Strah i ludilo - prolegomena za antropološko proučavanje savremene žanr-književnosti

Abstract

Razmatra se motiv poklapanja prostorne i/ili vremenske izmeštenosti sa takvom izmeštenošću u mentalnom i/ili stvarnosnom smislu u tzv. žanr književnosti koja je označena odrednicom "naučna fantastika, fantastika i horor". Cilj je da se ukaže na mogući pravac antropološkog proučavanja date komunikacijske forme, na osnovu toga koje uslove i predmet proučavanja, ali i samo proučavanje, treba da zavrede da bismo mogli da ih označimo kao antropološke. PR Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 145035.

This paper represents a continuation of my previous analysis of the motive of the overlapping of spatial and/or temporal dislocation, with such a dislocation in a mental and/or real meaning, in the work of Stephen King. In this paper, I consider the same motive in the so-called genre literature. This label, referring to science fiction, fantasy and horror, is used to display the criteria that the form of cultural communication we commonly call "literature" has to fulfill in order to be subject to valid anthropological analysis and interpretation. Starting from the premise that - if we aspire to meaningful conclusions - the subject of research must be shared, or common, I have studied the genre usage of the mentioned motive in the communicational sense both in the context of New England’s literary tradition and sci-fi, fantasy and horror as such. The conclusions support some premises of anthropological theory: the necessity of existence of certain communicational resources common to individual creators and their audience, and the necessity of shared competence for the use of those resources. .