FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC-THEORETICAL RESEARCH OF ALISHER NAVOI’S HERITAGE(ON THE PAGES OF AZERBAIJANI LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM

The article analyzes the results of the research on the representation of the aesthetic ideal through the image of the ideal hero in two national literatures. For research purposes, attention was paid to highlighting the category of the ideal hero as an expression of the author's aesthetic views. In Sinclair Lewis’s “Arrowsmith” and Pirimkul Kodirov's “The Three Roots”, the protagonists artistically reflect the authors' views on truth, virtue, and beauty. In these novels, professional ethics is described as a high noble value. The scientific novelty of the research work includes the following: in the evolution of western and eastern poetic thought, in the context of the novel genre, the skill, common and distinctive aspects of the creation of an ideal hero were revealed by synthesis of effective methods in world science with literary criteria in the history of eastern and western literary studies, in the example of Sinclair Lewis and Pirimkul Kodirov.

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Introduction: In Defence of Paraphrase

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460606.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-38

Author(s):

Patrick Fessenbecker

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Reading Practice ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Art For Art's Sake ◽

Aesthetic Structure

How did “reading for the message,” a mark of shame among literary critics, yet in many ways an ordinary reading practice, become so marginalized? The origins of this methodological commitment ultimately are intertwined with the birth of literary studies itself . The influential aestheticist notion of “art for art’s sake” has several implications crucial for understanding the intellectual history of literary criticism in the twentieth century: most important was the belief that to “extract” an idea from a text was to dismiss its aesthetic structure. This impulse culminated in the New Critical contention that to paraphrase a text was a “heresy.” Yet this dominant tradition has always co-existed with practical interpretation that was much less formalist in emphasis. A return to the world of American literary criticism in 1947, when Cleanth Brooks’s The Well-Wrought Urn was published, shows this clearly: many now-forgotten critics were already practicing a form of criticism that emphasized literary content, and often overly rejecting Brooks’s insistence that reading for the content or meaning of a poem betrayed its aesthetic nature.

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Perkembangan Teori Sastra (Suatu Pengantar)

10.31219/osf.io/2s3wf ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Felta Lafamane

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Literary Theory ◽

Literary History ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Literary Reading ◽

Philosophical Thinking ◽

Human Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Practical Nature

AbstractNormatively, literary studies are divided into several fields, namely literary theory, literary history, literary criticism, comparative literature and literary studies. Literary theory studies people's views of literature. Literary history seeks to compile and study literary works as part of the process of intellectual history in one society. The history of literary theory can be seen as part of philosophical thinking because the history of literary theory itself is the same as the history of human thought towards art or literary objects which emphasize the more practical nature of the translation of concepts. Literary theory itself can essentially be equated with the science of beauty or aesthetics. Science and theory are certainly one different thing. With such an assumption, writing the history of literary theory is the same as writing aesthetic history in the field of literary arts. However, the history of the theory needs to be known and understood so that there are no mistakes in thinking about these two things. Literary theory itself has various meanings along with the paradigm it carries. Literary theory is defined as a set of ideas and methods used to practice literary reading. Literary theory is also interpreted as a way or step to understand literature. The views in literary theory also experience changes along with the development of human thinking.Keyword: development, literary theory, history, literature

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“The point is to change it”: The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses ◽

10.14198/raei.2020.33.06 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 17

Author(s):

Christian Smith

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

World Literature ◽

Continental Philosophy ◽

The State ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Close Reading ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

The task undertaken in this paper is to discover a means by which the practice of literary criticism can derive an imperative for activism that confronts and changes the social conditions it critiques. The case of Karl Marx’s use of world literature in his critique of capitalism and the state, set within the history of the development of continental philosophy, is explored through a close-reading of its interterxtuality. Particular attention is paid to Marx’s use of quotations from and allusions to world literature, including Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe and Heine, to register the harmful inversions caused by an economy based on money and commodities. If literature registers the contradictions of its time in its form and content, then the urge to resolve those contradictions sits restless in literature. When Marx inserts literature into his theoretical texts, he transfers into his text the impulse of the contradiction to resolve itself. Similarly, literary criticism is well-placed to unfold clear, obvious and necessary logic which leads to activism.

