THE SHIVER OF DELIGHT AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE ABROAD (Dreszcz zachwytu i historia literatury za granica)

The authoress choses as the starting point Ulrich Gumbrecht's meditations on presence and significance meaning, contained in his book 'The Production of Presence'. The article's subject-matter proper is a sort of pre-discursive sensation manifesting itself as a delight leading to the subject's perdition in the work of art. The authoress endeavours to place this psycho-physiological resonance, conceived as a non-Kantian aesthetic moment, within the framework of university teaching of foreign literature.