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Literární kánon: modely (dis)kontinuity

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Müller R.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2007

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vol. 55

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issue 2

167-179

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This article, preceding Guillory’s essay on the literary canon, among other things, recapitulates the fundamental points of the discussion about the canon to date. The author outlines the basic types of canons (such as local, international, and feminist), and discusses important theories from the English-speaking world which are concerned with the literary canon (for example, those by Frank Kermode, William V. Harris, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Charles Altieri, and Harold Bloom). He brings up the thought-provoking inquiries of Michel Foucault and the “new historians” who follow on from him. He points out the lack of objectivity of the canon and its obvious dependence on the time it was formed.

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A Vicious Circle: How Canon Continues to Reinforce Sex Segregation in Literature in the 21st century

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Miernik M.

Acta Philologica

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2015

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issue 47

85-96

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Artykuł omawia sposób, w jaki podział na literaturę męską i kobiecą jest podtrzymywany w kanonie literatury anglosaskiej w XXI w. Literatura kobieca jest nadal postrzegana jako gorsza i wtórna w stosunku do literatury pisanej przez mężczyzn i dla mężczyzn oraz powszechnie klasyfikowana jako literatura popularna. Artykuł podaje przykłady takiej redukcjonistycznej krytyki, dokonuje statystycznego przeglądu obecności kobiet na listach mających ustanawiać „najlepsze” powieści w historii bądź w XX wieku i analizuje częstotliwość kategoryzowania pisarzy w Wikipedii pod kątem płci.

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This article demonstrates how sex segregation is still present in the canon of Western literature in the 21st century. It draws on the historical roots of the belief that male literature is qualitatively better than female literature and analyzes the various ways in which this view is reproduced by the canon and canon formation itself. The argument is based on a statistical survey of several lists trying to present the “best novel” or “works of fiction” that were published around the turn of the millennium, both those prepared by readers as well as by critics and authors, and it takes note of the tendency of people from the literary establishment to neglect female authorship. A survey of how male and female authors are categorized on the Wikipedia is also included. The article then focuses on such problematic issues as dismissing works written by women as popular and the role the publishing industry plays in this practice.

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Beyond the Canon: Second Looks at Oft-Neglected Books

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Palmer K. S.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2013

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issue 1

95-97

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Editorial: introducing the "Beyond the Canon" section in Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies.

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(De)kanonizujące wymiary powiastki filozoficznej. Casus Jerzego Szaniawskiego

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Starachowicz K.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2013

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vol. 1

48-63

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The article is an attempt of describing the relation of a philosophical tale as a genre to the canon. It is characterized as (de)canonization: on the one hand the story fights with the existing canon by means of satire, on the other – by such negative references and ironically using the satire against itself – builds it. Such ambivalence, hidden in the structure of realizing the genre – which was shown on the example of stories by Jerzy Szaniawski – is inscribed into the author’s attitude – hermeneutic openness and supporting soft truths.

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Biblia na tle pism sakralnych ludów ościennych

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Stanek T.

Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne

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2010

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issue 24

7-22

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Comparative studies of the Bible and the sacred texts of adjacent nations have a rich tradition, but research generally focuses on comparing passages of the biblical text with adequate sacral texts of adjacent nations. However, this approach involves two problems: 1* difference of religious status - the Bible is a living reality, whereas the sacral texts of other ancient nations of the Near East are only relics; 2* form of the writings - the Bible is a uniform work, modified by the conscious acts of communities of faith while the writings of adjacent nations survive to our times only in fragments. The article takes off from a different comparatistic conception. My primary concern is not so much to bring out the similarities or discrepancies between Bible passages and adequate sacral texts of adjacent nations but rather to show the whole canon of the holy scriptures of Israel against the backdrop of the sacred writings of the Region. The comparison is built on two assumptions: 1 * origin and usage; 2* addressee of the text. Therefore, it does not refer to the question of literary genres but first and foremost to the dependencies between the text and the community.

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POLSKIE TŁUMACZKI POZA KANONEM. KILKA UWAG NA TEMAT ZAPOMNIANEGO PRZEKŁADU BIESÓW FIODORA DOSTOJEWSKIEGO

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Pytlak M.

Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ

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2010

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issue 2(24)

159-173

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Despite the growing interest in women’s writing, women translators and their achievements are rarely discussed. The article focuses on mechanisms behind the exclusion of women’s writing from literary history and examines the social status of three women translators as contributing to their invisibility. Dora Gabe, Slava Shtiplieva and Anastasia Gancheva were co-workers at Polish-Bulgarian Review. Each developed a different strategy to cope with the unfavorable intellectual climate of interwar Bulgaria. Their biographies show the connections between marital and social status of a woman writer and the esteem of her works. They also conﬁrm the claim that translating, instead of writing, was thought to be more appropriate for women because of the low position translation occupied in the hierarchy of artistic occupations.

