The notions of inter- and transdisciplinarity represent categories which the humanities frequently resort to in the discourse, but which remain difficult to define. The attempts to do so are most often associated with subscribing to one of the possible models of interpreting relationships between individual disciplines of science. Mieke Bal’s concept of transdisciplinarity, which this paper discusses, envisages a framework where the privileged form of formulating scientific concepts would be in research practice that is rooted not only in the methodologies of individual sciences but most of all in the everyday practices and experiences.
Celem tego artykułu jest próba określenia czy, i w jakim stopniu, koncepcja pamięci kulturowej może być przydatnym narzędziem analizy literatury. Omówienie sposobów funkcjonowania kategorii pamięci kulturowej w literaturze (m.in. koncepcji Aleidy Assmann i Astrid Erll) jest punktem wyjścia dla prób określenia, jak można zdefiniować takie kategorie, jak pamięć literatury oraz poetyka pamięci. Perspektywa badań nad poetyką pamięci, mimo że stanowi nową dziedzinę nauki, daje szansę na wywikłanie się z opozycji podporządkowywania albo namysłu nad pamięcią kulturową literaturoznawstwu, albo literaturoznawstwa – koncepcjom memory studies. Spojrzenie na relacje między tekstem literackim a pamięcią kulturową z punktu widzenia poetyki pamięci może prowadzić do najbardziej interesujących poznawczo rezultatów, zdolnych do wzbogacenia zarówno dyskursu literaturoznawczego, jak i pamięciologicznego.
EN
The aim of the article is an attempt to assess whether, and to what extent, the concept of cultural memory can be a useful instrument in literature analysis. Discussion of the ways the category of cultural memory functions in literature (e.g. the concepts of Aleida Assmann and Astrid Erll) is a starting point to determine how such categories as memory of literature and poetics of memory can be described. The perspective of poetics of memory research, in spite of being a new field of study, offers a chance to disentangle from the opposition of subordination to either reflection about cultural memory in literature studies or to the literary studies concepts of memory studies. Scrutiny of the relationships between a literary text and cultural memory from the view point of poetics of memory may lead to cognitively most interesting results, capable of enriching both literary studies and memory studies discourses.
The article discusses the topic of academic writing and describes the requirements set for scholarly books, and especially those in the humanities, starting off with a thought experiment, in which an attempt is made to describe the “ideal” scholarly and academic book. The aim of the article is to not only describe the contrary requirements set for scholarly books (and the techniques implemented in order to avoid said contrary requirements, including the method of double coding) but also to defend the diversity of academic forms of expression, inclusive of the forms which have been traditionally seen as inaccessible for the reader from outside of academic circles.
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Artykuł podejmuje temat pisarstwa akademickiego i wychodząc od eksperymentu myślowego, polegającego na próbie opisania „idealnej książki” naukowej oraz akademickiej, opisuje wymagania stawiane książkom naukowym, zwłaszcza humanistycznym. Celem tekstu jest nie tylko opisanie sprzecznych wymagań, stawianych książkom naukowym (oraz technik omijania tychże sprzeczności, między innymi przez techniki podwójnego kodowania), lecz również obrona różnorodności akademickich form wypowiedzi, także tych tradycyjnie uważanych za niezbyt przystępne dla czytelnika spoza kręgów uniwersyteckich.
This article attempts to answer the question of whether we can describe contemporary poetry as avant-garde? The author recognizes problems associated with defining the avant-garde as a historical phenomenon and proposes - resorting to Marjorie Perloff ’s concepts - a new way of interpreting contemporary poetry as an arrière-garde reconstruction of avant-garde poetics. The oeuvre of Andrzej Sosnowski is analyzed as an interesting example of how the strategy of unoriginality can be incorporated into a new model of arrière-garde poetics.
This article critically analyses the relationship between such notions as affect, emotions, and feelings. The author attempts to demonstrate that the retreat from using the category of emotions in the humanities, affective studies are partly responsible, seems premature. Therefore, this article proposes an interpretation of emotions not as isolated phenomena, but as processes that endure, evolve and seamlessly go through various stages.
The starting point of the article is an analysis of the volume PL+50 (2004), edited by Jacek Dukaj and the short stories by Łukasz Orbitowski: Nadchodzi and Popiel Armeńczyk (2017). The interpretation of those alternate stories is used as a point of departure for posing a broader question regarding the social and cultural functions of constructing a coherent imaginations regarding the future. Particular attention is paid to the dominance of negative visions of the future and the dangers of describing what is yet to come in overly optimistic colors. The article combines the methodology arising from the analysis of alternative histories, affect studies and memory studies to indicate that theory of premediation (Richard Grusin, 2010) can be especially useful in order to explain the positive social impact of negative visions of the future. Premediating threatening future can be – as indicated for example by B. Hirst and M. Topcu – the first step towards improving the present.
This paper discusses the problem of how short-range literatures function within the system of world literature. The aim of the text is to show that too optimistic assumptions about the dynamics of world literature circulation and failure to recognise strong competition within this system may translate into further marginalisation of shortrange literatures and/or too much globalisation of literature.
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