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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. It positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by Polish scholars (e.g. literary critical theory, feminism, genre studies, and comparative literature).

This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific images.

The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Lesmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers' linguistic self-consciousness informs and illuminates their implicitly self-reflexive texts.