Literary esthetics between Hegel and Kant: the two extreme poles in the interpretation of literature (Hegel’s logocentrism and Kant’s autonomous esthetics.

The importance of Czech tradition of literary scholarship: Prague Structuralism (Jan Mukařovský, Felix Vodička) - multiplicity of meaning.

Husserl’s phenomenology and the interpretation of literature: Roman Ingarden.

Poststructuralist strategies and the interpretation of literature: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault).

Wolfgang Iser and his reader-oriented esthetics, the role of the reader, and literature teaching (schemata, indeterminacy, multiplicity).