Poetics (of) Tomorrow

Abstract

The given article is an introduction to the discussion devoted to poetics as a literary discipline as well as a subject of university and school teaching. It includes an attempt to order the issues connected with the philosophical foundations of the discipline, its competences and opportunities for development, its limits and constraints, its status among other literary disciplines and its functional dimension. Moreover, the authors of the article underline the ability of poetics to cover the continuously growing spectrum of literary and non-literary phenomena and to express an individual reading experience. The authors also take a look at the range of terms and categories of which poetics makes use. The given deliberations are to invite to reflection on the state of poetics in the contemporary literary studies.