Naslov
Zapadni kanon i hrvatska književnost
(The Western Canon and Croatian Literature)

Autori
Slabinac, Gordana

Izvornik
Književna smotra : časopis za svjetsku književnost (0455-0463) XXXVII (2005), 153 (1); 3-15

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
zapadni kanon; Harold Bloom; hrvatska književnost
(western canon; Harold Bloom; Croatian literature)

Sažetak
The article applies Harold Bloom's critical categories while trying to position Croatian literature within the Western canon. Other definitions of the terms 'canonical' and 'anti-canonical' are also used. According to Bloom, the attributes which make a literary work canonical are poetic excellence, rhetorical inventiveness, imagination and thematic ingenuity. Simultaneously, Bloom advances a thesis that writers wilfully misread their antecedents so as to create a space for the expansion of their own writing. Bloom's opponents among the new historical critics, cultural materialists, and many branches of feminist criticism, rather speak of the canon as a story among many stories situated outside of the hierarchies, which has been in other theoretical frameworks considered big, but is in fact as subject to deconstruction as all big stories of Western thought, which gives us an inklining af the workings of the postmodernist poetics of indeterminacy.

Izvorni jezik
Hrvatski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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