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In the review I discuss Paweł Mackiewicz’s book paying special attention to his methodological choices and their consequences. I argue that traditional philological methods are insufficient to present the innovative and experimental character of Sendecki’s poetry. Mackiewicz is rightly sceptical toward deconstructive interpretations but he does not transform ideas proposed by “deconstructive reviewers” and returns to interpretation rooted in representationalism. I argue that it is necessary to elaborate on such an interpretative method that would not petrify the poem and – at the same time – would capture something beside conclusions concerning the crisis of representation. I underline the value of relational reading where the level of representation equals the level of material dimension of the poem, thus subordinating interpretation to the regime of immanence. In this case, the “meaning” of a poem ceases to be more important than its “existence”, and both modes become dynamic as they reveal inevitable involvement of literature in social relations.
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The recent arrivals of refugees from the Middle East fleeing war and persecution, and forced migrants escaping poverty, mostly from Asia and Africa, have fundamentally challenged European states’ commitment to solidarity with these vulnerable populations seeking protection. Researchers have identified a range of social and individual factors that may facilitate or impede societies’ willingness to receive refugees and migrants. However, less attention has been devoted to how their reception may be linked with diminished provision of public services for citizens and declining welfare states in many countries in Europe. This article considers how the ascendance of the neoliberal ideology and its’ key shifts in public policy contributed to a growing sense of insecurity and precarity in industrialized countries over recent decades and has affected people’s willingness to assist and accept them. It brings together insights from a variety of disciplines to better understand social policy developments and its relation to refugee and forced migration. It concludes that a feminist psychosocial conception of relationality provides a basis for rethinking our approaches to these important issues by politicizing the ethical obligation to protect the lives of unknown others.
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American playwright and activist Eve Ensler has explained how, due to her father’s abuse, she felt exiled from her own body from a young age (Greene 2001; Ensler 2006). Her theatrical praxis, including the internationally acclaimed Vagina Monologues (1998), provides a means for her to re-inhabit her organism and re-examine her victimization. In 2010, while campaigning against gender violence in the Congo, Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She recorded her traumatic experience in In the Body of the World (2013), which opens with a reminder about her early “exile” and closes with an encouragement to rise against abuse. Throughout its 53 chapters, Ensler reflects that cancer threw her “through the window of my disassociation into the center of my body’s crisis”, re-connecting her with her physical self and with the world. Situated within feminist epistemology and with a methodology based on close reading, this paper analyzes Ensler’s memoir as a gendered journey of reconstruction of the self. It argues that, through an exercise of re-membering that is reflected in the structure and in her explicit focus on female bodily experience, Ensler creates a relational narrative of uterine cancer that includes not only her own story, but also those of other women who have undergone victimization.
Human Affairs
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2010
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vol. 20
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issue 2
108-113
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Our conception of the nation state, and the borders that separate nations, is an anachronism. It derives from the 17th century origins of the European state, and the general roughly Newtonian ideas of the time, according to which individual things are entirely distinct from one another. If we shift our fundamental ideas and consider things, including nations, as relational, then borders take on different functions than they traditionally do. Furthermore, if nations are constituted in their relations with one another, then there are serious implications for our conception of democracy in general and international relations conducted democratically. Democracy, and democratic international relations, consists of the pursuit of common interests across borders and boundaries, domestic and international.
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The strategic capacity of human agency to orient itself in a context of growing uncertainty and complexity depends on the degree and quality of its reflexivity and relationality, and of the civic impulse arising from the connection between both. The present article explores this capacity by analysing the results of an opinion survey carried out in May 2016, and by developing an argument about one collective agent: the Spanish citizenry. Spanish citizens send three main messages. First, they opt for a European course and for a range of policies consistent with convergence (and debate) between the traditions of social democracy and conservative liberalism. Second, they are attentive to the task of recreating a political community. Third, they ask for civil forms of doing politics. To send these messages they draw on socio-cultural resources, and forms of reflexivity and relationality. The article addresses society’s relations with the political class and with itself and the cultural resources (economic knowledge, historical narratives) that map these relationships within their global context and their past.
