Die Ost-West-Problematik in den europäischen Kulturen und Literaturen: Ausgewählte Aspekte

0332659 - SLÚ 2010 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Ulbrechtová, Helena
On the history of the "East - West" concept on the possibilities of its further use in the Slavonic literary and cultural studies.
Die Ost-West-Problematik in den europäischen Kulturen und Literaturen: Ausgewählte Aspekte. Praha: Slovanský ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., 2009 - (Ulbrecht, S.; Ulbrechtová, H.), s. 19-52. Práce Slovanského ústavu. Nová řada, 25. ISBN 978-80-86420-31-8; ISBN 978-3-940310-31-6
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90920516
Keywords : East - West Concept * imagology * intercultural hermeneutics * cultural transfer * comparative studies * Russia and Europe * clash of civilisations
Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

The study presents a survey of connotations of the"East -West" concept, gives its critical analysis from the interwar Czech comparative school´s viewpoint and compares it to modern comparative methods. It names the most important methods of current literary and cultural science, e.g. cultural tranfer, imagology or intercultural hermeneutics. One of the conclusions the study comes to is the fact, that the original opposition „East-West“, which used to be interpreted as the opposition of „Slavic-nonSlavic“, has been diminishing at present and individual cultures and literatures are accepted as a product of general European development. The second part of the study concentrates on the relation between Russia and Europe. At the end the author gives other connotations of the „East-West“ concept, which is expressed by the anticipation between Christianity and Islam, the theory of the end of the history or the absolute elimination of all contrasts in worldwide scale.
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