Dyskursy romantyzmologii. Studium (samo)krytyczne

The article investigates the critical and scientific discourses that have been functioning in the studies of Polish Romanticism for the period of the last 150 years. These discourses locate the center of almost any romantic problem, text or discourse predominantly within the intel-lectual and conceptual logos being constructed or accepted by critics and researchers. The secondary and tertiary literature have become so extensive and thorough that they almost fully cover original Romantic texts. In this way various methods of reading romantic literature and products of that reading are self-sufficient. They form an independent and primary object of the study. It is one of the paradoxes of our postmodern time that the original Romantic lite- rature step by step is losing its own identity and is taking one, which is being created by its readers