Seen from the outside… Panorama of Polish Language and Literature Student’s Associaition’s Activities

The article is an attempt at a critical review of Adela Kobelska’s study Miasto. Uniwersytet. Literaturoznawstwo. Poznań lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX wieku jako przestrzeń działania członk.w Koła Polonist.w  [The City. The University. The Literary Studies. Poznań in 20. and 30. of XX Century as a Space for Activities of Polish Language and Literature Student’s Associaition]. Questions asked for the author and polemics against some thesis of her discourse are centered around both historical and methodological problems (the last one may be named geopoetics of intelectual movements). The article is also an attempt to confront the inside and outside view of Polish Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.The article is an attempt at a critical review of Adela Kobelska’s study Miasto. Uniwersytet. Literaturoznawstwo. Poznań lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX wieku jako przestrzeń działania członk.w Koła Polonist.w  [The City. The University. The Literary Studies. Poznań in 20. and 30. of XX Century as a Space for Activities of Polish Language and Literature Student’s Associaition]. Questions asked for the author and polemics against some thesis of her discourse are centered around both historical and methodological problems (the last one may be named geopoetics of intelectual movements). The article is also an attempt to confront the inside and outside view of Polish Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

The category of comparison in literary criticism

Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na kilka pytań związanych z zastosowaniem porównania w tej szczególnej dziedzinie literaturoznawstwa, jaką stanowi krytyka literacka. Jak przedstawia się w niej funkcjonalność procedur porównawczych (w rozumieniu komparatystycznym), jak chętnie i w jakim celu krytycy się nimi posługują? Jakim modyfikacjom ulegają mechanizmy komparatystyczne wykorzystane dla potrzeb wartościowania i sytuowania nowych zjawisk w synchronicznej i diachronicznej perspektywie uniwersum literackiego? Ze względu na rozległość i złożoność problematyki artykuł ma charakter raczej rekonesansowy niż diagnostyczny, z odwołaniem do symptomatycznych przykładów zaczerpniętych z polskiej praktyki krytycznej, odnoszących się do twórczości Olgi Tokarczuk.The paper’s aim is to answer some questions connected with the use of comparison in the specific domain of literary criticism - the literary review. Are the methods of comparative literature applicable to it? How can they be used for evaluating and positioning new literary phenomena in the synchronic and diachronic perspective of the literary universe? How willingly and how often do the critics use them Considering the complexity of these issues, the paper is not intended as an assessment, but merely as a draft, with some symptomatic examples of the reviews of Olga Tokarczuk’s work

Komiks w perspektywie literaturoznawczej. Projekt komiksologii w dobie kryzysu genologii esencjalnej

Comics in the perspective of literary theory The comicsology project and the crisis of essential genre studies The article attempts to show the possibilities of analyzing comics using critical tools known from the literary studies. It highlights the variety of different science approaches, which combine on comics studies. In particular, the paper puts this issue in the context of methodological impasse of essential genre studies and blur of literary categories. The aim of the article is to identify research opportunities in genre studies of comic books and to select the appropriate tools for further studies on hybrid genres, which include especially graphic novels (and comics in general)

Literaturoznawstwo wyczerpania?

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. Literature in a cultural (and cultural studies) perspective as one of the major mechanisms of changing the entire culture or establishing cultural niches within its area communities of individuals for whom specific literary works may be inspiring in the dimension of individual life projects

Wykaz publikacji Prof. dr hab. Barbary Wolskiej z lat 1971–2016

Publikacja dofinansowana ze środków Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu Łódzkieg

Polonistyczna edukacja kulturowa w dziedzinie literatury i kultury polskiej na Wschodzie Niemiec przed i po zjednoczeniu. Korzyści i niekorzyści

Zadanie pt. Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej naukę

Cichy katastrofizm: Czesław Miłosz i Józef Czechowicz

Tekst stanowi próbę porównania poetyckiego języka Józefa Czechowicza i Czesława Miłosza w kontekście katastrofizmu. Tych dwu poetów łączy wykorzystanie tzw. cichego katastrofizmu. Są wyrazicielami emocji całej polskiej społeczności okresu międzywojnia. Teksty te są ekspresyjne, wręcz afektywne – jednak nie niedelikatne, co stanowi o fenomenie ich twórczości

Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna mniej więcej znana

The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prizes and recognition but at the same time she is impossible to read nowadays. There is political ambiguity and antiquity in her texts that keep her in the past. Marzec points at four areas of literary studies, where Iłłakowiczówna is still present: 1. Poetics: Iłłakowiczówna uses an original and unusual type of the Polish tonic verse. The author of this article analyses it using tools of psychoanalysis. 2. Religious discourse: Iłłakowicz.wna is interpreted as the author of religious poetry but Marzec argues with such interpretations. 3. Post-dependence studies: Iłłakowiczówna has not been analysed in terms of post-dependence studies yet but she is mentioned in the Polish borderlines discourse. 4. Feminist literary criticism: Iłłakowiczówna used to be studied as the author of androgynous poetry, but Marzec points out other motifs such as miscarriage, infanticide or problems of the new woman, like work at government institution, contestation of vitalism and bureaucracy. The aimof this article is to show that writing of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna needs to be read in terms of the history of literature which is devoid of evaluation and judging. Such analysis means going back in terms of modern literary studies which have undergone multiple turns that changed the tools accessible to contemporary critics.The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prizes and recognition but at the same time she is impossible to read nowadays. There is political ambiguity and antiquity in her texts that keep her in the past. Marzec points at four areas of literary studies, where Iłłakowiczówna is still present: 1. Poetics: Iłłakowiczówna uses an original and unusual type of the Polish tonic verse. The author of this article analyses it using tools of psychoanalysis. 2. Religious discourse: Iłłakowicz.wna is interpreted as the author of religious poetry but Marzec argues with such interpretations. 3. Post-dependence studies: Iłłakowiczówna has not been analysed in terms of post-dependence studies yet but she is mentioned in the Polish borderlines discourse. 4. Feminist literary criticism: Iłłakowiczówna used to be studied as the author of androgynous poetry, but Marzec points out other motifs such as miscarriage, infanticide or problems of the new woman, like work at government institution, contestation of vitalism and bureaucracy. The aimof this article is to show that writing of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna needs to be read in terms of the history of literature which is devoid of evaluation and judging. Such analysis means going back in terms of modern literary studies which have undergone multiple turns that changed the tools accessible to contemporary critics

Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices characteristic of the feminist vision of literature. I present the ideas which Atwood shares with authors engaged in women’s movement. Among these there is Atwood’s understanding of intertextuality (noticeable especially in The Penelopiad). Bibliographical basis of the study comprises books which are fundamental to feminist and gender criticism (e.g. Poetics of Gender, ed. by N. Miller, New York 1986; S. M. Gilbert, S. Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- Century Literary Imagination, New Haven and London 1984). What is more, the study refers to the books which allow considering the notion of intertextuality (G. Allen, Intertextuality, London and New York 2010, J. Clayton. E. Rothstein (eds.), Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, Wisconsin 1991) and connecting the interpretation with the problems crucial to contemporary literary studies (L. Hutcheon L. A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction, New York and London 1988, B. Johnson, A World of Difference, Baltimore and London 1989)