Komparatystyka i czytanie dawności. Mediewalizm jako zjawisko translacyjne
Comparative Studies – A Method for Reading Antiquity. The Case of Medievalism

Summary/Abstract: The past is not a constant, but an ever-changing conglomerate of meanings. Making an attempt at applying comparative tools, such as theories of translation, discourse, intertextuality, etc. to the study of the antiquity, this paper illustrates the wide spectrum of interrelations between the present day (considered in particular within the perspective of new media and technologies) and the Middle Ages, or as one should term it, its cultural readings, referred to as medievalism. To that end, it undertakes the analysis of phenomena from within the scope of communication technology from a transcultural and ahistorical perspective: media aetas – new media, permitting their description as the effect of the coexistence of cultural practices which had already occurred within the medieval tradition, and thus formulating conclusions regarding the formation of relationships between contemporary man and the world through the media.

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