Contents

Writing history - shaping history of (not only Polish) literary studies

Danuta Ulicka

9-22

World literature as a construct

chronotopicity and self-reflexivity

Galin Tihanov

23-40

Comparative literature and the birth of literary theory in Poland

Tomasz Bilczewski

41-52

Varieties of ideology critique in early Soviet literary and oriental scholarship

Craig Brandist

53-68

Speaking about translations

forewords, commentaries, manifestos (Walter Benjamin, Vladimir Nabokov, Stanisław Barańczak)

Schamma Schahadat

69-84

(Re)writing the history of Polish literary studies through translation

the case of Ireneusz Opacki's Royal Genres

Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz

85-100

The tragedy of early literary theory

Michał Mrugalski

101-116

Divergence vs. convergence

Moretti, Tynyanov, Jakobson

Peter Steiner

117-124

Writing literary history in contemporary Czech studies

Jan Tlustý

125-134

Practising the history of literary studies within the studies of particular authors

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

135-142

Cultural themes in Polish theoretical literary studies

a case of reference, or, Roman Ingarden for children and for adults

Danuta Ulicka

143-160

The "regional" in Polish literary studies before 1939

from romantic local colour to interwar literary regionalism

Adela Kobelska

161-174

Generic consciousness in the Polish theory of genres

Przemysław Pietrzak

175-186

Polish narratology on non-fiction

Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj

187-198

Literary text and other worlds

the case of photography

Magdalena Szczypiorska-Mutor

199-212

The left hand of the structuralist

Artur Hellich

213-224

The other normativity

Bruno Schulz and his remythologising of the word

Eliza Kącka

225-242

The function of literary studies

Maciej Gorczyński

243-250

Notes about authors