Some Remarks on the Methodological Compulsions in the Studies on Old-Polish Literature Cover Image

Uwagi o przymusach metodologicznych w badaniach nad literaturą staropolską
Some Remarks on the Methodological Compulsions in the Studies on Old-Polish Literature

Author(s): Agnieszka Czechowicz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: methodology; Old-Polish literature; reconstruction of the specific character of the time past; elementary repertoire of the rules of the text under study; researcher's creative; metodologia; literatura staropolska; rekonstrukcja artystycznej specyfiki min

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a hidden polemic with the texts that have recently been published (not quoted by their names or indicated in the footnotes). These texts have brought forth a diagnosis that there is a delay in terms of methodology with regard to the studies on Old-Polish literature and have postulated their application to the studies on ancient literature. The author formulates her belief that traditional philology is indispensable in the studies on Old-Polish literature with an awareness that there should be a free choice in selecting the method of its interpretation. These text emerges from a protest against the rhetoric of methodological directives formulated under the influence of fashion, ideology, or fatigue with the object of research and from radical distrust to methodological directives as such, and the majority of directives in general.

  • Issue Year: 56/2008
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish