scholarly journals Rzut oka na trylogię (pod redakcją) Danuty Ulickiej

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Skubaczewska-Pniewska

The article contains a synthetic overview of the trilogy The Age of Theory, edited by Danuta Ulicka. It is the first comprehensive study of the achievements of Polish theoretical literary studies since its birth in the 1920s. The edition includes a multi-author monograph, organized according to “cultural themes” (as understood by Opler), to which the author of the article devotes most of her attention,and an extensive selection of texts preceded by factual introductions (two volumes of anthology) representative of the problem blocks discussed in the first part. Without questioning the content of the anthology, and especially the cognitive value of the monograph, which is based on innovative methodological assumptions and proves that modern literary theory was born in Central and Eastern Europe, and Polish works played an important role in its development, the author wishes it included the work of W. Borowy, the pioneer of intertextuality or J. Baudouin de Courtenay’s texts, which foresaw heteroglosia and minus-device.

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

Abstract In Polish literary-historical criticism, the concept of Gnosticism has been used most frequently as a hermeneutical category that makes it possible to understand better the oeuvre of authors from Central and Eastern Europe. Polish scholars have successfully identified (neo)gnostic ideas present in the works of Jerzy Hulewicz, Tadeusz Miciński, and Franz Kafka. By referring to the works of Hans Jonas, Kurt Rudolph, and Jerzy Prokopiuk, many of them, unfortunately, have reproduced stereotypes on Gnosticism. In light of more recent studies on Gnosticism, the conclusions of their inquiries have become problematic. The main goal of this paper, therefore, is to highlight the most common errors present in the examination of Polish literary scholars from the perspective of Gnostic studies, as well as the inaccuracies in their methodology that stem from outdated scholarly materials.


2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Maryna Hohulia ◽  

Background: The talks about Central or Central-Eastern Europe are actualized by new political and ontological challenges and feelings of obstruction when one after another Soviet interventions took place in this space. M. Kundera's essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe" is quite quoted and analyzed not only in literary studies, but also in philosophical, historical, political and other studies. His text inspired others authors to create their own vision of the Central Europe. But it’s one of the first attempts of a comparative analysis of the aesthetic and philosophical ideas of Kundera, Kiš, and Andrukhovych has been made. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clarify the peculiarities of the expression of the idea of Central Europe in the aesthetic and philosophical thought of Milan Kundera, Danylo Kiš, Yurii Andrukhovych, thus demonstrating the various manifestations of this concept in Slavic literature. Results: Central Europe (in Adrukhovych case is Eastern-Central Europe) is a floating cultural space with apocalyptic and anti-imperial character wich has post-Habsburg and urban dominants. Oppositions of “one's own” and “foreign”, “cultural” and “barbaric”, “harmonious” and “imposed” are clearly traced. Literary projections of Central Europe are accompanied by attempts to reconstruct it, recreate it from ruins, and fix the vanishing world, where universal (Habsburg heritage) predominates, in which national (in these cases Czech, Jewish, Ukrainian) and anti-colonial issues are intertwined. Key words: Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, prose, space, apocalyptic, anti-imperialism.


2017 ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Piotr Andrzejewski

The article concerns the possibility and relevance of the application of postcolonial theory in the case of Central and Eastern Europe. The main focus is on Poland and Germany. The author gathers and analyses the first studies conducted using postcolonial theory. Moreover, he makes a structural and systemic comparison between the situation in German colonies in Africa and Polish lands under German partition and occupation. As the majority of postcolonial research has been limited to literary studies so far, there is still untapped potential in other fields, such as sociology and political sciences.


1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Cichocka

Abstract: This survey of Central and Eastern European scholarship begins by placing rhetoric in relation to poetics and literary theory,then examines work on Byzantine rhetoric within this framework. The most striking feature of this scholarship is its formalistic tendency, which is seen above all in the works of such Russian scholars as S. Averinčev, M. Gasparov, and G. Kurbatov, but the same tendency is also evident in Polish studies on the theory of prose composition.


Author(s):  
Tomila V. Lankina ◽  
Anneke Hudalla ◽  
Hellmut Wollmann

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