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Song portraits of a woman-spinner The article which treats about the portraits of woman-spinners is devoted to a comparison of verbal-musical works, which are partly united by the common text (fragment of J.W. Goethe’s Faustus – and in particular the song sung by Margaret at the spinningwheel), and which in part refer to the common image – namely that of a spinning woman. In contemporary theories,...
Improvisation through the perspective of correspondence between the arts, that is on the romantic beliefs The article is devoted to the phenomenon of improvisation which is a characteristic aesthetic feature of the Romantic culture. Many nineteenth century artists regarded it as an embodiment of the issues that were of key importance for their period – among them, one finds the concept of genius or...
Recenzja: Autobiografia i aporie nowoczesności (Przemysława Rojka Historia zamącana autobiografią. Zagadnienie tożsamości narracyjnej w odniesieniu do powojennej liryki Aleksandra Wata)
Beyond comparison In this article, the author takes up the issue of the so-called “crisis” of comparative literary studies (Comparative Literature), at the same time trying to outline the presentday condition of the discipline and to point to the objectives which it should attempt to attain today. Beside other detailed problems, the author analyses the threats posed by the hegemonic status of English...
Recenzja: Perypatetyzm (prawie) pantoskopiczny (Tomasza Bilczewskiego Komparatystyka i interpretacja. Nowoczesne badania porównawcze wobec translatologii)
Recenzja: Komparatystyka w teorii i praktyce: uwagi o pierwszym polskim podręczniku dyscypliny (Olgi Płaszczewskiej Przestrzenie komparatystyki - italianizm)
The literary salons of the 19th century Europe in the prospective of travel writing: Antoni Edward Odyniec’s Weimar and Milan A.E. Odyniec’s Listy z podróży (Letters from Travels), set within the context of multinational testimonies from the epoch, become a pretext for a meditation on the phenomenon of the Romantic „salon” as a form of cultured life which is being enacted in the author’s private home,...
Recenzja: Na pograniczu sztuk (Literatura a malarstwo – malarstwo a literatura. Panorama polskich koncepcji badawczych XX wieku pod redakcją Grażyny Królikiewicz, Olgi Płaszczewskiej, Iwony Puchalskiej i Magdaleny Siwiec)
„SCHOOL OF DISENCHANTMENT” IN THE DIGRESSIVE POEMS: SŁOWACKI – MUSSETThe article constitutes a comparative analysis of three Romantic digressive poems: Juliusz Słowacki’s Podróż do Ziemi Świętej z Neapolu and Beniowski (Journey From Naples to the Holy Land) and Alfred de Musset’s Namuna; at all of the poems are presented as an expression of the crisis of the eneration of writers born around the year...
Comparative literature and existence This essay recalls the nineteenth-century roots of comparative literary studies, particularly the consequences of the Cartesian modernization of the philosophical discourse, in order to show the search for an independent methodology proper to the beginnings of the discipline. This occurred first under the strong influence of ideas borrowed from the natural sciences,...
MY MARVELLINGS Moje zdziwienia/My Marvellings/ is a column run by Henryk Markiewicz, retired Professor of the Jagiellonian University and one of the most outstanding Polish literary historians and theoreticians. In his essays, Professor Markiewicz presents and discusses various literary theory publications, comments on current events at the academia, argues with and questions authors of scholarly...
Between literary and cultural comparative studies The article constitutes an attempt to present in a synthetic way the main assumptions behind the fundamental trends in the comparative studies of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as their evolution. Following the predominance of the influential model which had developed since the middle of the 19th century and focused chiefly on the genetic research...
„Between history and the present”. On the philological-historical achievement Of Professor Julian Maślanka In the year 2010, Professor Julian Maślanka celebrated his eightieth birthday and the fifty fifth anniversary of his academic debut. His creative achievement, which is constantly being augmented, constitutes in many ways than one a bridge between the illustrious traditions and the present day...
Non-stability of comparative literature The paper focuses on the history and current situation of the discipline of comparative literature, particularly on the condition of comparative studies in literature and comparative cultural studies. A general discussion on comparative literature as ‘indiscipline’ (David Ferris’s concept), based on negative definitions (e.g. Hugo von Meltzl), limitations of...
From determination to distinction. Changes in the sociology of literature The article presents some changes in the sociology of literature and particularly the inspirational role which was played in this respect by Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive anthropology. The classical sociology of literature used to focus on the issue of many-sided determination of a literary text. A literary work was perceived...
Renaissance of a discipline: world sources of comparative studies The author of this article attempts to sketch out the development of contemporary comparative literature, in which a Eurocentric orientation is being supplanted by a genuine world perspective. In doing so, the author points out that the present-day widening of the research-field to the global dimensions signifies not so much a crisis...
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