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A Missed Opportunity

Summary/Abstract: Ulicka tackles three related issues: the apparently peripheral status of Polish literary theory, its absence from the global canon, and the mechanisms behind this state of affairs. The first issue is addressed in terms of the (re)transfer of concepts in literary scholarship, the second in terms of knowledge reproduction, while the third issue is discussed with reference to the processes of canon formation and of achieving success and authority in academia – processes described by scholars of agnotology. To provide an example Ulicka discusses documents from the archive of literary scholar Manfred Kridel. She presents an optimistic view of building an alternative and supplementary canon in which “Polish theory” would find its rightful place.

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