The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation

The paper attempts to consider the problem of W. H. Auden’s political engagement in the 1930s in the context of his (in)famous decision to leave England and settle down in the USA. The transatlantic journey of the eponymous member of so-called “Auden generation” prompted certain critics (notably Randall Jarrell) to set up a distinct caesura between the “English” and the “American” Auden, giving primacy to the accomplishments of the former and downplaying the works of the latter. As it is argued, America was not the place of the poet’s radical volte-face, but only a certain important, logical stage (and not a final one) in his personal and poetic evolution. His entanglements with politics were often mythologized, and occasional public and semi-political verse he “committed” often tended to subvert any attempts to pigeonhole the author in terms of his ideological stance

Zachwyt i rozpacz Louise Bogan

Zdigitalizowano i udostępniono w ramach projektu pn. Rozbudowa otwartych zasobów naukowych Repozytorium Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, dofinansowanego z programu „Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki” Ministra Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie umowy SONB/SP/512497/2021.557

Tasso’s autograph retraced and rediscovered. The poem offered to Polish ambassador Stanisław Reszka from the copy in the British Library

The goal of this article is to present a new reading of a short dedicatory poem offered by an outstanding poet of the Italian Renaissance, Torquato Tasso, to Stanisław Reszka, the abbot in Jędrzejów, the secretary of Stanisław Hozjusz, and, in this specific case, the ambassador of the Polish king Sigismund III to the Kingdom of Naples. The poet and the ambassador met in 1594 in Naples, where both were recovering from illnesses. Their meeting took place shortly after the publication of Jerusalem conquered, which was a recomposed version of Jerusalem delivered, published in 1593. The poet wished to present his newly created work to men of letters and in common opinion it would have been difficult to find in Naples anyone more estimable than Reszka in those days. Torquato Tasso offered to Stanisław Reszka a copy of his new book with a dedication in the form of a short, eight-verse poem of his own creation. Until now, the ottava was known from the transcription contained in Bibliografia critica by S. Ciampi and in the Italian edition of Tasso’s letters, published by C. Guasti. In Polish literary circles the text of the poem was known thanks to the work of Professor Windakiewicz, who at the close of the 19th century published it in Polish translation and some time later the original text of the poem. The lead to the British Library copy was discovered during the course of research on early printed books owned or written by Stanisław Reszka and preserved in the collection of the Jagiellonian Library. With the generous help of Stephen Parkin, the curator of the Italian collection in the British Library, the original of the autograph was found, and thus it became possible to compare the existing texts with the original. During the comparison it appeared that the transcription given by Ciampi with the help of the Roman bookseller Giovanni Petrucci differs in some places from the British Library original. The author proposes a new reading of several uncertain places based on his own palaeographic experience as well as on the help of relevant reference works from the epoch

Metafizyczne konteksty poezji Elizabeth Bishop

Zdigitalizowano i udostępniono w ramach projektu pn. Rozbudowa otwartych zasobów naukowych Repozytorium Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, dofinansowanego z programu „Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki” Ministra Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie umowy SONB/SP/512497/2021.507

The critical reception of Jerzy Kosiński's The Painted Bird in Poland and in the United States

Zdigitalizowano i udostępniono w ramach projektu pn. Rozbudowa otwartych zasobów naukowych Repozytorium Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, dofinansowanego z programu „Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki” Ministra Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie umowy SONB/SP/512497/[email protected] w BiałymstokuCHMIELOWIEC M. (1966), "Zły to ptak?': Wiadomości, 41, 1.COLES R. (1967), "[Review of] The Painted Bird", Harvard Educational Review 37, no. 3 (1967), 493-496.CZAJKOWSKA M. (1966), "Pornografia a humanizm", Kultura, 7/8, 216-220.IWASZKIEWlCZ J. (1969), "List do Jerzego Kosińskiego", Twórczość, 10, 163-164.JANION M. (2007), "Sam w ciemni" in: Płacz generała. Eseje o wojnie, Warszawa: Sic!, 210-222.KOSlNSKl J. (1995), "Notes of the Author on the Painted Bird" in: Passing by: Selected Essays, 1962-1991, New York, 201-222.KOSlNSKl J. (1996), The Painted Bird, London: Black Swan.LISOWSKl J. (1966), "Wśród książek': Twórczość, 5, Warszawa, 153.LISOWSKl J. (1966), "Wśród książek': Twórczość, 7, Warszawa, 139.SIEDLECKA J. (1994), Czarny ptasior, Gdańsk - Warszawa: Marabut/CiS.SLOAN J. P. (1996), Jerzy Kosiński. Biografia, Warszawa: Da Capo.TARNAWSKl W. (1968), "Ptak odmieniec Jerzego Kosińskiego", Przemiany, 2, Rome, 216-217.VlCE S. (2000), Holocaust Fiction, London: Routledge.WIESEL E. (1998), "The Painted Bird. Everybody's Victim" in: Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski (B. Tepa Lupack ed.), New York: Twayne Publishers, 47.32333

Making things happen: Literature as a means of dismantling silence, shame, and stigma [Review of #MeToo and Literary Studies. Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, edited by Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett, Bloomsbury 2021, 415 pp.]

