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Spór o interpretację w literaturoznawstwie – nie taki radykalny, jak go malują

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Tarkowski K.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2017

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issue 28

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This review of Tomasz Szymon Markiewka’s book, entitled Interpretation Argument in Literary Studies. Analysis of Selected Theoretical Conceptions of 20th Century, focuses on reconstruction of its main theses, as well as on evaluate their methodological aspects. The first part deals with theoretical issues, mainly of terminological decisions and relation between the literature studies and philosophy. Next, article assesses the pros and cons of the main part of the book, which contains analysis of five selected theorists’ ideas of interpretation. The final part of the review raises the issue of the method of interpretation literary texts.

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Poetics Then and Now

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Kostkiewiczowa T.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2020

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issue 1

31-42

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The meaning of the word “poetics,” as derived from Aristotle’s understanding given in Poetics, points to the ways of creating verbal works, their components and connections as well as the formation of utterances. Poetics presents a fundamental set of terms referring to a literary work, which are still used and, in fact, are indispensable in all areas of contemporary literary, as well as cultural studies. Due to the changes in the field of literature itself, this set of terms and notions is constantly being updated, and it is still open in terms of both its components and their senses. It constitutes a conceptual framework, some elements of which are universal and operational in nature, and some connected with a particular cognitive horizon and a certain way of perceiving and understanding literature. Poetics is not a permanent theoretical model of literariness, nor is it a set of instructions determining theinterpretation of a literary work. It aims at establishing certain testable tools which are indispensable not only in literary studies, but also in studying all other forms having a semiotic content (intersemiotic poetics). For this reason, certain basic terms and notions applied in poetics can be seen as important epistemological categories through which the human mind perceives the world.

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Jak dospět k fikčním světům

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Doležel L.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2012

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vol. 60

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issue 3

323-336

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The quest for the basis of fiction and fictional literature belongs to the fundamental questions of literary theory and, ultimately, is connected to the inquiry into the very identity of (fictional) literature. There are multiple possible answers to these and similar questions. This study maps a concrete approach – a certain series of choices which it is necessary to make in order to arrive at one specific possibility of such fictional literature. A particular dichotomous linking of suggestions between which to choose originates from the most various areas of theoretical study (philosophy, logic, semiotics and so on) and presents concrete possibilities of conceptual and methodological approaches on the way to a consistent theory of fiction. One such consistent theory of fiction is the unique theory of fictional worlds whose ultimate form we gain after we have gone through the set of all proposed choices.

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Tázání po podstatě fikce a fikčnosti literatury patří k základním otázkám literární teorie a v konečném důsledku souvisí se zkoumáním samotné identity (fikční) literatury. Možných odpovědí na tyto a podobné otázky existuje vícero. Předkládaná studie mapuje konkrétní postup, jistou posloupnost voleb, které je nutné uskutečnit, aby nás dovedly k jedné specifické možnosti takové fikční teorie. Jednotlivé dichotomicky spárované návrhy, mezi nimiž je voleno, pocházejí z nejrůznějších oblastí teoretického bádání (filozofie, logika, sémiotika aj.) a představují konkrétní možnosti ideových a metodologických přístupů na cestě ke konzistentní teorii fikce. Takovou konzistentní teorii fikce splňuje jedinečná teorie fikčních světů, jejíž výsledný tvar získáváme poté, co jsme prošli množinou všech proponovaných voleb.

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Życie pośmiertne poetyki

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Korwin-Piotrowska D.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2013

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vol. 8

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issue 3

20-34

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The article presents the contemporary debates concerning poetics, the heritage of structuralism, as well as the new research areas. It compiles some of the fundamental arguments against poetics in its traditional sense, as well as attempts to analyse and problematise them. In its concluding part, the author postulates adopting a changed attitude towards the current terminology, including social aspects in the study of poetics, as well as maintaining a multidimensional development of the discipline.

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Artykuł stanowi omówienie współczesnych dyskusji, które toczą się wokół poetyki, dziedzictwa strukturalizmu oraz nowych kierunków badawczych. Stanowi zestawienie najważniejszych argumentów przeciw tradycyjnie pojmowanej poetyce – i próbę ich rozważenia oraz sproblematyzowania. Konkluzję stanowią propozycje dotyczące zmiany podejścia do zastanej terminologii, rozszerzenia zadań poetyki o aspekty praktyczne, a także zachowania wielotorowego rozwoju dziedziny.

