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No 3 (54) 2018

On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science

On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science

Aleksandr Nikołajewicz Wiesiełowski

translated by Halyna Dubyk (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw) and Piotr Mitzner (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)

The full version of this article is available  in Polish  in the printed version of Tekstualia and in the on-line subscription.

Aleksander Wiesiełowski article On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science is based on his lecture that inaugurated his class in world literature at the University of Petersburg in 1870, which marks the beginning of the Russian scholar’s affi liation with that university. Problematizing the understanding of world literature and the methods of its study at German and French universities, Wiesiełowski describes the usefulness of the comparative method in the historical study of literature. He assumes that broad generalizations are possible and emphasizes the applicability of the comparative method across disciplines.

The sample of Polish version of this article is available here: https://tekstualia.pl/index.php?p=numery&s=porownanieimetoda&lang=pl 

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