„To jeszcze nie dowód”. Badania nad Josephem Conradem w długim cieniu kryzysu literatury porównawczej

The aim of the study is the synthetic presentation of the scope of methodological problems appearing during the comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad’s writings in the horizon of Polish Conrad’s world view background. To sum up, the question is how the comparative analysis concentrated on the works of Nostromo’s author within his extraordinary, hidden as well as phantomatic, Polish Romantic factors is possible. Long, lasting almost a hundred years surveys on Joseph Conrad and Polish Romantic literature should be not only revised, but also revolutionised. To reach this point, we should come back to the old schools of Wellek’s and Etiemble’s comparative literature, regarding however the renewal of the area of our research by new instruments such as Jacques Derrida’s hauntology.