Litwa komparatystyczna – dawniej i dziś

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the comparative presentation of Lithuania – mainly in romanticism – and the opportunities offered by the comparatistic method in reading texts created in the multicultural areas. The author reminds literary, historiographical, and editorial examples of the poetic of parallel concerning the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuania since the post‑partition period till the European Union in the twenty‑first century. It also indicates the different functions of comparative representations: from the searching of a dialogue language to the disclosure of inferiority and marginality of Lithuania. The study includes an attempt to interpret fragments of the early works of Mickiewicz, which are read using inspiration from the postcolonial comparative survey field.