In its traditional understanding, literary criticism is often accused of being outdated, hermetic, incompatible with reality, and elitist. Trying to find itself in the new space of understanding and interpreting artistic forms – both in its social and communicative understanding – literary criticism needs to replace or update its tools, i.e., terms and concepts, if it wants to remain valid. (...)
How Are Evaluative Notions Created? On the Example of a Dispute over Louise Glück’s Poetry
Anna Kałuża
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The paper is a reflection about ways in which notions related to valuation function in literary criticism, focusing on processes of constructing, consolidating, and exchanging notions in socio-cultural circulation. (...)
What Does Your Subject Do? On the Contradictory History of the Lyrical Subject
Marta Koronkiewicz
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The article aims to analyse contradictions and ambiguities embedded in the structuralist concept of “the lyrical subject”. (...)
Tagi: Marta Koronkiewicz, spring-summer 2027The Canon – (Im)movables
Dorota Kozicka
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This article discusses the concept of the canon in Polish literary criticism in the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. The author discusses contemporary social and critical debates and different definitions of the canon employed in them and shows the contexts and repercussions of redefending (disassembling, reconstructing) the literary canon. (...)
Tagi: Dorota Kozicka, spring-summer 2022