fall 2015: Page 2

Geoculture(?)

Cezary Rosiński

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Elżbieta Rybicka, Geopoetyka. Przestrzeń i miejsce we współczesnych teoriach i praktykach literackich
(Geopoetics. Space and Place in Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice), Universitas, Kraków 2014

Thanks to the work of Elżbieta Rybicka, use of the term “geopoetics” has been active in Polish literary scholarship for at least several years, chiefly because of the article “Geopoetics (On the City, Space and Place in Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice)” included in the book Kulturowa teoria literatury (Cultural Literary Theory). (...)

Literature’s Perpetuum Mobile, or A Few Words on Self-Referentiality

Literature’s Perpetuum Mobile, or A Few Words on Self-Referentiality

Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik

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Autotematyzm (hereafter “self-referentiality”) belongs to the particular type of concept in literary theory that, created by one thinker, evolved in scholarly thought and in the course of its development through new contributions and polemics from others, came to define its own history. (...)