Comparative literature as philology

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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.