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The vast and varied literary output of Stefania Zahorska (1889-1961) including, among others, articles on art history and theory, philosophy, psychology, history of culture, out of which reflections on film theory and criticism have the most prominent position. (...)
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The article discusses the basic concepts of Janusz Sławiński’s O opisie that are important for Polish literary studies in the wider context of the current discussion on the need to abandon the linguistic approach to literature in search of other ways to better understand the meaning of the work.
D’un Réalisme Sans Rivages [Realism without borders] by the French critic and Marxist thinker Roger Garaudy is one of those books that are difficult to discuss. Both the author and the reader of this article may feel anxious about the topic.
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A few dates: it has been 50 years since Poetyka przekładu artystycznego (The Poetics of Creative Translation)1 was first published. In this article, Edward Balcerzan, a young researcher of literary translation and a translator of poetry postulated that the poetics of translation should become the subject of rigorous literary study.
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Research on the narrative cycle was initiated by Russian Formalists as early as the 1970s. In Poland, however, this issue did not spark much interest. It was only in the 1990s that scholars began to turn their attention to themes associated with cyclical works, although their research was mainly confined to the poetic cycle. (...)
In the introduction to his Lectures in Comparative Literature, Ludwik Osiński announces:
The course of these sessions, starting right from the next one, will begin with the epic, after which we will next take as our focus an extremely vast literary craft, the drama. (...)
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“What do you enjoy reading most?” “Biography and autobiography” is what most first-year Polish Studies students replied to this question in the introductory survey I conducted at our first poetics class in 2015. (...)
Edward Balcerzan announced his “multimedia theory of genres” project in September 1999, during the Twenty-Ninth Literary Theory Conference in Cieszyn. A paper that took the form of an outline for the project appeared in print in 2000, and was then included in Balcerzan’s book Literackość (Literariness) in 2013. (...)
There are at least two benefits that come from looking through the archive of Polish literary scholars’ contributions to literary theory. The first is reading “founding” texts which, through their influence, reception, and the inspiration they have thereby generated, come together as links in the chain forming the main line of development of Polish literary theory. (...)
