The Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association (LCLA) invites you to join us for the ninth online academic seminar and discussion, entitled “Comparative Literature in Poland: Beginnings – Thinking Models – Challenges,” presented by Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka (University of Warsaw).
This lecture will focus on the history of comparative literature in Poland, presenting its directions and its development and models of thinking, along with contemporary changes and challenges. The lecture will also concentrate on pressing tasks of comparative literature today, related to the exploration of idiomatic anthropological spaces represented in fiction and to paving the way for better comprehension of them in the contemporary world. Further considerations will include the continuation of the natural science-inspired tradition of comparative research, in seeking patterns and rules. An especially important challenge for contemporary comparative literature is the rethinking of the literary canon and defined this canon’s texts in a relational manner, in actualizing the canon's communicative function in international relations.
Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka is an associate professor, literature historian and comparativist at the University of Warsaw. Since 2005 she has worked as cofounder and editor-in-chief of the literary quarterly Tekstualia. At the University of Warsaw, she works in the Section of Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Polish Philology. She is the author of Wstronę perspektywizmu. Problematyka cielesności w prozie runona Schulza i Witolda Gombrowicza (2010) and Leśmian międzynarodowy – relacje kontekstowe. Studia komparatystyczne (2015), which was published in 2020 as Leśmian Internationally: Contextual Relations. A Comparative Study. She is a member of the Polish PEN Club, the Polish Comparative Literature Association and the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society.
