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This article analyzes two previously unstudied blogs by the poet, prose writer, and digital creator Tomasz Pułka. Treating the blog as an autobiographical genre, the article asks how the blog challenges the generic stability of entries which may be classified as literary texts. (...)
![“Allegro for a prepared computer and a dynamized harpsichord” – Andrzej Falkiewicz’s Ledwie mrok [Hardly darkness] as a prototypical proto-hypertext](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/DKolodziej_AllegroForAPreparedComputer_ForumOfPoetics_36_2024-01-122x173.jpg)
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This publication provides a reinterpretation of Andrzej Falkiewicz’s Ledwie mrok. This essay-novel is believed to have been an attempt at inventing a new idiom for expressing the experience of corporeality. (...)
![Poetry as mixed media: Darek Foks’s Eurydyka [Eurydice]](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AKaluza_PoetryAsMixedMedia_ForumOfPoetics_36_2024-01-122x173.jpg)
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The article “Poetry as mixed media: Darek Foks’s Eurydyka [Eurydice]” discusses a unique multimodal nature of Darek Foks’s photobook Eurydyka. Focusing on three issues – the tradition of the photobook, an understanding of photography, and the aesthetics of representing the female body – the author argues that the three media that constitute the book (text, photographs and, implicitly, film) should not be construed as separate orders of meaning but as different levels of readability and visibility. (...)
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The essay is devoted to a few contemporary books of poetry, whose visual aspect and realization of the typographic project encourage new interpretative hypotheses based on the manners in which the book manifests itself as an artifact rather than based on the reading of poems themselves. (...)
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The article analyses a variety of bundles of body and text in the volume Blason du corps féminin by the French spatial poet Ilse Garnier, considering social functions of the body presented in her works. (...)
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The present article examines the avant-garde inspirations behind Paweł Kłudkiewicz’s book Hoża. Moja ulica / My Street (2022). Particular attention is paid to the role of logovisuality in the urban context as well as to the function of the colors black, red, and white which refer to the constructivist and socially engaged projects of the first avant-garde. (...)
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This article is an attempt to interpret Alicja Stern’s novel Ciała się oddalają [Bodies Are Moving Away], which was published in 1931 in six installments in the weekly feminist magazine for Jewish women Ewa [Eve]. (...)
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The paper discusses the possible applications of virtual reality in literature. The first part characterizes possible “love affairs” between VR and literature, as well as some critical considerations regarding “VR literature”. (...)
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The essay discusses the Polish version of A Nest of Ninnies (1969) by John Ashbery and James Schuyler, translated by Tadeusz Pióro and Andrzej Sosnowski, with Marjorie Perloff’s “unoriginal genius” in the neo-avant-garde as the reference point. (...)
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The paper is a reconstruction of an avant-garde project of a contemporary poet, Marcin Mokry, who can be recognized as a continuator of Tadeusz Peiper’s “prospect” in his program statements and the poetic book żywe linie nowe usta. (...)