Monografia jest konieczna. Monografia jest niemożliwa

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kudyba

Monography is indispensable. Monography is impossible It is difficult to imagine the history of literature devoid of such mode of research expression as monography. It is still a popular form of synthetic expressions (after all the history of literature is condemned to synthesis). At the same time, however, a literary historian can base his actions less and less often on the theoretical-literary reflection. What vectors could turn us today towards a contemporary reading of literary texts – the reading which is far not only from ingenuous naivety but also from dangerous confidence in the power of individual research concepts? Some contemporary postulates of reading ethics give answer to these questions. They induce us to be distant towards any theoretical-literary or ideological prejudices and hence to the responsibility for the research method and the language describing a work of art. It seems that a thought which returns in the reflection of literary studies about the subjectivity of reading, about the necessity of considering the sphere of values in the process of reading (which modern ethics of reading calls for) induces to turn towards interpretation, return to the author and to axiology. 

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bal Ram Adhikari

The present article is theoretical in nature with its prime focus on the pedagogical dimension of literature in the language classroom in general and the ESL/EFL classroom in particular. It draws on some of the key publications in the field and my experience in English language education as a teacher and material developer. Moreover, I have drawn some evidence from B. Ed. and M. Ed. English courses offered to prospective teachers, and their class observation. Divided into three sections, the article begins with a checkered history of literature in mainstream language teaching methods while the second section underscores roles of literary texts in students' balanced language development. The final section proposes the pedagogical approach to and procedures of exploiting literary texts to maximize learning opportunities for students.


2021 ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
N. I. Kovalyov

The reviewer claims that Florian Illies’ essays demonstrate a perfect balance between pure scholarship and journalism. Despite representing a miscellany of genres (book and exhibition reviews, articles summarising the author’s view of various painters and art historians), the collection proves harmonious due to a common motif of the essays. The book does not draw a strict line between history of literature and art history. Similarly, Illies does not separate art history from the context of the life around art, i. e. the authors’ correspondence, their relationships with their family and friends, fellow artists and patrons. His unconventional view of art history enables Illies to identify interesting overarching subjects which include the problem of the patron’s influence on a work of art and the category of taste. The essayist is particularly interested in ‘second-rank’ authors, who, he suggests, emerge as first-rank in various historical periods.


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Dariusz Skórczewski

History of literature held in darwin’s embrace? The paper adumbrates Joseph Carroll’s evolutionist literary theory positioning it against the developments in literary studies and humanities after postmodernism. The author discusses the ambivalence present in Carroll’s neo-darwinian project, its possible power to revert the decline of literary studies through a return to tangibility and certainty after the dominance of postmodern speculative theories, but also its reductionist and anti-axiological- stance being a peril to the advancement of literary studies. The paper invites further discussion on the prospects of trans-disciplinary alliance between humanities and biological sciences in relation to the aesthetic specificity of literature.


Author(s):  
Lucyna Marzec

The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prizes and recognition but at the same time she is impossible to read nowadays. There is political ambiguity and antiquity in her texts that keep her in the past. Marzec points at four areas of literary studies, where Iłłakowiczówna is still present: 1. Poetics: Iłłakowiczówna uses an original and unusual type of the Polish tonic verse. The author of this article analyses it using tools of psychoanalysis. 2. Religious discourse: Iłłakowicz.wna is interpreted as the author of religious poetry but Marzec argues with such interpretations. 3. Post-dependence studies: Iłłakowiczówna has not been analysed in terms of post-dependence studies yet but she is mentioned in the Polish borderlines discourse. 4. Feminist literary criticism: Iłłakowiczówna used to be studied as the author of androgynous poetry, but Marzec points out other motifs such as miscarriage, infanticide or problems of the new woman, like work at government institution, contestation of vitalism and bureaucracy. The aimof this article is to show that writing of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna needs to be read in terms of the history of literature which is devoid of evaluation and judging. Such analysis means going back in terms of modern literary studies which have undergone multiple turns that changed the tools accessible to contemporary critics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Olga V. Bystrova ◽  

