In this article, I interpret two unusual intertextual references present in the Polish translation of Barthes’s The pleasure of the text by Ariadna Lewańska.
I analyze graphic posts by Tomasz Pułka (posted by the author on the Cichy Nabiau blog) which also contain Pułka’s poems published in printed poetry collections.
The paper discusses the wartime autobiographical practices by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson characterized by interpoetics, i.e.
Andrzej Sosnowski is one of the most important and influential modern Polish poets. His work has inspired numerous polemics in the field of literary criticism, focusing first on such topics as postmodernism, the death of an author, or exhausting lyric poetry, and later noticing such issues as subjectivity, postsecularism, politicalness and engagement.
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In 1988, Anne Dumas conducted an interesting social experiment. Dumas showed two groups of graduate students, one from China and the other one from the United States, a photograph of a man dressed in a business suit, eating breakfast next to a window with a view of a modern city.
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Introduction
I borrow the term “directional tensions” from the Polish polymath, artist painter, writer, playwright, art critic and visionary, Witkacy.1 We all know how he died. Having learned that the Red Army crossed the eastern border of Poland, he committed suicide on September 17, 1939.
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Artur Sandauer investigated the relationship between mise en abyme and realism already in his papers devoted to meta-reflection: Konstruktywny nihilism, O ewolucji sztuki narracyjnej XX wieku and Samobójstwo Mitrydatesa1, although he did it indirectly.
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1. Barriers
Haiku, a micro-literary format emerging from ancient Japanese poetry, has become a synonym for short-form poetry, one often not taken seriously. It is widely mistaken for aphorisms, comic poetry, and seen as playful and far from serious.
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In Search of Operational Knowledge
A few years ago, I crossed the barricade and began to write crime novels. These days, I am slowly coming to terms with the extent to which this moment was a powerful turning point in my career as a literary critic.
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“The noir sensibility is truly international”1.
Crime fiction’s rising popularity in recent years has revived an interest in more experimental takes on the genre. In Polish literature, there is an emerging trend of authors and poets who have never before expressed an interest in this area of mass culture suddenly writing crime novels.
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