Omówienia i polemiki: Materialistyczna krytyka literacka – niedokończony projekt [dot. J. North: „Literary Criticism. A Concise Political History”]
Discussions and Polemics: Materialistic Literary Criticism – an Unaccomplished Project [re: J. North: „Literary Criticism. A Concise Political History”]

Summary/Abstract: The article is an extensive review of Joseph North’s book „Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History”. The author divides the 20th and 21st century literary studies into two orientations: critics and researchers, showing that the domination of the research perspective from the 80s led to a paradoxical depoliticization of criticism and deprivation of its intervention potential. To restore the critical potential, North postulates a return to materialistic aesthetics under the sign of I.A. Richards, which allows him to cross the research horizon in a gesture of intervention into a common reality, justified by a specific aesthetic experience.

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