Słowiańskie formuły nowoczesności – ideały i iluzje przemiany. Studia dedykowane Profesor Barbarze Czapik-Lityńskiej
Slavic formulas of modernity - ideals and illusions of change. Studies dedicated to Professor Barbara Czapik-Lityńska
Contributor(s): Lech Miodyński (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: modernity; southern and western Slavs; traditionalism; progress; literature; culture;art;
Series: Nauki społeczne
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3566-7
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3565-0
- Page Count: 172
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Proroczy aspekt awangardy
Proroczy aspekt awangardy
(The prophetic aspect to the avant-garde)
- Author(s):Bożena Tokarz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts, Music, Sociology of Art, History of Art
- Page Range:21-34
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The art and poetry of the historical avant-garde contains prophetic elements referring to the later artistic development, which are not subject to a simple continuation but rather continuation via degradation. They result from the two prevalent tendencies at that time: from aesthetic aristocratism in the midst modern civilization’s equalizing tendencies and from seizure of non-art areas, rejection of tradition and reaching for sources; as well as from the perceived blemishes in the image of monolithic perfection. The post-avant-garde work rejected the ideology of the historical avant-garde believing in the role of the artist in the world, in unity, in aesthetic, social and technological utopias, by undertaking the following artistic activities: destruction in construction, language relativism, momentary artistic creation, emotionality against anti-emotionality, hybrid forms, anti-aestheticism, diffusion of arts, the focalization and multinterpretability of the world. The works of Srečko Kosovel and Julian Przyboś have in a different way initiated changes in the post-avant-garde poetry, using some of the mentioned strategies for expressing a different worldview.
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Između moderne i avangarde – Himnika ulice Tina Ujevića
Između moderne i avangarde – Himnika ulice Tina Ujevića
(Between modernism and avant-garde – Tin Ujević’s Himnika ulice)
- Author(s):Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
- Language:Czech
- Subject(s):Scientific Life
- Page Range:35-44
- No. of Pages:10
- Summary/Abstract:The subject of the article is Tin Ujević’s inter-mingling of modernity and avant-garde, above all bohemian retreats and avant-garde activities, which the author finds in his feuilletons, essays and travelogues. The simultaneously opposing views seem to be most evident in Ujević’s understanding and experience of the city (for example in the text Himnika ulice) which, on the one hand, continues the modernist anti-urbanism in which the city (street) is an area unsuitable for the fulfillment of existential and spiritual needs, a place of no-home or a broken home and no-domestication, and on the other hand, access to the city (street) is close to futuristic statements, the city denotes a space suitable for civilization changes and creation of the New Man – an idea that is typical of avant-garde projects and known in many programme texts. The petrifying, antidynamic, stagnant energy of the street adopts a narrator-heroartist who only informs about the desire for activity, does not prove, apply, but waits that the changes happen, come true and waits while contemplating urban life and performing lamentation (lelekanje).
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Śmietnik socjalistycznej nowoczesności w filmach jugosłowiańskiej czarnej fali
Śmietnik socjalistycznej nowoczesności w filmach jugosłowiańskiej czarnej fali
(A dump of socialist modernity in Yugoslav Black Wave films)
- Author(s):Patrycjusz Pająk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Film / Cinema / Cinematography
- Page Range:45-62
- No. of Pages:18
- Summary/Abstract:The article concerns the image of social and material poverty in the Yugoslav (mainly Serbian) films of the Black Wave of the 1960s and early 70s in the context of defects of the socialist modernization in Yugoslavia. It begins with justifying the usefulness of the dump metaphor in describing the phenomena characterizing modern civilization and being considered incompatible with the ideas that guide it, and at the same time constituting an inalienable side product of modernization of civilization. A special case is the communist modernization, because its radicalism ultimately brings the opposite effect to the planned one. Instead of removing from the social and material reality all phenomena considered ideologically undesirable, the communists disseminate them. A civilizational dump occupies considerable space also in the socialist Yugoslavia, which the local authorities downplay or conceal. In opposition to them, the directors of the Black Wave expose the ugly side of Yugoslavian reality by using naturalist poetics. They highlight the low standard of living of workers and farmers, poverty, unemployment, the growth of social margin, degradation of the natural environment. Such thematic orientation of their work can be interpreted as an expression of disappointment with the flawed implementation of Marxist ideology by Yugoslav communists who, in this way, have betrayed this ideology.
