Osnowa. Szkic do portretu Władysława Panasa

• Authors: Próchniak Paweł

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Warp. Sketch to a Portrait of Władysław Panas

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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An outline of a portrait of Professor Władysław Panas – scholar and man of letters. His accomplishments as one of the most outstanding Polish semioticians and an observant and thorough interpreter expanded the potential inherent in the structural-semiotic method. Furthermore, Panas’ writings accommodate intuition, maintaining that in the humanities style (the very manner of conducting a discourse) possesses not only rhetorical merit, but is also a prominent research instrument, which aligns itself with the cognitive force of the metaphor and thus allows cognizant thought to operate on the borderline between art and science. Panas is a sophisticated theoretician of literature and a brilliant interpreter of literary works. At the same time, he deals with the semiotics of the temporal-spatial dimension of culture. This is the reason why he reads literary texts in their complex links with the texts of space and its symbolic tissue. This is true in particular of his approach to the oeuvre of Bruno Schulz and Józef Czechowicz (to whom he devoted a major part of his considerations) and the hometowns of both authors: Drohobycz and Lublin. The author of the presented article lists Panas’ most important research achievements and writings, indicating that the cognitive dimension of his work is closely connected with an existential counterpart, while the cognitive ambition out which this accomplishment arises is also that of cognizant imagination and its striving towards a restitution of sense inscribed into human reality and, more widely, into the world and its existence.

Keywords

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Bruno Schulz; Drohobycz

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 1-2 (324-325)
• Pages: 53-56

Contributors

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Próchniak Paweł