17 articles in this issue
Agata Bielik-Robson
The aim of this essay is mainly critical: it intends to demonstrate that despite all the promises to give account of a "deconstructive subjectivity," Derrida failed to do so, postponing the moment of positive delivery and providing in the end only excuses... see more
Anna Krajewska
In this article the Author shows that J. Derrida's discourse is of a dramatic character. The model which he adopts is the model of a drama. The vision of philosophy, literature and art is connected in Derrida with thinking, which in its basis is of theatr... see more
Andrzej Lesniak
The imaginary landscapes of Anselm Kiefer and Jacques Derrida intersect at a very specific point. The motif of grey is present both in the painting activity of the German artist and in the textual body of the French theoretician. I have attempted here to ... see more
Tomasz Majewski
Our own body, both as a physical object (Körper) and as a focus experiencing sensations (Leib) is usually the axis of our self-identification. In this the mode of presentation of one's own body, in correlation of its accessibility "from the outside" and "... see more
Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska
The newer theoretical problems in the autobiography of Polish writers have been presented on theoretical and analytical planes. Among other theoretical issues one can find the problem of integrity, equating autobiography with novel and generally with fict... see more
Elzbieta Dabrowska
The paper discusses the state of literary art whose genres result from an interplay of various genological instruments. Multidimensional relations between styles, forms, and languages (uncommon and common speech practices) together with intertextual mecha... see more
Marcin Telicki
An expression "the shortest poem" as a genre term seems to be imprecise, however, both its functioning amongst other literary forms and unstabilised boundaries of the modern genology make it that it is a necessary definition. Outstanding modern poets (Bia... see more
Maria Golebiewska
The text presents the main aesthetic theses of Karol Irzykowski, concerning the work of art. Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944) - the Polish writer, critic and theorist of literature, art and culture - considered the work of art as the specific object of cultur... see more
Tomasz Kunz
The article presents a brief outline of the most popular features of Tadeusz Rózewicz's poetics, that question the main structural dominants and institutional indicators of literariness ooted in conventional modes and rules shaping a modern model of liter... see more
Stanislaw Jaworski
For nearly thirty years now Tadeusz Rózewicz has published his poems with their earlier version (e.g. Plaskorzezba Bas-relief), (1991). It can be described in terms of genetic criticism, talking of a way to the ultimate version, a way to self-cognition. I... see more
Stanislaw Balbus
This essay is devoted entirely to the interpretation of Wislawa Szymborska's little known poem, jablonka [An Apple Tree] (1976) discussed in the context of the well-known Rozmowa z kamieniem [Conversation with a Stone] (1956). Interpretation of this work ... see more
Magdalena Tymicka
The paper tries to deal with a relationship between theory and fiction. Reading David Lodge academic novel Small World, where the conflict between structuralism and deconstruction is the plot's main theme, the author asks what happens when theory becomes ... see more
Iwona Krupecka
His Master's Voice's protagonist passes through the levels of the evolution "to values" referring to those described by Nietzsche. The starting point are childish skirmishes with God, consisting in experiments with values established in Western culture. I... see more
Piotr Sobolczyk
The article presents Stanislaw Balbus, one of the most influential Polish literary theorists. Balbus (somehow like Barthes) began as a structuralist, but also practiced literary criticism of the interpretive mode, however later, during the time of the par... see more
Dorota Jarzabek
The subject of this article is the departure of drama in the direction of conversation - a linguistic fact of great existential and social importance. Although conversation itself seems to be nondramatic, in fact it revolutionises the concept of time, spa... see more
David S. Danaher
Poetyka kognitywna a literackosc: analogia metaforyczna w Annie Kareninie
Joseph Hillis Miller
Linia