| Annotation: | The aim of the project is a holistic description of the changing contours of European literature as a unity in multiplicity, which in the 20th century was grasped by literary-historical schools and individuals in syntheses (history of European literature) and in criticism, while the starting point of literary-historical and aesthetic reflection did not have to be an autonomously reflected Europeanness. We identify three clusters of criteria according to which the coherence of European literature and its history was perceived in the 20th century: 1. themes, motifs, topoi; 2. epochs, developmental series, innovations; 3. ethical, religious, political, or value context. The project explores the potential and limits of reflection on European literature in authors such as E. Auerbach, E.R. Curtius, W. Benjamin, A. Jolles, G. Lukács, A. Szerb, L. Földényi, F.X. Šalda, V. Černý, J. Felix, M.M. Bakhtin, M. ter Braak, Cz. Miłosz, T. Boy-Żeleński, W. Gombrowicz, Th. Mann, J. Ortega y Gasset, A. Gide, J.-P. Sartre, a. o |