„Dziwadła ekscentryczności”? Ironia Juliusza Słowackiego na te krytycznych koncepcji humoryzmu

The research focuses on the romantic irony (and another theory of irony) in the context of the Juliusz Słowacki’s writings against the background of critical concepts of humourism in Polish Romanticism. My research accounts for the reception of the irony in philosophical texts of less known Polish romantic, for example Antoni Marcinkowski, Fryderyk Henryk Lewestam, Placyd Jankowski [*pseudonym John of Dycalp], Edward Dembowski and ohters. Paradoxically, their names are unknown and absent in scientific, academic discourse in Pol-ish faculty of philology. The novelty of the present paper lies in its postmodern and post-postmodern character which goes parallel to Juliusz Słowacki’s texts, philosophical context, which is also distinc-tive for Juliusz Słowacki’s writings (Harold Bloom’s theory of “the anxiety of influence”; critique and deconstruction of Paul de Man, who defined irony as the “permanent parabasis of the allegory of tropes”; Richard Rorty’s irony, Umberto Eco’s intertextual irony etc.). Paradoxically, the studies on romantic irony in the context of Juliusz Słowacki’s writings have not been scrutinized well enough in Poland thus still lacking some perspective. The pre-sent article attempts to provide one