Professor Stanisław Jaworski, the prominent literary theoretician and historian, literary critic, poet, worker of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University and the long-time member of the editorial board and editor-in-chief of “Ruch Literacki” died on 15th July 2018.
An increased interest in space in the humanities can be referred to as a spatial, topographic or topological shift. This article is an attempt at organizing these concepts and defining the fundamental differences between them. Based on the findings of European and American researchers (including Edward Soja, Sigrid Weigel, Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, and Joseph Hillis Miller) and a Polish literary scholar (Elizabeth Rybicka), the author tries to distinguish, and define the relationship, between spatial, topographic and topological shifts. This article was inspired by the terminological chaos in the Polish humanities.
This article is a review of the book by Ryszard Koziołek entitled Dobrze się myśli literaturą (Literature is a good way of thinking). This publication is a collection of essays in which the literary expert considers the essence of contemporary reading. Koziołek pays special attention to emotions accompanying reading – bot the latest literature and the books considered to be classic ones. He indicates that literature is a special kind of continuity which can be analyzed through the prism of many fields of science, among others, economics or psychology.
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