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.

Darko Dolinar, Hermenevtika in literarna veda. Ljubljana 1991 COBISS.SI-ID - 24254208
Marjan Dovic, Sistemske in empiricne obravnave literature. Ljubljana 2004 COBISS.SI-ID - 216565248
Janko Kos, Uvod v metodologijo literarne vede. Primerjalna književnost 1988, št. 1, 1–17 COBISS.SI-ID - 5656162
Aleš Pogacnik (ur.), Sodobna literarna teorija. Ljubljana 1995 COBISS.SI-ID - 45719552
Tomo Virk, Duhovna zgodovina. Ljubljana 1989 COBISS.SI-ID - 15969792
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