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Powieść Dominika Smolego i jej filmowa transkrypcja
Powieść Dominika Smolego i jej filmowa transkrypcja
(Dominik Smole’s novel and its film transcription)
- Author(s):Zdzisław Darasz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
- Page Range:63-77
- No. of Pages:15
- Summary/Abstract:Slovene literature and film are connected through numerous and creative links (in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia over 40 per cent of films were made according to scripts based on the works of native literature). However, never before or afterwards had the consequences of screen adaptation of fiction proved as momentous for the national culture as in the case of Dominik Smole’s novel Black Days and a White Day (1958), and the book’s adaptation, Boštjan Hladnik’s film Dancing in the Rain (1961). Both works played a very important role in promoting Slovene culture of modernist aesthetics – autonomous and noninstrumental, carrying out bold formal experiments, breaking with tradition and mimetic expression of reality. Both of them fulfilled the task properly, despite facing sharp criticism from conservative audience, especially viewers. Having completed their cultural mission, they ended up in a repository of culture texts in order to await the interest of new generations of readers viewers – rather professional than mass.
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Poeta zadomowiony? O polskiej recepcji Františka Halasa
Poeta zadomowiony? O polskiej recepcji Františka Halasa
(A rooted poet? Polish reception of František Halas)
- Author(s):Józef Zarek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:79-91
- No. of Pages:13
- Summary/Abstract:The text mostly concerns Polish translations of František Halas’s (1901–1949) oeuvre. It points to their numerous editions and some pieces’ multiple translations. It also recalls remarkably positive Polish opinions about the poet, as well as an example of a similar piece of narrative poetry as Halas’s, written by Tadeusz Różewicz.
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Josef Váchal – osobowość twórcza a epoka
Josef Váchal – osobowość twórcza a epoka
(Josef Váchal – a creative personality and his era)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Kalita
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:93-102
- No. of Pages:10
- Summary/Abstract:Josef Váchal is a Czech artist who experimented with various forms, searching for novel means of expression both in plastic arts and literary genves. His works cover a collection of miscellaneous texts published with the highest diligence. In this paper, Váchal’s oeuvre is presented in the context of the era of his activity and in the context of the study Dějiny nové moderny of 2010. The approach of the Czech literature experts consists in grasping the literary works in motion, in the context of the situation they were born and they struggled for their position among contemporary expressions. A new outlook to the Czech modernism is an approach that benefits from the scientific works of Pierre Bourdieu, whose field (champ) theory was used, and of Peter Zajac – the author of the synoptic map concept.
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Autofikcyjność Lisicy Dubravki Ugrešić
Autofikcyjność Lisicy Dubravki Ugrešić
(The autofiction in Dubravka Ugrešić’s novel Fox)
- Author(s):Anita Gostomska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:103-116
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The latest and long-awaited Dubravka Ugrešić’s novel Fox (2017) poetically accounts for the past quarter of the century, which for the post-communist Slavonic states was above all the time of great and difficult transformation, and for the writer herself – the beginning of a completely new stage in her personal life. Thoughts taken into a precise form, among which one can recognize the issues already mentioned by Ugrešić, are most of all marked by the widely understood maturity. Dubravka Ugrešić’s Fox clearly refers to her own prose written in the 1980s, but she updates the concept of using Russian literature as an intertext, strongly associated with her debut and autobiographically connotated, enriching the personal perspective with the experience of expatriation. A successful return to Russian subjects may signal a change in Ugrešić’s attitude to the category of Yugonostalgia, with which she was (or still is) commonly associated. Ugrešić in her latest novel takes the fundamental problem of literary studies juxtaposed with the crisis of the fiction, which is the concept of truth (the truth of fiction), and – experienced by the trauma of collapse and exile – in an original and extremely personal way she responds to key questions for subjectivity issues: Who am I? Where do I go? Fascinated by the “literary character of literature” from the beginning of her writing career, in search of the means of artistic expression that can fully (apart from the content and structure of the work) express the mentioned fascination, but also her painful experiences, she utilizes the autofiction.
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Pain Opera Mladena Stilinovicia
Pain Opera Mladena Stilinovicia
(Mladen Stilinović’s Pain Opera)
- Author(s):Anna Ruttar-Sakouhi
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:117-130
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016), a world-famous founding member of Croatian conceptual and avant-garde movements, is one of most important contemporary artists. He is probably most widely known for his works dealing with the influence and power of money and not less known for artistic comments to the very important questions of politics, society, economy, death, pain, food, work, absence. A central role in Stilinović’s conceptual work is played by language (poetry, everyday language and discourse used in newspapers) and social aspects of various societies and their relationships. My research are focused on the topic of pain – which is a theme that crops up in all periods of Stilinović’s work in art, especially in Dictionary – Pain (2000–2003), where “all the words mean pain” and “a space for associative freedom and dialogue in which words acquire multiple accents and voices opens up” (N. Ilić). In my reading Stilinović’ artistic idea of Dictionary – Pain as a minimalist Pain Opera in the series of cultural and aesthetic references acquires an in-depth meaning.
