Anthropology and literature: allurements and pitfalls
Vol.21,No.1(2018)
Abstract
Keywords:
allurements and pitfalls of the application of anthropology in general and in literary criticism in particular; integrating role of anthropology; anthropological literary criticism; anthropologization and literarization; new philology
Pages:
7–13
The author of the present article deals with the impact and influence of anthropology upon the research of literature nowadays; he speaks about the allurements and pitfalls of its application as a holistic methodological tool. From this standpoint the author rejects the notion "anthropological literary criticism" preferring that of the "anthropology of literature" as a specific branch of cultural anthropology such as sociology or philosophy of literature. Anthropology – if it shall have the integrating role – has not only to integrate, but also to accept new things into its own structure though it could mean the threat of its defocusing and dispersion. This is the process of the recent "literarization" of philosophy, history, sociology, psychology etc. On this very basis we could speak of the anthropologization of literary criticism which can be linked with new attempts at the "new philology" as an integrating body of linguistics and literary criticism.
allurements and pitfalls of the application of anthropology in general and in literary criticism in particular; integrating role of anthropology; anthropological literary criticism; anthropologization and literarization; new philology
7–13
