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The paper is a reflection about ways in which notions related to valuation function in literary criticism, focusing on processes of constructing, consolidating, and exchanging notions in socio-cultural circulation. (...)
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The article aims to analyse contradictions and ambiguities embedded in the structuralist concept of “the lyrical subject”. (...)
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This article examines literary criticism in Poland after 1989 from the dynamic perspective of elites and elitism. Drawing on various elite theories, mainly the more contemporary ones, for which the most important point of reference is Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of distinction, the author shows how these concepts function in relation to the aesthetic and social dominants of the Polish literary scene after 1989. (...)
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In the first part of the article, the author attempts to employ concepts discussed by Nicholas Brown in Autonomy. The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism in the analysis of the history of Polish literary criticism. (...)
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This article discusses the concept of the “mainstream” in relation to the old concepts of the canon and the opinion-forming center, as terms which have gradually replaced the more traditional and institutionally justified premises of literary criticism in the public debate. (...)
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This article discusses the concept of the canon in Polish literary criticism in the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. The author discusses contemporary social and critical debates and different definitions of the canon employed in them and shows the contexts and repercussions of redefending (disassembling, reconstructing) the literary canon. (...)
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This article attempts to functionally reconstruct the views expressed by Marshall McLuhan in his works, both from an epistemological and the methodological perspective. (...)
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This essay attempts to define “the new” as a poetological term. The new is discussed in relation to Stefan Morawski’s seminal study Perypetie problematyki nowości w dziejach myśli estetycznej [The history of the new in the history of aesthetic thought], the so-called quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, and selected approaches to the concept in relation to avant-garde art. (...)
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An interdisciplinary analytical study devoted to key issues of the poetics of the internet meme; one of the most popular genres of contemporary iconosphere and audiosphere. (...)
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The article discusses case study with a focus on the history of the term and its transdisciplinary application, from medicine and sociology, through law, psychiatry, psychology, sexology, and literary studies.
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