Interpoeticity as a Crucial Node in the Construction of the Complexes of National and World Literature and Genre Systematics

Abstract

The author of the present article deals with the problems of comparative and genre studies in relation to the construction of the complexes of national and world literature. He regards as a crucial node the category of interpoeticity and the new philology as an entity of linguistics and literary criticism plus the new terminology of comparative and genre studies. The conflict between the area and philological concept could be solved especially by applying the term “interpoeticity” based on the concept of interliterariness and specific interliterary communities and centrisms. The concept of interpoeticity is a dominant node permeating and mutually connectíng both comparative and genre studies functioning as a specific bridge between the intrinsic and extrinsic spheres associated with literary “comparatistics” and “genology” which deal with comparison and genre analysis, not speaking about the fact that both disciplines are intrinsically permeated: there are no genres without comparison and no comparison outside the sphere of literary genres. The author suggests a solution which should not abandon a certain utopian character in the sense of the reflections of the existing philology and of the gradual integration of more or less innovative approaches. He accentuates the necessity of the modernization and reconstruction or reconstitution of genre studies connected with strengthening literary diachrony suppressed in the course of the dominance of immanent methods based on its wider concept tending towards the integration of gender studies, feminist criticism, multiculturality, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and area studies and also “intrinsic” disciplines, such as narratology or theory of the plot/sujetology, but rationally, realistically, moderately without fashionable hyperbolization and without resigning on the positivist accuracy and handling of the facts.