The text is dealing with the problems of specific features of contemporary comparative
literature, especially of the factors of its identity as a discipline deeply-
rooted in traditional philology, regarded as a proto-paradigm of any comparative
studies. It was philology in its Hellenistic pattern that factually inspired intertextuality
as a method of reading and understanding texts widely recognised as
belonging to the literary canon (e.g. the canon of the nine melic poets: Alcaeus,
Alcman, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, and Stesichorus)
which shaped the poetic norms in the spatial system of Mediterranean literary
culture. The „comparative” point of view adopted by philology was then
obvious and naturally unavoidable. The normative poetics of the antiquity, later
on inherited from the Ancients by the early modern philology and writers (both
the poets and the rhetoric prose writers), influenced the pre-romantic ideals of
imitatio and emulatio, which - after a relatively short period of the „anxiety of influence”
(Harold Bloom) - seem to fascinate contemporary post-postmodern literary
aesthetics again.
keywords in Polish:
Maria Cieśla-Korytowska, komparatystyka, filologia
keywords in English:
Maria Cieśla-Korytowska, comparative literatue, philology
number of pulisher's sheets:
0,66
affiliation:
Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Historii Literatury Staropolskiej