| title: | Centre and Periphery of Estonian Literary Culture |
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| reg no: | ETF6521 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | University of Tartu |
| head of project: | Rein Veidemann |
| duration: | 01.01.2005 - 31.12.2007 |
| description: | Traditionally, the methodological archetype underlying the writings on the Estonian literary history has been a bi-bibliographical or eclectic mix of different methods. This project suggests an alternative approach viewing the Estonian literature culture as a processual whole. The basic concepts come form Tartu-Moscow school of cultural semiotics. The dynamic meaning of culture, lietary culture included, unfolds on a centre-versus-periphery plane. Both "centre" and "periphery" ar releaved in textuality as a mutual communication of texts, as well as in the genesesis and functioning of an individual literary text. If a literary culture is described in the centre-periphery paradigm, it can be represented as a "seismic" process. This research project is actually a pilot project (an introduction) to a broader state financed topic, which aim is to compile a new voluminous framework "Estonian Literary Culture: Essence, History and Meaning". Examination of Estonian literary culture from the aspect of centre and periphery means firstly and foremost looking for answers the following problem questions; how has the canon (centre) of Estonian literary culture formed and developed; how are the temporal and spatial perihheries positsioned in the Estonian literature and in what way have they influenced the literary canon; what kind of relation is between the kernel texts representing the centre and the paratexts representing the periphery; whether and how the works of different authors can be illustrated form the aspects of centre and periphery; and last but not least - how does Estonian literature function as a national literature and as the periphery of the world literature. |
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Arne Merilai | University of Tartu | Associate Professor | |
| 2. | Rein Veidemann | University of Tartu | Professor of estonian literature, Tartu University | |