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Liberałowie na wojennej ścieżce
Liberałowie na wojennej ścieżce
Keywords: Magdalena Środa
Liberałowie na wojennej ścieżce. Analiza felietonów Magdaleny Środy
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Liberałowie na wojennej ścieżce. Analiza felietonów Magdaleny Środy
More...Keywords: Andrzej Franaszek; Czesław Miłosz; Review
Review: Andrzej Franaszek, Miłosz. Biografia, „Znak”, Kraków 2011
More...Keywords: Stanisław Barańczak; Jerzy Kandziora; Polish Poetry 20 c.
Review: Jerzy Kandziora, Ocalony w gmachu wiersza: o poezji Stanisława Barańczaka [‘Saved in the Edifice of a Poem: Stanisław Barańczak’s Poetry’]. This interpretation focuses on the essentially ambiguous notion of ‘salvation’, while at the same time the author endeavours to point out the sources of such a perspective. These ought to include above all the works and discoveries related to Ricoeurian hermeneutics as well as Gadamer’s reinterpretation of the classical concept of mimesis. These invaluable contributions to twentieth-century humanities shed light on Barańczak’s concept of erecting the edifice of the poem as a salvaging exercise – and it is a concept that is free neither of drama nor of internal tensions.
More...Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; Polish Poetry 20 c.
Review: Czesław Miłosz. Bibliografia druków zwartych [a bibliography of book-formatted publications authored by C. Miłosz], ed. by Agnieszka Kosińska, with contributions from Jacek Błach and Kamil Kasperek, Warszawa 2009. This monumental book is the first complete bibliography encompassing all book-length items (self-contained publications) of the Polish Nobel-Prize winning author, including major scientific and popular studies on his work. The book consists of just under a thousand running printed pages, its content being divided into fourteen thematic chapters. The content (apart from the Introduction and Annex) is indexed in Chapter 16, which encompasses (over more than 300 pages!) three types of index, all of which should prove extremely useful to literary scholars: titles of works; personal names, and titles of periodicals.
More...Keywords: prose poem; genealogy; Polish literary history; French and Anglo-American literary history
Review: Agnieszka Kluba, Poemat prozą w Polsce [The Prose Poem in Poland], Warszawa–Toruń 2014
More...Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; interpretation; genetic criticism; review;
Review of M. Antoniuk „Słowo raz obudzone”: Poezja Czesława Miłosza – próby czytania [‘The Word Once Awakened’: Reading Czesław Miłosz’s Poetry], Księgarnia Akademicka, Cracow 2015.
More...Keywords: Aleksander Wat; Notebooks; Notatniki; archive; interdisciplinarity; genetic criticism; somatic criticism;
Baron-Milian reads the phenomenon of Aleksaner Wat’s Notatniki [Notebooks] through a variety of lenses, including the theory of the archive, textual genetics and somatic criticism. Key considerations touch on the particular epistemology of writing and the interdisciplinary project of accumulating and organizing knowledge that emerge from the writer’s notes, blurring the boundaries between what is scientific and social, aesthetic and political. These practices are essential for the emergence of a subjective knowledge that is articulated in a variety of ways and finds its particular place in literature.
More...Keywords: essay; biography; peasant culture; village; history of Polish culture; story;
This article explores selected passages from Andrzej Mencwel’s autobiographical essay Toast na progu [Toast on the Threshold] in the context of recent literary and critical texts as well as artistic works that explore – and introduce to a broader public – the question of Polish culture’s peasant roots. Litwinowicz-Droździel focuses on the problems of civilization in Mencwel’s work and on his diagnoses regarding the current state of peasant culture.
More...Keywords: animals; animal studies; human animal studies; anthrozoology; journals in the humanities
This review article presents the journal Zoophilologica: Polish Journal of Animal Studies, its scientific profile, the published articles’ positioning in the research field of animal studies and their content in relation to global achievements. Jarzębowska highlights the journal’s interdisciplinary nature and its roots in literary studies. The journal’s presence on the Polish publishing market, she argues further, may have a positive effect on the visibility of studies on the relationship between humans and other species – studies rooted in a local context that may also counterbalance dominant Anglo-American narratives.
More...Keywords: affect; materiality; love; post-humanism
Tabaszewska’s point of departure is a discussion of the book The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice. She examines the editors’ different conceptualisations of the relationship between affect, feelings and materiality, with a focus on the nonhuman potential of affective relationships.
More...Keywords: 20th century; genocide; Polish literature; monograph
Presenting Arkadiusz Morawiec’s monograph Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa [Polish Literature and Genocide] Buryła goes beyond the genocides committed by the Nazis and the communists in the twentieth century. He also discusses questions of ecocide, new eugenics and the threat posed by the development of civilisation.
More...Keywords: Urszula Glensk; Polish interwar reportage; prostitution; homelessness; unemployment; orphanhood; flood victims; ritual slaughter of animals
Review: U. Glensk, Historia słabych: Reportaż i życie w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym (1918–1939) [A History of the Weak: Reportage and Life in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)], Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych „Universitas”, Cracow 2014.
