Literary universe in three parts : language -- fiction -- experience / Petr A. B�ilek, Vladim�ir Papou�sek, David Skalick�y.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bílek, Petr A., 1962- author.

Papoušek, Vladimír, 1957- author.

Skalický, David, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Semiotics and literature.

Reality in literature.

Czech fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Czech fiction.

Literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton [England] ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.

Summary:

"For decades, the Prague School Structuralism assumption of textual autonomy dominated the explorations of Czech literature as well as the context of Czech literary theory. The three authors of this book combined their efforts to move beyond and offer a new conceptual frame. Sharing the structuralist proposition of texts made from words, they focus on the metamorphoses of the modes of representations through the 20th century fiction and its critical reflections. Switching between theoretical considerations and case study interpretations, their essays challenge the notion of autonomous fictional worlds and involve the pragmatic categories of the constructed image of a writer and the aesthetic experience of a reader. The focus on representational status of literary texts combines here with another conceptual frame - the performative aspect. The literary texts do not function as mere documents that preserve the traces of existing reality but as objects that construct what their readers conceive as parts of existing reality. Instead of a a depository of meanings, literature is thus perceived as a permanent process of negotiations that uses the institutional power of canonisation, ritualisation or tabooisation. Drawing on contemporary international theory of literature and aesthetics (Searle, Rorty, Davidson, Iser, Greenblatt, White), the authors try to conflate semiotic analyses of textual meanings with the pragmatic notions of historical and readership contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845199081

1845199081

OCLC:

1005190903