Note on Contributors.
Literary Studies in Poland 21, 149Note on Contributors
Dawid Hopensztand (1904— 1943)— teorist o f literature and critic.
His works touch upon the domain bordering literary history, ideology, and stylistics. His studies were the first Polish attem pts o f sociologically oriented typology o f genre forms.
Stanisław Jaworski — historian o f literature, Professor at the Ja-
gellonian University, Cracow. The author o f many works on the Polish literary avant-garde o f the interwar period.
Janusz Kryszak — Professor at the Mikołaj Kopernik University,
Toruń. Historian o f the 20th-cent. literature.
Zdzisław Łapiński — D octor in the Institute o f Literary Studies.
His interests focus mainly on Norwid, Gombrowicz, and Miłosz.
Stefan Morawski — Professor in the Institute o f A rt’s History and
Theory of Polish Academy o f Sciences. The chief editor o f
Polish A rt Studies. The author o f many books concerning the
character and the transform ations o f the aesthetic ideas, Polish and European from the 18th cent, till our days. I.a. he published in English and Spanish Inquires into the Fundamentals o f Aesthet
ics. His two recent works (in Polish) pertain to the problems
o f the crisis o f art and the crisis o f aesthetics.
Janusz Sławiński — Professor o f the Institute o f Literary Studies of
Polish Academy o f Sciences. Theorist o f literature and literary critic. His chief domain of research are the problems bearing on historical and linguistic poetics as well as on sociology o f litera ture. M any his essays deal with the methodological questions and seminal issues o f description, analysis and interpretation o f literary works.
