“That Is Not the Evidence Yet”. Research on Joseph Conrad in the Long
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– „To jeszcze nie dowód”. Badania nad Josephem Conradem w długim cieniu kryzysu literatury porównawczej
“That Is Not the Evidence Yet”. Research on Joseph Conrad in the Long Shadow of the Crisis of Comparative Literature

Author(s): Karol Samsel
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Joseph Conrad; Polish Romanticism; the comparative method; intertextuality; hauntology; Nostromo; Chance

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is the synthetic presentation of the scope of methodologicalproblems appearing during the comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad’s writingsin the horizon of Polish Conrad’s world view background. To sum up, the questionis how the comparative analysis concentrated on the works of Nostromo’s authorwithin his extraordinary, hidden as well as phantomatic, Polish Romantic factors ispossible. Long, lasting almost a hundred years surveys on Joseph Conrad and PolishRomantic literature should be not only revised, but also revolutionised. To reachthis point, we should come back to the old schools of Wellek’s and Etiemble’scomparative literature, regarding however the renewal of the area of our researchby new instruments such as Jacques Derrida’s hauntology.

  • Issue Year: 471/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 21-50
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish