Romantyzm jako powinność. Lubelska szkoła badań nad literaturą polską I połowy XIX wieku

The activity of the Lublin school of the Romanticism research was started in 1950 when the Chair of the History of Polish Literature was assumed by Czesław Zgorzelski, previously lecturing in Toruń. It is due to his inspiration that the works concerning Polish literature of the 1st half of the 19th century transform into an editorial, interpretative and synthetic chara- cter. Czesław Zgorzelski participates in the publishing of Writings of Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodziński. Together with his students in Lublin – M. Maciejewski, D. Zamąciń- ska. I. Opacki, A. Paluchowski – Cz. Zgorzelski describes the genres of the ballad, the po- etics nowel and the romanic tale. The research concerning Romantics literature focuses on the religious contesns, and the turn category, which allows to to distinguish the pre-Romantic period, and refers to historico-literary contexts of the Enlightenment and modern times. The methodology bases on the Deception of formalizm and structuralism, with the addition of semiotics and hermeneutics. The kerygmatic conception of literature interpretation is created in Lublin.