Type of research: basic Duration from: 10/01/93. to 12/01/95. Papers on project (total): 27
Institution name: Filozofski fakultet - Humanističke znanosti, Zagreb (130) Department/Institute: Institut for Litarary Studies Address: Đ. Salaja 3 City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Summary: The aime of the project is the exploration of the semantics
of various types of the narrative text. The theory of possible worlds is
the starting point and the theoretical basis for the analysis of the
corpus. The project constitutes a significant contribution to the semantic
historic exploration of literature.
Keywords: literary semantics, possible-worlds semantics, narrative semantics, autobiographical discourse, actual (historical) world, meaning, story space, intertextuality
Research goals: The aime of the project is the exploration of the
semantics of various types of the narrative text. The confessional and
biographical models of late medieval autobiographical texts of European
Latinity are researched with special refrence to the possibility of
shaping individuality and subjectivity. The theory of possible worlds is
the starting point and the theoretical basis for the analysis of the
corpus of fictional texts in literary realism, where the elaboration of
the relation between the literary and historical worlds are of special
importance. The so-called postmodernist historiographic and fictional
models from various national traditions are also explored with the aim of
establishing the relation between the contemporary tendency of the
fictionalization of historiographic writing and the historization of the
novel. Exploration of narrative space through three key problems:
semantic, pragmatic, and receptionist, which should reveal the history of
the types of its formation and describe the reasons and preconditions of
its changes in the history of literature. The semantic level of
"citatnost" will be explored in the works of Danilo Kiš. The project
constitutes a significant contribution to the semantic historic
exploration of literature. His results will be edited as a few independent
monographs.