DYNAMIKA ROZWOJU POLSKIEJ MYŚLI STYLISTYCZNEJ W LATACH 1910–1939
Growth dynamics of the Polish stylistic thought in the period 1910–1939

Summary/Abstract: The period 1910-1939 was the time of building foundations of Polish academic stylistics. This paper enumerates the most signifi cant texts determining the said process. They contributed to creating the substantive base of the new discipline. There are no separate monographs among the discussed statements (although they were announced by S. Wędkiewicz and H. Gaertner). However, they were successfully replaced by longer or shorter articles stating the programme, polemical comments, and fi nally, reviews of particular material studies. We suggest dividing the emancipation process of the Polish stylistic doctrine, the opening of which was the text announced in 1910 under the title Dotychczasowy stan stylistyki polskiej i najważniejsze postulaty jej na przyszłość (The state of Polish stylistics and its most signifi cant postulates for the future to date) by L. Komarnicki, and the ending of which was the outbreak of World War II – with full awareness of the conventionality of the distinguished stages – into three phases, i.e. the precursory period (1910–1914), the Kraków debate period (1921–1926), the multithreaded methodological search period (1930–1939). The most active participants of the debate taking place within the said timeframe included S. Wędkiewicz, H. Gaertner, Z. Łempicki and K. Budzyk. Yet the group of people writing about style and stylistics was continuously extending at that time.

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