From Literature to Culture – and Back?
Keywords:
literary studies, literary history, comparative literature, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity, counter-culturalist turnAbstract
Paper deals with shifting paradigms of so called Literary Studies since the end of 19th century when national literary histories were replaced by Comparative Literature. However, as the idea of literature promoted by Comparative Literature rested on the priority of European over non-European literatures, after several decades of its implementation this underlying discriminative pattern came to the fore being replaced by Cultural Studies. The same recently happened to Cultural Studies whose idea of culture was surreptitiously linked with an elite idea of literature. The “counter-culturalist turn” (re)introduced the idea of singular literature.References
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