Mood
– (Stimmung) – an aesthetic quality not yet defined within the context of poetics, emerging in the process of a cultural text’s reception, formed as a result of objective and subjective factors in that process.
The term Stimmung developed in German aesthetics and was closely connected with the concept of harmony, understood as an epistemological category. (...)
Influence
Ewa Kraskowska
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— (Latin: influentia, French: l’influence (f.), German: der Einfluß, Russian: ълияние) is one of the most intensively studied topics in studies of literature and a literary term with multiple meanings. Etymologically, the word “influence” means the movement of a liquid substance into a receptacle or container. (...)
Source
Ewa Kraskowska
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— a productive semantic homonym with various equivalents in Latin: 1) fons – a place, from which water flows out onto the earth’s surface; a spring; a fount; 2) radix – root; core; line of ancestry; that which forms the beginning of something; reason; provenance; 3) origo – genesis, beginning, origin, reason, lineage; 4) principium – beginning, initiation. (...)
Transfictionality
Paweł Marciniak
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1. Intertextual Genesis[1]
There is no doubt that French literary scholarship advanced the concept of intertextuality considerably in the second half of the 20th century. In 1966, in an issue of the legendary magazine Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva published an article entitled “Le mot, le dialogue, le roman” (Word, Dialogue, and Novel) in which readers found a statement revolutionary for its time: “tout texte se construit comme une mosaïque de citations, tout texte est absorption et transformation d’un autre texte” (each text is constructed like a mosaic of quotations, each text is the absorption and transformation of another text). (...)
Ars Poetica
Ewa Kraskowska, Agnieszka Kwiatkowska, Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik
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– in Latin, the art of poetry. Using the criteria of genre and theme, it can be used to define at least three types of literary and metaliterary texts that form a clearly defined continuum from antiquity to the present day in the cultural universe of the West: 1) classical normative and descriptive poetics, codifying the rules governing literary creation in various genres; 2) a specific type of self-reflexive modernist lyric poem devoted to expounding diverse views on the essence of art, often–but not necessarily–entitled “Ars poetica”; 3) self-instruction manuals and guidebooks for creative writing, intended for amateur authors, as well as essays devoted to the secrets of the writer’s craft. (...)
Letter
Lucyna Marzec
A survey of theoretical statements concerning the letter in twentieth-century Polish literature studies discourse can help us bring into relief all of the elements of the transmutations in theory whose continuation (but not culmination) is the so-called cultural turn and a variety of interpretative practices that together form the panorama twenty-first century literature studies. (...)
Void
Małgorzata Cieliczko
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1. Emptiness in Science and Art – Philosophical Prolegomenon
The concept of emptiness, or the void, is used in various disciplines: from the natural and social sciences (including psychology) to the fields of theology and philosophy;1)The anthologies of articles written from widely differing perspectives by various scholars on the problem of the void testify to the multidisciplinary nature of this category: see Wszechświat, bezład, pustka (Universe, Chaos, Void), ed. (...)
Syneasthesia
Zuzanna Kozłowska
– a term used by scholars in various fields, refers to a whole range of related phenomena whose common underlying principle is the interaction of the senses. Generally speaking, it describes a creative “dialogue of the senses,”1)Słownik terminów literackich (Dictionary of Literary Terms), ed. (...)