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Kryzys literatury i literaturoznawstwa oraz próby jego przezwyciężania
Crisis of Literature and Literary Studies and Ways of its Overcoming

Author(s): Danuta Szymonik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: crisis of literature as an institution; crisis of Literary Studies; crisis of literature as a central cultural agency

Summary/Abstract: The paper reflects upon the contemporary crisis situation in literature as an institution and in Literary Studies as a discipline closely related to it. Special emphasis is made upon a dramatic decline in a taste for literature and Literary Studies. Referring to Russian and foreign scholars, the author states the reasons why literature no longer remains a central agency of acculturation and reality production. Along with it, she analyzes attempts to break the aforesaid stalemate.

  • Issue Year: 64/2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 33-42
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish