The aim and role of our journal POETICA are threefold:

• First, POETICA attempts to build up a comprehensive theory of texts and carry out minute analyses of them, thereby making literary interpretation and criticism as intellectual, objective and scientific as possible.

• Second, with its interest in theory and methodology, POETICA endeavours not only to explore the potentialities of the literary language through the analyses of text and through an imaginative approach to them, but also to analyse and describe the language in literary texts at all its levels: sound, word, syntax, style and meaning. Thus emphasis is attached to the language of literature and its empirical research as a basis for thinking about principles and theories of literature from a linguistic side.

• Third, POETICA gives serious attention not only to the historical and social or psychosocial aspects of language as revealed in literary texts against the background of the historical contexts in which such texts were produced, but also to the originators of such texts, poets and writers whose philosophy must naturally be revealed through language and literature.

POETICA appears in spring and autumn in two issues per year, each consisting of approximately 120 pages.