Przeciw „literaturze w sosie własnym” .Edward Kasperski, Kategorie komparatystyki. Warszawa: nakładem Wydziału Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2010

• Authors: Ewa Rajewska

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Against “Literature Stewed in its Own Juice”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Kategorie komparatystyki [Categories of Comparative Literature] by Edward Kasperski presents comparative literature as a discipline going far beyond literary studies, responding to the needs of human consciousness, which develops constantly through comparison not only of objects and phenomena, but also of concepts, cultures and civilizations. According to the author, comparative research in this broad sense “should be the alternative to conceptions of «stewing literature in its own juice», that prevailed in XXth-century scholarship”. Literary studies, once a midwife of comparative literature, are now a subfield of cultural comparative studies, although Kasperski admits that literature has a privileged position in his discussion – it is his comparandum. The author declares himself an adherent of comparative literature “open” to visual images, film, theatre, music and dance as well as philosophy, cultural studies, literary anthropology, theory of discourse, hermeneutics. However, Edward Kasperski, is simultaneously not willing to open comparative literature to a perspective different than Western, unlike Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who has proposed an inclusive comparative literature.

Keywords

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Comparative literature; Reviews; Edward Kasperski

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Pages: p. 267-276

Contributors

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Ewa Rajewska

• Zakład Literatury XX Wieku, Teorii Literatury i Sztuki Przekładu, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, u. Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań