Utopia w przestrzeni sporu

Abstract

The author compares the methodology of literary structuralism to utopianism in the context of the roles they played in the scholarly perspective favored by Professor Elżbieta Feliksiak, the supervisor of both his main research works: the master’s thesis and the doctoral dissertation. Both of these concerned utopias, the issues of ideology and values, but they were rooted in structuralist methodology. Structuralism, like utopia, is aimed at showing an intricate system of meanings. The supervisor’s advice and her book, Building Up in the Space of Dispute, contributed significantly to the author’s critical view of both structuralism and utopianism and prompted him to seek his own voice and refer to deconstruction as a method of undermining the certainty of discourse.