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The Poet in the Black Economy
Poeta w szarej strefie
Keywords: Różewicz; Interpretation; Poetry
An interpretation of Tadeusz Różewicz's "Black Economy"
More...Keywords: Różewicz; Interpretation; Poetry
An interpretation of Tadeusz Różewicz's "Black Economy"
More...Keywords: Literature; Ideology; Kisielewski
A review of: M. Ryszkiewicz, Ideologia formy-forma ideologii. O powieściach Stefana Kisielewskiego, Lublin 2003.
More...Keywords: Holocaust; Literature; Memory
A review of: The Legacy of the Holocaust: National Perspectives, Ed. Z Mazur et al., Kraków 2004
More...Keywords: Różewicz; poetics; Polish poetry.
Review of a book by Tomasz Kunz entitled Strategie negatywne w poezji Tadeusza Różewicza. Od poetyki tekstu do poetyki lektury, [‘Negative strategies in Tadeusz Różewicz’s poetry. A poetics of the text into a poetics of the reading’] (Universitas publishers, Cracow 2005). T. Kunz’s book is an authoritative analysis of certain specific characteristics of Różewicz’s poetics. The author’s juxtaposes the existing extensive literature on the subject against the most recent readings of the Polish poet’s works and relevant literary-theoretical currents. A juxtaposition of this sort enables one to view the ‘canonical’ readings of the Różewicz oeuvre from a different perspective. As the book’s reviewer and interpreter of the poet’s oeuvre in one, Ms. Ubertowska has pointed out to certain difficulties occurring when it comes to describe the poet’s output from the poetics’ standpoint alone.
More...Keywords: Grotesque; Polish literature; Literary theory; Ethics
Review of Elżbieta Sidoruk’s book Groteska w poezji Dwudziestolecia. Leśmian – Tuwim – Gałczyński [‘Grotesque in Polish Verse of the 1918-1939 Period: Leśmian, Tuwim, Gałczyński’] (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku [University of Białystok Press], Białystok 2004). According to the reviewer, Ms. Sidoruk’s book belongs to the domain of papers discussing the subject of grotesque, both in a literary-theoretical and literary-historical perspective. In parallel, it emphasises difficulties in defining this hard-to-define category, whose dimension in literature is both aesthetical and ethical.
More...Keywords: Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz; Phenomenology of space; Hermeneutics
Review of Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz’s book Miejsca, strony, okolice. Przyczynek do fenomenologii przestrzeni [‘Venues, neighbourhoods, vicinities: a contribution to phenomenology of space’], Universitas, Cracow, 2006. The reviewer points out to the book author’s critical attitude toward naturalist currents in phenomenology of space, highlighting the hermeneutic inspirations underlying the way she characterises the experience of space. At the same time, she calls for problematising certain basic categories that should be devised for describing the experience (closeness, intimacy, residence).
More...Keywords: Literary studies; Historiography; Włodzimierz Bolecki; Jerzy Madejski
Reviev: Zapisywanie historii. Literaturoznawstwo i historiografia ('Writing history. Literature studies and historiography'), ed. W. Bolecki, J. Madejski, Warszawa: IBL PAN 2010.
More...Keywords: Polish Literature; Hebrew Literature; National identity; Alina Molisak; Shoshana Ronen
Reviev: Polish and Hebrew literature and national identity, eds. Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen, Elipsa, Warsaw 2010
More...Keywords: the literary field in Poland; transformation; authors and their habitus; the publishing market; sociology of literature
Review: Grzegorz Jankowicz, Piotr Marecki, Alicja Pałęcka, Jan Sowa, Tomasz Warczok, Literatura polska w świetle teorii Pierre’a Bourdieu. Raport z badań [Polish Literature in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory: A Scholarly Report], Korporacja Ha!Art, Cracow 2014.
More...Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; literary history; emigration;
Review: Ewa Kołodziejczyk, Amerykańskie powojnie Czesława Miłosza [Czesław Miłosz’s Postwar Years in America], Wydawnictwo The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), Warsaw 2015
More...Keywords: gender; sexuality; discourse; church;
Review: Maciej Duda, Dogmat płci: Polska wojna z gender [The Dogma of Sex/Gender: The Polish War with Gender Theory], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2016, 628 pp.
More...Keywords: Polish culture of memory; cultural memory; policy of commemoration; Katyn massacre; Warsaw uprising; martial law;
Review: M. Kobielska, Polska kultura pamięci w XXI wieku: dominanty. Zbrodnia katyńska, powstanie warszawskie i stan wojenny [Polish Culture of Memory in the Twenty-First Century: Main Trends. The Katyn Massacre, the Warsaw Uprising and Martial Law], Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warsaw 2016.
More...Keywords: new humanities; biohumanities; dead body studies; necropolitics; forensic turn; ecocriticism; Holocaust;
Review: Ewa Domańska, Nekros: Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała [Necros: An Introduction to the Ontology of the Dead Body] (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2017).
More...Review of: Maryla Hopfinger - Zaklinanie rzeczywistości. Filmy niemieckie i ich historie. 1933–1949, Andrzeja Gwoździa
More...Keywords: Bolesław Leśmian; Bogusław Grodzki; literary fairy tale; modernism; psychoanalysis
Review: Bogusław Grodzki, Leśmianowska baśń nowoczesna: O „Przygodach Sindbada Żeglarza” Bolesława Leśmiana [Leśmian’s Modern Fairy Tale: Bolesław Leśmian’s The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2012
More...Review of: Tadeusz Sobolewski Człowiek Miron, Kraków 2012.
More...Review: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Pogrom Cries. Sketches in Historical Anthropology of Poland 1939-1946.
More...Keywords: homophobia; queer; Sedgwick; Warkocki; Gombrowicz
Chmielewska examines the reception of Gombrowicz’s early work in the context of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work. The basis for her analysis is Błażej Warkocki’s monograph Pamiętnik afektów z okresu dojrzewania: Gombrowicz – queer – Sedgwick [Memoirs of Affects from a Time of Immaturity Gombrowicz – Queer – Sedgwick, 2018]. Chmielewska analyses recent concepts within queer theory that enter into dialogue with classic names in psychoanalysis (Lacan, Žižek). Demonstrating that “homosexual desire” as constructed in psychoanalysis masks unacknowledged homophobia, she highlights the benefits of such an interpretation of Gombrowicz’s short-story collection Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania [published in English as Bacacay] and presents Warkocki’s book as an innovative contribution to Gombrowicz studies.
More...Keywords: Gombrowicz; queer; psychoanalysis;
Review: Warkocki B., Pamiętnik afektów z okresu dojrzewania. Gombrowicz – queer – Sedgwick [A Memoir of Affects from a Time of Immaturity: Gombrowicz – Queer – Sedgwick]. Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich, Warsaw 2018. Warkocki’s monograph expores queer issues and more recent psychoanalytical interpretations in relation to Witold Gombrowicz’s early work.
More...Keywords: anti-Semitism; the Holocaust;
Review: Pogromy Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku [Pogroms against Jews on Polish Soil in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries], vol. 4. Holokaust i powojnie (1939-1946) [The Holocaust and the Immediate Postwar Period (1939-1946)], ed. by A. Grabski, Warsaw 2019.
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