Svět Literatury (Apr 2016)
Lubomír Doležel o postmoderně. Sebeodhalení a protimluvy jako tahy v narativní hře // Lubomír Doležel on postmodernism: Self-disclosure and contradiction as moves in the narrative game
Abstract
The paper critically interprets the analysis of characteristic features of the postmodern narrative fiction in Lubomír Doležel’s Heterocosmica (1998) and Heterocosmica II (2014). In particular, the author focuses on Doležel’s approach to metafiction and cumulation of contradictions as moves undermining (in a literarily productive way) the constitution and authentication of fictional worlds. Despite the explanatory power of Doležel’s analysis, the author points out that the same instruments (as well as some others analyzed by Doležel, like metamorphosis or construction of parallel and hybrid worlds) can be used with mimetic functions (in a rather non-traditional sense): in such cases, they cannot be reduced to moves within the postmodernist „ontological game“.
