Kulturowe konteksty przemian gatunku (na przykładzie noweli i romansu)

The article is devoted to describing the problem of cultural contexts of genre transformations, taking the example of chosen literary forms: short story and romance. A few aspects of text model have been analyzed: structural, stylistic and functional. There are three basic cultural contexts of genre changes: 1. archaecultural, 2. macrocultural, 3. microcultural. Each of them is connected with various factors and aspects of the genres. The analysis allows treating the two chosen genres as “drifting” ones, because they are very “fluent”, they migrate from a discourse to a discourse during their historyfrom the Old-Polish period to contemporary times.