Praca dotycząca teorii poezji napisana z wielkim znawstwem przedmiotu, porusza temat dystansu jako podstawy relacji podmiot/przedmiot. Autorka wszechstronnie analizuje zagadnienie w oparciu o wiedzę z zakresu filozofii, teorii kultury i literaturoznawstwa, przedstawiając wieloznaczność dystansu oraz jego rolę we wskazywaniu antynomii nowoczesności. Współczesne literaturoznawstwo nie może obyć się bez innych dyscyplin naukowych, co stanowi o jego transdyscyplinarności i transdyskursywości i taka właśnie nowoczesna wizja przechodzącego radykalne metamorfozy litaraturoznawsztwa charakteryzuje całość publikacji.

The book constitutes and characterises distance as a problem of cultural anthropology. In this perspective distance refers to the place of man in the world and constitutes the specificity of the way he interacts with the world.
The author constitutes distance also as interpretational category of modern poetry. Question of distance is primarily a question of form, if this be defined as anything that is associated with the linguistic dimension of a work. The mere explication of an inexpressible experience makes it nonidentical with the experience. In the poetry of Leśmian, Karpowicz, Białoszewski and Miłobędzka we deal with a number of mediations whose strange status is that, on the one hand, they allow the disclosure of what prevents any discourse, on the other hand – they veil the original experience with additional layers of stylistic and formal linguistic figures which not only move away and distort what
was meant to be said, but also produce what would never become present. Without suggesting any simple and risky analogies between philosophy and poetry, the autor points out that modern Polish poetry is firmly seated on the ground of post-Descartesian reflective philosophy, even when it seems to abandon the traditional, metaphysical categories of truth, significance and meaning for the sake of language and its figures.