Slavistika a komparatistika : hrozby a perspektivy

Title in English Slavonic and Comparative Studies : Threats and Perspectives
Authors

POSPÍŠIL Ivo

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Savremena srpska i češka slavistička istraživanja / Současná srbská a česká slavistická bádání
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Keywords Slavonic studies; comparative and genre studies; crisis; "new philology"; interpoeticity; terminology and methodology
Description The author of the present contribution manifests the various traditions of the entity of the two spheres – Slavonic and comparative studies – pointing out various threats in the present time, its modifications and the search for the new positions in humanities and social sciences. His reflections are based on the traditions of the Brno Slavonic literary studies the interwar disciplinary contexts he demonstrates, and also the relations of comparative literary and genre studies which especially the Prague-Brno school cultivated. At the same time, he shows the strength, but also the threats concernnig the potentials of their advancement in the context of globalization, the formation of supra-national entities on the one hand, and the effort to strengthen the national identity on the other and, at the same time, the search for new philolological unity or integrity in which language and its textual outputs play the key role in the grasp of literature as a whole again.
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