fall 2024

An autofictional house of mirrorsinthe work of Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski

Krzysztof Zydor

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The article offers a reflection on autofiction as a paradoxical genre. After introducing the definitional problems, the author analyzes the literary project of Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski, focusing on three possible expansions of the interpretation of autofictional texts: the category of seriality, the notebooks and unpublished works found in the archive, and paratext. (...)

A Horneyan Interpretation of Characters’ Personalities in Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times

Xiaojin Guo

ORCID: 0009-0001-0032-6911

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Interpreting literature from a psychoanalytic point of view has been popular, yet little research has touched upon Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times from the perspective of psychoanalysis. (...)

Małgorzata Musierowicz’s online autobiography. Towards an analysis based on entries and comments published on www.musierowicz.com.pl

Karolina Starnawska

ORCID: 0000-0002-8276-7058

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The paper analyzes Małgorzata Musierowicz’s online autobiography based on posts and comments published on her official website, www.musierowicz.com.pl, from 2014 to 2016. (...)

Hard Chimeras – A Few Words on the Works of Surrealist Women Artists

Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot

ORCID: 0000-0003-2058-9628

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The article argues that the role of women artists is not fully acknowledgein the history of Surrealism. Works of women artists, located outside the canon, are overshadowed by the most prominent avant-garde works created by men. (...)

The meaning of the author’s biography in studies on the literature of Polish Enlightenment – the case of Cyprian Godebski

Patrycja Bąkowska

ORCID: 0000-0002-9987-4706

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The article discusses the importance of a writer’s biography for studies on old literature. The topic has been the focus of research for long but hitherto largely limited to 19^th– and 20^th-c. (...)

Reportage stories about history

Monika Wiszniowska

ORCID: 0000-0002-3018-0466

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History has always been and will always be present in the Polish reportage, as showcased by such names as Ksawery Pruszyński and Melchior Wańkowicz, who wrote about recent history being aware that they lived in historically significant times. (...)

“there’s certainly enough pain (…) but not enough poetry:” Halina Poświatowska’s autothematic poems

Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik

ORCID: 0000-0001-9770-6234

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The interpretation of the poem [I cannot be merely a human] from the collection Oda do dłoni [Ode to hands] allows the author to reflect on Halina Poświatowska’s poetry. Contrary to stereotypical readings, Poświatowska’s poetry is characterized not only by emotionality but also by strong intellectualization and meta-reflexivity. (...)

Eco-psychological analysis of ecological autobiography. The case of Mary Oliver’s Upstream: Selected Essays

Shuai Tong

ORCID: 0009-0002-2375-1619

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This study examines the confluence of psychoanalysis and ecocriticism in American nonfiction, particularly analyzing the ecological autobiography “Upstream: Selected Essays (2016)” from the Freudian eco-psychoanalytic perspective. (...)

Econarratology and the problem of metalepsis and description in Wiktor Żwikiewicz’s Druga Jesień [A Second Autumn]

Maciej Mazur

ORCID: 0000-0002-6375-2002

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This article presents an econarratological analysis of metalepsis and descriptive techniques in Druga Jesień [A Second Autumn], a somewhat forgotten experimental novel by Wiktor Żwikiewicz, which I retroactively classify as an example of weird fiction in Polish literature. (...)