The article presents the relations among theory of literature, deontology and epistemology. The main hypothesis is: the theory of literature becomes a source of the multi- −discursive tools of description and ...

Distance is the category which appears to be one of the cultural universals in the modern reflection on the subjectivity and representation. Its position is connected with analytical approach to the subject, with cognition ...

The article presents some critical thoughts on “critical thinking" and criticism as such. According to the author, in recent decades the very term has become so widely applied in various fields of intellectual and cultural ...

This article presents and analyses a striking similarity between Zielona Gęś (The Green Goose), a collection of short plays by Polish poet K. I. Gałczyński, published first in 1946−1950, and the BBC series Monty Python’s ...

The aim of the article is to indicate the assumptions which are the basis for setting satire against grotesque by Boris Eichenbaum in his study Jak jest zrobiony „Płaszcz” Gogola. By analyzing Eichenbaum’s argumentation, ...

In recent years, comparative literature has affected a lively response to the dynamic transformations of its socio-cultural environment: it has declared the death of the old discipline and the beginning of a new one, and ...