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Open research questions in Central European Literary Studies

52 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 11,833 Central European Literary Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • This article focuses on selected travel writings by Dyzma Bończa Tomaszewski who, though little known for his poetic achievements, was remembered primarily as an opponent of the May 3rd Constitution of 1791.

    Doświadczenie krajobrazu w pismach podróżniczych Dyzmy Bończy Tomaszewskiego · 2025 · DOI

  • Along with the development of the popularity of ‘the sherlock’ as a model of entertainment literature came the concept’s evolution — in contemporary literary studies the term is used to denote a broader category of unambitious adventure stories, not limited to the adventures of the English detective from 221B Baker Street.

    Sherlock Holmes i „szerloki”. O początkach pewnego zjawiska literackiego z pierwszej dekady XX wieku · 2025 · DOI

  • Another 17 names are characterised by peculiar semantics different from the meanings recorded in dictionaries and reference books, poorly documented in historical source materials from the Borderlands or in the twentieth-century dialect of Lithuanian Polish.

    Dziewiętnastowieczna leksyka z Wileńszczyzny w rękopiśmiennym słowniczku Artura Dolińskiego na tle innych źródeł z kresów północno-wschodnich · 2024 · DOI

  • The aim of the article is to present the intertextual connections between the insufficiently researched songs of Jacek Kowalski (the material includes songs published in the years 1986–2020) and the poetry of Wespazjan Kochowski.

    "O tej muzyce". Poezja Wespazjana Kochowskiego jako tworzywo „sarmackich” piosenek Jacka Kowalskiego · 2023 · DOI

  • “I AM SAVING THE REMAINS OF OUR PAST, WHICH FADE AND DISAPPEAR WITH EACH PASSING DAY, FROM COMPLETE DESTRUCTION”: VANDALIN SHUKEVICH’S MANUSCRIPTS AS A NOVEL SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE CONTACTS AT THE BALTO-SLAVIC BORDERLAND The paper is a pilot publication of a project on language contacts in a poorly studied area of the Baltic-Slavic border.

    „Ratuję od zupełnego unicestwienia ślady naszej przeszłości, które zacierają się, nikną z dniem każdym” · 2022 · DOI

  • The examinayion of the lexical structure of the poet’s writings was limited to the biblical proper names coming from the three-volume edition of the poet’s Dzieła (Works) (Kukulski 1987).

    Nazwy własne o proweniencji biblijnej w poezji Wacława Potockiego · 2022 · DOI

  • Marian Pankowski – Polish poet of the French language (2020) by Dorota Walczak-Delanois is an important study that fills in the gap in the research on Marian Pankowski’s poetry and its reception.

    Zwielokrotnione podwojenie – poeta Marian Pankowski w oczach Doroty Walczak-Delanois · 2021 · DOI

  • In current Lithuanian and Polish historiography, research into the activities of scientific societies mainly covered the late nineteenth–the early twentieth century, but participation of the research environment of Vilnius University and its predecessors in foreign scientific societies of the earlier period has not been studied.

    The Man of Societies: Marcin Poczobut- Odlanicki’s Communication with Western European Scientists in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century · 2021 · DOI

  • A more profound insight into lexical structure, the analysis of word meanings along with the examination of the frequency of words in particular lexico-semantic fields may be a major contribution to the knowledge of the Polish lexis of mid 18th century and a promising scientific springboard for further research into the development of lexical system of the epoch that still remains a blank spot in Polish lexicology.

    Największe dzieła polskiej leksykografii XVIII wieku (Nowy dykcjonarz Michała Abrahama Troca oraz Nowy wielki dykcjonarz Piotra Daneta i Dymitra Koli) z perspektywy współczesnych badań historycznojęzykowych: nowe wyzwania i potrzeby badawcze · 2021 · DOI

  • The author, recognising the value of the first scholarly study of Styczeń’s work, pays attention to the shortcomings and inaccuracies found in the book, including: expressing judgments that are insufficiently scientifically founded, incorrect methodological approach, leaving the terms used without definitions, gaps in the subject literature.

    Poezja, która stawia opór · 2021 · DOI

  • Kazimierz Nitsch and EthnologyThe paper discusses a little known aspect of Kazimierz Nitsch’s work – his contribution to the development of Polish ethnology.

    Kazimierz Nitsch i etnologia · 2019 · DOI

  • Also, as announced in the title ("Translator among others") his texts are related, but not limited to the topic of translation and deal -among others -with such questions as literary paratexts, critical reception of Polish poetry abroad and the ways of keeping alive the interest in literary classics.

