Virginia Woolf in Zofka Kveder

pomen osvobojene pisateljice za etično razsežnost literature

Neja Jeraj Sedej (Author), Tomo Virk (Mentor)

Abstract

Literatura ima med umetnostmi za človeško civilizacijo posebno vlogo, saj je neločljivo povezana s tistim, kar človeka v mnogih pogledih (tudi ontološko) določa – z etiko. Etično razsežnost, ki je tesno prepletena s spoznavno in estetsko funkcijo, so v literaturi prepoznali že stari Grki, danes pa diskurz o njenem pomenu predstavlja pomembno samostojno vejo literarne vede, ki je razcvet doživela v drugi polovici 20. stoletja in je o svojem predmetu vse prej kot enotna. Do neskladnosti prihaja predvsem v vprašanju, kako oz. na kakšen način literatura deluje etično. V tej razpravi se osredotočam na dve teoretični liniji: v povezavi z deli Zofke Kveder na aristotelovsko, ki etični potencial literature vidi v njeni zmožnosti etične vzgoje človeka (širjenja človekove etične občutljivosti, empatije skozi fikcijo in pripovednost) in v povezavi z deli Virginie Woolf na dekonstruktivistično, ki se etično udejstvuje skozi svojo metodo (prevpraševanja vsakršnih pozicij moči in spodkopavanja uveljavljene oblasti, ki povzroča in vzdržuje družbeno neravnovesje). Skozi interpretacijo njunih del ponazorim, kako je t.i. »ženska literatura« pomembno prispevala k obema etičnima pristopoma v književnosti in se sprašujem, ali bi bil svet lepši – predvsem, vendar nikakor ne izključno za ženske (ki so v zahodni kulturi historično zapostavljene in sistematično zatirane) – če bi bil njihov glas slišan že prej.

Keywords

literatura in etika;feministična literarna veda;ženska pisava;

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Language:	Slovenian
Year of publishing:	2025
Typology:	2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:	UL FF - Faculty of Arts
Publisher:	[N. Jeraj Sedej]
UDC:	82.091:305
COBISS:	247586051
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Secondary language:	English
Secondary title:	Virginia Woolf and Zofka Kveder. The Significance of Woman Writers' Liberation for the Ethical Dimension of Literature
Secondary abstract:	Among the arts, literature occupies a unique position in relation to human civilization, as it is inextricably bound to that which, in many respects—including the ontological—defines what it means to be human: that is ethics. The ethical dimension, deeply interwoven with literature’s epistemological and aesthetic functions, was already recognized by the Ancient Greeks, and in contemporary literary studies, the discourse on ethical implications of literature has developed into a distinct and influential field, which saw a significant rise in the latter half of the twentieth century. However, this field remains far from unified, particularly when it comes to the question of how literature operates ethically. This paper focuses on two key theoretical approaches: the Aristotelian tradition, which locates literature’s ethical potential in its capacity to cultivate higher moral awareness and stronger empathy in the reader through fiction and narrative technique—an approach explored here through the works of Zofka Kveder; and the newer, deconstructivist perspective, which understands literature’s ethical function as inherent in its method of interrogating structures of power and destabilizing established authorities that sustain social imbalance—examined in the context of Virginia Woolf’s writing. Through an interpretive analysis of their works, I will demonstrate how so-called women’s writing has meaningfully contributed to both ethical paradigms in literary theory. Furthermore, I consider whether the world might have been a more just place—particularly, though not exclusively, for women (who have been historically marginalized and systematically oppressed within Western culture)—had their voices been heard sooner.
Secondary keywords:	literature and ethics;feminist literary theory;women's writing;Woolf;Virginia;1882-1941;Kveder;Zofka;1878-1926;
Type (COBISS):	Bachelor thesis/paper
Study programme:	1011024
Embargo end date (OpenAIRE):	1970-01-01
Thesis comment:	Univ. v Ljubljani, Filozofska fak., Oddelek za primerjalno književnost in literarno teorijo
Pages:	IV, 80 str.
ID:	27245454