Description
Book SynopsisThe volume
From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience contains a wide selection of essays, which were published during past decades in academic journal
Teksty Drugie and were widely appreciated as significant contributions to the ongoing debate on principles and methods of literary studies. Articles gathered in this collection represent the main schools, tendencies and perspectives applied in contemporary criticism, including the most recent developments and the older traditions, which previously influenced our field. Their chronological succession seems to indicate certain direction of this development, which has moved literary studies from text-oriented, purely scientific procedures to more contextualized, interpretative approaches, labeled here as «poetics of experience».
Table of ContentsContents: Janusz Sławiński: What Remains of Structuralism? – Michał Głowiński: Literary Studies and Cultural Studies – Włodzimierz Bolecki: Questions on the Subject of Literary Studies – Anna Burzyńska: Does Literary Theory Still Exist? – Andrzej Hejmej: Comparative Cultural Studies: Interpretation and Existence – Ryszard Nycz: From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience – Michał Paweł Markowski: Economy and Representation – Edward Balcerzan: The Mono- and Bi(multi)lingualism of Literary «Worlds» – Stanisław Balbus: The Extinction of Species – Zdzisław Łapiński: Fictional v. Lyric Identity – Danuta Ulicka: On the Epistemological Function of Literature and Literary Studies – Danuta Szajnert: Intention Versus Invention: An Ethical Dilemma? – Grzegorz Grochowski: Images in Texts: Iconic Signs in Multi-code Text Structures – Elżbieta Rybicka: From a Poetics of Space to a Politics of Place: The Topographical Turn in Literary Studies – Małgorzata Czermińska: Places of Autobiography: A Geopoetic Proposition – Anna Łebkowska: How to Embody the Body: On the Dilemma of Somatopoetics – Dariusz Śnieżko: The Written and Spoken Word: History and Literature – Dariusz Skórczewski: Postcolonial Poland - an (Im)possible Project – Jan Kordys: Language, the Brain, Ecstatic Religious States, and Artistic Output.