    Wyjaśnione w tłumaczeniu: na marginesie tomu Tłumacz między innymi Jerzego Jarniewicza · 2019 · DOI

  • The subject of the present analysis are Adam Zagajewski's early works, written in the 1970s: the books of poems Komunikat, Sklepy misne and List, the novel Ciepo, zimno, the short story Boe Ciao, the critical literary texts, and finally, a little known essay W kilku punktach, published under the pen name Jan Garlicz.

    „Z kronik współczesnej mistyki” – Adam Zagajewski i Nowa Fala (opowieść postsekularna) · 2018 · DOI

  • Why does Macedonian literature not want to be a minor literature?The author takes alook at avery interesting and still under-investigated project for creating a Macedonian literature that emerged among the members of what was known as the Macedonian Literary Circle in Sofia 1938–1941, in the context of the concept of “minor literatures” proposed after World War II, in 1975, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

    Dlaczego literatura macedońska nie chce być literaturą mniejszą? · 2018 · DOI

  • The study addresses a gap in research on the written production of Ukrainian learners, as orthography remains a marginal topic in Polish glottodidactics, despite its relevance for mastering all subsystems of the language.

    Problemy ortograficzne ukraińskich uczniów starszych klas szkoły podstawowej na Pomorzu – na podstawie wypowiedzi zgromadzonych w korpusie „FoKo” · 2026 · DOI

  • The article focuses on the assimilation of English borrowings in Polish, with special emphasis on the aspects that have not been described in more detail by other authors so far and may cause problems when analyzing borrowings, especially in the context of quantitative research.

    Jeszcze o asymilacji zapożyczeń angielskich w polszczyźnie · 2026 · DOI

  • Poised between the real and the imagined as well as the private and the cultural, the article proposes to focus on the locality of Rivne and its understudied importance for Ginczanka’s work.

    Commemorating Eastern European Jewish Past through Landscapes: Zuzanna Ginczanka and the Ukrainian Context of “Little City” · 2025 · DOI

  • This presentation also aims to pose research questions arising directly from attempts to manage inconsistent data and to outline the general history of translations of the minor literatures of the Soviet nations in post-war Poland, which emerges from this data.

    Antologie polskich przekładów z literatur republik radzieckich. Prezentacja i analiza danych bibliograficznych · 2025 · DOI

  • The article focuses on Bronisław Rajchman’s little known accounts of trips across the Tatra Mountains, which originated in the second half of the 19th century and which are part of strictly defined Tatra tourism literature.

    Tatrzańskie pisma Bronisława Rajchmana na tle koncepcji „wycieczki bez programu” Tytusa Chałubińskiego · 2023 · DOI

  • The etymology of the word remains uncertain, although the author has managed to formulate some hypotheses indicating the source of the word: (1) East Slavic loan, referring to rus.

    Brykała – zasięg regionalny (krakowski?) i etymologia · 2023 · DOI

  • Jarosław Górski deals with the black legend of the writer, rumours and sensational hearsay about his life, which has been spread for years and which, as the biographer proves, has not been confirmed by facts.

    Tropiąc fakty. "Parweniusz z rodowodem" Jarosława Górskiego · 2022 · DOI

  • The results of the analysis will also be relevant for the present, introducing novel data on geolects and the dynamics of the development of cross-border language contacts in the poorly studied area of the Balto-Slavic borderland.

    „Ratuję od zupełnego unicestwienia ślady naszej przeszłości, które zacierają się, nikną z dniem każdym” · 2022 · DOI

  • When analysing the submitted articles and overall contribution of this issue, this editorial also considers both the reasons behind the predominance of women in familological studies and the issues that have been overlooked or insufficiently researched.

    The Culture-Forming Potential of Family Narratives · 2022 · DOI

  • The author concentrates on the Polish translation, but the scarce evidence available for this title and its editions in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania is interpreted in the wider context of the Latin and vernacular editions of De civilitate printed in other European lands.

    Dworstwo obyczajów Sebastiana Fabiana Klonowica. Przekład Civilitas morum Erazma z Rotterdamu w spuściźnie poety oraz wydawnicze losy książeczki w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej · 2021 · DOI

  • Further research on the creative processes, exposing the material, dynamic and intentionally open-ended nature of their texts can shed a new light on the history of Polish postwar Avant-garde.

    Archiwa in statu nascendi. Tymoteusz Karpowicz i Krystyna Miłobędzka – wstęp do badań nad procesem twórczym · 2021 · DOI

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