Krytyka po literaturze

Literary Criticism after Literature The article is focused on literary criticism within the post-literary formation. The author describes it in the historical and cultural perspective of institutional changes and the consequences of different ways of defining literature and its functions. The term “post-literary” is used here to name the present condition of literature incorporated into cyberculture. This inclusion results not only in traditional readership ceasing to function as a privileged reading practice, but above all in dehierarchisation, heteronomisation, deprofessionalisation and egalitarianisation of literature (the changeability of sender and recipient roles; ease of publishing; change of text intelligibility and dispossession of literature from an earmarked discursive space). Therefore, the circulation and the very status of literary criticism has also evolved. The author shows that the literary criticism that has emerged from the experience of the new media is not only entertainment oriented and that it does not have to be non-intellectual. He gives a detailed description of the key differences between traditional and new criticism.