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Modern Literature as a Form of Discourse and Knowledge of Society [Literatura Moderna como forma de discurso e de conhicemento sobre a sociadade]

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2018
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Sevänen, Erkki
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Sevänen, Erkki. (2018). Modern Literature as a Form of Discourse and Knowledge of Society [Literatura Moderna como forma de discurso e de conhicemento sobre a sociadade].  Sociologias, 20 (48) , 48-85. 10.1590/15174522-020004803.
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Abstract

Since the 1960’s, epistemological skepticism and constructionism have had a firm position in literary studies. Structuralism’s late phase, post-structuralism, certain sub-branches of current narratology, and certain representatives of recent sociology of literature, in particular, have maintained this sort of philosophical line of thought in literary studies. According to it, literature’s epistemic function can chiefly lie in that it possibly helps us to deconstruct different discourses or world views and to understand their strengths and weaknesses. The article argues for the view that these research trends operate with a unidimensional conception of reality and with a questionable version of constructionism. Hence, they do not understand the specificity of societal-cultural reality and social actors’ specific epistemic relation to it. On this basis, modern literature can be seen as a discursive practice with epistemic and evaluative properties. It is a practice that usually deals with the problems that are caused by the development of societal-cultural reality and that are felt personally important by the authors of literary texts. Often it is just literary texts that first give a public expression to problems such as these.

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Desde la década de 1960, el escepticismo epistemológico y el construccionismo se han consolidado en los estudios literarios. La fase tardía del estructuralismo, el posestructuralismo, ciertas subdivisiones de la narratología actual y ciertos representantes de la sociología reciente de la literatura, en particular, han mantenido este tipo de línea filosófica de pensamiento en los estudios literarios. Según esta corriente, la función epistémica de la literatura estaría radicada principalmente en su capacidad de ayudar a deconstruir diferentes discursos o visiones de mundo y a comprender sus fortalezas y debilidades. Este artículo sostiene que tales tendencias de investigación operan con una concepción unidimensional de la realidad y con una versión cuestionable del construccionismo. Por lo tanto, no logran captar la especificidad de la realidad sociocultural, ni la relación epistémica específica de los actores sociales con esta realidad. A partir de ahí, se puede ver la literatura moderna como una práctica discursiva con propiedades epistémicas y evaluativas. Es una práctica que, en general, se ocupa de los problemas causados por el desarrollo de la realidad sociocultural, los cuales son vistos subjetivamente por los autores de los textos literarios como importantes. A menudo son los textos literarios los que por primera vez expresan públicamente tales problemas.

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knowledge   skepticism   constructionism   discursive practice   values   conocimiento   escepticismo   construccionismo   práctica discursiva   valores   
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