Poetological analyses that delve into various deeper levels of the text draw their energy today from new sources, distinct from those known in even the recent past. The prevalent approach for quite some time – following the structural analysts’ exhaustive efforts to reveal all the rigidly demarcated levels of texts – has involved contrarian readings, inspired by post-structuralism and deconstructionism, that showed the unbounded and anarchic movement of freely drifting textual minutiae. (...)
“Context Stinks!”
Rita Felski
We publish Polish translation of Rita Felski’s “Context Stinks!”, New Literary History, Volume 42, Number 4, Autumn 2011, pp. 573-591. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
On the Silesian Micrological School (1999-2005). A Sprinkling of Reminiscences
The Small, the Silesian, and the Black
These three adjectives are a kind of paraphrase of the memorable triad The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I mention the title of Ennio Morricone’s hit soundtrack (from the Sergio Leone film) as a musical emblem of the “spaghetti western,” an Italian imitation of American cinema’s crowning genre, once regarded with indignation and later acknowledged as anticipating the anti-Western and the deconstruction of the classic form. (...)
Tagi: Aleksander Nawarecki, spring/summer 2017Micropoetics and Its Contexts
Contemporary polemics about the autonomy and function of literature are concentrated, speaking in the broadest terms and therefore naturally oversimplifying, between two positions that differ in their definition primarily of literature’s status and role. (...)
Tagi: Elżbieta Winiecka, spring/summer 2017