tega kulminirajo denimo v Holquistovi zavrnitvi oddaljenega branja v imenu jakobsonovske filologije. Oddaljeno ...branje se resda odpove natančnemu branju, ne pa tudi Jakobsonu. Formalni "skoki", ki jih Franco Moretti rekonstruira s pomočjo kvantitativnih analiz dolgega trajanja form, aktivirajo prav to, čemur Roman Jakobson pravi "poetska funkcija jezika". Še več, Jakobsona zanemarja ravno tisto zgodovinopisje, ki Morettijevo teorijo svetovne literature sooča z lokalnimi literarnimi dejstvi, ki naj bi zaslužila kanonizacijo. Te kritike prezrejo, da lahko teorijo ovrže le močnejša teorija, ne pa dejstva, in da utegne biti dobro izhodišče za to prav Morettijeva umestitev lokalnih dejstev v periferije, ki jih izkoriščajo kanonizirani centri, ne pa v sam kanon.
This article articulates Ducrot's polyphonic theory of enunciation into a structuralist theory of signifier and, by extension, ideology. It shows that Ducrot's project of conceptualizing enunciation ...as the (re)production of intersubjective relations rather than as representation, proves to be contradictory there where it should be fulfilled: when analysing ironic negation, Ducrot reintroduces representation precisely by infinitesimally replacing it with supplementary enunciators. This contradiction can be suspended by interpreting ironic negation as an expletive ne that signifies nothing except the subject of enunciation. By focusing on such an empty signifier, enunciation can finally be grasped beyond representation and, moreover, viewed in its institutional and, hence, ideological overdetermination. Adapted from the source document.
The choices made by the dominant literary criticism on behalf of the readership are themselves made in advance by institutions that reproduce this criticism. The impact of such choices on the ...selections made by current Shakespeare studies is analyzed and an alternative reading o/"Romeo and Juliet is outlined. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Pričujoči tematski sklop o sociologiji kulture je nastal iz delavnice Kaj je sociologija kulture danes?, ki smo jo 12. decembra 2011 pripravili v okviru zasedbe Filozofske fakultete. Na njej so s ...prispevki sodelovali: Branko Bembič, Maja Breznik, Jernej Habjan, Gorazd Kovačič, Primož Krašovec, Marko Kržan, Aldo Milohnić, Igor Škamperle in Rastko Močnik. Sprva smo hoteli razpravljati o dveh tesno prepletajočih se problematikah: kaj je obča sociologija danes in kaj je sociologija kulture danes. A na prošnjo predstojnice oddelka za sociologijo smo naslov omejili samo na sociologijo kulture.
Na Oddelku za sociologijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani smo že leta 1999 predlagali, da bi pripravili znanstveno srečanje o problematiki sociologije in sociologije kulture ter o teoretskih in pedagoških praksah na tem področju. Drugič smo tak posvet predlagali ob pripravah na bolonjsko reformo. Pristojni na oddelku za sociologijo so predlog obakrat zavrnili. Šele z zasedbo fakultete je bilo mogoče sprožiti teoretsko razpravo o disciplini, za katero je oddelek za sociologijo matičen na ljubljanski univerzi.
Pričujoči tematski sklop precej zvesto predstavlja sedanje teoretske prakse v sociologiji kulture. Sklop seveda ni popoln, zlasti zato, ker nekateri znanstveniki in znanstvenice, ki so z dragocenimi prispevki obogatili delavnico, niso utegnili sodelovati pri tukajšnji objavi. Marko Kržan v epistemološki razpravi določa strukturne sestavine in epistemični kraj teoretskega spoznavnega predmeta »kultura« v polju historičnega materializma. Maja Breznik na naivno vprašanje »Kaj je kultura?« odgovarja z nenaivno tezo, da je kultura lahko družbeno razdiralna; tezo argumentira z zgodovinskimi zgledi. Branko Bembič analizira kulturne sestavine ekonomskih bojev delovnih razredov v kapitalizmu ter ob tem predlaga koncepte za raziskavo delavskih kultur in sodobnih praks odpora. Primož Krašovec analizira postsocialistične ideologije in njihove učinke; ugotavlja, da se mora teorija ob zgodovinski izčrpanosti kapitalizma še zlasti skrbno posvetiti postkapitalističnim prvinam v sodobnih družbenih procesih. Jernej Habjan razvija analitično zgodovino prešernoslovske problematike od NOB in socialistične revolucije do danes; prikazuje napetosti in trke med ideološkimi pritiski in teoretskimi praksami na privilegiranem področju tukajšnjega humanističnega raziskovanja. Ana Podvršič analizira dosežke in pomanjkljivosti raziskovanja »romskega vprašanja« ter razmišlja o pozitivnem programu, ki bi to problematiko odrešil ideološkega pritiska identitetnih politik in študij ter jo umestil v produktivno teoretsko polje historičnega materializma. Sašo Furlan predstavlja Marxov epistemološki doprinos in razvija predpostavke za teoretsko produkcijo v družboslovju in humanistiki. Tibor Rutar analizira ideološke podmene postmodernistične kvaziteorije in zlasti kritično obdeluje postmodernistično interpretacijo Marxa. Rastko Močnik zgoščeno predstavlja teoretsko problematiko sociologije kulture v zadnjih dvajsetih letih. Gorazd Kovačič opisuje teoretsko in institucionalno zgodovino sociologije kulture v njenih odnosih do obče sociologije na Oddelku za sociologijo Filozofske fakultete, ki je matični oddelek za sociologijo kulture na Univerzi v Ljubljani.
Sklopu smo dodali seznam izvirnih knjižnih izdaj s področja sociologije kulture v slovenščini. Ker je sociologija kulture že nekaj časa brez ustrezne institucionalne podpore, so njeni dosežki, zlasti v akademski javnosti, manj znani. S seznamom želimo tudi univerzitetno javnost seznaniti z novejšo produkcijo v tej disciplini.
Spor med kontekstualisti in nekontekstualisti v nekaterih središčih univerzitetnega ukvarjanja s književnostjo nakazuje, da se v sodobnem metodološkem pluralizmu perpetuira antinomija med historizmom ...prvega in imanentizmom drugega vzorca vesedilnosti. Zdi se, da omogoča "obrobni" položaj slovenski literarni vedi odgovarjati na to zagato z vpeljevanjem teorije literarnega diskurza, teorije in zgodovine ustvarjalnega subjekta ali denomo intenzivnejše hermenevtične prakse. Na osnovi eksplicitnih navezav teh projektov na Bahtina članek pretresa aktualnost metode, s katero se je ruski mislec svojčas soočal s konstitutivno antinomijo med zunanjimi in notranjimi pristopi in tako prevpraševal sama izhodišča literarne vede.
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