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The article aims at explaining the uniqueness of Ryszard Kapuściński’s writing and how it differs from the traditional model of genological reportage. The features characteristic for this type of creativity were described on the example of Podróże z Herodotem, one of the last books by Kapuściński. The generic complexity of his texts causes that it is not possible to unequivocally classify them. Thus,...
Post-apocalyptic novel – a catastrophic branch of science fiction devoted to the vision of civilization ruined by some sort of a cataclysm – managed to form a separate poetics of space creation. Images of the presented world depend on the psychological shape of the heroes who are directly exposed to the extreme boundary experience. When picturing the landscapes of desolated metropolises, the authors...
The tactic of inquiring reading (close reading, explikation de texte) focuses mainly on the text’s subject – it is beneficial if it is of topical character. It is then easier to find and interprete intertextual connections which put some pieces together. In such reading of the chosen poems – Do Kossowskiej w tańcu by Trembecki and Król zabity by Grochowiak – we can see the classical high style of...
The article reconstructs the development of Ingarden’s viewpoint on the notions of content and form of a literary work of art. The author of the article thus calls up a specific methodological proposition formulated by the phenomenologist, emphasizing the fact that he presented an innovative and original understanding of both these notions. He built his own understanding of content and form on the...
The article is an interpretation of Esse by Czesław Miłosz and a fragment of a book by Dorota Masłowska Darling, I killed our cats (Kochanie zabiłam nasze koty). It presents similarities and differences in the perception of the world and people which partially stem from generational, technological, and cultural changes. Travelling by metro is the comparative area which the authors use as the context...
The article compares the poem by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Hymnus trium puerorum with Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz to show how processed and personalized heritage of romanticism becomes a part of the modern classical attitude and the language of existential experience for a contemporary poet.
The article discusses the existence and functioning of the notion of canon in the social consciousness after 1989 in the context of Polish prose of the last twenty years. It points to two semantic circles connected with this notion: the first circle refers to literature and culture of the nation deeply rooted in tradition and confined in the past. The second circle is of polysemous character and refers...
The article is an attempt of presenting creative works of priest Wojciech Dembołęcki in the context of various canons of perceiving a written text (defined according to different criteria and rules) – from the genological and thematic perspective. Many previous propositions of classification are of course correct. However, numerous were not made or did not take some essential findings into account...
The article – which is an abridged version of a paper presented on a conference devoted to new views on the category of realism – has two aims. Firstly, to think over the traditional way of formulating the effect of reality as something that is placed inside a literary work of art. Starting from theoretical identifications of a broadly understood poetics of reception, the author tires to show that...
The article discusses a broadly understood relation between the translation of a poetic text and versification. Assuming that reading a poem (as well as its translation) is always an interpretation that heavily depends on the reader’s activity, his choices and intentions, and assuming that the prosodic shape is an important sensemaking factor, the author of the article tries to show how the title...
Poetic treaties frequently appear in the later writings of Urszula Kozioł. Three volumes of poems: Supliki (2005), Przelotem (2007) and Horrendeum (2010) provide examples of individual uses of this canonical form, and prove that the author was “growing up” to use it. The poet creates genre varieties of a poetic treaty through which she expresses her philosophical and ontological as well as existential,...
The article is an attempt of describing the relation of a philosophical tale as a genre to the canon. It is characterized as (de)canonization: on the one hand the story fights with the existing canon by means of satire, on the other – by such negative references and ironically using the satire against itself – builds it. Such ambivalence, hidden in the structure of realizing the genre – which was...
In 1984, Adam Kulawik, one of the most eminent researchers amongst the Polish theoreticians of versification, published a revolutionary article The principle of verse organization. He showed a completely new approach to the understanding of the versification system, metrics and so on. In fact, his article created a new paradigm of verse-thinking further elaborated in other books by Kulawik (e.g. Verse...
The article is an interpretation of the novel Ciemno, prawie noc (It’s dark, almost night) by Joanna Bator. It focuses on the specific vision of Wałbrzych, a real city located in the South of Poland. The vision consists of many traditional and present-day patterns entitled to create spatial images. In her novel, Bator examines methods of presenting urban spaces in literature which leads her to constructing...
The city of writers / Writers in the city. On the conference: "Along the writers' paths. The city as space of the artists' life". Krakow, 27-29 March 2014
The article presents similarities between the nature of a gate as an element of the urban space and the life of the maid at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The gate appears as a portal that connects two distinct worlds: the safe and bright world of the home and the dark and dangerous world of the street. Depending on the point of view, the gate can be a shelter or a place of fall. It is also...
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