Опит върху литературния ХХ век. Хипотеза и методологически импликации
An Essay on the Literary Twentieth Century: A Hypothesis and its Methodological Implications

Author(s): Cleo Protokhristova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Literary history; literary century; literary year; synchronic cuts
Summary/Abstract: This text discusses the possibility for the literary twentieth century to be rationalized as a definite given. Focusing on this problem is a reflex of the fashionable in the last few decades fundamental questioning of the capacity and validation of historicist discourse. The routine uses of the concept of a “literary century” are juxtaposed to an alternative construct, pragmatically applicable because based on a notion of entirety, imagined in relative synchronicity and marked by a paradigm of availabilities.As a result of this strategy, an alternative image of the literary twentieth century springs up. Unlike the traditional literary-historicist perspective, this image comes from a sort of ‘mapping’ as its role is to establish the compatibility of selected components and then to systematize them. Such a strategy certainly prioritizes synchronic over diachronic overview and posits the domination of paradigmatic over syntagmatic patterns.

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