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Volume 34: Issue 1
After the fall
Literary histories after the fall of literary history
Author:
József Szili Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Literary Studies H-1118 Budapest Ménesi út 11-13 Hungary H-1118 Budapest Ménesi út 11-13 Hungary

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Pages:
269–282
Online Publication Date:
27 Apr 2007
Publication Date:
27 Jun 2007
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-007-1019-5
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Abstract  

The “Fall” was inaugurated by Ren Wellek at the Bordeaux Congress of the AILC/ICLA in 1970. Postmodern theory of literature was concerned first with radical criticism of conventional historical approaches for their lack of “literariness”. Then Hayden White exposed the “literariness” of historiography. According to Writing Literary History: Selected Perspectives from Central Europe (eds. Darko Dolinar and Marko Juvan) national literary histories do not necessarily play their former emancipatory role and eventually they may serve nationalist purposes. This is underlined by Hungarian experience as classics of Hungarian literary history created a continuous past of ten centuries for “Hungarian literature” veiling substantial changes in the concepts of “literature” and “Hungarian”. An answer to the problem might be the decomposition of “grands rcits” by “micro-histories” and temporal “nodes”. Meanwhile recent comparative histories — Literary Cultures of Latin America (eds. Mario J. Valds and Djelal Kadir) and History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer) — seem to have an innate disposition to deconstruct “great stories” of nationalism and regionalism. A forthcoming history of Hungarian literature (ed. Mihly Szegedy-Maszk) is based on nodal dates and problems to make tractable confronting literary canons. Vilgirodalom (World Literature, ed. Jzsef Pl) published in 2005 surveys nearly forty literatures from the point of view of an East-Central European variety of the “Western Canon”.

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