Methodology

The course offers a historical overview of methods of literary science, their systematics and individual presentations. It defines in an accessible way the use of gnoseological and logical methods, philological method and textual criticism, linguistic methods, biographical, Geistesgeschichte, positivistic, existencialist and marxist methods, and then focuses in detail on phenomenological, formalistic and structuralist methods, immanent interpretation, New Criticism, poststructuralist, semiotic, decontsruction, psychoanalytic, neomarxist, feminist methods, new historicism, empirical literary science and reception aesthetics. The course also presents the most recent methodological approaches. It emphasises the principle of methodological pluralism.

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- Marjan Dović, Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature. Ljubljana 2004 COBISS.SI-ID - 216565248
- Janko Kos, Literarne tipologije. Ljubljana, 1989 COBISS.SI-ID - 15895040
- Janko Kos, Uvod v metodologijo literarne vede. Primerjalna književnost 1988, št. 1, 1–17 COBISS.SI-ID - 5656162
- Aleš Pogačnik (ur.), Sodobna literarna teorija. Ljubljana 1995 COBISS.SI-ID - 45719552
- Tomo Virk, Moderne metode literarne vede in njihove filozofsko teoretske osnove. Ljubljana 1999 (in ponatisi) COBISS.SI-ID - 104598016
- Tomo Virk, Primerjalna književnost na prelomu tisočletja: kritični pregled. Ljubljana 2007 COBISS.SI-ID - 236661760
- Marko Juvan, Literarna veda v rekonstrukciji: uvod v sodobni študij literature. Ljubljana 2006 COBISS.SI-ID - 226543360
- Marko Juvan, Prešernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem. Ljubljana 2013 COBISS.SI-ID - 264144640