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Beatrice (Culleton) Mosionier is a Canadian Métis writer, whose first strongly autobiographical novel In Search of April Raintree (1983) has been recognized as a classic of contemporary Native Canadian literatures. Her memoir, Come Walk with Me (2009), describes her life story from 1949 till 1987, covering also the period between 1987 and 2001 in a brief epilogue. In the memoir, Mosionier uses fragments of the transcript of an interview conducted with her mother in 1984 by Alanis Obomsawin to preface the three parts of her book. Apart from constructing the two lives as parallel and in dialogue with one another, Mosionier frames and dialogises her story also through references to the process of writing, publication and the success of her novel; and reaches out to readers to induce them to “walk” with her. The aim of the present article is to examine the narrative presentation of the process of self-discovery focusing in particular on the relational aspects of the life story. Mosionier’s memoir demonstrates her growing into the realisation of the fact that her identity is relational-she recognizes herself as part of a larger ethnic and social group, and later also as shaped by familial relations. While depicting “the self [that] is dynamic, changing, and plural” (Eakin 1999: 98), she conceptualises it in reference to what she believes to be an essentially static core identity, and as “channelled” through a life that largely follows a predetermined pattern.
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This article intends to characterize the constructive function that the Indeterminate Duality may have played in Plato’s oral teaching. Far from being in itself – as some testimonia seem to suggest – the primary origin of evil, as origin of multiplicity the Indeterminate Duality can be perceived as intrinsically presupposed by Plato’s identification of the source of being with the supreme Good. The notion of good implicates for Plato namely an unconditioned impulse to relationality, which indicates that the supreme Good is to be considered as supreme origin not only of unity, but also of multiplicity (scil. non-unity) and alterity. In the absence of multiplicity and alterity, no real relation, and, therefore, no real manifestation of the Good could in fact take place. As a consequence (and in accord with the suggestions given by Simplicius), the Indeterminate Duality may be considered as source of that original differentiation as well as of that generativity without which the supreme Good would be discordant with its goodness.
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This article intends to characterize the constructive function that the Indeterminate Duality may have played in Plato’s oral teaching. Far from being in itself – as some testimonia seem to suggest – the primary origin of evil, as origin of multiplicity the Indeterminate Duality can be perceived as intrinsically presupposed by Plato’s identification of the source of being with the supreme Good. The notion of good implicates for Plato namely an unconditioned impulse to relationality, which indicates that the supreme Good is to be considered as supreme origin not only of unity, but also of multiplicity (scil. non-unity) and alterity. In the absence of multiplicity and alterity, no real relation, and, therefore, no real manifestation of the Good could in fact take place. As a consequence (and in accord with the suggestions given by Simplicius), the Indeterminate Duality may be considered as source of that original differentiation as well as of that generativity without which the supreme Good would be discordant with its goodness.
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Traditional storytelling has been an essential constituent of Indigenous cultures in North America, including contemporary literary production. The perception of storytelling in Indigenous theories might, however, in some aspects differ from its Western literary critical understanding. This paper outlines the conceptual frameworks which shape and are reflected in Indigenous storytelling and examines relationality as the core principle of Indigenous knowledge system. Relationality does not only represent a frequent theme in Indigenous works, but it is also manifested in their narrative structure, and simultaneously can be used for their interpretation. In addition, the paper focuses on the equal role of the storyteller and the listener in Indigenous views on storytelling, the necessity to internalize a story to derive meaning, the power and animacy of stories and the importance of this for Indigenous typologies of stories, and on the issue of cultural appropriation, which stems from the different approaches to stories and knowledge as such in Indigenous and non-Indigenous perceptions.
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This article focuses on certain dimensions of Plotinus’ notion of the noetic self, which so far have not received sufficient scholarly atten­tion. The evidence of Enn. V 8 makes clear the assumption about the inexhaustible generativity of the noetic self. This generativity implies an intimate relation with the notions of image and suddenness: the former is intended as a medium of unconditional self-transparency, whereas the latter is understood as pointing to the unlimited newness that is char­acteristic of the noetic life, which, according to Plotinus, consists in an indissoluble unity of identity and alterity (Enn. VI 7.13). The aforesaid notions make it reasonable to view Plotinus’ concept of noetic self as pointing to a predominantly relational and dynamic ontology, in which essentialism presupposes no staticity whatsoever, but can rather be seen as a perspective that leads to the development of a harmonious and non-narcissistic creativity.
