Practices

Parentheses in Krystyna Miłobędzka’s poetry: Aspects of a linguistic analysis of the poet’s late works

Agata Ostrówka-Dombkowska

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The article focuses on the issue of parenthesis in poetic texts, with focus on selected poems by Krystyna Miłobędzka. The analysis leads to the conclusion that interjection, particularly in its parenthetical form, has a different – broader – function in a poem than in other types of texts and is a significant interpretive signal. (...)

The Performativity of Tadeusz Kantor’s Multipart

Justyna Michalik-Tomala

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The article is an attempt to analyze the Multipart project as an example and a model of an experimental archive. This archive is, on the one hand, a collection and materialization of Kantor’s ideas, previous experiences, and inspirations, and, on the other hand, an ‘artistic’ documentation of the everyday life of the buyers and ‘users’ of these peculiar works. (...)

“In our region…”, or Haupt’s “Letychiv district”

Tadeusz Sucharski

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In the article, I reflect on the spaces of inspiration, the “praił” [primordial clay] of Zygmunt Haupt’s works. I examine a unique “pronominal” spatial orientation found in his texts, his use of the prepositional phrase “u nas” [in our region], and the juxtapositions of “tam” [there] and “tu” [here], trying to establish what spaces are “hidden” behind these pronouns. (...)