Cover -- Table of contents -- Introduction - Grzegorz Grochowski -- Part 1 -- What Remains of Structuralism? - Janusz Sławiński -- Literary Studies and Cultural Studies - Michał Głowiński -- Questions on the Subject of Literary Studies - Włodzimierz Bolecki -- Does Literary Theory Still Exist? - Anna Burzyńska -- Comparative Cultural Studies: Interpretation and Existence - Andrzej Hejmej -- From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience - Ryszard Nycz -- Part 2 -- Economy and Representation - Michał Paweł Markowski -- The Mono- and Bi(multi)lingualism of Literary "Worlds" - Edward Balcerzan -- The Extinction of Species - Stanisław Balbus -- Fictional v. Lyric Identity - Zdzisław Łapiński -- On the Epistemological Function of Literature and Literary Studies (Theses Towards a Future Anthropology of Literary Studies) - Danuta Ulicka -- Intention Versus Invention: An Ethical Dilemma? - Danuta Szajnert -- Images in Texts: Iconic Signs in Multi-code Text Structures - Grzegorz Grochowski -- Part 3 -- From a Poetics of Space to a Politics of Place: The Topographical Turn in Literary Studies - Elżbieta Rybicka -- Places of Autobiography: A Geopoetic Proposition - Małgorzata Czermińska -- How to Embody the Body: On a Dilemma of Somatopoetics - Anna Łebkowska -- The Written and Spoken Word: History and Literature - Dariusz Śnieżko -- Postcolonial Poland - an (Im)possible Project - Dariusz Skórczewski -- Language, the Brain, Ecstatic Religious States, and Artistic Output - Jan Kordys -- Part 4 -- No Assignment (IV) - Janusz Sławiński -- No Assignment (VII) - Janusz Sławiński.