Ukryci polemiści Janusza Sławińskiego

The author analyzes selected examples of hidden polemics (as understood by M. Bakhtin) in Janusz Sławiński’s essays and notes from the 1970s and 1980s. The aim of the study is to indicate specific theses and people with whom the theoretician had been arguing, as well as to present the theoretic and personal dimension of Sławiński’s polemics. The author emphasizes that the hidden interlocutors of Sławiński are literary critics from the University of Warsaw. This proves that Sławiński reacted intensively in his texts to theses and discourses emerging in the neighboring scientific center. For this reason, the author argues, the description of his attitude and work in the light the cultural history of Polish literary studies should take into account the dialectical interactions between research conducted at the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.