Professional paper
SLAVIC STUDIES DURING JAGIĆ’S LIFETIME AND IN THE FUTURE. SLAVIC STUDIES BETWEEN SLAVIC PHILOLOGY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SOLIDARITY
ZVONKO KOVAČ
; Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu
Abstract
It is important to recollect briefly what Slavic philology as a discipline was like
during Jagić’s lifetime. A literary scholar used to make use of entire philological area of
study, in terms of language and literature, which naturally required a broader knowledge
of Slavic studies, ranging from Old Church Slavic and national languages to a
number of competences in literary history, textology, comparative literature, etc. In the
subsequent development of Slavic philology, the latter was first divided into distinct
areas of study, i.e. Slavic languages or Slavic literatures, while today we witness specialization
for various Slavic philologies, even more specific, to literary historians and
literary theorists or linguists, specialising in a distinct field of study within one particular
Slavic literature or one particular Slavic language. We have come to the point
where Slavic studies are almost extinct as a distinct scientific and university study programme,
and a question rises whether further development of modern Slavic studies is
still possible. In this paper, an interdisciplinary solidarity is advocated, to be achieved
by double disciplinarity or multidisciplinarity, which would provide a multilanguage,
intercultural and multiliterary education.
Keywords
Slavic philology; Slavic studies; national philologies; interdisciplinary solidarity
Hrčak ID:
131805
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Publication date:
29.12.2014.
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