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The text is an attempt to look at the problem of the contemporary studies into poetic language through the prism of poststructuralist reflection. The discussion, which originally referred to the theory of literature, concerned the themes also present in the studies of linguists and resulting from a critical analysis of the assumptions of structuralist thought. The perspective adopted in this abstract made it possible to present a research proposal comprising the category of redundancy in literary communication, as well as – in more detail – the category of relationality of verse, syntactical hypotheses or special predication with regard to poetic language. Free verse is apprehended here with reference to the findings of modern scholars of verse, which involves a special way of thinking about syntax in poetry, and also – about the specific aspects of semantics. The attached examples (from a collection of modern Polish poetry) provide the necessary illustration of the linguistic phenomena demonstrated in the text.
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The authors of the article attempt to expand the discourse on curatorial practices in the field of performing arts by introducing the notion of shared room. By making reference to their own experience in curating, they create a metaphor which serves both as a tool for describing the precarious position of curators and for designing alternative strategies of doing this work based on the ideas of solidarity, relationality and sharing. In the first part the authors present their understanding of curatorial practice situating it in the context of those definitions of curating that they recognise as dominating in the Polish context. The second part of the article deals with four aspects of the shared room metaphor: its relational ontology; the precarious condition of its inhabitants; the strategies of sharing employed in it; and the reproductive work done in it and understood as creative practice.
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The aim of this article is to demonstrate the process of the legitimization of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. In contrast to the dominant legal perspective, we consider the Tribunal relationally, as a kind of social space, located at the intersection of several social worlds that influence it (law, science, politics, and administration). The study concerns the biographies of all the judges elected from 1985 to 2018. Judges are treated as holders of various types of resources-capital (academic title, legal profession, government function, parliamentary mandate, etc.). The study, conducted by means of multiple correspondence analysis, allowed us to reconstruct the Constitutional Tribunal’s space. As a consequence, we have revealed not only the complexity and multidimensionality of the legitimacy of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, but also captured its dynamic.
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Celem artykułu jest ukazanie procesu legitymizacji Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Perspektywa relacyjna, którą proponujemy, jest odmienna od prawniczej, dominującej w rozważaniach na ten temat. Traktujemy Trybunał jako rodzaj przestrzeni, usytuowany na przecięciu kilku światów społecznych (prawo, nauka, polityka, administracja), które na niego oddziałują. Badanie przeprowadziliśmy, analizując biografie wszystkich sędziów wybranych w latach 1985–2018. Sędziowie zostali potraktowani jako posiadacze znaczących społecznie zasobów – kapitałów (tytuł naukowy, zawód prawniczy, funkcja w administracji rządowej, mandat poselski itp.). Wykorzystując wieloraką analizę korespondencji, odtworzyliśmy przestrzeń Trybunału. Tym samym uchwyciliśmy nie tylko złożoność i wielowymiarowość legitymizacji polskiego sądu konstytucyjnego, lecz także zmiany tego procesu w czasie.