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The Challenges of Writing a National Literary History in the Era of Transnationalism: Insights from a Peripheral Literary Space

Transilvania ◽

10.51391/trva.2021.07-08.02 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 14-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Snejana Ung

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Literary History ◽

World Literature ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Literary Historiography ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The Asymmetry ◽

Romanian Literature ◽

Literary System

It goes without saying that during the nineteenth and twentieth century literary historiography tries to define national identities. However, a methodological and paradigm shift occur at the beginning of the twenty-first century when, under the auspices of globalization and the emergence of world literature and transnational literary studies, literary historiography is re-thought as a collective and transnational project. Yet, the asymmetry of the world literary system affects literary historiography too. When it comes to this scholarly genre, the asymmetry is most visible in the fact that in the era of transnationalism, national histories are still written at the periphery. Given the aforementioned observation, this paper a) looks into the challenges of writing literary history in Romania in the age of world literature and transnational studies, and b) tries to explain why a national literary history is still needed and how it can change the way we think about Romanian literature. The starting point of this inquiry is represented by the publication of Mihai Iovănel’s Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 [History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020]. In the context of the ‘transnational turn’ in literary studies, the attempt to write relevant national histories in a peripheral literary space such as Romania is faced, in my view, with two major challenges: 1) the fact that transnationalism manifests itself differently at the periphery and 2) the tradition of Romanian literary criticism and history. The former refers to the fact that unlike central literatures, where transnationalism is shaped to a large extent by migrant writers (those who enter these literatures), in Romanian literature it comprises exiled or migrant writers (those who left Romania and not vice versa) and, to a lesser extent, the literatures written by ethnic minorities. A comparative approach can cast light on this difference. For example, while the thirteenth volume of The Oxford English Literary History is dedicated entirely to migrant and bicultural writers, transnational histories concerning the peripheries, such as History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, focus on multiple literary spaces and therefore have a different approach to dealing with transnationalism. The latter challenge is represented, as shown by Iovănel, by the long-lasting tradition of the “principle of aesthetic autonomism”, which persists even in post-communist Romania. In this regard, this paper aims to show that Iovănel’s History… overcomes the above-mentioned hindrances of literary criticism and succeeds in offering an image of Romanian literature not as confined to its national boundaries but as part of the world literary system. Along with other significant scholarly works on Romanian literature as and in world literature, this project is a significant step towards re-thinking Romanian literature as a “literature of the world” (Terian 2015).

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A.V. MIKHAILOV’S HERMENEUTIC SPACE AS A POSSIBILITY OF A NEW SYNTHESIS IN LITERATURE STUDIES. F.K. Besolova

Вестник Владикавказского научного центра ◽

10.46698/e8205-6971-2179-i ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ф.К. Бесолова

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Cultural Orientation ◽

Literary Studies ◽

New Synthesis ◽

Starting Point ◽

Reverse Translation ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Culture

Современный общенаучный дискурс, отталкивающийся от единой, антро- пологической точки отсчета, вполне соответствует стремлению к синтезу: культуры в целом, ее регистров – высокого и низкого – в собственных пространствах и во взаи- модействии друг с другом. Работы А.В. Михайлова, крупного теоретика литературы и культуры, опираясь на идейные константы эпохи («историко-культурная аксиомати- ка»), развивают идею исторической поэтики как идею «обратного перевода», задают культурологическую ориентацию литературоведения и возвращают искомый синтез теоретическому и историческому литературоведению. Подобная логика исследования «общих горизонтов истории культуры» как смысла науки о литературе органично вли- вается в современную парадигму культуры. North Ossetian State Universitynamed after K.L. Khetagurov,SeniorLecture, Vladikavkaz ([email protected]) Abstract. Modern general scientifi c discourse, starting from a single, anthropological starting point, is fully consistent with the desire for synthesis: culture as a whole, its registers – high and low – in their own spaces and in interaction with each other. The works of A.V. Mikhailov, a prominent theorist of literature and culture, relying on the ideological constants of the era («historical-cultural axioms»), develop the idea of historical poetics as the idea of «reverse translation», set the cultural orientation of literary criticism and return the desired synthesis to theoretical and historical literary criticism. This logic of the study of «common horizons of the history of culture» as the meaning of the literary studies smoothly merges into the modern paradigm of culture.

