TO GO BEYOND THEORY - JAN KWAPISZ'S AND VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM'S GUIDELINES FOR CRITICS (Wyjsc poza teorie - postulaty Jana Kwapisza i Valentine'a Cunninghama)

In his study on Theocritus' Syracusan Women, in the volume 'Rem acu tangere', recently published in Gdansk, Jan Kwapisz shows some dangers resulting from thoughtless application of the theory of intertextuality to Hellenistic poetry and points out that often better results are achieved if the text is interpreted in a simple and natural way. His conclusions seem close to those of Valentine Cunningham, who claims that literary criticism should go beyond the narrow field left to it by 'Theory'.