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Antyk w prozie J. R. R. Tolkiena

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Piętka R.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2011

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vol. 21

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issue 1

95-117

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The article tends to analyse the problems concerning the reception of classical texts and ideas in twentieth century, using as an example the prose works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkiens’s oeuvre and its problematic relationships with classical tradition serve in this paper as an illustration of the diverse approaches, methods, and styles of lecture concerning the nature of literary allusivity. As a point of departure in the paper has been taken the reflection on the common phrase about “antiquity in something” deployed broadly in the reception studies. The questions raised here are as follows: what does precisely “in” mean in that metaphor? Or, to put in more general terms, when an allusion to another text can be treated as an inherent part of interpretation? Answer to these questions was possible due to Umberto Eco’s statements in the well-known dispute relating to the interpretation and overinterpretation; in conclusion the author was trying to show that Eco’s criterion of textual economy in interpretation justifies somehow (in author’s opinion) the new look on the essential Tolkien’s symbol, i.e. the ring of power, as a symbol of the Roman imperial rule. This means (in the context of the translatio imperii and cultural change from pagan to Christian empire) that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ can be seen in a way as a novelistic version of Augustine’s ‘The City of God’

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Siódma przechadzka po lesie fikcji. O książce „Między światami” Piotra Stasiewicza i badaniach nad fantastyką po zwrocie postmodernistycznym

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Maj K. M.

Creatio Fantastica

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2018

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issue 1(58)

191-212

EN

Reviewed book: Piotr Stasiewicz, Między światami. Intertekstualność i postmodernizm w literaturze fantasy, Białystok Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2016, ISBN 978-83-7431-494-7

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Zmieniający się kanon literatury amerykańskiej a kwestia amerykańskiej tożsamości: ponad pół wieku debat i kontrowersji

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Dobosiewicz I.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2017

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issue 35

EN

[for abstract in Polish, scroll down] Ilona DobosiewiczUniversity of OpoleThe Changing Canon of American Literatureand the Question of American Identity:Over Half a Century of Debate and ControversyAbstract: The article discusses the ways in which political and cultural revolution in the 1960s together with such social practices as university open admissions and affirmative action have changed the canon of American literature. It presents the factors that have led to the broadening of the canon and argues that the evolving canon of American literature no longer constructs a teleological meta-narrative of a unified tradition but instead reflects the ways in which multiple traditions and cultures engage in a dialog and influence one another.Keywords: literary theory, cultural theoryAbstrakt: Artykuł omawia zmiany jakie zachodziły w postrzeganiu pojęcia kanonu literatury amerykańskiej w wyniku rewolucji politycznej i obyczajowej lat sześćdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku oraz takich praktyk społecznych jak uniwersytecka polityka otwartych drzwi i akcja afirmatywna. Pokazje jakie czynniki doprowadziły do rozszerzenia kanonu i wskazuje, że obecny kanon literatury amerykańskiej nie konstruuje już teleologicznej meta-narracji dotyczącej jednolitej tradycji, ale pokazuje w jaki sposób różnorakie tradycje i kltury wchodzą ze sobą w dialog i wzajemnie na siebie oddziaływują.Słowa klucze: teoria literatury, teoria kultury

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[for abstract in Polish, scroll down] Ilona DobosiewiczUniversity of OpoleThe Changing Canon of American Literatureand the Question of American Identity:Over Half a Century of Debates and ControversiesAbstract: The article discusses the ways in which political and cultural revolution in the 1960s together with such social practices as university open admissions and affirmative action have changed the canon of American literature. It presents the factors that have led to the broadening of the canon and argues that the evolving canon of American literature no longer constructs a teleological meta-narrative of a unified tradition but instead reflects the ways in which multiple traditions and cultures engage in a dialog and influence one another.Keywords: literary theory, cultural theoryAbstrakt: Artykuł omawia zmiany jakie zachodziły w postrzeganiu pojęcia kanonu literatury amerykańskiej w wyniku rewolucji politycznej i obyczajowej lat sześćdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku oraz takich praktyk społecznych jak uniwersytecka polityka otwartych drzwi i akcja afirmatywna. Pokazje jakie czynniki doprowadziły do rozszerzenia kanonu i wskazuje, że obecny kanon literatury amerykańskiej nie konstruuje już teleologicznej meta-narracji dotyczącej jednolitej tradycji, ale pokazuje w jaki sposób różnorakie tradycje i kltury wchodzą ze sobą w dialog i wzajemnie na siebie oddziaływują.Słowa klucze: teoria literatury, teoria kultury

