Literarna dela kot diskurzivna artikulacija bivanjskega izkustva življenjskega prostora postajajo legitimen predmet geografskega preučevanja. Postmoderna geografija si je za svoje potrebe prilagodila ...tudi nekatere koncepcije literarne vede, kot so intertekstualnost, pokrajina kot besedilo ali geografsko zamišljanje. Kvalitativna analiza izbranih primerov literarnih besedil, ki tematizirajo prostor slovenske Istre, pokaže, kako se v njih oblikujejo topofilija, identitetna razlika jaz/drugi ter občutja kraja in brez krajevnosti. Gre za sodobne pojme humanistične geografije, ki pretežno objektivistično, naravoslovno-družboslovno tradicijo stroke nadgrajujejo z upoštevanjem posameznikovega in skupnostnega dojemanja, zamišljanja in oblikovanja prostora. Literarna dela geografiji omogočajo preučevanje našega odnosa do življenjskega okolja in pomenov, ki jih prostoru pripisujemo ali pa se z njimi identificiramo. Naša razmerja do prostora so tudi temeljni pogoj za oblikovanje identitet in družbene odgovornosti.
In the last few decades, comparative literature has spread even to those parts of the world that it had not reached before. However, at the same time it has faced a crisis in its traditional centers ...across Europe and North America, which has shaken its conceptual premises, theoretical foundations, and methodological structure, affected its inclusion in university and scholarly institutions, and jeopardized its social status. The discipline responded to this fundamental change through increased self-awareness and a true flourishing of relevant production directed towards fundamental reflections on its identity, the current situation, its genesis, and possible future paths.
Ruplova teorija o "slovenskem kulturnem sindromu" (SKS), podobno kot Pirjevčeva "prešernovska struktura" (PS), razlaga estetsko zavrtost slovenske književnosti kot posledico njene nacionalne funkcije ...- nadomeščanja politike in ideološke "nadstavbe" nedržavnega naroda. Obe teoriji sta vprašljivi, ker sta izpeljani predvsem iz samopercepcij slovenskih literatov in zanemarjata širši primerjalni kontekst: SKS ni nobena slovenska posebnost, ampak ena izmed variantnih uresničitev evropskega kulturnega nacionalizma. Iz iste ideološke matrice izhajata tudi slovenska nacionalna in primerjalna literarna zgodovina.
In his paper, "Generic Identity and Intertextuality," Marko Juvan proposes that an anti-essentialist drive -- a characteristic of recent genology -- has led postmodern scholars to the conviction that ...genre is but a system of differences and that its matrix cannot be deduced from a particular set of apparently similar texts. Juvan argues that the concept of intertextuality may prove advantageous to explain genre identity in a different way: genres exist and function as far as they are embedded in social practices that frame intertextual and meta-textual links/references to prototypical texts or textual series. In Juvan's view, genres are cognitive and pragmatic devices for intertextual pattern-matching and texts or textual sets become generic prototypes by virtue of intertextual and meta-textual interaction: on one side there is the working (influence) of semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of prototypical texts on their domestic and foreign literary offspring; on the other side we see meta-textual descriptions and intertextual derivations or references, which establish or revise retroactively the hard core of genre pattern. Any given text is, because of the generic and pragmatic component of the author's communicative competence, dependent on existing genre patterns.
Individualni in kolektivni spomin sta znakovna, imata identitetno funkcijo. Literatura je medij kulturnega spomina: literarni teksti so sledi minulih doživetij in mentalitet, pa tudi časovni ...palimpsesti; literarni kanon prek družbenih mehanizmov zagotavlja trajnost reprezentativnih idej in predstav, topika in mnemotehnika pa kontinuiteto argumentacije in imaginacije; motivi in teme novo ustvarjanje in branje vežejo na spominske sheme; z zvrstmi se obnavljajo stare upodobitve sveta, s citatnostjo pa se literatura spominja svoje tradicije, jo preoblikuje in vstopa v družbenozgodovinski kontekst.
The author discusses the process of nationalizing literature, that is, the formation of a national literary canon in Slovene poetry from the Enlightenment to Post-Romanticism. The utopian projection ...and formation of a 'Slovenised' literary system has been intertwined with the successful establishment of a unified Slovene literary language. The use of images of Parnassus and Elysium, these topoi in the European cultural memory, was one of the self-regulatory strategies acquired by Slovene writers to mark the distinction between their own discourse and the norms of the 'classics' and a competitive comparison with other modern national literatures in order to achieve integration into the canon of 'world literature'.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
In his article, "On Literariness: From Post-Structuralism to Systems Theory," Marko Juvan argues that the question of literariness concerns the very identity and social existence of not only ...literature per se but of literary theory as a discipline. A literary theorist is not only an observer of literature; he/she is also a participant who -- at least indirectly, via the a priori systems of science and education -- is engaged in constructing both the notion and the practice of literature as well as the study of literature. Literariness is neither an invariant cluster of "objectively" distinctive properties of all texts that are deemed literary nor is it merely a social, scholarly, and/or educational function. Rather, it can be defined as the effect of a text in the literary system, which is only possible on the basis of paradigms and conventions derived from the literary canon itself.
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