Grzegorz Pertek
A b s t r a k t
The article attempts to describe the transformation of Polish theoretical literary studies after 1989. The author points to a few significant elements which influenced that change. He focuses on the difference between the (anti)structuralist breakthrough and two earlier shifts: the anti-positivist and anti-Marxist one. He also dwells on the meaning of the lack of debate on structuralism in the 1990s and the causes of its “disappearance”, as well as about the role played in the process by the reception of French-American post-structuralism – a peculiar reception, because it was burdened with what the author calls a critical gap. As such, it took on a form of a theoretical-methodological spectacle, enacted until today.