AGAMBEN’S HYPOTHETICAL ATTITUDE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE XX CENTURY Cover Image

МОГУЋИ АГАМБЕНОВ КОМЕНТАР НА РАЗВОЈ БРИТАНСКЕ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ XX ВЕКА
AGAMBEN’S HYPOTHETICAL ATTITUDE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE XX CENTURY

Author(s): Nikola М. Đuran
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: Agamben;Great Britain; literature; Modernism; war; paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned with the topic of connection between the theory of paradigm as a primary notion of cognition, as defined by Giorgio Agamben, and its historical contextualization in the British literary movements which were flourishing during the decay of the Empire, ending in the turmoil of two World Wars. The diminishing notion of self-sufficient political and cultural ideology gave rise to various daring attempts to demystify the false solemnity of British middle-class society by the usage of scandalous literary ideas at the beginning of the XX century (as in Imagism and Modernism), which would only after World War II start to turn more subtle and discrete (as in Postmodernism). Whatever their discourses, these movements all held a common theory that a momentum of revolutionary cynicism is a necessary standpoint for the salvation of epistemology, culture, and arts from the clutches of ideological introversy.

  • Issue Year: XV/2014
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 175-187
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian