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Byt, fantazja i moment lektury
Being, fantasy and the moment of reading

Author(s): Tomasz Pawlus
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Ethical criticism; reading experience; Teodor Parnicki

Summary/Abstract: This text, making Stefan Szymutko’s book 'Przeciw marzeniu?' [‘Against a daydream?’] central to the afterthought proposed, can hardly be situated within a genological network of academic discourse. Although the text itself is formally closest to a review, the possibility of such identification seems conclusively dubious. The selection of methodological tools, which are close to an instance of ‘ethical criticism’ reading, makes this quasi-review different from a traditionally ‘critical’ account of a reading experience. It is only using analytical-interpretative guidelines going beyond the scope of a purely scholarly thinking about literature that the author could have attempted at grasping the singularity of the reading situation experienced by Mr. Szymutko reading Teodor Parnicki.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish