"Konteksty Kultury" is a peer-reviewed academic quarterly devoted to literary texts and their multiple determinants. The published articles concern both literary works as relatively autonomous creations and literature seen as a dynamic system subject to external influences. The topics of articles often include historical, philosophical, and sociological contexts or problems peculiar to literary anthropology, which means that the analyses often deal with the relations between literature and non-literary texts. An important mission of the journal is to place Polish literature in the perspective of world literature studies. Cooperation with international scholars of Polish literature also allows for the dissemination of their achievements in Poland. Publications in English serve to widen the international audience interested in Polish literature and the field of Polish Studies.

 

The journal was established in 2005 by Professor Stanisław Gawliński. The quarterly is published by the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. It is edited by an international group of literary scholars, and the scientific board is composed of prominent scholars from Poland and abroad (Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom). Since 2017, issues of the journal have been essentially monographic in nature, with the intention of stimulating scholarly discussions of particular issues in literary studies. Thematic blocks are frequently planned as a dialogue with the theses expressed in the opening article. Regular sections of the journal also include reviews and interviews with writers or literary scholars.