Krytyczne odmiany materialności. Polska krytyka literacka od postrukturalizmu do nowych materializmów
Critical Variants of Materiality. Polish Literary Criticism from Post-structuralism to New Materialisms

Summary/Abstract: The paper reviews the meanings attached to the notion of “materiality” by literary criticism since 1990s. These meanings depend on several essential philosophical tendencies: poststructuralism, critical social theories, and posthumanism, which has a significant influence on crit-ical-literary conceptualizations of “materiality”. The paper analyzes specific examples, mostly from critical-literary texts about contemporary Polish prose in order to show how “materiality” affects different types of critical commentary, including especially the possibilities and limitations of review.

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