Stanisław Pigoń and Manfred Kridl. Two concepts of literary research at the Stefan Batory University

Abstract

The article presents two different methodologies of eminent USB professors and lecturers: Stanislaw Pigon (1921-1931) and Manfred Kridl (1931-1939). Stanislaw Pigon, taking over the Department of Polish studies in Vilnius University, after Jozef Kallenbach, continued traditional philological research on romantic literature, with particular emphasis on Mickiewicz and his Vilnius years. Pigon’s interest included: the Philomatic environment, the issues of the Kaunas-Vilnius “Dziady” and research on location of the so-called Konrad’s cell. In turn prof. Kridl introduced the modern “integral method” to Vilnius Polish studies, derived from Roman Ingarden’s theory of literary work, research on the issues of the style and structure of the poem and Russian formalism. Both educated a group of eminent scholars (Czeslaw Zgorzelski, Maria Renata Mayenowa, Irena Slawinska, Maria Rzewuska and others).