Research strategies in the early 21st century. Article one

The article examines the methods and methodology of the analysis of the literary text in the literary criticism and literary studies of the 1990s - 2000s..The possibilities of historical and typological, structure and semiotic and historical and functional methods are analysed, the requirements of modern research strategies are formulated. The authors suppose that the methods of research in the sphere of the contemporary personal poetic characteristics are vulnerable so they try to work out the means to overcome the contemporary methodological crisis. The article opens a cycle of works, devoted to the problems of contemporary literary studies.