Materialistyczna krytyka literacka – niedokończony projekt [rec. Joseph North: Literary Criticism. A Concise Political History. Cambridge– Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017, ss. 272.]

• Authors: Katarzyna Trzeciak

Title variants

EN

Materialistic Literary Criticism – an Unaccomplished Project [re: J. North: Literary Criticism. A Concise Political History]

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an extensive review of Joseph North’s book Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History. The author divides the 20th and 21st century literary studies into two orientations: critics and researchers, showing that the domination of the research perspective from the 80s led to a paradoxical depoliticization of criticism and deprivation of its intervention potential. To restore the critical potential, North postulates a return to materialistic aesthetics under the sign of I.A. Richards, which allows him to cross the research horizon in a gesture of intervention into a common reality, justified by a specific aesthetic experience.

Keywords

PL

esthetic experience; materialistic literary criticism; interventions; literary studies

EN

esthetic experience; materialistic literary criticism; interventions; literary studies

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 167-180

Dates

published

2018-12-28

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Trzeciak