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Letter from Irena Sławińska written 10/31/????

Author Irena Sławińska
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Archive of Science of PAN and PAU in Cracow
Related places Lviv
Reference code in archive K_III-26_D_48
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter academic issues, organizational issues
Field literary science, Polish philology
Tags #America, #American methodology of literary research, #bibliography of Ingarden's writings, #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #Ford and Research Fellow, #Ingarden's books, #Ingarden's publications, #Ingarden's recollections, #lecture on Ingarden's theory of literature, #lecture on theory of literature, #lectures abroad, #Lviv, #methodology of literary research, #Philosophy in a New Key, #Philosophy of Literary Form, #R. Wellek's seminar, #Rene Wellek, #scholarship, #seminars, #Sławińska in America, #Studies in aesthetics, #Twentieth Century Criticism, #Tymieniecka's book, #United States, #University of Lviv, #USA, #Venice, #William Kurtz Wimsatt, #Yale library, #Yale University

167 Linden Street
New Haven, Conn.

New Haven, Oct. 31[O1]

 

            My Dear Honoured Professor,

                       for the past month I have been in the USA as the recipient of a Ford scholarship and as a Research Fellow at Yale University. I often attend the lectures and seminars of R. Wellek, U. Brooks[O2] , and Wimsatt. It’s very interesting, and the library is well-stocked and readily accessible.

            Wellek leads a seminar on the topic ‘Twentieth-Century Criticism’, which was the subject of the 3rd and 4th volumes of his book. In this connection, I’m supposed to give a lecture on your theory of literature. Two volumes of Studies in Aesthetics are here, as well as Das Lit. Kunstwerk – however, I would like to offer more accurate bio- and bibliographic data. In bibliographic terms, can I rely on Tymieniecka’s book? Would you like to throw in a few facts and dates related to your studies, to your work at the University of Lviv, etc.? What are you talking about now in Venice?

            If you wouldn’t mind taking a moment to respond, I’d be very grateful. My lecture is supposed to be in the first few days of December, so I have to ask you to hurry.

            Would you find either S. Lange[O3] ’s Philosophy in a New Key or K. Burke’s Philosophy of Literary Form useful? Both things have come out in a cheap edition (‘paperboard [O4] edition’), so I can send them for you without the slightest trouble. Please let me know.

            I’m primarily dealing here with the American methodology of literary research, so as to be able to write something more about it.

                                                                   With expressions of respect and best greetings

                                                                                                    Irena Sł.

 

 

[O1]1958
[O2]Jestem pewien, że powinna być Cleanth Brooks [C. Brooks]
[O3]To błąd. Nazwisko autora jest Langer, powinna być Langer’s
[O4]w j. angielskim w oryginalnej wersji, ale powinna być paperback