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Bezpieczna i pożyteczna kraina niedorosłości. Literatura dziecięca jako konstrukt

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Skowera M.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 7 "Pomiędzy dziećmi i dorosłymi. Przekraczanie granic w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży"

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The paper discusses children’s literature as a construction (re)produced by adults. The author refers to several questions raised about the meaning of this notion and its relationships with so-called adult literature, presents main scholarly theories on it, and shows that western image of this category of books relies on constructions of childhood. It is indicated that the dominant western construction of children’s literature as a “safe and useful land of immaturity” bases on two discourses, which organize the ways of understanding childhood in this cultural circle (not forgetting about particular national variants): the Romantic discourse and the discourse of tabula rasa. From this perspective, children’s literature can be seen as a result of adult fantasies, assumptions, desires, and rules. This construction, as the author argues, is being reproduced by children’s stories, which may repeat it in various modalities or, paradoxically, negate it.

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Antyczna filozofia i poezja: zły glina, dobry glina

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Wolski P.

Forum Poetyki

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2017

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issue 7

98-103

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The author discusses Malcolm Heath’s book Ancient Philosophical Poetics, in which Heath attempts to present ancient Greek philosophical views on poetry to both an academic audience and non-specialists. Leading with the warning that the essay is not concerned with what literary theory looked like in ancient Greece, but rather how philosophy looked at poetry, Heath reveals the views of the philosophers on truth and goodness in poetry. Though most often these views relegate poetry to a lower status than philosophy (Heath’s focus is on the philosophy of Plato and the Platonists, with some consideration given to Aristotle), Ancient Philosophical Poetics demonstrates conclusively that, for example, the famous Platonic dictum that poets should be exiled form the ideal state is really a call to read their work with greater insight. The author of this essay presents and commends Heath’s book as an example of a highly contemporary approach to ancient philosophy and poetics, and simultaneously one refreshingly free of anachronism.

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Autor omawia książkę Ancient philosophical poetics Malcolma Heatha, który stara się w niej przybliżyć czytelnikom zarówno akademickim, jak i spoza specjalistycznego kręgu poglądy filozofów na poezję. Czyniąc zastrzeżenie, że nie jest to rozprawa o tym, jak wyglądała teoria literatury w czasach starożytnej Grecji, ale o tym, jak filozofia spoglądała na poezję, Heath ukazuje poglądy filozofów na prawdę i dobro w poezji. Jakkolwiek najczęściej jest to pogląd o niższości poezji wobec filozofii (angielski badacz skupia się na filozofii Platona i platoników, choć także Arystotelesa), to autor Ancient philosophical poetics udowadnia ostatecznie, że np. słynne platońskie wezwanie do wygnania poetów z państwa jest w istocie wezwaniem do wnikliwego ich czytania. Autor omówienia jego książki ukazuje w związku z tym wywód Heatha jako przykład bardzo współczesnej, a jednocześnie nieanachronizującej postawy wobec antycznej filozofii i poetyki.

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Дигитална хуманистика и завере (не)читања. Пројекат Књиженство, теорија и историја женске књижевности на српском језику до 1915. године

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Дојчиновић Б.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2016

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issue 11

EN

The article tries to answer the following question: “what is the potential of digital data bases in research of the history and theory of marginal literatures”, that is, in the research of women’s writing? The focus of the text is on the data base Knjiženstvo, as well as on the complete project Knjiženstvo, theory and history of women’s writing in Serbian language until 1915 which connects its topic with European context in an innovative way.

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The Dead Author and the Living Body. Roland Barthes’ Sanatorium Treatment and His Theory of Authorship

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Gacek N.

Konteksty Kultury

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2024

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vol. 21

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issue 3

311-324

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The purpose of my paper is to demonstrate that the theory of the “death of the author” formulated by Roland Barthes in the late 1960s can be read in the context of the sanatorium treatment he underwent between 1942 and 1946, since the experience of tuberculosis was inscribed in two unpublished drafts Barthes wrote after leaving the sanatorium, namely Esquisse d’une societe sanatoriale [Sketch of a Sanatorium Society] and L’Avenir de la rhetorique [The Future of Rhetoric]. By pointing out the similarities between The Future of Rhetoric and The Death of the Author, I seek to prove that some of Barthes’ concepts, hitherto seen as inspired by structuralist ideas, appeared in his writings much earlier. An additional consideration is given to the use of metaphors that clearly links the 1946 and 1947 texts to the 1967 The Death of the Author.

