The Afterlife of poetics

Abstract

The article presents the contemporary debates concerning poetics, the heritage of structuralism, as well as the new research areas. It compiles some of the fundamental arguments against poetics in its traditional sense, as well as attempts to analyse and problematise them. In its concluding part, the author postulates adopting a changed attitude towards the current terminology, including social aspects in the study of poetics, as well as maintaining a multidimensional development of the discipline.