CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Kachurin, Artem |
|---|---|
| Title | Implications Of French Theory In Approaches To Medieval Literature |
| Summary | Abstract Medieval studies, over the past half-century, have been influenced by many intellectual trends emerging from philosophy, linguistics, and social sciences. The Linguistic turn reifies, to some extent, all of them. The intellectual trend under scrutiny in my work – (post)structuralism/the French theory – has been the inseparable part of humanities and social sciences for serval decades; and medieval studies is not the exception. However, the coherent study taking into account not only the communication between the high-profile intellectuals of the twentieth century, but material (linguistic and extra-linguistic) conditions underlying the present-day academic discourse has not been undertaken yet. By statistical analysis of the large set of present-day academic texts devoted to studying medieval cultures, the first part of thesis investigates conceptual characteristics of discourse, such as terms and themes being employed. In the second part, the enunciative-pragmatics-based case study aims to show how the style of thinking and writing of (post)structuralist-inspired academics affects the object of their interest, namely, medieval cultures. |
| Supervisor | Wilke, Carsten; Weberman, David |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/kachurin_artem.pdf |
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