A study into one metaphor
Gerard Ronge
ORCID: 0000-0001-6487-117X
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The paper reviews Barbara Kaszkowska-Wandor’s book Res publica (post) literaria. Od poetyki wspólnoty do postliteratury. (...)
The works of Józef Wittlin: The perspective of genetic criticism
Maciej Wcisło
ORCID: 0000-0002-9202-0353
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In the present article, I analyze four versions of the poem Przedśpiew [Prelude], which opens Józef Wittlin’s collection of poems entitled Hymny [Hymns], and discuss significant changes within the respective editions, pointing to the research potential of such an analysis. (...)
Mickiewicz’s pretexts, or comments on the margins of archival research
Helena Markowska-Fulara
ORCID: 0000-0003-1219-3084
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The article analyses manuscripts and other archival documents as pre-texts of literary texts, with a view to demonstrating how they may be used most effectively in literary studies. (...)
The Image of China in the Eurasianist Ideal of Boris Pilnyak: From the Imaginary to the Documentary
Hui Zhang
ORCID: 0000-0002-3702-1839
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This paper discusses the imagination and description of China in the works of Boris Pilnyak. It proposes that Pilnyak’s fictions and travelogues demonstrate two approaches to the literary representation of China: the imaginary and the documentary. (...)
Spatial situations of literature
Cezary Rosiński
ORCID: 0000-0002-6136-7186
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The paper discusses the category of spatial situation – a specific experience of the human subject based on the concept of attentiveness, which is located in a specific geographic location, shares that location with a place accumulating heterochrony and is subject to the agency of matter. (...)
Struggling with the opening. The avant-text of selected short stories by Włodzimierz Odojewski (based on materials from his Poznań archive)
Jerzy Borowczyk
ORCID: 0000-0002-6420-4163
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The paper reconstructs and analyzes the avant-texts of three short stories by Włodzimierz Odojewski, representing the mature, late phase of his work: Ku Dunzynańskiemu Wzgórzu idzie las, Co słychać w ojczyźnie, Sezon w Wenecji. (...)
What does the philologist’s library make possible? The case of Stefan Szymutko
Łukasz Żurek
ORCID: 0000-0003-0000-9278
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In the first part of the article, I demonstrate that private libraries of scholars in the humanities (including literary scholars) have still not become legitimate objects of study and explain the reasons behind it. (...)