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Keywords: Stanisław Lem; Science-fiction; Literary criticism; Philosophy
A review of: J. Jarzębski, 2003, Wszechświat Lema, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie.
More...Keywords: Polish literature; Adam Mickiewicz; Romanticism; Platonism
A review of: M. Rudaś-Grodzka, 2003, "Sprawić, aby idee śpiewały." Motywy platońskie w życiu i twórczości Adama Mickiewicza w okresie wileńsko-kowieńskim, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich.
More...Keywords: Polish literature; literary criticism; Gombrowicz; Miłosz
More...Keywords: Philosophy; Politics; Holocaust
A discussion of theoretical approaches to political and philosophical aspects of the Holocaust.
More...Keywords: Novel; fiction; prose; epistemology
The article outlines various approaches towards the epistemology of the novel.
More...Keywords: Polish literature; Polish studies
A review of: W. Jakowliewna Tichomirowa (2004) Polskaja proza o Wtoroj mirowoj wojnie w socjokulturnom kontiekstie. 1989-2000, Moskwa: MGU im. M.W. Łomonosowa.
More...Keywords: Polish Poetry; Reader Response; Interpretation
Review of Dariusz Pawelec’s book Świat jako Ty. Poezja polska wobec adresata w drugiej połowie XX wieku [‘The World as a You. Polish poetry vs. its addressees in the latter half of 20th century’], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego [Silesian University Press], 2003. The book being reviewed attempts at describing the poetry from its addressee’s standpoint. The author categorises the various forms of presence of the addressee in the pieces of poetry under analysis, supporting his findings by theses of thinkers representing various research traditions: Ingarden, Heidegger, Gadamer, Bachtin czy Sławiński. The reviewer asks about the changes such an approach may contribute to our interpretative practices.
More...Keywords: Black humour; pataphysics; Witkacy; Bruno Schulz; Witold Gombrowicz
Book review: Tomasz Bocheński, Czarny humor w twórczości Witkacego, Gombrowicza, Schulza. Lata trzydzieste [‘Black humour in the output of Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Schulz. The Thirties Decade’], Cracow 2005. The author polemicises with Bocheński’s thesis interpreting the black humour present in Witkacy’s, W. Gombrowicz’s, and B. Schulz’s prose works as a manifestation of longing for a metaphysical order. The reviewer identifies a different group of inspirations: A. Jarry’s and surrealists’ writings, pataphysical manifestos.
More...Keywords: Authenticity; Conscioussness; Subjectivity
The text attempts at reconstructing the main theses of the book 'Autentyczność i nowoczesność', [‘Authenticity and modernity’], both historically and philosophically. The first aspect enables to unveil the mechanism of transformation of the notion of authenticity: from the early-modern moment of bifurcated subject, through to the romanticist concepts of authenticity and modern visions. The second aspect made it possible to take a closer look at the structure of authentic subject, rhetorical mechanisms devised for substantiating the category, and the consciousness vs. authenticity relation.
More...Keywords: Miron Białoszewski; syllepsism; modernism.
Review of Ewa Winiecka’s book 'Białoszewski sylleptyczny' [‘Białoszewski: Sylleptic’] (Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne, Poznań 2006). Although the reviewer assumes a polemic approach at times, he emphasises and praises the apt advantage Ms. Winiecka has taken of the ‘sylleptic I’ concept, first proposed by Ryszard Nycz in his book 'Język modernizmu' [‘The language of modernism’]. The notion has enabled the author to create a consistent concept of Miron Białoszewski’s output.
More...Keywords: Agata Stankowska; Poetic Trope; Symbol; Irony; Metonimy.
Book review: Agata Stankowska, Poezji nie pisze się bezkarnie. Z teorii i historii tropu poetyckiego [‘No poetry is written with impunity. From the theory and history of poetic trope’], Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, 2007. The present excerpts of the theory and history of poetic trope attempt at outlining the history of uses of three poetic tropes: symbol, irony, and metonymy. Whilst drawing broad philosophical and anthropological perspectives, Ms. Stankowska shows their interpretative usefulness for the techniques used by 20th-century literary historian, while consistently defending the subjective perspective of the literary-historical process. The article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of such a concept.
More...Keywords: Jarosław Płuciennik; Literary studies; Methodology; Non-literary discourses
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.
More...Review: Rafał Ilnicki, Bóg cyborgów. Technika i transcendencja, Poznań 2011.
More...Review: Monika Bakke, Bio-transfiguracje. Sztuka i estetyka posthumanizmu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2010.
More...Review: (Inne) zwierzęta mają głos, red. D. Dąbrowska i P. Krupiński, Wyd. A. Marszałek, Toruń 2011.
More...Keywords: young people's historical consciousness; image of the history of Poland; secondary school graduates; history education;
The article presents the results of the small-scale (220 responses) research conducted in 2015 on the final-year secondary school students from south-west Poland. The students were asked to write a story they would tell to a foreign visitor who would come to Poland and want to know the history of Poland. The stories were written at school during one lesson period (45 minutes). The analysis concentrates on the types of narratives (from just enumeration of facts, to more coherent narratives with certain dominating motives, such as the martyrdom of Poland or her victories), areas covered (political, military, social, cultural history), and phenomena (persons, events, processes) sełected. The findings are confronted with the results of earlier research on historical consciousness of the Polish youth conducted by Janusz Rulka, Łukasz Michalski and Krzysztof Malicki. Considerable continuity of interests and attitudes of the young people has been observed.
More...Keywords: biography; life writing; aphorism; Lidia Kośka; Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Madejski presents Lidia Kośka’s recent biography of aphorist and poet Stanisław Jerzy Lec – Lec: Autobiografia słowa (Warsaw, 2015) – as a prime example of literary biography today. He argues that the book revives the old formula of a monograph focused on “the writer’s life and work”. In Kośka’s case the book is about “the life and poetics” of Lec. Madejski also highlights the significance of Kośka’s book for future Lec scholars: we can expect new interpretations of individual aphorisms (philological, historical, political, religious, philosophical) from Lec’s Myśli nieuczesane (Unkempt Thoughts; 1957), further comparative studies of Lec’s work (e.g. in the context of Austro-Modernism) as well as studies in the context of other fields, such as law.
More...Review: Karolina Krasuska Gender and Nation: Trans/locations. Maria Komornicka/Piotr Odmieniec W³ast, Eske Lasker-Schüler, Miny Loy
More...Keywords: Holocaust; Onlookers
Review: Grzegorz Nizio³ek Polish Holocaust Theatre
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