Geopoetyka jako principium comparationis w badaniach kulturowych

This article is an attempt to use geopoetical language (that of cultural geography) for comparative research. The author has engaged in what is known as “inner comparative studies”: the material selected consists of three novels by Miron Białoszewski from the postwar period (when he was living on Poznańska Street in Warsaw) and several posts by a certain Budrys published on the Internet in 2009/10, concerning the Sielce district in Warsaw and also dating from after the war. Regardless of the character of these writings (direct and nostalgic reminiscences), both show the importance of vision (the eye), memory, language, the materialization of space (locality), subjectivity, experience, and general double coding (here and there, one’s possessions and those of others), which leads to the epistemological justification for the concept of ‘glocalism’. The analysis shows that geopoetics can be fitted into the model of comparative cultural studies and can be consciously and effectively employed thereby.