“The Wedding” by Stanisław Wyspiański. Problems of composition is Maria Renata Mayenowa’s unpublished doctoral thesis. It is an exceptional work in the research output of the cofounder of the IBL school of literary theory. This publication is interesting not only because the novelty of some of the author’s proposals but foremost as a work which allows us to complete the knowledge of Mayenowa herself.
The article is devoted to a presentation of so far unknown to a wider public of Polish scholars doctoral dissertation „Wesele” Stanislawa Wyspianskiego. Problemy kompozycji (Stanislaw Wyspianski’s „The Wedding.” Problems of Composition) by Maria Renata Mayenowa. The dissertation, typewritten to date, was composed under supervision of Manfred Kridl in 1932 at Stephen Batory Vilnius University. The author of the article sets the dissertation against the then dominating methodological tendencies, and points out both original and derivative features of Mayenowa’s interpretation.
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