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Sensitivity, Interpretation, Literature

Wrażliwość, interpretacja, literatura

Author(s): Michał Paweł Markowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1-2/2010

Keywords: Methodology; Humanities; Interpretation.

A reply to the questionnaire on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Teksty Drugie: my personal views on literature, literary studies and other issues of consequence. While opposing an ‘objectivistic’ model of science, the author suggests that the humanities be conceived of as a ‘formation of sensitivity’ – as a pre-cognitive sphere of relations and intercourses with the world, strictly associated with interpretation.

Convergence and Communication: Genre Analysis of Writers’ Websites

Konwergencja i komunikacja: gatunki wypowiedzi na stronach internetowych pisarzy

Author(s): Maciej Maryl / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: convergence and communication; writers’ websites genre analysis; new media; hybrid texts

This article categorizes new forms of expressions on writers’ websites as means of maintaining communication with readers. The first part is dedicated to inter— and trans-medial analysis of various multimedia materials published on such websites (e.g. biographical notes, photographs, trailers). In the second part the website is analyzed as a hybrid text in which various types of expression are submitted to the main communicative purpose. On both levels of analysis the material is categorized in terms of the communicative function, for, as the author claims, the genre analysis of electronic discourse requires an approach which takes into consideration not only authorial intent and textual features but also the context of online utterance and the role of other partners of communication.

Sambir and surroundings: two geo(poli/poe)tical narratives about how in Galicia people used to live together but alone

Sambor i okolica. Dwie opowieści geo(poli/poe)tyczne o tym, że w Galicji żyło się razem, ale osobno (przypadek Andrzeja Kuśniewicza i Artura Sandauer

Author(s): Hanna Gosk / Language(s): / Issue: 6/2014

This article reflects on the geopolitical, geopoetical and identity-forming potential of two literary representations of the Galician city of Sambir and its surroundings. Artur Sandauer and Andrzej Kuśniewicz, the two writers whose works form the focus of this study, were both born in or near Sambir, but they belong to different ethnicities and social classes. Their representations of the prewar realities of Samir tell a story of parallel worlds that were, despite their physical proximity, divided by clearly demarcated boundaries – including topographical ones. Topographical realities fulfil a role that is not neutral from a semantic point of view. They are a matter of interpretation, signalling the describing subject’s position in relation to the material described. Both writers’ works contain not only a consciously remembered Galician small town of the past, but they also exhibit the effect of habitual memory – a memory which, building on ideas about what is ‘normal,’ is rarely problematized but presents an overlooked story.

World Enough and Time

Dość czasu i świata

Author(s): David Damrosch / Language(s): / Issue: 4/2014

This is a Polish translation of the final chapter of David Damrosch’s book What is World Literature? (Princeton University Press, Princeton-Oxford 2003, pp. 281-303). Damrosch proposes a threefold definition of world literature by focusing on the world, the text, and the reader. Thus, world literature is, first, an elliptical refraction of national literatures; second, writing that gains in translation; and third, not a set canon of texts but a mode of reading – a form of detached engagement with worlds beyond our own place and time.

Discussions and analyses

Roztrząsania i rozbiory

Author(s): Sławomir Buryła,Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska,Hayden White,Elżbieta Konończuk / Language(s): / Issue: 2/2015

Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Reflections on Memory and Imagination, Polish translation by M. Szczubiałka, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2014. Franco La Cecla Szorstkim być. Antropologia mężczyzny [Rough Manners: Anthropology of the Male], transl. Hanna Serkowska, Sic!, Warsaw 2014. Stanisław Borowicz, Joanna Hobot, Renata Przybylska, Stara rebeliantka Studia nad semantyką obrazu [Representing the Subversive Old Woman], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Cracow 2010. Joanna Hobot-Marcinek, Stara baba i Goethe. Doświadczenie i transgresja starości. Tadeusz Różewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz [The Old Woman and Goethe: Experience and Transgression of Old Age in Tadeusz Różewicz, Czesław Miłosz and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Cracow 2012. Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Czarna kobieta na białym tle. Dyptyk biograficzny [A Black Woman Against a W hite Background: A Biographical Diptych], Universitas, Cracow 2013.

A Strange Twist of Divine Providence: Polish Holocaust Memory from a Catholic-National Perspective

Osobliwe zrządzenie Opatrzności Bożej… Polska pamięć Zagłady w perspektywie katolicko-narodowej

Author(s): Jacek Leociak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2016

Keywords: public discourse after 1945; Polish-Jewish relations; Catholic Church and the Holocaust

The Jewish Holocaust has a special place in Polish discourses on memory. It would be hard to overestimate its importance in constructing a model of Polish identity. But Leociak points out a weakness in Polish Holocaust memory – one that appears especially in narratives about saving Jews. The rhetoric, poetics and metaphors of these discourses – both private and public – are astonishingly durable, given the changing political context. This article is a preliminary exploration of a certain type of Polish discourse on Holocaust memory, one that has a long tradition but is now gaining prominence. It could be described as a Catholic-national discourse, where both elements have equal weight, affirming its rootedness in the ideology of the prewar Catholic National Democracy formation (also known as ND or ‘Endecja’).

‘They Think We’ll Forget. No Way!’: Origins of the Revolution

„Im się zdaje, że zapomnimy. O nie!” Rodowody rewolucji

Author(s): Marcin Zaremba / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2016

Keywords: Revolution; Solidarność/Solidarity; memory; December 1970; March 1968; October 1956; World War II; Warsaw Uprising; Romantic literature

Zaremba demonstrates how insurrections and revolts were commemorated in the 1970s, how those traditions were reproduced, and who remembered them. The article begins with a description of the events of December 1970, which would become important reference points for ideas on oppositional activism. Discussing the Poles’ collective memory of March 1968 and October 1956, Zaremba emphasizes the significance of World War II: a code of resistance and cooperation has emerged as a long-term consequence, resounding most clearly and most frequently in the myth of the Warsaw Uprising. The article concludes with a discussion of what Adam Mickiewicz called książki zbójeckie (robbers’ books) – a term Zaremba applies to writers such as Bohdan Cywiński, Andrzej Kijowski and Marian Brandys. They were robbers’ books because they altered the atmosphere of public life in the 1970s, reclaiming memories of political thought that had no official place in the Polish People’s Republic.

Prose. Remarks on Marcin Świetlicki’s Ars Versificandi

Proza. Przyczynek do ars versificandi Marcina Świetlickiego

Author(s): Arkadiusz Sylwester Mastalski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 32/2017

Keywords: prose; versification; poetry; Marcin Świetlicki;

This paper presents a study on the use of prosodic forms in Marcin Świetlicki’s last book Drobna zmiana (A Small Change), which is structured as a kind of set of poetic notations written in prose (prose poems). As a matter of fact, this, as the poet says, “small change” becomes a kind of the poet’s manifesto against the cultural and political deflation of the present social and cultural life; it becomes the very sign of poetry. By using the tools developed within the theory of versification, this paper shows how the verse structures break through the surface of the prosaic syntax, evoke alternative reading strategies and create some additional meanings typical for the poetry written in verse.

„Ajm Polisz i mieszkam w Glasgowicach”. Selected Linguistic Issues in Bilingual Literature Based on a Memoi

„Ajm Polisz i mieszkam w Glasgowicach”. Wybrane zjawiska kontaktu językowego w tekstach pisanych na przykładzie zbioru wspomnień Wyfrunęli*

Author(s): Kathryn Northeast / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: memoi

The aim of the paper is to discuss the most important features of bilingual literature, as well as to indicate lexical, grammatical and spelling-related phenomena present in texts of contemporary migrant authors. The material used for the analysis was a Memoirs’ Collection Wyfrunęli. Nowa emigracja o sobie which was written by Poles who migrated to the UK and Ireland after 2004.

Social (and not only) Conditionings of Cartographic Practices

Społeczne (i nie tylko) uwarunkowania praktyk kartograficznych

Author(s): Sebastian Medoń / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: teoria aktora-sieci; socjologia wiedzy; socjologia nauki; studia nad nauką i techniką; geografia krytyczna; studia postkolonialne; mapy; konflikt izraelsko-palestyński;

Artykuł recenzyjny dotyczy książki Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine. How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge autorstwa holenderskiej badaczki Jess Bier, która swoją działalność sytuuje w ramach społecznych studiów nad nauką i techniką (STS – science and technology studies). Praca ta stanowi rozbudowaną analizę praktyk kartograficznych, dokonywanych w cieniu konfliktów izraelsko-palestyńskich. Autorka łączy podejście STS (w tym szczególnie teorii aktora-sieci) z ujęciami krytycznymi (geografią krytyczną i studiami postkolonialnymi).

