Interpoetics of correspondence: figures for constructing presence, fictionalization, and disruptions of presence technologies
Lucyna Marzec
ORCID: 0000-0001-6478-3997
The paper discusses the benefits of conceptualizing correspondence as an interpoetic medium. It presents an analysis of textual and visual ways of constructing the presence of the addressee and the sender in letters, and the disruption of constructing this presence caused by interrupting the writing process by a phone call.
GAN and GPT-2 neural networks, worn words and creativity, namely literary second-hand
„Are You Affected by Time?”. The Photo-graphemicality of a Text on the Example of Tomasz Różycki’s Las tropikalny
Barbara Englender
ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-0801
a b s t r a c t
The book of poems Kolonie by Tomasz Różycki contains the following poem:
Kiedy dla mnie zatańczysz? Skończyło się lato,
wielkie desanty dmuchawców, zielona fabryka,
wchodząca nam do łóżka, brudząca nam życiem
pościel, ubrania, palce.
(...)Avant-texts and Intertextual Relations (In the Context of Genetic Criticism)
Adam Dziadek
ORCID: 0000-0003-4584-5704
a b s t r a c t
A few years ago, while I was working at the Beinecke Library on materials which were to become a part of Aleksander Wat’s archive, I came across galleys of the book of poems Ciemne świecidło, prepared by the poet.
(...)The Materiality of Intertextuality: the Figure of the Shadow in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Izabela Sobczak
ORCID: 0000-0001-7167-5767
a b s t r a c t
I
Shortly after the publication of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006, Alison Bechdel became one of the most renowned comic book authors, although her work, which is not so much a personal, but above all an artistic coming-out, is also a bona fide literary masterpiece.
(...)The Reality of the Intermediary
Paweł Tomczok
a b s t r a c t
Introduction
In the present article, I formulate new premises for narrative studies. My starting point is the problematic interpretation of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. A close reading of this classic text of Polish modern literature demonstrates that the status of the world described by Schulz is problematic.
(...)Mrs. Aubain’s Barometer
Jerzy Franczak
a b s t r a c t
The first paragraph of “A Simple Heart” brings a brief description of the main character, Mrs. Aubain, a concise presentation of her maid Felicia and a much more detailed description of the house that both characters lived in:
This house had a slate roof and stood between an alley and a narrow street leading down to the river.
(...)Realpoetik in Poland
Wojciech Hamerski
a b s t r a c t
In his book Realpoetik. European Romanticism and Literary Politics Paul Hamilton describes European romanticists as the successors of the ethos of the republic of letters, nurtured despite the grim historical reality which followed the fall of the great revolution.
(...)The Synaesthetic Poetics of Reading and Translation: Barthes – Nabokov – Robinson
Zuzanna Kozłowska
a b s t r a c t
Engagement with literature, like all forms of contact, always lies somewhere between the pleasurable and the unpleasant. Reading and translating are activities which engage the body doing the experiencing – whether somatic, sensual or sexual.
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