Space of a Garden – Space of Culture

Grzegorz Gazda – historian of literature and comparatist. Professor at the University of Łódź, Director of the Institute of Theory of Literature, Theatre and Audiovisual Arts, specializing in the problems of contemporary Polish and foreign literature. His numerous publications include books on the literary avant-garde of the 20th century: Futuryzm w Polsce [Futurism in Poland, 1974], Awangarda – nowoczesność i tradycja. W kręgu europejskich kierunków literackich pierwszych dziesięcioleci XX w. [The Avant-garde – Modernity and Tradition. In the Circle of European Literary Tendencies of the First Decades of the 20th Century,1987) and Słownik europejskich kierunków i grup literackich XX wieku [Dictionary of European Tendencies and Literary Groups of the 20th Century, 2006). Co-editor of a series of studies, published under the common title W kręgu zagadnień awangardy [Around the Problems of the Avant-garde, 1986 – 1995) and such books as Wokół gotycyzmów: wyobraźnia, groza, okrucieństwo [Around Gothicisms: Imagination, Horror, Cruelty, 2003], Stereotypy w literaturze (i tuż obok) [Stereotypes in literature (and nearby), 2003], Słownik rodzajów i gatunków literackich [Dictionary of Literary Kinds and Genres, 2006), Realizm magiczny. Teoria i realizacje artystyczne [Magic Realism. Theory and Its Artistic Realizations, 2007]. Editor-in-chief of the internationally acclaimed magazine Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich [Problems of Literary Kinds].

Mariusz Gołąb – a Ph.D. and lecturer at the Institute of Theory of Literature, Theatre and Audiovisual Arts of the University of Łódź. Theoretician and historian of literature. His works concern mainly problems of contemporary literature in the theoretical context of cognitive studies and literary anthropology. He specializes in the problems of cultural universals, conceived as relations between language and other forms of expression, traditional poetics and new tendencies in literary theory and aesthetics. His book Język i rzeczywistość w twórczości Mirona Białoszewskiego [Language and Reality in the Literature of Miron Białoszewski], concerning various aspects of Białoszewski’s linguistic poetics seen from the cognitive point of view, was published in 2001.