Wiktor Weintraub’s Strategies in his Literary Criticism (on the Example of His Collaboration with the London “Wiadomości”) Cover Image
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Strategie krytycznoliterackie Wiktora Weintrauba (na przykładzie jego współpracy z londyńskimi „Wiadomościami”)
Wiktor Weintraub’s Strategies in his Literary Criticism (on the Example of His Collaboration with the London “Wiadomości”)

Author(s): Rafał Moczkodan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the figure of a literary critic and literature historian — Wiktor Weintraub.Weintraub’s biography has been summarized here, focusing on his literary criticism, whereasspecial attention has been given to the strategies he adopted. The article shows how, depending on the author of a reviewed text, as well as its research reliability and opinions presented therein, Weintraub selected and adjusted various methods of evaluation and appraisal. Additionally, the article presents differences between printed evaluations and those expressed in the letters to the editors of the “Wiadomości,” as well as emotional bias visible in the commentaries prepared for press releases to be published in the London magazine.

  • Page Range: 393-412
  • Page Count: 20
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: Polish