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Dyskurs pamięci w eseistyce Draga Jančara
Dyskurs pamięci w eseistyce Draga Jančara
(Discourse of memory in Drago Jančar’s essays)
- Author(s):Monika Gawlak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:131-143
- No. of Pages:13
- Summary/Abstract:Essayistic work by Drago Jančar is understood here as one of the modern literature’s models, namely the elitist-instrumental model (R. Nycz). Moreover, Slovenian artist’s essays seem to be a testimony to the faith in the “grand narrative” as defined by Jean-François Lyotard, the narrative that is capable of organizing common history, looking for the truth and which is the creation of an autonomous subject. The memory category plays a dominant role in Drago Jančar’s essays. By reminding History, confronting with History, those essays become a part of the reflection on the human condition, condition of a Slovenian, a European, an intellectual, a writer. They are the voice of a literary subject conscious of the role of History in shaping fates in the individual and collective dimensions. Jančar’s essays represent identity and memorial discourse, but less in an individual, autobiographical meaning, and more in the context of historical and cultural memory. Despite skepticism, the subject of essays reminds the past in the interest of identity and values. Reflection on the fate of the nation, on historical changes, shall contribute to the awareness of the variability of History, to arouse a sense of responsibility, and finally its purpose is to show how national delusions distort the reality.
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Nowa poezja polityczna i nowa poezja społeczna – projekty bułgarskie z początków XXI wieku
Nowa poezja polityczna i nowa poezja społeczna – projekty bułgarskie z początków XXI wieku
(New political poetry and new social poetry – Bulgarian projects at the begining of the 21st century)
- Author(s):Dorota Gołek-Sepetliewa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Literary Texts
- Page Range:145-156
- No. of Pages:12
- Summary/Abstract:In 2016, new political poetry and new social poetry projects were created in Bulgaria. Artistic proposals were created independently of each other and were published by representatives of various literary circles. The new political poetry is the original project of the poet and literary scholar Plamen Doynov, who consistently implements it in his two recently published volumes Sofia Berlin (2012) and Bal of tyrants (2016). The originators of the new social poetry are poets Vladimir Sabourin, Vasil Praskov and Ivaylo Merdzhanov, while the artistic initiative found its quick response and support among a large group of artists and representatives of various intellectual backgrounds. The poetic volume by Sabourin The Worker and Death (2016) is an example of the implementation of the postulates of the manifesto of new social poetry. It comments upon current political and social topics, suspicion and distance to the prevailing ideologies, an attitude of rebellion against the dominant processes, trends and literary traditions that have been going on for over two decades. Poetry emerging within the framework of new political and social poetry confirms the need to restore the strong subjective position of the artist in the artistic sense and in the public perspective – in the conditions of post-communist reality, not working through past, increasing conflicts and negative emotions: frustration, anxiety and trauma. It avoids easy moralizing, advocating on the side of a concrete (social or political) ideology and providing easy answers in the face of numerous crises and increasing antagonisms. Poetry is not a space separated from social phenomena. The poetry-forming poets become sensitive observers of the omnipresent reality, they want to articulate views and judgments heard in the public space.
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„Samorodny totalitaryzm” przeciw nowoczesności – infrastruktura serbskiego tradycjonalizmu
„Samorodny totalitaryzm” przeciw nowoczesności – infrastruktura serbskiego tradycjonalizmu
(“Natural totalitarianism” against the modernity – infrastructure of the Serbian traditionalism)
- Author(s):Lech Miodyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences
- Page Range:157-169
- No. of Pages:13
- Summary/Abstract:In this article are discussed the forms of the social traditionalism depicted in the important Radomir Konstantinović’s work Filosofija palanke (1969) – as the example of the timeless negative attitudes towards modernization and tolerance. The reality of Serbia in the phase of transition from traditionalist to modern society here is only one of the possible specifications of the described universal situation which possesses its characteristic features: among others – endeavour to restoring of the tribal community, authoritative and normative pedagogy, sentimental-sarcastic language, masochistic determinism, empirisation of the religion, utilitarianism of the death, loftiness of the banality, cultural infantilism or exclusion of every different character. Analysis of these and another categories, as well as history of the reception of this book, indicate that connection between conservatism, ethnic homogenization and fanaticism on behalf of tradition is close and independent from the ethnocultural and historical realities.
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