A b s t r a k t
The article discusses the relationship between the way the categories of “anti-literariness” and “literariness” operate in contemporary literary criticism and the “culture of autobiography” after the breakthrough of 1989. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The article deals with affective criticism present in Polish literary studies and the traditions to which this project refers. It shows the discrepancies between the characteristics of this current and the ways in which the issue of affect is operationalized in philosophical traditions, which are embedded into a new context and identified with the discourse on trauma. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The paper analyses the influence of Richard Rorty’s interpretation category on the Polish literary criticism in the early 2000s. The American philosopher’s patronage is considered through two antagonistic uses: Kinga Dunin’s social literary criticism, and Michał Paweł Markowski’s approach which favors literature’s autonomy. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The paper presents the circumstances of Heidegger’s text reception in Poland in the 1970s and in during the political transformation. Just as he did in France, Heidegger proved a significant reference point for text-centric methodologies of poststructuralism also in Poland. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The turn of the second and third decades of the 21st century witnessed an increasing interest in Henryk Bereza and his critical-literary output, also among critics and literary scholars of the younger generation. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The article discusses those aspects of literary criticism traditions that are associated with the figure of the master. It compares three older generation critics who entered the 1990s as authorities. (...)
A b s t r a k t
he article discusses the reception of pre-war left-wing literary criticism in Poland from the perspective of the “production of ignorance,” inspired by agnotology (sociology of ignorance). (...)
A b s t r a k t
The paper contributes to the critical discussion about the problem of interpreting literature, studying the traditions used in the process. It analyzes Walter Benn Michaels’s intentionalism and its Polish reception in contemporary literary criticism. (...)
A b s t r a k t
This article offers a comparative analysis of various accounts/models of literary autonomy in the Polish literary criticism of recent decades. The different ways of understanding autonomy are analysed from the standpoint of the so-called intentionalist approach to literary studies. (...)
A b s t r a k t
The article examines changes in the way feminist literary criticism has been practiced in Poland since 2005 in the context of identity politics, location politics, the female tradition, and the female reading community. (...)