Krytyki

A Body of Poetics

Jerzy Madejski

Adam Dziadek, Projekt krytyki somatycznej (Plan for a Somatic Criticism),
Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2014

The new book by Adam Dziadek displays all of the dilemmas and aspirations of contemporary poetics. The title Plan for a Somatic Criticism (Projekt krytyki somatycznej) has a somewhat familiar ring: in the early 1990s, Maria Janion announced her Plan for a Phantasmatic Criticism (Projekt krytyki fantazmatycznej),1)M. (...)

Good Old Reading

Paweł Graf

Terry Eagleton, How to Read Litearature,
New Heaven 2013

Terry Eagleton’s book How to Read Literature could not have come out at a better time. The sense of fatigue from the ethical and cultural studies discourse that has dominated in recent years, that minimalized the value of literature itself and the art of being a good, attentive reader in favor of an emphasis on the pragmatic and social concerns of literary interpretation, called for some sort of reaction. (...)