Literatura, instituição e sociedade

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Paulo de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2005.3951

Literary studies are in need of a radical change. From their inception in the modern university, literary studies were always conditioned by political interests and by the State. Nowadays, with the rapid consequences of globalization, the larger number of unemployed academics, and a drop in the number of students interested in literary studies it is imperative to think what the function of the University and within it of literary studies should be and not just what it can be. Brief comparisons between the situation of higher education in the Netherlands and Portugal illustrate these considerations that take as their point of start, and return to, Nietzsche’s consideration of the fundamentally anachronistic condition of literary studies. Literary Studies in the present should be seen as fundamental to inculcate in students a rigor and critical understanding that they can rely on when assuming their functions in society at large.