Almost a hundred years ago, Karol Irzykowski, a literary critic and writer, published a pioneering book on the aesthetics of film entitled Dziesiąta Muza [The Tenth Muse]. Irzykowski argued that “cinema makes the interaction between man and matter visible.” It may be an interesting topic for contemporary literary studies, where the materiality of text, the materiality of poetics and/or certain poetical concepts, and the situation in which text points to materiality is currently under discussion. (...)
On the Cinematicity of Literature: Correspondences, Relationships, Parallels (On the Example of the Polish Interwar Period)
Wojciech Otto
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The present paper stems from an awareness of clear correspondences, relations, and parallels between literature and film. The theoretical findings and exemplifications presented in it allow one to precisely identify the so-called points of contact between film and literature, as well as the character of these interactions. (...)
Cinepoetry? Movement and Photogénie as Aesthetic Categories of the Poetic Avant-garde
Joanna Orska
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The article tells the story of the early relations between avant-garde silent film and poetry, with a particular focus on critical texts and artistic manifestos from French Impressionist cinema. (...)
Tagi: Joanna Orska, winter 2021“A New Wave Film”. Cinema’s Role in the Poetry of Generation ’68
Kamila Czaja
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The paper presents the role of film in the poetry of Generation ’68 – mostly by Stanisław Barańczak, but also Julian Kornhauser, Ewa Lipska, and Adam Zagajewski. (...)
Tagi: Kamila Czaja, winter 2021