This book presents the rhetorical means of creating discourses about a writer and examines how the critic's viewpoint mediated via rhetoric tropes interplays with cultural institutions and their rules (newspaper criticism, university, schools). It eventually shows the place of literature in culture and the workings of cultural memory. The book studies rhetorics, discourse, and social psychology applied to cultural institutions. In this respect, it offers a completely innovative approach and method. The author also provides an exemplary study of the famous Polish modernist poet and writer Miron Bialoszewski, and presents a detailed guide and an account of his way towards becoming a major figure in Polish culture.

This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz or of authors gaining international fame such as Miron Bialoszewski, as well as essays on other important, but less known Polish writers. The book also offers theoretical ideas relevant outside the Polish context: the idea of "homoinfluence", the "enigmatic signifier" and its role in "paranoid cultures", the overlapping of Jewishness and queer, the discussion of queer fables for children, or the new approach to the idea of "camp" and its relation to commodity fetishism.