The article explores the boundaries of the term “literary chronicle”. The scientific community is beginning to take a more detailed interest in such a concept as a literary institution. Throughout the twentieth century, literary studies studied and described only individual periods in the history of literature. This development of individual periods of the century helped to create the necessary theoretical tools for analytical work on the study of the socio-cultural process in society. For many years, the very attempt to understand the literary process as a phenomenon encountered terminological blurring. The accumulated knowledge of historical literary studies allows us to raise as a problem of scientific research a chronicle description of the life of a literary organization, which is understood as a structural association of creative people (on the example of individual facts of the existence of All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers). It is the socio-institutional description of the life of the literary community of Russia in the 1920s that allows us to feel the communicative space of the country in which cultural processes take place. Another important aspect in the study of the chronicle of a literary institution is its existence in everyday life, that is, its existence in everyday life. With the frequency of meetings of members of the structural association. In this case, the scattered facts of everyday life become a historical stream of events.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Magdalena Partyka

The article shows the situation of literary historians, their social role and tasks in the contemporary literary theory. The author presents opinions on the discipline expressed by such experienced researchers as Kazimierz Wyka, Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, Włodzimierz Bolecki, and she askes how the students of literary studies perceive the history of literature. She writes about difficulties, dilemmas and quandaries associated with the work of contemporary literature researchers who are interested in old literature. She shows some examples of studies where historical imagery has become a foundation for the creation of numerous associations combining antiquity and modernity, where it allowed to see the polar character of references and follow-ups, as well as to describe the variability of creative endeavors and realisations in literature, and finally to reveal moments of coexistence of dichotomous phenomena. The author presents the dramaturgy of work of literary historians’ who are entangled in multilevel determinants of the historical world, which they investigate, and the present one, which they experience.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Marcin Stabrowski

Cultural analysis of two paragraphs of Jan Chryzostom Pasek’s MemoirsThe article was written as an outcome of the workshops organized during conference “Personal accounts in research experience”. Its aim was to present the differences between sociology, history, literary studies and history of culture. The aim of the author was to present a research method specif­ic to cultural studies. Culture was understood, according to S. Pietraszko, as a way of living towards the values and as such it is a part of the Lebenswelt, whereas the typology of values was taken from the writings of Max Scheler. The analysis of historical sources is aimed at grasping a possible valua­tion in a given time and space. In two paragraphs of “Memoirs” by Jan Chryzostom Pasek particular types of values were found and a question about their precedence was asked. Dominant values in the Pasekʼs Lebenswelt were holiness and vitality. They were above in the hierarchy of values law, beauty and utility. The analysis enabled reconstruction of piety of Sarmatian memoirist, his image of God and his views about war, violence and community.


Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 755-764
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Wenxin Lin

Russian literature is an important part of world literature and is studied all over the world. In comparison with the history of literature, the history of literary criticism is more an interaction between the objectivity of literary facts and the personality of the compiler of this history. This work presents a description of the personality in research using the example of the book “History of Russian and Soviet literary criticism of the XX century” written by Chinese scientist Zhang Jie, the main task of which is to provide a theoretical basis and methods of criticism for analyzing the mechanism of reproducing the meanings of literary texts and images. We analyze the functions of literary criticism and explain the interaction and harmony of objective historical facts of literature and the compiler’s personality in the study. We define three currents of Russian and Soviet literary criticism of the 20th century: religious and cultural criticism, real literary criticism, and aesthetic criticism. We prove that history reflects not only the objectivity of factors, but also its compiler’s personality, which is an indicator. We explain the need to coordinate the objectivity of historical facts and the subjectivity of the compiler, and we present a value-based reflection of a scientific linguistic personality in the Chinese ethnoculture.


Author(s):  
Joseph Jurt

AbstractIn classical history of literature, authors have preferred the book above other written media. In France, however, from the beginning of the 19th century, the press experienced an immense revival, which had a far-reaching impact on literature. Literary style colored the press, while the journalistic matrix influenced literary productions, even producing new genres, such as the serial novel. Through their involvement with the press, writers achieved an effect on public opinion. At the same time, reflections emerged on the gain (or loss) of autonomy caused by this cooperation. For a decade, now, French cultural and literary studies have analysed this cooperation and thus established a new area of research.


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