Canons A(nd)Cross-Cultural Boundaries (Or, Whose Canon are We Talking about?)

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La Interferencia Intersistémica Como Aproximación Al Canon

“…Solo así se logrará un conocimiento ecuánime del funcionamiento del sistema. Siguiendo la terminología de Walter Mignolo (1991), se trataría de huir de los cánones vocacionales para intentar establecer un canon epistémico, verificado de acuerdo a criterios más objetivos y, si se quiere, de un modo más científico. Y a este respecto las teorías sistémicas (Tötösy de Zepetnek, 1992), con la Teoría de los Polisistemas a la cabeza, se muestran totalmente competentes 1 .…”

“…El lenguaje es una entidad que aún en contextos no democráticos adquiere un comportamiento autónomo, a pesar de las presiones ejercidas desde el poder -político o académico-para controlar las dinámicas de su génesis y uso, de tal forma que, salvo en algunos contextos, el lenguaje refleja la vida y sus dinámicas, y no a la inversa. El que se constate esta serie de neologismos es indicativo de que en el polisistema se ha producido un cambio, identificado con una interferencia que nos demuestra la canonización de una obra o un modelo y que nos aproxima a la posibilidad de un canon epistémico como el enunciado por Walter Mignolo (1991).…”

Interdisciplinarity and the intellectual base of literature studies: citation analysis of highly cited monographs

“…Literature studies differ from other scholarly disciplines in as far as there are two levels: the epistemic and the vocational (Mignolo 1991), and these levels are evident in the list of the 20 most frequently cited publications. When teaching literature you teach both the 'discipline'-the culture, methods and theories of literature studies (epistemic) but you also teach the 'vocational' level-literary works (Mignolo 1991).…”

“…When teaching literature you teach both the 'discipline'-the culture, methods and theories of literature studies (epistemic) but you also teach the 'vocational' level-literary works (Mignolo 1991). When studying the citing of sources in the literature field the intersection of the two levels is evident, as scholarly/ theoretical sources (epistemic) and literary/fictional sources (vocational) are mixed.…”

Quality and influence in literary work: evaluating the 'educated imagination'

“…The task of persons called upon to evaluate literary outputs has never been more challenging. Note that the work itself may fit within one of two trajectories: it may be a work of art, or vocational in nature (i.e., fiction; prose; poetry), or it may be epistemic (i.e., cultural; theoretical; critical) (Mignolo, 1991). Both trajectories require 'research' and both stem from the educated imagination, but in different ways.…”