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O przerzutni

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Mastalski A. S.

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich

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2023

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vol. 66

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issue 1

157-180

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The author explores the limitations of art based on the potential sources of inspiration for Michel Houellebecq’s The map and the territory. The dialectic of art is questioned upon its links to capitalism, the sustainability of art and the artist when it comes to the confidence of realization of one’s ideas. The map-territory relation creates space for expressing the dynamics between the idea itself, its representation and what it entails when it comes to existing or perceived notions of delineation between the natural order (substance, materialization) and modernity (abstraction, impression). Houellebecq’s character gives precedence to the idea, and as in non-art, its serving as a conduit for natural expression, at the same time sets a limit to human expression, culminating in nature overcoming culture. Suggesting that both nature and (idea) art deriving from it can be brutal in their own ways. The inquiry consists of trying to unearth the identity of an artist and doing so by using biofictional practices to draw a connection with, but not limited to, a conceptual creator, Douglas Huebler. Intersection of the conceptual modes of reality with the reality itself in art is inevitable. With art, the onus is in respecting the two worlds with their separate qualities, bonding the differences without negating nor assimilating them; stretching the limits of creation both in the artist and what constitutes art as a whole. Hence, the border, as John Ruskin would say, lies within the mystery of life and art.

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Czym jest „zabawa” w literaturze religijnej XVII i XVIII wieku? Rekonensans genologiczny

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Prabucki K.

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich

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2024

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vol. 67

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issue 2

173-189

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The subject of this article is the problem of the presence of the phenomenon called quasi-genre in the history of literature. The point of departure for such considerations is an article by Antoni Czyż entitled "Zabawa barokowa: okruchy genologiczne", published in “Pamiętnik Literacki” in 1984. A discussion with Czyż’s position is undertaken - according to the researcher, a quasi-genre is such a form which represents a “bottom-up system” opposed to the elite products of the literary culture of the time. A reconnaissance was carried out on the meaning of the word “zabawa” in the reality and cultural consciousness of the time. As the most representative works in this trend were written within the circle of religious and devotional literature, a significant part of the exemplary material is of this kind. The criterion for selection was the functioning of the given collection in the readership circulation and the occurrence of the word “zabawa” itself in the title of the work. Discursive statements by the authors or publishers, usually published in the introductions to the individual works, were also compared on a comparative basis. In addition to its polemical ambitions, the study also has the benefit of organising the concepts operating in the state of research. The identification of source material proposed in this study is a preliminary to making future theoretical-literary and genological clarifications.

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The notion of atiśaya in Sanskrit literary theory

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Matyszkiewicz A.

Rocznik Orientalistyczny

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2022

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issue 1

99-116

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The poetics of the Sanskrit ornate epic ( mahākāvya), recognized as the most prestigious genre of Sanskrit kāvya literature, significantly rely on literary devices creating the sense of grandeur. The aim of this study is investigate the notion of atiśaya discussed by early works on Sanskrit literary theory and to identify it as a focal term within a discourse explicating the poetics of grandeur characteristic of mahākāvya genre. The here introduced distinction between atiśaya and hyperbole enables to capture the specificity of literary grandeur in mahākāvya compositions and elucidates the broader matter of ‘excess’ in the Sanskrit literature.

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Čyževs’kyjs Mácha-Lektüre im Kontext des Prager Linguistischen Zirkels

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Wutsdorff I.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2025

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vol. 22

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issue 46

57-73

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To mark the centenary of Karel Hynek Mácha’s death, the Prague Linguistic Circle compiled the volume Torso a tajemství Máchova díla (Torso and the Mystery of Mácha’s Work). This article provides a detailed analysis of Dmytro Čyževs’kyj’s contribution, ‘K Máchovu světovému názoru’ (‘On Má cha’s worldview’), focusing on its methodological aspects. Contrary to what the title suggests, this is not necessarily a classic hermeneutic endeavour. For Čyževs’kyj seeks to determine what he defines as a ‘worldview’ based on the way in which Mácha’s work is shaped by its language. From the perspective of the history of entanglement, there are certainly points of contact with the discussions held at the time about a structuralist approach within the Prague Linguistic Circle, particularly Jan Mukařovský’s concept of the ‘semantic gesture’, which was also developed in the same anthology on Mácha’s work. In both cases — Čyževs’kyj’s attempt to determine Mácha’s ‘world view’ from the poetic language of his works and Mukařovský’s search for the ‘semantic gesture’ conveyed in the way the parts of the work are connected — the aim, as a parallel reading shows, is to determine a way of referring to the world from the manifest verbal form of Mácha’s work.

