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Pożytki z antologii (O książce Wielcy artyści uczieczek. Antologia tekstów o “Życiu i czasach Michaela K.” w trzydziestą rocznicę publikacji)
Uses of anthology

Author(s): Maciej Jakubowiak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Coetzee John Maxwell; teoria interpretacji; antologia; teoria literatury

Summary/Abstract: In a review of a book Wielcy artyści ucieczek. Antologia tekstów o „Życiu i czasach Michaela K.” w trzydziestą rocznicę publikacji, an author analyses the mere idea of an anthology of interpretations, describing its two possible understandings: as a collection of incomparable perspectives and as a field of conflict. The author emphasizes difficulties of interpretational procedures related to the novel by J.M. Coetzee and points to a political meanings of an act of reading. Additionally, texts collected in the anthology are classified by different attitudes towards the work of meanings in the novel, and some reductional practices are criticized. Finally, the author places the anthology in a wider horizon of interpretational strategies in contemporary humanities, asking questions regarding their importance – or lack of it.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 123-132
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish