In his recollection of Henryk Markiewicz the author, one of the Professor’s students, emphasises mostly his traits of character: reliability, honesty, kindness and intellectual openness. Those traits earned him among the students a name of the real „master”.
In the second part of this text the author writes about the methodological and world-view beliefs of the Professor and recalls the most important facts from his academic career.

The article presents Professor Henryk Markiewicz as the outstanding theorist of the novel, the author of many publications devoted to narration, plot, fictional characters and also other issues referring to the role of time and space in the narrative works. The author gives particular attention to the book The theories of the novel abroad.
It is a compendium impressive in extend and scale that presents historical review of the western theories of the novel from antiquity to modern times.

The article discusses the academic output of Henry Markiewicz dedicated to the literature of Polish Positivism. Professor Markiewicz stands as the pre-eminent connoisseur and lover of the era, author of numerous interpretations, studies and critical edition of the positivist pieces of and, above all, the author of historical-literacy synthesis of the era – the academic textbook „Positivism”. The author of the article writes also about the methodology of research on Positivism used by Markiewicz, which takes from the Marxist inspirations, and also shares personal memories of professional contact with Professor.

The article discusses the relationships of Henryk Markiewicz theoretical thought with Hegel-Marks concepts in the context of widely understood system developed in linguistics and literary science in the 20th century. The evolution of Professor Markiewicz theoretical thought is shown as a gradual moving away from Hegel-Marks system and eclectic opening towards the other systems with the simultaneous strong objection to the conceptual and methodological arbitrariness.

The review discusses Henryk Markiewicz column Moje zdziwienia [My Marvellings] run in “Wielogłos” since 2008. Markiewicz commented on current events at the academia and literary criticism. This column was an outstanding example of Markiewicz’s knowledge and critical and analytical abilities. In Moje zdziwienia he fought against academic incompetence, obscurity, ignorance, irresponsibility and opportunism. He was an excellent polemist. His column also proved Markiewicz’s sense of humor and literary skills. As Maciej Urbanowski suggests Markiewicz’s activity resembled in some ways that of Karol Irzykowski, one of the most independent Polish literary critics in 20th century.

The article analyzes the late polemics of Professor Henryk Markiewicz published at “Wielogłos” as “My Marvellings”. His critical texts concerning various philological works are presented as institutional practice. This kind of practice tries to solve problems emerging form tension between needs of Polish philological institutions and particular tasks challenging scholars.
 

The author in this article makes an attempt to present in a concise manner the basic rules, which according to Henryk Markiewicz, should set the standards of professionalism and procedures in the literacy research. Professor Markiewicz appears i.a.: as a consistent defender of competence based on thorough knowledge and expertise, as well as a supporter of systematic source research, the precision of terminology and clear assessment criteria, which allow to conduct specialised disputes and discussions that result in verification and systematisation of literacy science.

The article focuses in a synthetic way on the profile of Professor Henryk Markiewicz, presenting his ideas and intellectual way of development. The author presents Professor Markiewicz not only as an outstanding historian and theoretician, but also an irreplaceable inspirer and organiser of many editorial ventures of encyclopaedic and dictionary nature, such as „The image of Polish Literature of the 19th and 20th century” or „Polish Bibliographic Dictionary”. From the memories emerges a profile of a great scientist and at the same time a noble and righteous man: a guardian of Polish tradition, Polish cultural heritage, scientific reliability and intellectual honesty.

The author recalls her quarrels and disputes with Professor Markiewicz, led for over 30 years, both in the pages of scientific magazines, as well as in private correspondence. In the memories of the author Professor Markiewicz seems to be a role model of scientific conscientiousness, which is meticulous and critical in his assessments, but at the same an extremely kind, inspiring advisor and guide, always ready to serve with his knowledge and unmatched erudition.
 

The author recalls the enormous contributions of Professor Henryk Markiewicz to the development of literacy research in post-war Poland. He emphasises especially organising and composing role of the Professor’s pieces, which constituted the foundations for the systematic knowledge of Polish studies within the scope of the theory of literature. The equally important part was played by prepared by him original anthologies that include the selection of the most important books and articles on literary theory, which present the main streams of the literary research abroad.

The author trying to determine the role played by Professor Henryk Markiewicz in Polish post-war literary science, calls him „a guardian of discipline” – understood as a field of knowledge and manner of proceeding that is characterised by responsibility and reliability. The author emphasises the professor’s interests in the history of literacy research, which resulted in i.a.: a fundamental piece of work dedicated to the theories of fiction from Aristotle to modern times, as well as his contribution in making the achievements of the foreign researchers of literature available to the Polish readers.

In a very personal recollection of Professor Henryk Markiewicz the author underlines above all an extraordinary intellectual openness and the absorbability of the Professor, his scientific competence and reliability and typical for him cognitive curiosity.

The subject of this article is ‘Polityka wrażliwości. Wprowadzenie do humanistyki/The Politics of Sensibility: An Introduction to the Humanities’ (Kraków 2013) by Michał Paweł Markowski. The author of the review looks into the causes of the crisis in humanistic studies and the issue of scientification in literature studies. He oppose to the statement that humanistic studies is not, and should not be, science. He ascertains that in modern university, the fate of literature researchers depends on their ability to re-justify scientific status of humanistic studies.

The review on the new book by Ryszard Nycz, The Poetics of Experience, engages in polemic with an anthropological-literary project of the author. On one hand, the review seeks to realise the theoretical outcome given by the new conditions of anthropological, experience reading of the literature and culture. On the other, it’s being diputed, how far actually are going the changes at the literary theory research field, that are being assumed in Nycz’s book.

This text is devoted to the Anna Burzyńska’s book Deconstruction, politics and performatics, showing the philosophical transformation in the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Burzyńska has chosen specific way to describe these aspects of the field, although considerations apply to the mainly popular theory on the basis of literature, highlight extraordinary dynamism of this branch of knowledge and incredible speed of researchers’s responses to any signs of stagnation.
She considerated the source of these transformations in Derrida’s deconstructive vision – of what I partly agree in this review, but also I have to notice signs of manipulation. Researcher shows, however, perhaps the most important aspect of the humanities, its extremely intense relationship with almost all areas of human existence, a great sensitivity of all philosophers facing contemporary challenges and the role of literary studies, in which it comes (come) to incorporate.
 

The article is a review of the book: Shakespeare and Cinema. Adaptation Strategies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts (Shakespeare i kino. Strategie adaptacyjne i ich konteksty społeczno-kulturowe) by Olga Katafiasz. In this book the Author analysis 28 chosen film version of Shakespeare dramas adopted by famous directors in 1935–2011. Katafiasz examines especially strategies of adaptations reading in esthetical, political and historical dimensions. The article refers to order of the book which was determined mainly by chronology and begins with Max Reinhardt’s and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935); then analyses the  adaptation strategies prevailing in movies directed by: Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Grigorij Kozincev, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polański, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Greenaway, Richard Loncraine, Baz Luhrmann, Julie Taymor, Ralph Fiennes and Michael Radford; Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Alan Johnson’s To Be or Not to Be (1983). The review discusses (among others) the methodology of the book based on Harold Bloom’s idea  so called: ‘the anxiety of influence’, accompanying – as suggests Katafiasz – the creativeprocess of film based on Shakespeare’s plays.