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Дослідження експресіонізму в сучасному українському літературознавстві

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Radavska O.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2017

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vol. 5

243-251

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The article refers to the work of Ukrainian researchers devoted to expressionism, such as O. Chernenko, M. Moklytsi, A. Biloi, O. Osmak, G. Yastrubetskoyi and others. It defi nes the main directions of research and characterizes researchers by their theoretical concepts, focusing on the names of the writers who are called the representatives of Ukrainian literary expressionism. Attention is paid to the fact that the theories may often be similar but researchers represent diff erent series of names and works. This requires further development of the theory of expressionism and the Ukrainian literature study in this aspect.

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O egzystencji w dziele literackim i o egzystencji dzieła

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Wachowski J.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2017

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issue 28

EN

The concept of existence is rooted in (at least) two traditions: philosophical and literary theory. This does not mean, however, that it means the same for both fields. The first tradition is wide ranging because it includes diverse – physical, emotional and spiritual (as well as intellectual) – aspects of being. The second tradition is narrow and it closely refers to literary output. Literary existence – which is based on physical reality – is permanently separated from it. Literature refers to the representation and imagination of the world, not to the empirical experience of physical reality. In addition, literature does not apply the categories of truth and falsehood that we know from social reality (because literary existence stands, beyond the assertion). It is also imprisoned in genology – inscribed in the genre. Literary existence has more to do with poetry, style, artistic convention than what philosophers are examining. Sometimes great literary works deal with great philosophical problems, but sometimes do not and it do not detract from their artistic nature. Both of these tradition – literary and philosophical – however, have many common places, require careful study and analysis. The article is an attempt to show these places and characterize their features.

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O odbiorze dzieła literackiego

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Wachowski J.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2017

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issue 28

EN

The article is an attempt to answer the question: what happens to a literary work – understood as Ingarden’s purely intentional objects – from the recipient’s perspective? And also: how do the images of objects arise in the minds of the audience and what are their properties? Transferring purely intentional objects to the recipient’s perspective changes their status: mental images of objects are subject to numerous fluctuations (based on emotions and cognitive processes). In this way they are transformed into forms that are non-permanent reflections of objects belonging to a literary work. Referring to Ingarden’s terminology, one might say that they become purely intentional reflections (or reflections of purely intentional objects). The article is an attempt to characterize and stratify them.

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Inna teoria

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Krajewska A.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2018

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issue 29

7-11

EN

The article contains reflections on “a different theory of literature”. By emphasising the impossibility of maintaining a vision of theory as a history of courses, research methods, academic disciplines and other ‘isms’ and ‘turns’, the author suggests replacing this with ‘a different theory’. This is ‘different’ in that it is written as dramatography; different because it does not comprise uniform subject matter, but various interwoven discourses; different because it consolidates individual experiences and frequently develops away from one concept. This issue of “Przestrzenie Teorii” deals with theory emerging from art, theory rooted in and rooting itself in art.

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Las corrientes de investigación en teoría de lo fantástico presentes en el hispanismo: estado de la cuestión

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Gregori A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2013

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vol. 40

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issue 2

5-23

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Tzvetan Todorov typified the literary fantastic as an autonomous gender in 1970, separating it from marvelous texts and other bordering modes that contained unreal or supernatural elements. In the Latin-American Hispanic studies his model and several other views about fantastic literature encouraged an advancing body of important theorizing, more or less critical with his definition of the gender, finding or not correlations with French or Anglo-Saxon alternative approaches to Todorov’s taxonomist view. In Spain a consistent incorporation to the debate occurred much later thanks to Catalan researcher David Roas. In the present article it is presented a brief state of the investigation about the literary fantastic through the last 20 years in Hispanic studies, when the first reactions to structuralist visions of the subject were enriched by sociocritical, historic, psychologist and philological contributions. two particular, solid but conflicting approaches are analyzed as the opposed poles of a quite wide spectrum of different understandings and ways of doing literary fantastic: on one hand, Mexican scholar Ana María Morales philologist and intratextual-based view, and, on the other hand, Roas psychologist and actual-reader-response-based position. This accurately examined presentation shows the complex variety and the enormous interest of Hispanic studies theorizing about fantasy worlds.

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