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This is an anecdotal memoir of Kazimierz Bartoszyński, which describes the community of members of the Institute of Literary Research and their university colleagues from all over Poland. It was at this institute that the largest scholarly project related to Polish studies was set up. This project was carried out for half a century and resulted in organizing annual conferences on literary theory as...
Polish contemporary drama (which is represented by a range of authors, from Tadeusz Różewicz and Sławomir Mrożek, Janusz Głowacki, Wiesław Myśliwski, Eustachy Rylski, Marek Koterski and Tadeusz Słobodzianek to Przemysław Wojcieszek, Michał Walczak, Piotr Tomaszuk, Tomasz Man and Dorota Masłowska) seems to be an integral part and a special, local manifestation of profound changes that have taken place...
This article in a way constitutes the third part of a cycle of essays on the portrayal of Poland and Poles in autobiographical texts written by foreign authors from the 18th century until the present day. It deals with the 20th and 21st centuries and discusses autobiographical material in which Poland and Polish people feature most heavily (e.g., the diaries of Claudel, Gide, and Mann). Then, the...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of modern apocrypha from the perspective of cultural studies. The term ‘apocrypha’ is usually associated with early Christian and Gnostic texts, but the tradition of unorthodox writings is also continued in modern Western culture. It is not easy to formulate a comprehensive definition of apocrypha by analyzing this phenomenon only from the perspective...
The first wave of feminism in Poland consisted of a wide range of events. All women who were educated, independent, and professionally active and successful were regarded as feminists (regardless of their self-identification). Women of the theater, i.e., playwrights, directors, actresses and scenographers, who occupied themselves with “womanly subjects” in the 1920s and 1930s, created feminist theater...
An increased interest in space in the humanities can be referred to as a spatial, topographic or topological shift. This article is an attempt at organizing these concepts and defining the fundamental differences between them. Based on the findings of European and American researchers (including Edward Soja, Sigrid Weigel, Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, and Joseph Hillis Miller) and a Polish literary scholar...
Fragmenty o czasie i miejscach pamięci [Fragments about Time and Places of Remembrance] are concerned with unpublished fragments of Kazimierz Bartoszyński’s papers (”Wstęp do książki zbiorowej o czasie” [”Introduction to a collective work on time”]), memoirs (”Wspomnienia z Łańcuta” [”Memoir of Łańcut”]) and ideas (”Fragmenty książki o czasie” [”Fragments of a book on time”]). These fragments were...
This article is devoted to the concept of an artifact, as derived from older methodological knowledge (J. Białostocki and E. Panofsky), which has been broadened to include new indicators, such as changes of the virtual era as well as the categories of experience and reflections on narration. By reconstructing the phenomenon of artifacts, the author refers to the category of ‘reality’ accordingto Heidegger...
The concept of a performative body is rooted in two traditions. The first tradition concerns actions, and therefore, it is wide-ranging (because it includes diverse social acts). The second tradition is narrow – it is closely linked to the effectiveness of actions and allows one to distinguish between reversible actions (the effects of which can be reversed) and irreversible ones (the effects of which...
The author of this article discusses Kazimierz Bartoszyński’s didactic activity and writings, i.e. his doctoral thesis titled O powieściach Fryderyka Skarbka [On Fryderyk Skarbek’s Novels] (which was published in 1963) and his later articles on the gawęda (i.e. a story stylized as an oral tale) and historical novel (which are collected in the volume titled O polskich prozach powieściowych – słynnych...
This is a memoir of Professor Kazimierz Bartoszyński. The theme of this essay is silence – literary silence, which is the result of convention, anecdotal silence, which prompts scholarly meetings and friendships, and metaphysical silence, which is connected with death.
The aim of this article is to discuss Mirosław Loba’s book titled Wokół narracyjnego zwrotu. Szkice krytyczne [Around the Narrative Turn: Critical Essays]. The book is a reconstruction of the main trends in contemporary French thought on narrative (the psychoanalytic approach and Paul Ricoeur’s concept are particularly emphasized). Loba’s theoretical perspective is complemented by analytical attempts...
In contrast to Derrida and Butler, who overemphasized the subversive force of performatives, here the focus is on the immanent (micro-)sovereign power of performative utterances. Hence, what is proposed here is a search for the basic concept of power at the micro-level of speech acts. Before being codified with reference to certain stable power relations or contexts and before being objectified in...
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