A kelet- és közép-európai irodalomelméleti kánon kérdéséhez – Kísérlet egy narratíva dekonstrukciójára

Géza S. Horváth

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XIV. , Issue 1, 2019, p. 3-38. , ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2019.14.1.3-38

Abstract:

This study analyzes galin Tihanov’s concept of linking the origins and history of modern literary theory with the central and Eastern European region. The study pays special attention to the emergence of russian formalism and its
russian and European contexts. The paper tries to point out the blind spots of Tihanov’s concept and it sees that the history of modern literary theory cannot be described as a single process from russian formalism to Iser and lotman. It also examines whether we can speak of a unified canon of literary theory in central and Eastern Europe, with particular reference to the traditions of literary understanding in hungary. The study explains why a systematic, normative and universal literary science without cultural traditions based on purely conceptual principles could not be established. however, it rejects the concept of literary theory’s “death” and explains its causes and argues that the decline of theory cannot be understood without an in-depth analysis of the Western European reception of the theory of Eastern and central European literature.

Keywords: modern literary theory, central and Eastern Europe, russian formalism, semiology

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