Mezi analýzou, revizí a popularizací: historie literární teorie podle Lubomíra Doležela

This study focuses on one of the most central leitmotifs in Lubomír Doležel’s lifetime work, the history of literary theory. This leitmotif offers an opportunity to follow the development of a substantial part of the work delivered by one of the most prominent theoreticians of Czech origin. Hence this leitmotif is followed from the author’s early involvement in analyses of contemporary and historic linguistic concepts, through his analyses of concepts based on the traditions of formalist and structuralist poetics and aesthetics, to his insights into post-modernist and post-structuralist theoretical issues. The study is based on the author’s studies and monographic works of which Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress, published in 1990, is the most highly acclaimed in the international context. All the concepts and terms used in the study are viewed and analysed in the broader context of the development of Doležel’s own theoretical work.