Towards Polysensory Perception in Literary Studies. On Aleksandra Kremer’s Book The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II Cover Image

Ku percepcji polisensorycznej w badaniach literackich. O książce Aleksandry Kremer The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II
Towards Polysensory Perception in Literary Studies. On Aleksandra Kremer’s Book The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II

Author(s): Katarzyna Ciemiera
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Studies of Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: 20th-century Polish poetry; author’s voice; secondary orality; sound studies;literary studies

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews of Aleksandra Kremer’s book The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II (2021), which is the first to describe and scrutinise the phenomenon related to the formation of the modern culture of poetry audio realisations in Poland during the second half of the twentieth century. This phenomenon relates to the growing interest of poets in authorial audio realisations of their poetry that crosses the boundaries of the text by harnessing new technologies to distribute, manipulate and reproduce sound. This review aims to situate the book in a context of studies on the relationship between literature and sound in the age of secondary orality and to present its potential influence on the discussion regarding the function of the latest literature in the contemporary audio-visual culture.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 145-159
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish