T.T. Cloete as literary critic, theorist and literary historian (Part 2): T.T. Cloete as theorist of literary history
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | T.T. Cloete as literary critic, theorist and literary historian (Part 2): T.T. Cloete as theorist of literary history T.T. Cloete as literêre kritikus, teoretikus en literatuurhistorikus (Deel 2): T.T. Cloete as literêr-historiese teoretikus | |
| Creator | van Coller, Hendrik | |
| Description | It had already been stated that Siegfried Schmidt (in Hjort 1992) discerned four ‘roles’ within the Literary System, that of literary production, dissemination, reception and literary processing. According to this definition, T.T. Cloete, the well-known author and critic, had played all of these roles. In this second part of a two-part article the focus is on Cloete as a literary historian and in particular on his theoretical (methodological) perceptions pertaining to literary history. It is abundantly clear that in all of his different roles a historical awareness was always present. For Cloete the literary work of art was inbedded in a historical timeframe which imposed hermeneutical imperatives on the critic; on the other hand the literary work of art is present in the here and now and accessible to any skilled reader. One of the objectives of this study is to argue that there was thus an implied dichotomy in Cloete’s thinking on literary history. On the one hand there had been a relativistic view that positioned literary texts in the past, and on the other hand a normative view that implied that certain texts (due to inherent qualities like integration and complexity) could gain a certain permanence. In the last part of this article-true to the narrative approach, an implied confrontation with Cloete’s (methodological) views of literary history lead to a personal standpoint as a confrontation with the self (cf. Sools 2009:27). This explication of a personal view on the writing of a literary history (as an implied homage to Cloete) concluded the article. Daar is reeds beweer dat die bekende literatuurwetenskaplike en digter T.T. Cloete, volgens Siegfried Schmidt (1992) se definisie al vier rolle wat hy onderskei binne die literêre sisteem (dié van literêre produksie, verspreiding, resepsie en literêre verwerking), vertolk het. In hierdie tweede gedeelte van ’n tweedelige artikel word veral gekyk na Cloete se rol as literatuurhistorikus. Daar word gefokus op sy teoretiese (metodologiese) besinning oor die literatuurgeskiedenis. Dit is egter opvallend dat ’n historiese bemoeienis met die literêre werk eintlik na vore tree in al hierdie sogenaamde rolle waarvan Schmidt praat. Vir Cloete is die literêre werk enersyds ingebed in ’n historiese tydsraamwerk wat bepaalde hermeneutiese imperatiewe aan die kritikus oplê, byvoorbeeld morfologiese rekonstruksie van ’n historiese konteks; andersyds is die literêre teks hier-en-nou aanwesig en is dit toeganklik vir kundige lesers. Hieruit spreek ’n relativistiese kyk op literatuur, maar daarteenoor normatiwiteit, want vir Cloete is dit slegs die tekste wat kompleks en geïntegreerd is wat die tyd kan oorlewe. In die slot van hierdie artikel–tipies trouens van die narratiewe aanpak wat hier gevolg word (cf. Sools 2009:27), is daar naas ’n konfrontasie met die (metodologiese) uitgangspunte van Cloete oor die literatuurgeskiedenis ook selfkonfrontasie. ’n Persoonlike siening van die skryf van ’n literatuurgeskiedenis (as ’n implisiete huldebetoning aan Cloete) rond die argument af. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-09-29 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v37i1.1316 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 7 pages Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 7 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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