More...Keywords: Recovered Territories; narrations; memory; diaries; Polish literature;
Review: K. Siewior Wielkie poruszenie: Pojałtańskie narracje migracyjne wkulturze polskiej [The Great Movement: Post-Yalta Migration Narratives in Polish Culture], Wydawnictwo IBL, Warsaw 2018; M. Praczyk Pamięć środowiskowa we wspomnieniach osadników na „Ziemiach Odzyskanych” [Community Memory in the Recollections of Settlers in the “Recovered Territories”], Instytut Historii UAM, Poznań 2018.
More...Keywords: apocalypse; pop culture; series; games; film; Nijakowski; ISIS; Daesh; racism; new authoritarianism; postmodernism; Neo-Nazism; Dabiq; racial separatism;
Witkowski polemicises with Lech Nijakowski’s book Po apokalipsie: Społeczeństwo wświetle postapokaliptycznych tekstów kultury popularnej [After the Apocalypse: Society in the Light of Postapocalyptic Texts in Popular Culture], which overlooks the ideological and class underpinnings in the frequent references to the apocalypse in contemporary pop culture. Witkowski supplements Nijakowski’s work with these elements and develops his ideas, trying to determine what social, religious and philosophical functions the apocalypse performs today.
More...Keywords: violence; apocalypse; catastrophism; Enlightenment; religion; culture; rationality; mimetism; war; future; ecology; mind;
Bendyk discusses two interpretations of violence and its sources. The first refers to René Girard’s mimetic theory, where violence is a product of religion and culture; and the second stems from the Enlightenment, which presents violence as a product of human rationality. In Girard’s interpretation the apocalypse is a real option for the end of history, the second one leads to enlightened catastrophism, which removes the necessity of the apocalypse.
More...Keywords: Holocaust; environmental history; camps; art; landscape;
Review: Jacek Małczyński, Krajobrazy Zagłady: Perspektywa historii środowiskowej [Landscapes of the Holocaust: The Perspective of Environmental History], Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN, Warsaw 2018. In her review Tomczok highlights the innovative nature of Jacek Małczyński’s monograph, the implementation of environmental concepts and theories from cultural studies in the Polish context, and especially the material that he presents to portray the Holocaust from different perspectives. One key strength of his book is the refreshing take on the remains of extermination camps and works of art that refer to them, especially art that has an ecological dimension. Małczyński also reflects on the meaning of disanthropisation (dehumanising) the history of the Holocaust and the consequences that result from it. The book allows us to sense that the author does not only write but he conducts interviews, goes on walks, takes photographs, analyses works of art, runs an archive, and thus – working on a variety of material, he uses methods from different academic disciplines. Still, the symbolical dimension of genocide and ecocide that emerges from his project does not forcibly impose ideological conclusions. It remains an invitation to engage in a participative project that is assumed to be work in progress.
More...Keywords: reproductive work; feminist autonomism; unitarism; women’s poetry; Polish People’s Republic;
Szopa discusses the reproduction of everyday life in two volumes of poetry published in the first half of the 1970s, namely Anna Świrszczyńska’s Jestem baba [I am a Woman] and Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Dom, pokarmy [House, Nourishment]. Exploring the two women poets’ work from the perspective of feminist theories of social reproduction, Szopa suggests that there is a close relationship between the grassroots movement of women’s emancipation in the Polish People’s Republic and women’s literary and poetic productivity. This perspective is perceptible in the two volumes discussed here, where the question of women’s reproductive labour becomes the main theme and emancipatory strategy-
More...Keywords: electronic literature; literature online; Polish cybernetic poetry; hypertexual novel; Polish literature of the year 2000;
Review: Elżbieta Winiecka Poszerzanie pola literackiego: Studia o literackości w internecie [Broadening the Literary Field: Studies on Literariness on the Internet], Cracow: Universitas, 2020
More...Keywords: words; feminism; canon; carnality; motherhood; mourning;
Review: Formy (nie)obecności. Szkice o współczesnej poezji kobiet. Red. J. Grądziel-Wójcik, A.Karpowicz, E. Sołtys-Lewandowska [Forms of (Un)Presence: Sketches on Contemporary Women’s Poetry], TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS, Kraków 2018. A review of the book Formy (nie)obecności. Szkice o współczesnej poezji kobiet (Forms of (Un)Presence: Sketches on Contemporary Women’s Poetry) published in 2018 and devoted to the works of women poets, both famous ones and those erased from the twentieth-century poetic canon. The reviewer underlines the importance of the project, which seeks to include women’s output into the mainstream narration on the transformations of Polish poetry – not as a supplement of any kind but as an enterprize that respects the thematic and formal independence of women’s poetry. Some female scholars who partook in the project postulate the necessity of rejecting the criterion of equivalent diction applied to women’s idioms in comparison to that of men’s idioms (the case of Julia Hartwig), which would legitimize women’s poets membership in the canon, while others incline toward the strategy of claiming niches (the case of Joanna Pollakówna’s private genre of pytalik, “little questioner”). Some scholars propose notions that appear to self-characterizing (priestess, witchy, provocative, mystic). All articles in the volume deliver on the promise of appreciation women’s poetry and capturing it as engaged and intervening, but also obligated to persistently support the weakest.
More...Keywords: Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; extermination of Polish Jews; Warsaw Ghetto; testimony; historical document
Review: Archiwum Ringelbluma: Antologia, ed. by M. Janczewska, J. Leociak, BN I, 334,Ossolineum 2019.
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