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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation and struggle allied with various ideologies to subsequently become an integral part of post-structuralist culture theory and recently the New Humanities, also known as post-theory. The book positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by established and rising scholars and provides greater insights into various aspects of Polish intellectual culture during the past decades. The publication constitutes an important voice in the discussion on criticism by demonstrating the specific theoretical and pragmatic perspective of the debate in Poland in relation to Europe and the rest of the (post)modern world.
Table of ContentsContents: Ewa Kraskowska: A Critique of Criticism – Paweł Łuków: Kant’s Redefinition of Reason: Criticism, Freedom, Enlightenment – Elżbieta Winiecka: Distance - the Figure of Modernity – Marek Kaźmierczak: Literary Theory as Critical Epistemology and Deontology: Notes on the Concerns in Fiction in Relation to the Images of the Holocaust in Mass Media – Olga Płaszczewska: Comparative Literature: Metacriticism and its Paradoxes – Danuta Ulicka: The Protocol and the Magazine. Two Styles of Literary Criticism in the So-called Russian Formalism – Danuta Szajnert: The Subversive Potential of an Apocryphon – Natalia Lemann: Could We Conserve Ourselves From the Past? Alternates Histories and Uchronias as Literary Apories of Politics and Historical Knowledge – Magdalena Bednarek: Leaving the Tower. Feminist Rewriting of Fairy Tales in the Contemporary Polish Prose since 1989 – Izabella Adamczewska: The Ecological Novel as a Critical Genre – Michał Wróblewski: The Evolutionary Potential of Metacriticality in Reference to «Watchmen» - the Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – Agnieszka Karpowicz: Logo-visual Genres. From Criticism of Language to Social Critique.