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Efekt przełomu, czyli czy rozmowy o kanonie mają sens

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Pięta I.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2013

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vol. 1

116-127

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The article discusses the existence and functioning of the notion of canon in the social consciousness after 1989 in the context of Polish prose of the last twenty years. It points to two semantic circles connected with this notion: the first circle refers to literature and culture of the nation deeply rooted in tradition and confined in the past. The second circle is of polysemous character and refers to the contemporary literature and culture. The deliberations concentrate on the second semantic circle as the notion of national literature, the necessity of its existence in the nation and passing it to the next generations are undisputable. In the Polish culture after 1989, the notion of canons appears more often than the notion of a canon. The notion refers to phenomena that frequently exist on the border of literature, culture, and social life. For those phenomena, it builds canonical sets of texts defined and perceived as important and constitutive for their authors, and obligatory for their recipients. It becomes the vehicle for new literary qualities at the level of formal, thematic and problematic transformations. It is also a phenomenon that functions in the space of a particular culture and tradition with which it evolves.

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Harold Bloom’s Concern and “The Touch” that Always Does Wonders

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Memmedova B.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2017

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vol. 41

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issue 1

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Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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This paper deals with the current debates as whether literary canon or classical works are destined to fall into oblivion or survive. The American literary critic Harold Bloom is very pessimistic about the future of literary studies and teaching literature as a whole. In his books, he makes elegiac conclusions about the Departments of English Language and Literature, which are likely to be renamed into the departments of Cultural Studies. His another concern is the literary “isms” and “ologies” which he considers to be destroying literature. The paper also focuses on the nature of reading and its various impacts on the reader, and its significance for literature students. The aim of the paper is to show that despite some grain of truth in Bloom’s writings as regards lack of aesthetic value of literary works in the postmodernist period when popular culture has taken over the canon works, there is no reason to worry about the present state of literary studies and literary criticism.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

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Sir Ernst Gombrich and the Barber from Tuscany

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Lang K.

Human Affairs

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2009

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vol. 19

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issue 3

259-265

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In the spirit of Sir Ernst Gombrich, this essay uses an anecdote-a chat between Gombrich and a barber from Tuscany-to illustrate a deeper point, namely, how cultural memory, tradition, and a canon give rise to an implied language of culture and cultural value. Gombrich staunchly defended tradition against relativism. By relativism, he meant something like "radical subjectivism." To his mind, subjectivism (in the cultural and social sense of the term) is not only impossible, since meaning is conferred through culture and society, but it is also dangerous (in the cultural and ethical sense of the term), since it denies the existence of shared values. Against consensus on the one hand and radical subjectivism on the other, Gombrich advocated a middle way: criticism and self-criticism to ensure latitude; the search for "truth" to ensure a limited plurality of interpretations.

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Witaj w klubie AIDS. Cenzura i kanon wobec nienormatywności na przykładzie wystaw „5000 sztuk” i „Ja i AIDS”

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Sosnowska D.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2022

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issue 172

112-138

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The paper reflects on the censorship after 1989 in the context of its ability to create and paradoxically legitimise the otherness. As an example the author uses Polish imagery around the HIV/AIDS epidemics with special focus on two artistic exhibitions from the early 1990s with the epidemic as the subject. One of them was quite successful, but it is forgotten today; the other is remembered to this day and often mentioned in the context of 1990s art even though it was censored back then. Showing the relations between censorship and discourses of otherness the paper reflects on different political possibilities inscribed in the history of transition.

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Constructing the canon: exhibiting contemporary Polish art abroad in the Cold War era

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Majewski P.

Ikonotheka

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2020

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vol. 30

135-153

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The article focuses on the attempts of constructing and presenting the canon of Polish modern and contemporary art in the West after World War II. Initially, the leading role was played by Colourists – painters representing the tradition of Post-Impressionism. After 1956 the focus shifted towards artists who drew in their practice on tachisme and informel. However, the most enduring effects brought the consistent promotion of the interwar Polish Constructivism and its postwar followers. The article discusses the subsequent stages of this process, from the famous exhibition at the Paris Galerie Denise René in 1957, through exhibitions such as Peinture moderne polonaise. Sources et recherches (Modern Polish Painting. Sources and Experiments) from the late 1960s, up to the monumental Présences polonaises (Polish Presences) from 1983 (both in Paris), showing that these efforts contributed to securing a permanent position of Polish Constructivism within the global heritage of 20th-century art.

