Paradigma a Mukařovského pojetí literární struktury

This is a response to Aleš Haman’s “Dějiny literatury, literární dějiny nebo dějiny literárnosti?” (A History of Literature, Literary History, or a History of Literariness?) published in Česká literatura, 4/2006, in which Haman considers, among other things, the relationship between Mukařovský’s concept of the norm and Papoušek’s concept of the paradigm. The author explains that he sees Mukařovský’s concept of the “norm” as “layers or simply as individually definable entities with a more or less homogenous essence,” whereas he sees the paradigm “as a set of possibilities of imagination and discourses carried on in a specific historical period by a specific community.” The author sees the Structuralist “norm” as a way to analyze a particular work, whereas he understands research into the paradigm of a period as an opportunity to study a work of literature in the context of its times.