[email protected] of Białystok, PolandBartlett, A., K. Clarke & R. Cover. 2019. Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacy, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.Bondy, H. 2021. #MeToo and You. Everything You Need to Know about Consent, Boundaries, and More, Minneapolis: Zest Books.Boyle, K. 2019. #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing & Palgrave Pivot.Bracewell, L. N. 2021. Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Chandra, G. & I. Erlingsdóttir (eds.). 2020. The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement, New York: Routledge.Cossman, B. 2021. The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, New York: New York University Press.Dershowitz, A. 2019. Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo, New York: Hot Books.Durham, M. G. 2021. MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media, Cambridge: Polity Press.Fileborn, B. & R. Loney-Howes. 2019. #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan.37 (2/2022)12412

“What I lack is myself”: The Fluid Text and the Dialogic Subjectivity in Susan Howe’s Debths

James Joyce’s neologism “debths” (Finnegans Wake) that Susan Howe elects for the title of her 2017 volume of poetry points to at least three semantic coordinates of “obligation,” “trespass,” and “demise,” never—due to its implied transaction between the sound and the spelling—fully yielding to or being appropriated by any stable signification. In Debths, the end of life, writing, and, perhaps, literature are palpable, if overtly manifested, currents of poetic discourse. In my article, I advance the idea of recognizing this tripartite taxonomy as a variant of what Divya Victor calls “extremity.” Within this context, I demonstrate the emergence of a dialogic, intertextual, and appropriative subjectivity of the poet

Mowa zależna. Charlesa Reznikoffa (prze)pisanie Holocaustu

JACEK PARTYKA, dr, adiunkt, anglista, jest pracownikiem Katedry Neofilologii Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, gdzie prowadzi zajęcia z historii literatury amerykańskiej i pisania akademickiego. Zajmuje się amerykańską poezją modernistyczną i anglojęzyczną prozą na temat Holocaustu. Jest autorem rozprawy doktorskiej Poezja jako palimpsest. Analiza dłuższych form poetyckich z ‘amerykańskiego’ okresu twórczości Wystana Hugh Audena oraz artykułów na temat poezji Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan i prozy Jerzego Kosińskiego.41643

“Revolutionary Changes in Sensibility”: References to Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick in W. H. Auden’s 1949 Page-Barbour Lectures

The article centers on The Enchafèd Flood: The Romantic Iconography of the Sea, a series of Page-Barbour Lectures delivered by W. H. Auden at the University of Virginia in 1949, in which he analyzed the Romantic and late nineteenth-century images of the sea, contrasted with images of the desert, giving a partisan interpretation of Melville’s selected prose (Moby-Dick in particular). As his reconsideration of the iconography is underpinned by a political agenda, in this article I comment on Auden’s lectures as exemplifications of a particular, pivotal moment in the development of Melville studies after the 1920s revival

Instead of an Introduction. Nonobviousness

The brief introduction to the volume refers to the research of contemporary American historian Robert Chazan, who, in 2018, analyzed the reasons for the movement of Jewish communities over a dozen centuries and found that they were mostly economic in nature. This paradigm changed in the late 19th and 20th centuries, i.e., during periods of unprecedented wandering and tragedy for European Jews. The texts collected in the volume „Jews of Eastern Poland, Vol. XII: Refugees...” evoke the experience of migration/refugeeism in its dark dimension.JACEK PARTYKA – dr hab., amerykanista, pracuje jako adiunkt w Zakładzie Literatur Ameryki Północnej na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, gdzie prowadzi seminaria i kursy z historii literatury amerykańskiej. Jego zainteresowania badawcze obejmują amerykańską poezję modernistyczną i postmodernistyczną, odniesienia do Zagłady w prozie amerykańskiej, oraz wykorzystanie materiałów archiwalnych w tekście literackim. Jest autorem licznych prac, m.in. na temat Charlesa Reznikoffa, W. H. Audena, Susan Howe, Edwarda Lewisa Wallanta, oraz Petera Weissa.Zakładu Literatur Ameryki Północnej, Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuChazan Robert, Refugees or Migrants. Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement, New Haven and London, 2018.KONWENCJA dotycząca statusu uchodźców, sporządzona w Genewie dnia 28 lipca 1951 r. (Dz. U. z 1991 r. Nr 119, poz. 515 i 517).252