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The contemporary model of culture is founded on two principal shifts: the pictorial one and that towards everyday life. The former has brought the development of visual culture and visual sociology in science, while the latter an interest in the life of regular people and the return to sociology of everyday life. The model of culture based on the visual and the visible apotheosises sight as a dominant sense in the building of social interactions. It naturally privileges those who can freely participate in cultural life. However, it excludes and, to a certain extent, limits the activities and the cultural participation of people with visual impairments. The aim of this article is to present the case of the Invisible Exhibition where people with regular vision are included in multisensory culture based on the tactile, auditory, and olfactory perception. The exhibition allows the privileged participants of visual culture to learn about multisensory culture built on other cognitive foundations. The Invisible Exhibition also allows people with visual impairments to join the dominant model of culture by expanding beyond their own boundaries and actions based on other principles. The case of the Invisible Exhibition is analysed with regards to the concept of history and counter-history, i.e. the narratives of the privileged and underprivileged in the cultural system by Ewa Domańska, as well as own research conducted as part of social work courses at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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Jerzy Grotowski zatytułował swój cykl wykładów w College de France La „lignée organique" au théâtre et dans le rituel („Linia organiczna” teatrze i rytuale). Autorka, która dokumentowała te ostatnie publiczne wystąpienia, stawia tezę, że organiczność stanowi linię łączącą teatralne i postteatralne badania Grotowskiego. Odwołuje się do tych wykładów i do własnego treningu opartego na praktykach Grotowskiego, w tym do pracy z Reną Mirecką, a także do współpracy badawczej z rdzennymi artystami i badaczami z Turtle Island (Ameryka Północna), między innymi z Floydem Favelem, który praktykował z Grotowskim i z Mirecką. Autorka wskazuje, że w różnorodnych tradycyjnych praktykach kulturowych, których rolą jest wzmacnianie, przywracanie i podtrzymywanie równowagi między ludzkimi i nie-ludzkimi formami życia, organiczność jest rozumiana jako żywa siła nadająca procesom performatywnym energię, moc i skuteczność. Post-Grotowski paradygmat performatywności zaproponowany przez autorkę opiera się na nieantropocentrycznej perspektywie inspirowanej ekologicznym i duchowym wymiarem relacyjności podkreślanym przez kilka pokoleń rdzennych badaczy. Autorka twierdzi, że taka zmiana paradygmatu, która rzuca wyzwanie praktykom artystycznym gloryfikującym ludzką kreatywność, może stanowić realną alternatywę dla dominacji (eurocentrycznych) nowomaterialistycznych i posthumanistycznych teorii nie-ludzkiej sprawczości.
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Jerzy Grotowski chose to name his College de France lecture series La „lignee organique” au theatre et dans le rituel (The „Organic Lineage” in Theatre and Ritual), and the author, who attended and documented these final public talks, contends in this article that organicity constitutes a through-line connecting Grotowski’s theatrical and post-theatrical research. The author draws from these talks, as well as from her Grotowski-based training, including her work with Rena Mirecka, and her research collaborations with Indigenous artists and scholars from Turtle Island (North America), including Floyd Favel, who worked with both Grotowski and Mirecka. The author points out that in diverse traditional cultural practices whose role it is to enhance, restore, and sustain balance between human and non-human forms of life, organicity is understood as a living force endowing performative processes with energy, power, and efficacy. The post-Grotowskian performance paradigm envisioned by the author hinges upon a non-anthropocentric perspective informed by the ecological and spiritual dimensions of relationality articulated by several generations of Indigenous scholars. She contends that such a paradigm shift, which challenges artistic practices glorifying human creative agency, can provide a viable alternative to the dominance of (Eurocentric) new materialist/posthumanist theories of non-human agency.
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The purpose of the article was to discuss the shift towards post-humanism taking place in the Childhood Studies research field, which is seen by its creators as the answer to the environmental problems of modern times. The penetration of posthumanist thought into the Childhood Studies field has resulted in a turn towards a relational ontology. Childhood has been recognised as a phenomenon closely linked to nature, and the child as a relational being, existing in communities of interrelated human and non-human entities. Drawing on posthumanist thinking has also helped to recognise the need to refer to ideas of community, relationality, and becoming/becoming-with in educational contexts. This resulted in the transition to pedagogical approaches that enable children to learn and stand together with the world, while also building in-depth relationships with both human and non-human entities. According to the author, strengthening children’s disposition in this respect will enable them to coexist with all entities and Prosper in common worlds. This will increase the chances of all of us to successfully dealing with the environmental threats of modern times.
