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HISTORY AND LITERATURE

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Markiewicz H.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2006
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vol. 97
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issue 3
5-28
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Relationship between historiography and poetry and rhetoric (later literature) has long been a subject of theoretical reflection. The approaches to this issue varied according to the changing theory and practice of those disciplines, and of the choice of a descriptive or a normative attitude. At the same time one notices a sameness or a similarity of those views divided by a centuries-long distance. The article examines the modes of narration, cognitive and aesthetic goals, objectivism and subjectivism, truth and fiction, assertion and the lack of assertion, general and singular knowledge, casualness and essence, similar and different constructive and stylistic features of historical and literary texts. The views of Hayden White and Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit are accurately discussed. In conclusion, the author favors Krzysztof Pomian's view that the indispensable element of historiography is the evidence of what the author treats as factual, and this is the borderline between historiography and literature.
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What is it that I don't understand of C. Milosz's 'Traktat moralny'?

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Markiewicz H.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2006
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issue 5(101)
205-212
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The article is a peculiar 'record of interpretative failures' in analysis of Czeslaw Milosz's 'Traktat moralny' (The Moral Treaty). The author points out to some details of the poem proving extremely hard to interpret, and makes an attempt at explaining them, supporting himself to this end by Milosz's own commentaries to the text, which he has found in the poet's letters to the philosopher Tadeusz Kronski and in his recorded conversations with Renata Gorczynska, and, with Aleksander Fiut and Andrzej Franaszek. The author's indication of certain unclear points and instances of contradictoriness in the Treaty's text offers a specific incentive for the reader to focus not only on what the text can offer them but also, on what is apparently incomprehensible in it.
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On poetics, literary theory, and interpretation: once again

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Markiewicz H.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 4(106)
153-164
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Basing upon the Anna Burzynska's book 'Anty-teoria literatury' (Anti-theory of literature), Cracow, 2006, the author discusses propositions and/or suggestions (pro)posed by post-modern thought against literary studies. Or, more strictly speaking: what should a literary scholar do, in case s/he would try to 'make post-modern' (so to speak) his/her earlier-established views in three areas: poetics, literary theory, and, interpretation? One may sense that the theory interpretation, having been through a long journey through the stormy fluctuations of post-modernity, is now stealthily resuming a solid ground that has been disparaged until recently. This is, namely, a philological-hermeneutic ground, softened to a slight extent by intensified attentiveness toward whatever may be non-systemic or inconsistent in a given text.
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WACLAW BOROWY'S REVALUATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

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Markiewicz H.
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2008
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vol. 49
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issue 6(291)
573-590
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In his assessments of literary merit Waclaw Borowy (1890-1950), one of the great figures of Polish history of literature, employed - with some qualifications - a set of three criteria, ie. Thematic universality, representativeness vis-a-vis contemporary reality, and vividness of expression. His judgements have and made a lasting impact on subsequent literary historiography and, by and large, continue to hold sway in the field of 18th-century poetry, especially in the critical reception of Konstancja Benislawska, Elzbieta Druzbacka and Franciszek Dionizy Kniaznin, and to lesser extent in the criticism of Adam Naruszewicz and Ignacy Krasicki. Elsewhere, his damning judgment on Adolf Dygasinski has proved final, and his summing-up of Stanisław Wyspianski as 'a great poet who was not a great writer' has worked as an effective inspiration to a number of later critics. While Borowy's account of the 'strengths and weaknesses' of Stefan Zeromski (especialły his early work) has become part of the general consensus, his disparaging view of Krasicki's 'Monachomachia' or Franciszek Zablocki's comedies, 'Fantazy' and 'Pharaoh', has found hardly any support.
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SOME QUESTIONS TO EXPONENTS OF CULTURAL THEORY OF LITERATURE

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Markiewicz H.
Ruch Literacki
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2007
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vol. 48
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issue 2(281)
133-145
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This is a record of author's reflections on 'The Cultural Theory of Literature: Key Concepts and Problems' edited by M. P. Markowski and R. Nycz. He is skeptical about a number of assumptions that nowadays appear to have become a matter of broad consensus. One of them is the claim that literature cannot be defined. Another has to do with the practice of blurring the boundary between theory of literature and the methodology of literary studies. At the same time as theory is transformed into Theory it becomes identified with any system of thought from which literary studies may take their stimuli, but which by itself (like eg. psychoanalysis or Marxism) remains extrinsic to literature. While criticizing the book's inaccuracies or inconsistencies, the author of this review declares his support for the central assumptions of the cultural theory of literature, ie. the application of the tools of literary theory to the study of non-literary discourses, and proper acknowledgement of the cognitive and ideological aspects of literature.
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ON LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY WITH DUE CAUTION

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Markiewicz H.
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2008
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vol. 49
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issue 2(287)
141-150
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Having surveyed diverse historical antecedents of literary anthropology, the author points out some distinct ways in which the term has been used, ie. (1) an anthropology which has some features of literariness; (2) general statements about man and human nature formulated in or implied by literary texts; (3) analyses of general statements about man and human nature that can be found in literary texts and analyses of literary devices which are then used to construct anthropological models (ie. anthropological poetics); (4) theory and history of the functions of literature in human life (anthropology of literature). The author notes that the knowledge about man and man's nature communicated in literature can be as often eye-opening and inspiring as banal and deformed. Given its incurable unreliability, it should always be put to the test of science, one's philosophical convictions or the readers' good sense derived from their experience.
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ROMANTIC VIEWS OF POLISH ENLIGHTENMENT LITERATURE

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Markiewicz H.
Ruch Literacki
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2006
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vol. 47
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issue 1(274)
17-36
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The canonic Romantic assessment of the literature of the Polish Enlightenment took shape first and foremost in the literary criticism of Maurycy Mochnacki. On the whole the Romantics had an unfavourable view of their predecessors, whom they found deficient in originality, national feelings, or genuine poetic inspiration. However, the new generation did recognize the artistic excellence of some satirical and descriptive works by Krasicki, Naruszewicz and Trembecki. A respectful recognition was also granted to the sentimental and patriotic poets of the early 19th century (Karpinski, Kniaznin, Niemcewicz, but especially Woronicz). Meanwhile, the Warsaw neoclassical poets (Kozmian, Osinski) were treated with scorn or condescension, although later they found a few defenders. In fact the late Romantic period saw a growing number of appeals for a favourable reassessment of the legacy of the Enlightenment.
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