Norwid, Baudelaire and the Rules of Art

Norwid, Baudelaire ireguły sztuki

Author(s): Magdalena Siwiec / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2020

Keywords: Cyprian Norwid; Charles Baudelaire; literary field; Pierre Bourdieu; rules of art; modernity;

Siwiec discusses Norwid and Baudelaire as writers on the cusp of modernity who are clearly aware of their participation in contemporary social and cultural transformations. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s The Rules of Art, a study of the formation of the new literary field in which both poets took part, Siwiec examines the two poets’ statements on art’s dependency on the laws of the market and on the field of power represented by various institutions. She also exposes the ambivalent – although largely critical – relationship to the transformations of modernity that marks both Norwid and Baudelaire, whom, borrowing Antoine Compagnon’s term, we may describe as “antimoderenes”.

The Void after Experience. An Essay on Impossible Experience

Pustka po przeżytym. Szkic o doświadczeniu niemożliwym

Author(s): Adam Kubiak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2020

Keywords: experience; transformation; transgression; social change

Kubiak tackles the impasse associated with describing liminal, transformative, ortransgressive events and experiences. He proposes the concept of “impossible experience”,which refers to collective or/and individual experiences and related events that do notlend themselves to thematisation, or whose thematisation poses a significant threatto the community affected by the issue in question. Such a threat can be seen as relatedto that community’s symbolic self-image and to its basic, primary axiological foundations.

Can Ruthenian Peasants Be Sexy? How the Elite Deployed Sexuality in Galicia

Czy ruscy chłopi mogą być sexy? O urządzeniu seksualności w Galicji

Author(s): Katarzyna Glinianowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2021

Keywords: Ruthenian/Ukrainian elites; peasants; Polish nobility; sexuality; emancipation; Galicia;

In her critical reflection on Polish subaltern studies on Polish-Ukrainian relationsGlinianowicz draws attention to the Ruthenian/Ukrainian comprador elites who competedwith the Polish nobility for knowledge/power over the Ruthenian peasantry. She thenanalyses the portrayal of peasants in prose by representatives of these elites in Galiciafrom the 1860s to the 1880s. Drawing on Foucault’s theory of sexuality Glinianowiczexamines the peasantry’s emancipation and their inclusion by the Ruthenian/Ukrainianelites into the intimate and political space of society. The paper reveals the elites’ decisiverole in constructing modern Ukrainian identity, the ideological game of peasant sexuality,and it also deconstructs the foundations of the enduing stereotype of the rustic characterof Ukrainian culture.

“A Pair of Mortal Enemies of One Mentality”: Emotions in Post-War Diaries of Upwardly Mobile Individuals

„Para śmiertelnych wrogów w jednej mentalności” – emocje w powojennych pamiętnikach osób awansujących

Author(s): Maja Głowacka,Magda Szcześniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: upward mobility; socialism; diaries; emotions; working class history

Głowacka and Szcześniak present close readings of diaries published in two volumes ofthe series “Młode pokolenie wsi Polski Ludowej” [The Young Generation in the Villagesof the Polish People’s Republic], edited by J. Chałasiński, to examine the representationof emotions related to the experience of post-war upward mobility. Using theoreticaltools put forward by historians of emotions (Reddy, Stearns) and critical theorists(Ahmed, Williams), the authors examine the tools used to represent structures offeeling characteristic of upwardly mobile working classes after the war. The emotionsdescribed in the diaries are rarely clear and homogenous – feelings mix, creatingambivalent, sometimes contradictory combinations of happiness and terror, nostalgiaand estrangement, shame and obstinate pride. Emotional volatility, the challenge ofsettling into one’s feelings, is clearly visible in individual narratives and characterisespost-war upward mobility stories.

Cardboard Revolution

Kartonowa rewolucja

Author(s): Elżbieta Tabakowska,Małgorzata Majewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2022

Keywords: cognitive linguistics; vulgarisms; irony; intertextuality

The article scrutinizes slogans on banners of the All-Poland Women’s Strike by usinga cognitive linguistics toolset. Tabakowska and Majewska discuss the Strike’s variousstages and the associated emotion: anger, rage, or in the final stage, the discharge ofaggression. Cognitivism allows us to find justification not only for the content of slogans– e.g. the vulgar verb that started this social protest – but also for its grammatical form.Indeed, Tabakowska and Majewska argue that the infinitive form was an expression ofwomen’s spontaneous anger, and they go on to discuss in a similar manner the Strike’shumorous, ironic slogans or those containing intertextual references.

