The paper delineates and examines the distortion and demolishment of classical literary concepts and approaches and their replacement in the postcolonial studies and some other similar-sounding paradigms with designations, which are their badly camouflaged and distorted replicas. As a consequence, these replicas are used in the service of various non-literary and non-scientific purposes. Three strategies of camouflaging and distortion are under scrutiny in the paper: “the strategy of political correctness“, “the strategy of conceptual vampirization“, “the strategy of deformed shell“.
The paradigm of deconceptualized code words in some areas of literary studies in the 21 century
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Blagovest Zlatanov
Universität Heidelberg, GermanyБлаговест Златанов e професор по българистика и литературна теория в Славистичния институт на Хайделбергския университет, Германия. Автор е на книгите „Сборникът "The Shade of the Balkans". Участници и контексти на възникването” (2020), „'Софийският лъв в клетка'. Модели, мистификации и рецепция на сборника "The Shade of the Balkans"” (2020), „Интенция и смисъл на стиховия текст” (2002), както и на многобройни студии и статии. Неговите научни интереси са в областта на българския литературен модернизъм, на рецепцията на българската литература и фолклор в немскоезичните и англоезичните страни и присъствието на българистиката в международната славистика.
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Abstract:ABSTRACTThe paper delineates and examines the distortion and demolishment of classical literary concepts and approaches and their replacement in the postcolonial studies and some other similar-sounding paradigms with designations, which are their badly camouflaged and distorted replicas. As a consequence, these replicas are used in the service of various non-literary and non-scientific purposes. Three strategies of camouflaging and distortion are under scrutiny in the paper: “the strategy of political correctness“, “the strategy of conceptual vampirization“, “the strategy of deformed shell“.
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