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The Myth-Shaping Power of a Past Vision of the Future

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György V. I.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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2014

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vol. 5

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issue 2

185-202

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The creation of an era itself, as rhetoric of time, creates the otherness from which it builds up its own borders. Thus the creation of an era goes hand in hand with identity formation. The beginning of the 20th century, as the boundary of an era, appears as such a self-reflective moment in the life of Târgu Mureş. The study aims at presenting the social, economic and cultural changes of this period, notably the time when György Bernády was the mayor, the most significant period of urbanization of the town, the moment of the conscious designation of the above mentioned boundary of an era. It makes an attempt to grasp the beginning of the powerful personality cult of the former mayor; it analyzes those strategies of canonization and discourses that have played a key role in the process of the myth-formation of the hero and its time. In this era the process of György Bernády’s raising to the status of a cultural hero took place. The articles, which appeared in the local press, give a clear-cut image about what kind of judgements and appreciations have developed about the city and its councillor, as well as the infrastructural and cultural development

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Death as a global annihilation of life in the perspective of Hans Jonas’s ethics of responsibility

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Pucko Z.

Progress in Health Sciences

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2019

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vol. 2

43-47

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The phenomenon of death is an issue which was very frequent in philosophy. However, almost all reflections on this subject were usually from the anthropocentric perspective. In the cognitive horizon, for example, the issue of the essence of death was investigated, human helplessness was discussed in its face, models of existential attitude towards inevitability were constructed. This anthropocentric attitude changed only in the second half of the twentieth century in the result of the ecological crisis. From then on, in the philosophical debate, not only is discussed the death of a man but also death in the sense of total annihilation of life on Earth. According to the concept of global death, the passing ceases to be accidental. It loses connotations close to the metaphor of further life. It also ceases to be identical with the cosmic metamorphosis. Instead, it becomes a synonym of evil, which delivers the final blow to everything that lives in the biosphere. In this vision, one can grasp death cognitively and oppose its physical abandonment. Man, regarding global death, can remain a causative agent. One of the philosophical versions of stopping the invasion of death was proposed by Hans Jonas. He called his strategy the ethics of responsibility. Fear heuristics, new axiology and the ideal of human attitudes play a key role in it.

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Dramatopisarki w «republice braci»: Komu potrzebna jest (i jaka) kobieca historia polskiego teatru?

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Świerkosz M.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

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2020

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issue 3(275)

183-198

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This article discusses the results of the HyPaTia research project in the feminist history of the theatre, situating it in the wider context of the phenomenon of women’s history, as practiced since the 1970s. The author investigates the revisionist character of the project’s dialogue with the canon and the constructive gesture of (re)creation of a women’s history of Polish theatre. Through the figures of “Shakespeare’s sister” and “Hypatia’s sisters”, attention is drawn to the specific entanglement of the life and work of female playwrights in a patriarchal framework (referred to as the “republic of brothers”), problematizing the understanding of women’s empowerment as liberation from male oppression or escape into the margins.

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Discursive Power: On Canon, Language, and Music as Dispositif

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Ris V.

Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ

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2019

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issue 2(41)

5-22

EN

This essay aims to interconnect the aspects of canon, cultural musicology, music and language with the systematic category of dispositif. In a short overview on the disciplinary canon debate, the essay describes the idea of a musical canon and questions its methodological status in musicology. The conclusion is that (aesthetic) value judgements are to be rejected as scientific (consequently rational or intersubjectively reasonable) selection criteria. The second argument draws on Lawrence Kramer’s notion of “constructive description”, which addresses the relation of music and language and helps in understanding the canon as a specific historical agency of different overlapping discourses. In order to outline an integrative ontology for the epistemological interest of cultural musicology, the last section synthesises these arguments in the Foucauldian idea of dispositif.

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The Transformations Of The Novelistic Canon: The Comparison Of Daniel Defoe’s And Penelope Aubin’s Dedication To Truth And Virtue

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Maciulewicz J.

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 49

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issue 4

55-62

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The aim of the article is to discuss the evolution of the concept of the literary canon in the context of eighteenth-century fiction. The concept of the literary canon has been traditionally associated with timeless, universal values which transcend the ideological conditions of the period in which texts are created. In present criticism, which is shaped by cultural studies, the association of a canon with universality has been challenged. A canon has been recognised by cultural critics as an instrument of an ideological power struggle which presents the values of dominant social groups as universal. The analysis of novels written by Penelope Aubin and Daniel Defoe at the beginning of the eighteenth century demonstrates that the study of literature only from an ideological viewpoint does not account for the workings of the literary canon. Both Aubin and Defoe employ the same formula of fiction, adventure story with a moral commentary, but while Defoe’s fiction has survived in literary histories, Aubin’s stories, after their initial success, fell into oblivion and have been rediscovered only recently by feminist critics. The varying fates of Aubin’s and Defoe’s fiction point to the insufficiency of the definition of canon which binds literary value too strongly with ideology.

