LITERARY CRITICAL TURN OF MICHAL HARPANY

Abstract

In his literary critical beginning in mid 1960s Michal Harpany was focused on the Serbian literary context, primarily contemporary Serbian poetry. He became interested in Slovak literature through short lyrical stories and only later, at the end of the 1960s, he started writing literary critical texts in Slovak. At first, his literary critical expression was very essayistic, but after the encounter with contemporary Slovak literary science, Harpany wrote his interpretations of literary texts under a strong influence of scientific literary methodologies, primarily structuralism. This turn in the literary critical opus of Michal Harpany happened at the beginning of the 1970s and had long-term consequences, not only for Vojvodinian Slovak literary criticism, but for whole literature.