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Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna mniej więcej znana

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne Seria Literacka ◽

10.14746/pspsl.2018.32.4 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 75-94

Author(s):

Lucyna Marzec

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Religious Poetry ◽

The Past ◽

Feminist Literary Criticism ◽

History Of ◽

The New Woman ◽

History Of Literature ◽

Government Institution ◽

Unusual Type

The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prizes and recognition but at the same time she is impossible to read nowadays. There is political ambiguity and antiquity in her texts that keep her in the past. Marzec points at four areas of literary studies, where Iłłakowiczówna is still present: 1. Poetics: Iłłakowiczówna uses an original and unusual type of the Polish tonic verse. The author of this article analyses it using tools of psychoanalysis. 2. Religious discourse: Iłłakowicz.wna is interpreted as the author of religious poetry but Marzec argues with such interpretations. 3. Post-dependence studies: Iłłakowiczówna has not been analysed in terms of post-dependence studies yet but she is mentioned in the Polish borderlines discourse. 4. Feminist literary criticism: Iłłakowiczówna used to be studied as the author of androgynous poetry, but Marzec points out other motifs such as miscarriage, infanticide or problems of the new woman, like work at government institution, contestation of vitalism and bureaucracy. The aimof this article is to show that writing of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna needs to be read in terms of the history of literature which is devoid of evaluation and judging. Such analysis means going back in terms of modern literary studies which have undergone multiple turns that changed the tools accessible to contemporary critics.

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The Early Stage of Buryat-Mongol Literature

Studia Litterarum ◽

10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-320-337 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 320-337

Author(s):

Elizaveta E. Baldanmaksarova

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Literary History ◽

Early Stage ◽

Literary Work ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Literary Research ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Buddhist Culture

The article examines the genesis of Buryat literature, which is key to the modern literary studies of Buryatia. Its aim is to recreate the history of Buryat literature and place it in the cultural and philosophical context of the history of Mongolian ethnos. It is well known that the genesis of Buryat literature owes to the literary work as well as to the theoretical and literary research of the first Buryat scholars and writers from among the Buddhist clergy. The search, introduction, and study of literary works written by Buryat authors in the 18 th — early 20 th centuries is one of the relevant research tasks that opens new perspectives for modern Buryat literary criticism and for humanities in general. The emergence and development of Buryat literature is closely connected with the spread of Buddhist culture, the Buddhist vision of the world, therefore it should be studied in the context of Buddhist aesthetic thought. The article pays special attention to the literary history of Mongolians that, since the 13 th century, has been developing in the context of multilateral literary ties and contacts. It examines the following typical genres: travelogue, hagiographic, hymn poetry, subhashita, and poem.

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Institutional Forme

The Unfinished Book ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198830801.013.17 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 245-259

Author(s):

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Research Program ◽

Book History ◽

History Of The Book ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Social Discourse ◽

Complex Structures ◽

Aesthetic Sense ◽

History Of

This chapter explores prospects for a reenergized history of the book amid the recent turn to a capacious formalism in literary studies that encompasses the sociopolitical reverberations of “form” in the traditional, aesthetic sense. The chapter argues that a key opening for book historians is the new formalists’ emphasis on the organizing power of institutions, something that book history implicitly engages in the course of its work but that literary criticism too often ignores or treats with hostility. Rereading D. F. McKenzie’s paradigm-setting proposals for a research program in the history of the book and using as a case-study that most literary of institutions, the library, I advocate a turn away from the field’s particularist mantra, “forms effect meaning,” toward McKenzie’s forgotten parallel claim that a sociology of texts “alerts us to the roles of institutions, and their own complex structures, in affecting the forms of social discourse, past and present.”

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Ecocriticism in Japan

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.032 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Masami Yuki

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

The United States ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Literary Movement ◽

History Of ◽

The Cross ◽

Cross Fertilization

This article examines the history of Japanese ecocriticism. It explains that while the association between literature and nature is so deeply imprinted in the Japanese mind, environmentally oriented literary criticism did not exist in Japan until it was imported from the United States in the middle of the 1990s. It discusses the shift in Japan’s academic landscape of literary environmentalism and describes the three major phases in the emergence of Japanese ecocriticism. These include the introduction of the literary movement from the early 1990s to 2000, the development of a comparative approach in the 2000s, and the cross-fertilization between ecocriticism and Japanese literary studies in the late 2000s to the present.

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