![Critical Variants of Materiality. Polish Literary Criticism from Post-structuralism to New Materialisms](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/KTrzeciak_CriticalVariantsOfMateriality_ForumOfPoetics_28-29_2022-01-250x354.jpg)
Katarzyna Trzeciak
ORCID: 0000-0002-1339-3400
A b s t r a k t
The paper reviews the meanings attached to the notion of “materiality” by literary criticism since 1990s. These meanings depend on several essential philosophical tendencies: poststructuralism, critical social theories, and posthumanism, which has a significant influence on critical-literary conceptualizations of “materiality”. The paper analyzes specific examples, mostly from critical-literary texts about contemporary Polish prose in order to show how “materiality” affects different types of critical commentary, including especially the possibilities and limitations of review.