A Hungarológiai Intézet Tudományos Közleményei 4. XIX. évfolyam (XLIX) 2018

Matuska Ágnes: Változó reneszánszképek a kulturális fordulat után (Egy irodalomtörténeti fejezet margójára)

Matuska Agnes: Változó reneszánszképek a kulturális fordulat után Tillyard, Eustace M. W. 1943. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus. Veeser, Aram H. 1991. Re-Membering a Deformed Past: (New) New Historicism. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 24 (1): 3-13. White, Hayden. 1973. Metahistory. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. CHANGING IMAGES OF THE RENAISSANCE AFTER THE CULTURAL TURN Aspects of writing a chapter in a literary history volume The article reflects on theoretical dilemmas raised by a chapter introducing the Renaissance period in a presently written history of English literature in Hungarian, and points at more general questions regarding literary history, periodisation, the social embeddedness of literary pieces as well as the cultural embeddedness of literary historians themselves. Examples in the argument include the previous history of English literature written in Hungarian in the 70s, as well as current debates about new historicism, with special regard to the changes in the assessment of new historicist works, the relationship between presentism and new historicism, as well as various ideas about the relationship between literary works and their historical context. The author suggests three main layers defining the perspective of literary historians: their immediate institutional background, the dominant academic paradigm(s), and the way in which they wish to participate in contemporary public discourse through their interpretations. Although these last two layers are intermingled, the ambivalence in their relationship is similar to the one characterizing the interconnectedness of a literary work with its historical and ideological context. Keywords: literary history, new historicism, presentism, periodisation, renaissance, early modem PROMENJENE SLIKE O RENESANSI POSLE KULTURNOG OBRTA Za marginu jednog poglavlja iz istorije književnosti Rad predstavlja refleksiju na teorijske dileme i opšta pitanja koji se javljaju prilikom pisanja uvodnog poglavlja o renesansi u književno-istorijskom delu „Madarska istorija engleske književnosti“. Ta opšta pitanja se tiču istorije književnosti, utvrđivanja epoha, društvene implementiranosti književnih dela, i problemom u kojoj meri su navodenja i stanovišta istoričara književnosti uslovljena sopstvenim kultumim kontekstom. Primeri koji su nas podstakli na razmišljanje su űzeti iz književno-istorijskog poglavlja o engleskoj renesansi koju je uredio Mikloš Senci, kao i iz novo-istorijskih diskursa kurentnih anglosaksonskih

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