NEW THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: DIGITAL, POSTHUMAN, ECOCRITICAL AND DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES
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literary theory; cultural studies; digital humanities; artificial intelligence; posthumanism; ecocriticism; decoloniality; intercultural interpretation; methodology.Abstract
The article examines recent theoretical transformations in literary and cultural studies and argues that contemporary humanities research is moving from a text-centred paradigm toward relational, digital, ecological and intercultural models of interpretation. The aim of the study is to systematize new approaches that have become especially significant in the context of artificial intelligence, digital archives, climate crisis, migration, global cultural asymmetries and posthuman debates. The research is based on conceptual analysis, comparative typology and synthesis of recent scholarship in digital humanities, literary posthumanism, environmental humanities, decolonial studies and cultural semiotics. The article proposes a relational-contextual model that links text, medium, subject, power and environment within a single analytical framework. The scientific novelty of the study lies in presenting these approaches not as mutually exclusive schools, but as complementary research optics that expand the methodological resources of philology and cultural studies. The findings may be used in literary theory, comparative literature, cultural anthropology, media studies and higher education curricula.
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