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Celem artykułu uczyniła autorka omówienie dokonującego się w polu badawczym Childhood Studies zwrotu w stronę posthumanizmu, stanowiącego odpowiedź jego twórców na problemy środowiskowe epoki współczesnej. Przenikanie myśli posthumanistycznej do pola badawczego Childhood Studies zaowocowało zwrotem w stronę ontologii relacyjnej, w świetle której dzieciństwo zostało uznane za fenomen ściśle powiązany z naturą, dziecko zaś – za istotę relacyjną, egzystującą we wspólnotach powiązanych ze sobą bytów ludzkich i pozaludzkich. Czerpanie z myśli posthumanistycznej przyczyniło się także do uznania potrzeby odwoływania się w kontekście edukacyjnym do idei wspólnotowości, relacyjności i stawania się/stawania się-z. Spowodowało to zwrot w stronę podejść pedagogicznych pozwalających dzieciom na uczenie się i stawanie wspólnie ze światem, na nawiązywanie pogłębionych relacji z ludźmi i z bytami pozaludzkimi. Zdaniem autorki wzmacnianie dyspozycji dzieci w tym właśnie zakresie umożliwi im zgodne współistnienie ze wszystkimi bytami i prosperowanie we wspólnych światach, co zwiększy szanse nas wszystkich na pomyślne radzenie sobie ze środowiskowymi zagrożeniami epoki współczesnej.
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The article addresses selected aspects of the sense of subjectivity of women supported by social work institutions. The paper presents theoretical inspirations that were used to find traces of the examined issue in autobiographical narratives of women. The following categories were identified: self-awareness, freedom, and relationality, as selected predicates making up the examined issue. The analysis of the interviews discusses partner relationships that strengthened women as well as those that contributed to a loss of the sense of subjectivity by the narrators. The role of significant Others in the process of shaping women’s sense of subjectivity was also pointed out: relatives, partners, and professionals in the field of social assistance.
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Tematem artykułu są wybrane aspekty poczucia podmiotowości kobiet objętych wsparciem instytucji pomocy społecznej, kształtujące się w relacji partnerskiej. Przedstawiono teoretyczne inspiracje, które posłużyły do poszukiwania tropów badanego zagadnienia w autobiograficznych narracjach kobiet. Wyłoniono kategorie: świadomość własnego „Ja”, wolność, relacyjność jako wybrane predykaty składające się na badane zagadnienie. Analizując wywiady, przedstawiono relacje partnerskie, które wzmacniały kobiety, oraz takie, które przyczyniały się do zatracenia poczucia podmiotowości przez narratorki. Zasygnalizowano również rolę znaczących Innych w procesie kształtowania poczucia podmiotowości kobiet: osób bliskich, partnerów oraz profesjonalistów z obszaru pomocy społecznej.
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Przedmiotem artykułu jest program teoretyczno-badawczy ujmujący parę intymną jako formę praktykowania bliskości, miłości i troski, zakorzenionych w praktykach życia codziennego. W ramach tego programu proponujemy analizę o charakterze: relacyjnym, nienormatywnym, intersekcjonalnym oraz procesualnym. Najpierw wyjaśniamy, dlaczego kategoria pary intymnej jest użyteczna, uzupełniając, a także zastępując takie kategorie, jak rodzina, jednostka i gospodarstwo domowe. Druga część tekstu jest poświęcona korzyściom, które wnoszą do badań par intymnych teorie praktyk społecznych, z ich naciskiem na wiedzę milczącą i habitualną, cielesność i emocjonalność, materialność oraz symbolikę i kontekst działań. Proponowany program teoretyczno-badawczy stanowi syntezę kilku nurtów teoretycznych i został przepracowany w toku szeregu zrealizowanych w Polsce projektów badawczych.
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The article, which opens the thematic section on the sociology of intimate couples, offers a theoretical and research program for the studies of intimate life. Its core is the conceptualization of intimate relations as different forms of closeness, love and care embedded in everyday practices. An intimate couple is presented in a relational, not normative, intersectional and processual approach. The article consists of two parts. The first explains why the category of intimate couple is useful in partially replacing and partially complementing such categories as family, individual, and household. The second part focuses on benefits the theory of social practice brings to the research on intimate couples, with the emphasis on silent and habitual knowledge, carnality and emotionality, materiality, symbolism and the context of practices. The presented theoretical and research program that synthesizes the trends from several sociological areas, both practical and theoretical, has been elaborated on the basis of a number of research projects undertaken in Poland.
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Zamierzeniem autorki jest przedstawienie koncepcji pedagogii wspólnych światów dzieci i zwierząt, osadzonej w ramie założeń posthumanizmu. W jego świetle dziecko jawi się jako istota ściśle związana z pozaludzkimi bytami, jednostkami i siłami, egzystująca we wspólnych światach życia. Zamieszkujące te światy dzieci i zwierzęta nie są odseparowanymi od siebie bytami, lecz istotami relacyjnymi, sprawczymi, wzajemnie na siebie wpływającymi. Pedagogia wspólnych światów dzieci i zwierząt jest rozumiana jako praktyka edukacyjna, która umożliwia dzieciom utrzymywanie niehierarchicznych relacji ze zwierzętami podczas spotkań międzygatunkowych. Oferuje ona dzieciom niekonwencjonalny sposób poznawania i działania, pozwala im bowiem nie tyle na uczenie się „o” świecie, co raczej na uczenie się razem „ze” światem. Przebywanie w heterogenicznych wspólnych światach i nawiązywanie z nim pogłębionych relacji wiąże się przy tym z koniecznością zadbania o dobro wspólne. Może to zapewnić pomyślną egzystencję ludziom i bytom pozaludzkim teraz i w przyszłości.
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The author’s intent is to describe the concept of pedagogy of the common worlds of children and animals embedded in the framework of posthuman philosophy. In its assumptions, the child’s essence is tightly connected to non-human beings, individuals and forces, existing in the common worlds of life. Children and animals living in those worlds are not beings separated from one another, but relational and causative ones, affecting and influencing each other. The pedagogy of the common worlds of children and animals is broadly understood as an educational practice, which allows children to maintain non-hierarchical relations with animals during interspecies encounters. It offers children an unconventional way of discovering, exploring and acting, because it allows them not to learn “about” the world, but rather to learn together “with” the world. Staying in heterogeneous common worlds and establishing deep relations with them is hence connected with the need to care about the common good. It can provide people and non-human beings with a successful existence now and in the future.
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The article deals with the problem of poetic syntax in free verse, examined with reference to the phenomenon of accommodation. The cases analyzed here of the conceptualization of objects in poetic texts (and thus in categories of nouns) allow for a two-track discussion: at the level of elements creating the space of a poem, i.e., the textual accommodation of individual line syntagmas, and also at the level of objects with their lexical (nominal) manifestations in the text, i.e., syntactic accommodation. Accommodation understood as adaptation to syntactic demands becomes, in this formulation, a mechanism of metaphorization, specification and contextual reinvigoration of lexical elements. The objects that thus together create the space in a text (by means of lexical references and typical semantic-syntactic roles) acquire features that disrupt conceptual categorization and due to their multiple functions reinforce the interpretative projects constructed by the reader. Each individual phenomenon is illustrated with poems by renowned contemporary poets.
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Artykuł dotyczy problemu składni poetyckiej w wierszu wolnym rozpatrywanego w odniesieniu do zjawiska akomodacji. Analizowane tekstowe przypadki ujęć obiektów w tekstach poetyckich (a więc kategorii rzeczownikowych) pozwoliły na refleksję idącą dwutorowo: na poziomie elementów tworzących przestrzeń wiersza, czyli akomodacji tekstowej wersowych syntagm doraźnych, a także na poziomie obiektów mających swoje leksykalne (nominalne) wykładniki w tekście, czyli akomodacji składniowej. Akomodacja rozumiana jako adaptowanie do wymagań składniowych staje się w takim ujęciu mechanizmem metaforyzacji, dookreślenia i kontekstowego odświeżenia elementów leksykalnych. Przedmioty współtworzące w ten sposób przestrzeń w tekście (za sprawą leksykalnych odniesień i typowych ról semantyczno-składniowych) uzyskują cechy rozbijające kategorialność pojęciową i z racji wielości funkcji wzmacniają konstruowane przez odbiorcę projekty interpretacyjne. Szczegółowe zjawiska zilustrowane zostały wierszami uznanych poetów współczesnych.
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