Pre-post effect/paradox: conceptualisation of the term and prospects of its use in literary studies

The article deals with the problem of using and including the term "pre-post effect/paradox" ("pre-post effect"), introduced by the Czech comparativist Ivo Pospisil, in the terminological apparatus of literary criticism. Special attention is paid to the reflection by the term of the synthesis of superficial borrowing of a certain phenomenon from foreign literature and elements of the autochthonous tradition based on an interdisciplinary base, where the borrowing factor lies at the intersection of both philology and other humanities, in particular sociology, history, where the connection of language, text and culture is vividly manifested, resulting in the formation of an original characteristics of the recipient literature. A term reflecting an evolutionary mechanism of this scale needs additional comment and understanding, with mandatory reliance on the works of its creator, taking into account the refinement of some aspects of the mechanism of its work. A descriptive approach is used in terms of presenting the pre-post effect as a multidimensional phenomenon and clarifying the relationship of individual components to determine the exact semasiological boundaries of the term; the concept's attitude to the study of a literary text in the context of its general cultural conditionality in the aspect of the poetic art of the word reflects a cognitive (author, text, extra-textual reality) and axiological approach. According to the author, for the successful implementation of the pre-post effect, there is a need to define its role as a synthesis of two approaches to the consideration of a literary work: comparative historical and theoretical value, which contributes to an accurate consideration of the history of perception of the work and its inclusion in the literary canon as evidence of the originality of this literary tradition. This approach takes into account the theoretical aspect of the modification of genre models associated with the literary and critical history of works and combines them in order to substantiate the specifics of the literary phenomenon, relying simultaneously on the problems of poetics and non-textual factors. The scientific novelty consists in refining the structural and functional specifics of the pre-post effect to include it in a wide scientific circulation and the possibility of its practical use with the preliminary elimination of the existing controversial points and, as a result, demonstrating the possibility of using it to consistently adhere to the intersectoral aspect (at the junction of comparative studies, theory and literary history in their connection with axiology) in the further interpretation of literary works in order to overcome the one-sidedness of analysis in literary studies.

pre-post effect, areal studies, axiology, The literary canon, world literature, a literary fact, comparative studies, Autochthonous, reception, poetics