Wartościowanie w Odczytach o poezji polskiej w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku Wojciecha Cybulskiego

Abstract

In the first part of the article, the author discusses valuation as an object of research in humanities and as an epistemological activity of all individuals. Next, he describes the textological and generic aspects of Odczyty o poezji polskiej w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku by Wojciech Cybulski. The aforementioned work is a translation from German, a collection of scripts of Cybulski’s academic lectures and an example of specific discourse situated between literary studies and literary criticism. This context fundamentally influences the analysis of Cybulski’s narrative about values. In the next sections of the article, the author discusses the valuation criteria in Cybulski’s lectures: political liberty and originality of literary works; their national character; aesthetic values, especially composition and aesthetics sense of the author; problems of literary contents and the influence of literary works on readers.