The presented review concerns Krzysztof Siwczyk’s latest book of poetry. Jasnopis, published under the imprint of a5 publisher in 2016, refers to the subject matter that the poet has dealt with so far; however, clothing it a new, lighter, less complicated dress; following the current trends and at the same time resigning from all extravagance. The unpredictable world was closed in a quite predictable and tamed form. Yet, the present review focuses not only on the issues raised by the poems included in the volume, but also on the analysis of the poetic mechanisms employed by the author, the examination of the dialogue which Siwczyk establishes with other contemporary writers. Moreover, the reviewer attempts to situate the latest collection of the Silesian writer on the map of his previous poetic works.
The article attempts to familiarise the reader with Stanisław Barańczak’s poetic presentations of experiencing border and limit. It synthesises the set of various sorts of limits faced by the human from Barańczak’s poems. Moreover, the analyses and interpretations in the article aim to make evident the characteristic way in which the author of Surgical Precision (Chirurgiczna precyzja) presents the border between existence and eschatology and, more specifically, the way how Barańczak nullifies this border between dimensions in his poetry. His poems are not devoid of metaphors inspired by eschatological considerations and the functions these references serve are worth a closer look. Firstly, there are the most obvious sociopolitical connotations also used by the language of communist propaganda. The most important in the quoted poems, though, are the deliberate references to eschatology that expose the association mechanism and deconstruct the linguistic habits of a Christianity-based cultural circle. Using the ambiguity of specific words and images and creating metaphors based on eschatology-related phenomena, Barańczak familiarises the reader with death and negates the artificial duality of worlds. This is not, however, metaphysical poetry in a classic sense; it is poetry close to human existence and, above all, to all of the numerous fears accompanying people.
Dynamism of evolution – persistence of the humanities This text is devoted to the Anna Burzyńska’s book Deconstruction, politics and performatics, showing the philosophical transformation in the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Burzyńska has chosen specific way to describe these aspects of the field, although considerations apply to the mainly popular theory on the basis of literature, highlight extraordinary dynamism of this branch of knowledge and incredible speed of researchers’s responses to any signs of stagnation. She considerated the source of these transformations in Derrida’s deconstructive vision – of what I partly agree in this review, but also I have to notice signs of manipulation. Researcher shows, however, perhaps the most important aspect of the humanities, its extremely intense relationship with almost all areas of human existence, a great sensitivity of all philosophers facing contemporary challenges and the role of literary studies, in which it comes (come) to incorporate.
In this article, I analyze how enumeration functions in Kornhauser’s poetry, looking at the various stages of the poet’s life. Enumeration plays a number of roles in Kornhauser’s poetry. While, in a way, it “laminates” fragments of reality, it primarily attempts to extract things and memories from the past, retrieve them retroactively, albeit in an incomplete form. Inherently avant-garde and experimental, enumeration is meant to express the essence of the lyrical I. Drawing on Umberto Eco and Michel Foucault who (each in their own right) referred to the infinite possibilities of lists in their works, I analyze the different systems and functions of enumeration, and above all the ways in which Kornhauser uses enumeration in his works.
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W artykule analizuję sposób sfunkcjonalizowania enumeracji w poezji Juliana Kornhausera, przyglądając się różnym etapom twórczości poety. Enumeracja spełnia w tej poezji wiele zadań, stanowi swego rodzaju metodę „zalaminowania” elementów rzeczywistości, ale jest przede wszystkim próbą wydobycia rzeczy i wspomnień z przeszłości, retroaktywnego ich odzyskiwania, choć w niepełnej formie. To zdecydowanie rodzaj awangardowego z ducha eksperymentu, prowadzącego do uchwycenia tożsamości podmiotu. Podążając za myślą Umberto Eco czy Michela Foucaulta, którzy (każdy na swój sposób) w swoich pracach odnosili się do nieskończonych możliwości wykorzystania oraz różnych form wyliczenia, warto przyjrzeć się ich zróżnicowanym układom i funkcjom, a przede wszystkim sposobom, w jaki potencjał tego zabiegu wykorzystuje autor Za nas, z nami.
Expression „small towns” at the first moment is associated to us with pleasurable thoughts about comfortable life without any problems. That places are almost perfect, but in second opinion that kind of towns don’t really exist. That is only our imagination, stereotype, nice pictures from American movies. Senses not often wins with magic of stereotypes, but in literature sometimes appear some relists who are trying to find truth about world – in its ugly, unhappy face. The one of them is Andrzej Bursa, cold cursed poet – cynical critic of our everyday. In my paper I tried to oppose his vision of province against to his opinion about big cities, to show how original is his approach to the subject, and his battle with mendacity. The truth shown in poems – Town and Warsaw – Phantom – is unsightly and it doesn’t fit readers in a good mood, but it is the highest, unfortunately steel exotic, value. According to Bursa good side of ugliness is authenticity which we can find in small towns. Big cities attract us, but there is a trap - they aren’t real. It is a reference to Boudiliard’s theory about reality and simulations. Man from Bursa’s lines have to choose between life in kind of dream in the city and realistic, ugly province. Both of them pose obstacles and have some good and bad sides, but they are only opposition to nothingness, which is the biggest fear for modern people.
The aim of the article is to analyze and attempt to classify two juvenile texts by Julian Kornhauser which refer to painting works – Martwa natura z kompotierką (Bernard Buffet) and Guernica (Pablo Picasso). By delving into the works of the author of Origami, it is worth devoting a moment of attention to the images, as painting remains an extremely important source of reference for this work. However, the selected examples for analysis do not fit within the definitional framework of ekphrasis or hypotyposis. Importantly, the analysis of the selected texts also leads to the discovery of poetic connections between Kornhauser and surrealism, mainly in the Bretonian edition, thus allowing for the identification of interpretative sign posts that prove to be extremely helpful while reading subsequent, especially those published in the 1970s, poems and novels by the author of Zjadacze kartofli. The interpretation of juvenile poems therefore justifies the search in this work not only for experiments that elude methodological delimitations but also serves as evidence of correlations between Kornhauser’s poetry and avant-garde poetics.
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Celem artykułu jest analiza oraz próba zaklasyfikowania dwóch juwenilnych tekstów Juliana Kornhausera – Martwa natura z kompotierką (Bernard Buffet) oraz Guernica (Pablo Picasso) – które nawiązują do dzieł malarskich. Właśnie obrazom w twórczości autora Origami warto poświęcić chwilę uwagi, malarstwo pozostaje bowiem niezwykle ważnym źródłem odniesień tekstów Kornhausera. Wybrane do analizy przykłady nie mieszczą się jednak w definicyjnych ramach ekfrazy czy hypotypozy. Co ważne, prowadzą do odkrycia poetyckich powiązań Kornhausera z surrealizmem, głównie w wydaniu Bretonowskim, pozwalają więc na odnalezienie drogowskazów interpretacyjnych, które okazują się niezwykle pomocne w trakcie lektury kolejnych, zwłaszcza publikowanych w latach siedemdziesiątych, wierszy i powieści autora Zjadaczy kartofli. Interpretacja wierszy juwenilnych uprawnia więc do poszukiwania w tej twórczości eksperymentów, które nie tylko wymykają się metodologicznym dookreśleniom, lecz także stanowią dowód na korelacje poezji Kornhausera z poetykami awangardowymi.
The contemporary humanities are facing another crisis and need to take up a significant task – through education and critical reading of texts, the humanities have to clarify not only the understanding of such categories as anthropocene, capitalocene, and ecopoetics, or ecocriticism, but also create an active change in thinking and acting. The present article is an attempt at undertaking those challenges by reading into the above-mentioned threads in contemporary literature and trying to propose solutions that would make students sensitive to the content of nature. I discuss reading strategies and interpretation models that include such mechanism of reading literary texts in which ecologically engaged literature influences the perception and understanding of the world around us, thereby becoming literature participating in social processes.
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Współczesna humanistyka stoi w obliczu kolejnego kryzysu, w związku z tym musi sprostać istotnemu wyzwaniu. Poprzez edukację i krytyczną lekturę tekstów powinna dookreślić rozumienie kategorii takich jak: „antropocen”, „kapitałocen”, „ekopoetyka” czy „ekokrytyka”, ale także kreować aktywną zmianę myślenia oraz działania. W artykule podjęto próbę odczytania wątków ekologicznych we współczesnej literaturze i zaproponowano rozwiązania pozwalające uwrażliwić uczniów na treści przyrodnicze. Omówiono strategie lekturowe i modele interpretacyjne, obejmujące taki mechanizm czytania tekstów literackich, w którym literatura zaangażowana ekologicznie wpływa na postrzeganie i rozumienie otaczającego nas świata, przez co staje się literaturą uczestniczącą w procesach społecznych.
This article examines the influence of avant-garde poetics on the poetry of one of the representatives of the New Wave - Julian Kornhauser. The text consists of two main parts. The first part explores how the creators of the New Wave perceived the avant-garde and what they aimed to achieve, and provides definitions of the avant-garde as an aesthetic phenomenon to broaden the research perspective and specify the correlation between the poetry of the New Wave and the historical avant-garde. The second part of the sketch consists of a collection of microanalyses of Julian Kornhauser’s poetic texts, which refer to avant-garde linguistic and aesthetic experiments. In the selected poems, we find, beyond intertextual references, plays with the works of Rilke, the Futurists, or Miron Białoszewski. This compilation aims to help answer whether (and to what extent) Julian Kornhauser is a post/neo-avant-garde poet. It also highlights the broad circles of cultural dialogues, which this creativity invites us to follow. This part also demonstrates the variety of forms of these references - from cryptic quotations through imitation (parody) of poetics to giving avant-garde poetic experiments new semantic and formal qualities. Julian Kornhauser appears as a descendant of the avant-garde - conscious of its power, constant presence, variability, and the impossibility of many of its demands. He is its disobedient ward, using its demands only partially, reshaping their original form. The avant-gardism of Kornhauser’s poetry, or rather, the inevitability, or, as Jan Sowa wrote, the persistence of the avant-garde, is manifested primarily at the intersection of poetry (prose) and reality, creating a new quality that allows for their correlation and coexistence.
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