Articles

Vol. 38 (2021)

Science of literature in the context of Siegfried Schmidt’s theory

Pages: 189-197

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Abstract

Professionalization, empirical verification, interdisciplinarity and usefulness – those four imperatives will be presented in this article as pillars of the theory (also known as text theory) devised by Siegfried Schmidt. This concept is concentrated around (broadly understood) literary studies viewed from the perspective of a constructivist paradigm, and the postulates presented within the concept’s framework gain a special meaning while performing beneficial scientific activity in the area of literary studies.