Karol Poręba

Karol Poręba (b. 1994) – literary scholar, literary critic, editor. PhD student at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Wrocław. Author of essays and articles on 20th-century and contemporary poetry, and on the sociology of literature. Managing editor at the Ossolineum Publishing House.

Karol Poręba (1994) – literaturoznawca, krytyk literacki, redaktor. Doktorant na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Autor szkiców i artykułów poświęconych poezji XX-wiecznej i najnowszej oraz z zakresu socjologii literatury. Redaktor prowadzący w Wydawnictwie Ossolineum.

No Critique. The Pleasure of Reading and Literary Criticism in Poland

Karol Poręba

A b s t r a k t

The article is devoted to the category of readerly pleasure and its variants in Polish critical and literary discourse. The author discusses the category of readerly pleasure developed by Roland Barthes, primarily in his famous essays “From Work to Text” and The Pleasure of the Text; he also reconstructs Jan Błoński’s views expressed in the programmatic essay Romans z tekstem [Love affair with the text]. (...)