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Optional Materials of the Printed Liturgiarion [in the Light of Selected Examples from the Kyiv Metropolitanate in the 16th and 17th Century]

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Nowak A. Z.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2018

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issue 14

PL

In 16th–17th-century’s liturgical books one can find numerous additions regarded as redundant and optional. These paratextual elements are: verbal (e.g., prefaces, dedicational verses or letters, afterwords, introductions), iconic (schemas, illustrations) and both combined. Unnecessary materials in printed liturgiarions apart from the above-mentioned are: teachings of Jan Chrysostom, Basil the Great and Gregory Dialogos – the authors of Divine Liturgy and the short eulogistic compositions about Church Fathers, sometimes accompanied by their images. These additional elements are great evidence of development of liturgical practice, documents certifying intellectual level of Ruthenian clergy and renovating ambitions of hierarchy. For this reason, they should be widely considered as worthy sources in the study about religion reform in the Metropolitanate of Kiev and of a church culture in old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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The Curricular Canon of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature at Polish Universities

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Drąg W.

Anglica Wratislaviensia

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2018

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issue 56

45 - 56

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In 2007 Philip Tew and Mark Addis released Final Report: Survey on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, whose aim was to establish the most popular authors and works as taught by academics at British universities. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a similar survey, which examines the reading lists of British and Irish literature courses offered in the English departments of chosen Polish universities (in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław, Opole and Kraków). A discussion of the results — most commonly taught writers and texts — is accompanied by an analysis (based on an online survey) of the lecturers’ motivations behind including certain texts and omitting others. I will argue that whereas the teaching canon of modernist texts appears fixed (all the reading lists include works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot), the canon of post-war and contemporary literature is yet to emerge. I shall also assert the appearance of the so called “canon lag” and review the selection criteria for the inclusion of canonical texts. The article concludes with a consideration of the texts that appear most likely to join the curricular canons at Polish universities in the near future. All the discussions are set in the context of critical contributions to the study of canonicity made by Harold Bloom, Nick Bentley, Dominic Head and others.

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Kanon szkolny i akademicki

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Gorczyński M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2017

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vol. 5

37-47

PL

School and academic canon In this paper author considers the question, how literary canon is created and used in education. The answer is based on four points which are: 1) history of the nation, 2) identity of the reader – canon’s receiver, 3) rules of literature’s theory and 4) authority of the educational institutions and the people involved.

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The Canon – (Im)movables

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Kozicka D.

Forum Poetyki

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2022

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issue 28-29

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This article discusses the concept of the canon in Polish literary criticism in the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. The author discusses contemporary social and critical debates and different definitions of the canon employed in them and shows the contexts and repercussions of redefending (disassembling, reconstructing) the literary canon. Bearing in mind the fundamental fact that the understanding of the canon translates into the way of thinking about literature and the role /obligations/possibilities of literary criticism, she analyzes both the goals and the ways in which the concept of the canon is used. She also analyzes the circumstances in which the canon, as a point of reference, was replaced in discussions and texts devoted to literary hierarchies and/or literary criticism by the mainstream and other categories which were better suited to describe the heteronomous nature of the literary field.

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W artykule podjęto rozważania na temat pojęcia kanonu w praktyce krytycznoliterackiej ostatniego trzydziestolecia. Odwołując się do toczących się wówczas debat społecznych i krytycznych oraz do używanych w nich różnych definicji kanonu, autorka pokazuje konteksty i reperkusje jego poruszenia (demontażu, rekonstrukcji). Nie tracąc z oczu zasadniczego faktu, że rozumienie kanonu przekłada się na sposób myślenia o literaturze oraz roli/powinnościach/możliwościach krytyki literackiej, analizuje zarówno cele, jak i sposoby używania tego pojęcia. A także okoliczności, w których w dyskusjach i tekstach krytycznych, podejmujących problematykę wartościowania, literackich hierarchii czy zadań krytyki, miejsce kanonu jako punktu odniesienia przejął mainstream i inne kategorie, bardziej adekwatne do heteronomicznego charakteru pola literackiego.

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Literární kánon: modely (dis)kontinuity

A Vicious Circle: How Canon Continues to Reinforce Sex Segregation in Literature in the 21st century

Beyond the Canon: Second Looks at Oft-Neglected Books

(De)kanonizujące wymiary powiastki filozoficznej. Casus Jerzego Szaniawskiego

Biblia na tle pism sakralnych ludów ościennych

POLSKIE TŁUMACZKI POZA KANONEM. KILKA UWAG NA TEMAT ZAPOMNIANEGO PRZEKŁADU BIESÓW FIODORA DOSTOJEWSKIEGO

Efekt przełomu, czyli czy rozmowy o kanonie mają sens

Harold Bloom’s Concern and “The Touch” that Always Does Wonders

Sir Ernst Gombrich and the Barber from Tuscany

Witaj w klubie AIDS. Cenzura i kanon wobec nienormatywności na przykładzie wystaw „5000 sztuk” i „Ja i AIDS”