A River’s Heritage: Preliminary Reflection

Dziedzictwo rzeki. (rozpoznanie wstępne)

Author(s): Michał Kępski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2022

Keywords: river heritage; critical heritage studies; natureculture; urbanization; Warta river; Oskar Hansen

In the face of climate change and possible conflicts caused by water shortages, raisingpublic awareness about the importance of urban rivers constitutes an importantchallenge. The article proposes a theoretical reflection on the rapidly growing researchfield known as water heritage. By treating rivers as a commonality of different life formsassociated with a specific space, the project seeks approaches that emphasize positiveforms of local adaptation, cooperation, and reciprocity. The highlighting of such humanactions in past social practices could provide a reference point for contemporary rescueand prevention initiatives. The author illustrates assumptions of the presented researchperspective with a critical analysis of Oskar Hansen’s project for the development of theformer Warta riverbed in Poznań.

The Political in Themersons’ Films

Polityczności filmów Themersonów

Author(s): Honorata Sroka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: Franciszka and Stefan Themersons; Europe; Calling Mr. Smith; experimental film; avantgarde; archive

The article analyzes two films by Franciszka and Stefan Themersons (Europe from 1932;Calling Mr. Smith from 1943) and sketches of an unrealized project (Child of Europefrom 1944). Through my interpretations, Sroka seeks to present various aspects of thepolitical in Themersons’s film activity. Sroka argues we should avoid neutralizing theideological commitments of the artists we usually perceive as pioneers of experimentalaesthetics and not critics of everyday life. As Sroka shows in her examples, the avantgardeimperative to change the world manifests in Themersons’s works in the form ofbiomorphic, anti-capitalist reflection, and the appreciation of the civic society idea.

“The Seasons in Angry Harvest Changed as They Do in Our Lives:” Novels Written in Cells as Resources for Prison Survival Strategies

„… pory roku w Gorzkich żniwach zmieniały się tak jak w naszym życiu”. Powieści pisane w celi jako źródło wiedzy o strategii przetrwania więzienia

Author(s): Anna Machcewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2022

Keywords: Stalinism; prison; social relations; novel; survival strategies

Between 1949 and 1954, Polish journalist Stanisław Mierzeński and American architectHermann Field shared a cell in a Stalinist prison. In that period, they wrote together twonovels, which appeared in print in the late 1950s. Fiction is rarely used as an informationsource about recent history, but the case is different in terms of prison history. Formerprisoners are reluctant to share their experiences, so every page written by their handis meaningful. Ambiguous and related to the senses, the literary form often reveals thehidden. In this article, I use the findings of prison sociology to analyze novels in terms ofreferences to social relations and universal strategies for surviving the prison experience.

Defending Locality

Trzeba bronić lokalności

Author(s): Anna Gomóła / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: local values; culture description; social mission of the university; Silesian Voivodeship

The attempted auto-ethnography reaches back to the oldest patterns embedded inanthropological field research. The paper concerns locality as an environmental specificity,a foundation of culture and, at the same time, a force shaping the researcher and her/his work. I understand autoethnography as a report not so much on personal „matters”as on the conditions and situations that are their background. My auto-ethnographyis eventually a description of culture sketched from the point of view of a humanistembedded geobiographically - familially and emotionally - in a region whose specificvalues were shaped under the overwhelming influence of an economy based on heavyindustry.

Reading Izabella Czermak’s Epigramy (Epigrams) Through the Lens of Polish Literary Criticism of the 1940s

Epigramy Izabelli Czermak na tle dyskusji krytycznoliterackich lat czterdziestych

Author(s): Aleksandra Kremer / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Polish poetry; Holocaust; epigram; 1940s; Izabella Czermak

The article discusses a collection of epigrams written during the Holocaust by a lesserknownPolish-Jewish poet Izabella Czermak, who survived the war on the “Aryan side” andparticipated in Polish literary life after the war (some of her epigrams were published in1947). The article studies Czermak’s epigrams in the light of several questions raised byPolish literary criticism of the time, such as poeticity, irony, realism, and surrealism. Thearticle discovers close parallels between Czermak’s poetry and her prose memoirs, anddiscusses Czermak’s prewar friendship with Bruno Schulz.