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The paper reviews Jerzy Madejski’s collection of critical essays Poetyka ekstremalna oraz inne noty o liryce i krytyce współczesnej, an anthology comprising forty-four reviews of poetic books, and eighteen reviews of literary studies books previously published by Madejski in various literary magazines, such as “Nowe Książki”, “Kwartalnik Artystyczny” and “Odra”. (...)
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This is a review of Katarzyna Szopa’s latest book, Wybuch wyobraźni. Poezja Anny Świrszczyńskiej wobec reprodukcji życia społecznego (Katowice 2022). It summarizes Szopa’s academic achievements, contextualizes her research (feminist and Marxist criticism), and provides a brief description of the monograph’s contents. (...)
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The article focuses on the issue of parenthesis in poetic texts, with focus on selected poems by Krystyna Miłobędzka. The analysis leads to the conclusion that interjection, particularly in its parenthetical form, has a different – broader – function in a poem than in other types of texts and is a significant interpretive signal. (...)
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The paper analyzes communication mechanisms of insinuation, using classical tools of poetics and rhetoric adapted to contemporary needs. (...)
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The article attempts to describe the transformation of Polish theoretical literary studies after 1989. The author points to a few significant elements which influenced that change. He focuses on the difference between the (anti)structuralist breakthrough and two earlier shifts: the anti-positivist and anti-Marxist one. (...)
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This article presents an interpretation of selected novels by Thomas Bernhard based on the hypothesis of literary influence, in the wider perspective of Witold Gombrowicz’s meta-literary and anthropological views. (...)
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This is an interview with Robert Macfarlane – a professor of Environmental Humanities at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is also a traveller and a world-famous author of best-selling books about nature, relations between “landscapes and the human heart” (as he says), places and imagination. (...)
![Landscape and Imagination: A History of Fascination and an Anatomy of Passion in Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] and Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EDutka_LandscapeAndImagination_ForumOfPoetics_35_2024-01-122x173.jpg)
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Mountain studies in the humanities concentrates on the relation between people and mountains. Robert Macfarlane explored that topic in Mountains of the Mind (2003). In this article, Macfarlane’s bestseller is compared with Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry Niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] (1974). (...)
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This research paper attempts to explore an intersection between psychoanalysis and ecocriticism in Japan. Specifically, applied to the literary descriptions in the work “2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake (2011)” from the eco-psychological viewpoint. (...)