Włodzimierz Bolecki is Professor Emeritus of Polish Literature who specializes in historical poetics, twentieth-century literary history, Polish émigré literature, theory and history of narrative forms, intertextuality, literary communication, methodology of literary studies, modernism, and postmodernism.

• Studies: Introduction - Modernism in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature: A Reconnaissance - Impressionism in the Polish Modernist Prose: An Introduction - Principium Indiviuationis: Nietzschenean Motifs in Bruno Schulz's Oeuvre - Texts and Voices: The Questions of Modernist Poetics - From Postmodernism to Modernism: Aleksander Wat, Another Experience - Modality: Literary Studies and Cognitivism, A ReconnaissanceModernist Currents: Scientific Revolution in the Early Twentieth Century, An Introduction - Modernist Currents in Poland - Two Modernist Motifs Modernism's Literary Diagnoses: Introduction - Analyses and InterpretationsAnnex: Postcolonialism versus Modernism - Wislawa Szymborska and Modernism - Experience and Modernism - From Ancient to Modernist Grotesque: History, Terminology, and Phenomenon