ECONOMIC THEORIES OF LITERATURE, vol 1, ECONOMY IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, vol 2, LITERARY ECONOMICS, vol 3, ECONOMICS IN LITERARY STUDIES. THEORETICAL ISSUES

The paper discusses four collective books from the series " Ekonomia Literatury" (" Economy of Literature"): Ekonomiczne teorie literatury (Economic Literary Theories); Ekonomie w literaturze i kulturze (Economies in Literature and Culture); Literackie ekonomie (Literary Economies); Ekonomia w badaniach literackich. Zagadnienia teoretyczne (Economy in Literary Studies: Theoretical Problems) published in 2017 by, Ulucz" and Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego (The University of Silesia Press), as well as Pawel Tomczok's monograph Literacki kapitalizm. Obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej polowy XIX wieku (Literary Capitalism: The Images of Economic Abstracts in the Polish Literature of the Second Half of the 19th Century) issued by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego in 2018. The reviewer looks at the place of the publications on the map of the new interpretive and methodological proposals and makes an attempt to define their role in " regaining" Marxism as a fruitful and creative trend in the Polish research in literature, culture and society.