Paradigme u književnosti i književnim studijama

Apstrakt

The dominant modern paradigmatic idea in the  humanities has been that everything human (individual and social phenomena) can be defined by its formal structuration. This concept, which was most comprehensively developed in the framework of structuralism, relegated meaning and content to the background, and instead considered grammatical construction to be the defining factor. In the 1970s, however, the structuralist project came under extensive and effective critique from many postmodernist movements. Key studies such as J. Derrida’s „Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” and Paul de Man’s „Semiology and Rhetoric” are indicative of this. In my presentation I will explore the possibilities of this alternative paradigm of human sciences, the shift in which structural description and reading meets destructive components. My themes are rhetoricity versus grammaticality, the destructive role of the body versus the sense and meaning, and   performativity, the act of self-creating as it disrupts the structurable form of signification and constativity.