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Kulturowa teoria literatury jako styl badawczy
Cultural Theory of Literature as a Research Style

Author(s): Paweł Bohuszewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: research style; cultural theory of literature; paradigm; anti-theory-centris:, literary studies worldview

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the cultural theory of literature project as a research style. Thiscategory allows us to grasp its specificity. So far, scholars have described it from theperspective of theory-centric science studies, which treated it as an anti-paradigm.The change in optics allows us to see that while the cultural theory of literature is nota paradigm, neither can it be considered a loose assemblage of individuals united bythe external circumstances of working in the same place. Instead, the cultural theory ofliterature is a research style, namely a system of “perceptual, practical, and evaluativepredispositions” that serves as “a tool for mobilizing and combining disparate resources,practices, and claims”.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 115-131
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish