S one strane kanona – historizacija, norma i vrijednost - Protrka Štimec, Marina (Array, 2012)
The canon debate opened up a new perspective on mutually connected social, historical and aesthetic processes that determined a national literary canon formation. From that per- spective, studying the production of a classic work as a single and “universal” aesthetic fact actually became revealing different kinds of hierarchisations, denivelations and all the re- sulting differences based on and produced by a literary canon. Doing that, we have argued the fact that canon formation can be influenced to the same extent by the affirmative texts that single it out and glorify it and on the other hand, by the texts that question, distort and ironise it. In my presentation I will first introduce the theories of historisation and then I will question them with a broader counter-culturalist point of view, introducing a thesis on unbribable authority of the aesthetic: its transforming ability which turns it repeatedly into a subversive social force/fact, always outside of corrupting social mechanisms, always on the edge, on a margin, in a space of singularity and newness.