29 articles in this issue
Diana Poskuta-Wlodek
The first wave of feminism in Poland consisted of a wide range of events. All women who were educated, independent, and professionally active and successful were regarded as feminists (regardless of their self-identification). Women of the theater, i.e., ... see more
Katarzyna Grzybowska
The paper presents the realizations of the theme of concentration camps in folk art, i.e. the sculptures made by Wladyslaw Chajec, Zygmunt Skretowicz, Franciszek Skocz, and Jan Staszak. Chajec and Staszak tried to present the most drastic moments in the h... see more
Aleksandra Berkieta
This paper focuses on reconstructing the history of the so-called Russian Formalism and the avantgarde context of OPOYAZ’s inception in Petersburg in 1914. Victor Shklovsky’s lecture-manifesto titled “The resurrection of the word”, which he presented in t... see more
Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska
This article in a way constitutes the third part of a cycle of essays on the portrayal of Poland and Poles in autobiographical texts written by foreign authors from the 18th century until the present day. It deals with the 20th and 21st centuries and disc... see more
Marek Hendrykowski
Marek Hendrykowski’s paper provides certain remarks and necessary explanations in response to Seweryna Wyslouch’s polemic (“A film adaptation – a translation or montage?”, published in Przestrzenie Teorii no. 22, 2014).
Wiktor Szklowski
Victor Shklovsky’s Third Factory is the third part of the so-called “autobiographical trilogy”, which was first published in 1926, i.e. after Shklovsky’s return from abroad, following his unwilling emigration. As a literary work, it is not easily classifi... see more
Dimitar Vatsov
In contrast to Derrida and Butler, who overemphasized the subversive force of performatives, here the focus is on the immanent (micro-)sovereign power of performative utterances. Hence, what is proposed here is a search for the basic concept of power at t... see more
Jacek Popiel
In his Polski teatr Zaglady [The Polish Theater of the Holocaust], Grzegorz Niziolek, who starts with theater and specific theatrical performances and who focuses on artistic phenomena, presents problems that go far beyond art. This is a book that should ... see more
Polish contemporary drama (which is represented by a range of authors, from Tadeusz Rózewicz and Slawomir Mrozek, Janusz Glowacki, Wieslaw Mysliwski, Eustachy Rylski, Marek Koterski and Tadeusz Slobodzianek to Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, Michal Walczak, Piotr ... see more
Ewa Kraskowska
This article is a review of the multiple-author book titled Ksiegowanie. Literatura, kobiety, pieniadze [Bookkeeping: Literature, Women, and Money], which was published by Szczecin University Press in 2014. The collection contains articles that are devote... see more
Kamila Gieba
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 Eur... see more
Piotr Sniedziewski
The aim of this article is to discuss Miroslaw Loba’s book titled Wokól narracyjnego zwrotu. Szkice krytyczne [Around the Narrative Turn: Critical Essays]. The book is a reconstruction of the main trends in contemporary French thought on narrative (the ps... see more
Kazimierz Bartoszynski
Fragmenty o czasie i miejscach pamieci [Fragments about Time and Places of Remembrance] are concerned with unpublished fragments of Kazimierz Bartoszynski’s papers (”Wstep do ksiazki zbiorowej o czasie” [”Introduction to a collective work on time”]), memo... see more
This is a memoir of Professor Kazimierz Bartoszynski which was written by his wife.
Seweryna Wyslouch
The author of this article discusses Kazimierz Bartoszynski’s didactic activity and writings, i.e. his doctoral thesis titled O powiesciach Fryderyka Skarbka [On Fryderyk Skarbek’s Novels] (which was published in 1963) and his later articles on the gaweda... see more
Ewa Kosowska
Prof. Kazimierz Bartoszynski was one of the most respected theoreticians of literature in Poland. He worked closely with the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The period of Professor Bartoszynski’s greatest activity as a re... see more
Jacek Baluch
This is an anecdotal memoir of Kazimierz Bartoszynski, which describes the community of members of the Institute of Literary Research and their university colleagues from all over Poland. It was at this institute that the largest scholarly project related... see more
Anna Krajewska
This is a memoir of Professor Kazimierz Bartoszynski. The theme of this essay is silence – literary silence, which is the result of convention, anecdotal silence, which prompts scholarly meetings and friendships, and metaphysical silence, which is connect... see more
Marek Hendrykowski’s study deals with the semiotics of interpersonal proxemic relationships in today’s world. When analyzing this issue, the author puts forward three research hypotheses. First, interpersonal relationships that are connected with social s... see more
Aneta Grodecka
This article is devoted to the concept of an artifact, as derived from older methodological knowledge (J. Bialostocki and E. Panofsky), which has been broadened to include new indicators, such as changes of the virtual era as well as the categories of exp... see more
Malgorzata Jankowska
The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of modern apocrypha from the perspective of cultural studies. The term ‘apocrypha’ is usually associated with early Christian and Gnostic texts, but the tradition of unorthodox writings is also continued ... see more
This text is devoted to the singularity and theatricalization of the humanities.
Jacek Wachowski
The concept of a performative body is rooted in two traditions. The first tradition concerns actions, and therefore, it is wide-ranging (because it includes diverse social acts). The second tradition is narrow – it is closely linked to the effectiveness o... see more
 
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Michal Januszkiewicz
The article titled “Personal literary interpretation” deals with problems which have usually been marginalized in literary studies, but which seem to be very important in the context of the humanities, as broadly defined. The author of this article intend... see more
Michal Glowinski
This letter of condolence was sent to Professor Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska by Professor Michal Glowinski.
Józef Bachórz
This letter of condolence was sent to Professor Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska by Professor Józef Bachórz.