Slavic studies during Jagić’s lifetime and in the future. Slavic studies between Slavic philology and interdisciplinary solidarity Cover Image

Slavistika u Jagićevo doba i u budućnosti
Slavic studies during Jagić’s lifetime and in the future. Slavic studies between Slavic philology and interdisciplinary solidarity

Author(s): Zvonko Kovač
Subject(s): South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti - Zavod za znanstveni rad Varaždin
Keywords: Slavic philology; Slavic studies; national philologies; interdisciplinary solidarity;

Summary/Abstract: It is important to recollect briefly what Slavic philology as a discipline was like during Jagić’s lifetime. A literary scholar used to make use of entire philological area of study, in terms of language and literature, which naturally required a broader knowledge of Slavic studies, ranging from Old Church Slavic and national languages to a number of competences in literary history, textology, comparative literature, etc. In the subsequent development of Slavic philology, the latter was first divided into distinct areas of study, i.e. Slavic languages or Slavic literatures, while today we witness specialization for various Slavic philologies, even more specific, to literary historians and literary theorists or linguists, specialising in a distinct field of study within one particular Slavic literature or one particular Slavic language. We have come to the point where Slavic studies are almost extinct as a distinct scientific and university study programme, and a question rises whether further development of modern Slavic studies is still possible. In this paper, an interdisciplinary solidarity is advocated, to be achieved by double disciplinarity or multidisciplinarity, which would provide a multilanguage, intercultural and multiliterary education.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 115-129
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Croatian