Zwroty, zawroty, przełomy, załomy… A może – palimpsest?...
Turns, U-Turns, Breakthroughs, Faultlines… Or Perhaps – A Palimpsest?

Summary/Abstract: The author, in an essayistic mode, discusses the state of Polish literary studies in the first decades of the 21st century. He also points to the disturbing stratification of scientific research and academic teaching in contemporary Polish academia. The multiplicity of methodologies (eclecticism, entropy) of contemporary interpretive practices is, in the author’s opinion, contrary to the way of practicing the history of Polish literature, its attachment to traditional approaches, orders and divisions. The stereotypes overlook the complexities that Polish culture and literature were naturally entangled in. The author mentions a few examples – the literature of German-Polish Gdańsk, the literature of Polish Jews (created both in Polish and Yiddish) and the literature of Central Europe identified with the tradition of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

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