Short narrative prose: problems of terminology and methodologyPospíšil, Ivo (Avtor) formation of short narrative proseshort and long narrative proseliterary methodologyterminologytheory of literaturediachronic and synchronic approachesthe national and the internationalthe necessity of the formation of a comparative encyclopaedia of literary terminologyThe paper deals with the general problem of short narrative prose from the terminological and methodological points of view. It starts from the formation of short narrative in European prose and with the history of various names given to the specific genres of short narrative in different national literatures. It accentuates the similarities as well as the differences between the terms (short story, novella, novel etc.) trying to interpret the problems of the crucial problem of differentiation, the enigma of quantity and quality, of short and long narrative prose as well as the problem of the novel, its evolution, structure and limits in relation to short narrative prose. The kernel of the subject is found in both diachronic and synchronic approaches, in the relationship of methodology and terminology and the national and the international. The author attempts to compare various languages and national literatures to demonstrate how complicated and complex the whole subject is. At the end of his contribution he demonstrates the need for the formation of a comparative encyclopaedia of literary terminology such as the research team from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno has been working on. 20062024-06-07 10:32:16Neznano158414sl