Literatura, głupcze?
It’s Literature, Stupid?

Summary/Abstract: Review: Jarosław Płuciennik, Literatura, głupcze! Laboratoria nowoczesnej kultury literackiej [‘It’s Literature, Stupid! Laboratories of Modern Literary Culture’], Cracow 2009. The reviewer mainly questions the extent to which the methodological individualism proposed by Płuciennik can be applied in literary studies, or its usefulness in describing the conditions in which a literary imaging of subjectivity would be accepted as a model for the functioning of the social sphere as a whole. The central question is whether the proposed paradigm leaves out literature as such. Yet, the cognitive theories applied in this book may result in approaching literature would as a discourse that participates in social interactions according to the same rules that govern all other discourses.

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