Dionýz Ďurišin

Who is Dionýz Ďurišin?

Dionyz Durisin was a leading Slovak literary theorist and comparativist. He belonged to the Slovak School of Comparative Literature. He worked in the tradition of the Czech and Slovak Schools of comparative literature. He is renowned for developing the notions of world literature and interliterary processes.

In his work, Theory of Literary Comparatistics, he defines 'literary process' as the " inner laws of development of literature." He elaborates upon the goal of literary studies,and comparative literature in particular by noting " To comprehend the literary phenomenon means not merely to describe its constituents,or to point out their mutual affinity and interdependence within the work of literature, but to reveal the multifarious affinities of the literary phenomenon and the individual procedures with the social, cultural, artistic and literary background in the widest sense of the word"..