Toward Cultural Comparative Studies. The Limits and Identity of Notions in Present-Day Literary-Studies Discourse Cover Image

W stronę komparatystyki kulturowej. O granicach i tożsamości pojęć we współczesnym dyskursie literaturoznawczym
Toward Cultural Comparative Studies. The Limits and Identity of Notions in Present-Day Literary-Studies Discourse

Author(s): Dorota Utracka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Literackie im. Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: comparative studies (theory); comparatival methodology; cultural comparative studies

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt at taking a broader perspective on the object,scope, and methodological orientation of today's cultural comparative studiesand on its status and role in the trans-discipline, anthropological-cultural turn inthe literary-theoretic discourse at the turn of the 21st century. The present considerationsare meant to confront the semantic scope of the notions 'inter-artisticcomparative studies', 'inter-semiotic comparative studies', 'inter-media comparativestudies', in the context of methodological functionality of the notion of 'intertextuality' and so-called 'interdisciplinary comparative studies'. The subsequentthreads in this reconstruction of the directions of our contemporary literary-theoretic discourse refer to: text as a cultural medium; multidisciplinarycharacter of comparative studies (post-paradigmatic status of cultural comparativestudies); comparativist perspectives of the anthropological turn in the humanities,literary ethnogenesis and 'imagology' as a comparatival methodology.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 245-267
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish