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Nowoczesne czytanie Leśmiana

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The text discusses critically the analyses of Leśmian’s poems carried out by Markowski in his Polska literatura nowoczesna [Polish modern literature]. The critical evaluation focuses on the following four key assumptions (and convictions) presented by Markowski: 1. literature is an epistemological and educational task that aims at promoting and teaching critical thinking; 2. the history of literature involves permanent re-rendering of interpretative techniques; 3. literary text is ambiguous because it cannot be generalized and is a record of human experience, both existentialist and intellectual; 4. interpretation should testify to the idiomatic nature of the text. In the course of reading the book, however, it turns out that on more than one occassion Markowski is inconsistent and even contradicts himself. As a result, he lays himself open to charges suggesting that he does not consistently stick to his methodological postulates, sometimes even contradicting them. The article is concluded with a suggestion that the image of the literary critic as a diligent deconstructionist is badly shaken. Markowski is more interested in philosophical aspects in a literary work than in its aesthetical value. The text represents thus a revisionist and debunking contribution to the readings of this “harbinger of postmodernity”.
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Bonda i storytelling

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This text is a commentary on Katarzyna Bonda’s book “Typewriter: A Course in Creative Writing.” The well-known writer’s book is offered here as an example of an inspiring textbook of operational knowledge for literary criticism as an alternative to typical academic knowledge. These reflections ultimately lead to a definition of storytelling (the art of designing engaging narrative) and a proposal to conceive of this practice as a discipline within literary criticism that has tremendous pragmatic and creative potential.
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Tekst stanowi komentarz do książki Katarzyny Bondy Maszyna do pisania. Kurs kreatywnego pisania. Praca znanej pisarski jest tu przedstawiona jako przykład inspirującego podręcznika z zakresu literaturoznawczej wiedzy operacyjnej skonfrontowanej z typową wiedzą akademicką. Punktem dojścia rozważań jest definicja storytellingu (sztuka projektowania angażujących opowieści) oraz propozycja wyodrębnienia go jako dziedziny literaturoznawczej o bardzo praktycznym i twórczym potencjale.
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Michał LarekDepartment of Modern Literature and Culture Institute of Polish Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland McLuhan. Another Literary History The author of the present article revisits McLuhan’s important, albeit rarely discussed, 1962 monograph The Gutenberg Galaxy. The Making of Typographic Man, in which the father of contemporary media studies manifests himself as a literary scholar, a historian of culture and a critic of the philosophical tradition of the West. Larek re-traces the scholar’s reflection upon the impact of the civilizational transformation triggered by the invention of print not only in terms of the “literary” consequences of the birth of the idea of mechanical reproduction, but – more importantly – in terms of the change in the self-awareness of the western man. The Gutenberg Galaxy is thus an “antibook” by means of which McLuhan plays with – and challenges – patterns of thinking formed as a result of the birth of the new medium, indicating that Gutenberg’s invention has degraded awareness subjugating it to the discipline of the social machinery, whose directives it automatically carries out. Gutenberg’s man is a creator whose most important text-generating tool is montage; yet, the above notwithstanding, the reader’s interaction with a printed page, which gave birth to new formulas of philosophical doubting, underlies the evolution of contemporary criticism. Thus oriented, McLuhan’s alternative literary history avoids interpretation: pragmatic and technologically inclined, such a history understands a text as a material entity, which impacts humankind in more ways than the hermeneutic tradition of literary scholarship would be ready to admit.Keywords: McLuhan, Gutenberg, criticism, awareness, non-hermeneutic literary history
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Michał LarekZakład Literatury i Kultury Nowoczesnej Instytut Filologii PolskiejUniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu McLuhan. Another Literary HistoryThe author of the present article revisits McLuhan’s important, albeit rarely discussed, 1962 monograph The Gutenberg Galaxy. The Making of Typographic Man, in which the father of contemporary media studies manifests himself as a literary scholar, a historian of culture and a critic of the philosophical tradition of the West. Larek re-traces the scholar’s reflection upon the impact of the civilizational transformation triggered by the invention of print not only in terms of the “literary” consequences of the birth of the idea of mechanical reproduction, but – more importantly – in terms of the change in the self-awareness of the western man. The Gutenberg Galaxy is thus an “antibook” by means of which McLuhan plays with – and challenges – patterns of thinking formed as a result of the birth of the new medium, indicating that Gutenberg’s invention has degraded awareness subjugating it to the discipline of the social machinery, whose directives it automatically carries out. Gutenberg’s man is a creator whose most important text-generating tool is montage; yet, the above notwithstanding, the reader’s interaction with a printed page, which gave birth to new formulas of philosophical doubting, underlies the evolution of contemporary criticism. Thus oriented, McLuhan’s alternative literary history avoids interpretation: pragmatic and technologically inclined, such a history understands a text as a material entity, which impacts humankind in more ways than the hermeneutic tradition of literary scholarship would be ready to admit. Keywords: McLuhan, Gutenberg, criticism, awareness, non-hermeneutic literary history
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