Wóycickiego wykład powielony
On Wóycicki’s Lectures and Textbooks – Afresh

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is to deliver information on the work by Kazimierz Wóycicki "Wykłady ze stylistyki i historii literatury" ("Lectures on Stylistics and Literary History", 1916–1917). The work is de facto the first Polish outline of modern literary theory. Due to its unique character and provisional form of publication it proves necessary to offer a sketch of its content (as it turns out, inconsistent with the title), to present the text’s construction alongside with the data concerning all its damage, inadvertences and editorial peculiarities, manners of reproduction, and other piled up historical traces giving an insight into Wóycicki’s accomplishment. Ultimately, Adamski finds it crucial to acknowledge authorship of the piece after a previous thorough analysis of the author’s specific situation in such kind of texts. The next issue touched in the paper is the cultural and political context of the composition of "Lectures on Stylistics and Literary History". Wóycicki produced them within the activities of Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych (Society of Scientific Courses), a semi-legal (and before 1906 illegal) organisation teaching within university courses. In this part Adamski also underlines the crucial role that psychoaesthetic studies and general art studies played at the Faculty of Humanities. A short description of the important for Polish culture tradition of self-studies is also included here. The most space is devoted to the portrayal of the specific literary genetic situation of the book in question. The analysis of the relationships between the lecture and the textbook is carried out from two cognitive perspectives: the first is derived from Walter J. Ong’s theory, and the second, which through Tzvetan Todorov’s intuitions leads to Bakhtinian sources. The concluding part recollects the literary theoretical achievements the closes to those from "Lectures on Stylistics and Literary History".

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