http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40712 Biografia jako gatunek zmącony | Biography as a "blurry" genre Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:27:06 GMT 2026-04-05T18:27:06Z https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:443/xmlui/bitstream/id/d8f566ab-e320-4628-8e63-87f6024c45a1/ http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40712 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42876 Zmącone wody żywiołu biograficznego. Wstęp redakcyjny Dauksza, Agnieszka Dauksza, Agnieszka Inspired by Clifford Geertz’s concept, the author analyses blurred genres on the example of biographies, focusing on their contemporary transformations, while scrutinizing their formal, methodological and audience-related (possible reasons behind their popularity) aspects. The ethical dimension of the biographer’s work is crucial, and here it is examined from the perspective of the writer’s personal involvement and the emotional community of readers (as defined by Barbara Rosenwein). The study also analyses biographies when they are perceived as a type of testimony, experience, an act of creating potential histories, or as critical works. From this perspective, writing a biography is like inciting comprehension by re-evaluating the meaning of somebody’s experiences and engaging them with the modern readers’ experience. In all probability, the key is not the authenticity of the presented reality, but enabling the reader to immerse themselves in the flow of the story so that reading the book becomes a significant experience in itself. What the reader seems to require is for the devices that are typical for novel-like narration to be combined with nonfictional forms. Thus, genre blurring is, in fact, a basis for renegotiating the pact between authors and readers, where both sides are well aware of how ambiguous it is to write about an absent third party, realizing that it is necessary to omit facts, be concise, make sense of convoluted events, and to extract the essence in things that seemingly look chaotic. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42876 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42875 Czy klasyczna biografia pisarza może ładnie się zestarzeć? Marietta Czudakowa o Michaile Bułhakowie Korcz, Karolina Dauksza, Agnieszka The article addresses the issue of generic and cognitive attractiveness of a monograph based on the work of Marietta Chudakova entitled, Mikhail Bulgakov: The Life and Times, which was published with a more than thirty years delay. The main purpose of the sketch is the reflection on the biography author’s research project, the methodology, the connection between the research sources and the writing strategy to which the structure of this article is devoted. The introduction of the article describes how the author realized the proposed honesty and authenticity while adopting a certain research method that is perceived ethically. The next part of the article focuses on the implemented methods which are mainly used in the fields of history and literary studies while using certain sources such as archives and witness accounts that are not accessible for modern researchers. The last part of the article concentrates on the influence of “me” as an author on the way the narrative of the biography is conducted. The analysis of the given problems allowed the results of a particular research work to be seen. It also showed how a documental biography may be still attractive to a reader despite the changes in reception. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42875 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42874 Biografia księżycowa? Kowalska. Ta od Dąbrowskiej Sylwii Chwedorczuk Pekaniec, Anna Dauksza, Agnieszka The aim of this article is to present one of the varieties of biography, here tentatively defined as lunar biography. The specificity of this subgenre is relativity understood as a feature that shapes the way the characters — here the protagonist — are presented, consisting of the fact that the person is described as if the story about him or her was reflected in countless mirrors, or was possible only due to agency, that is, stories told about others. Kowalska. Ta od Dąbrowskiej by Sylwia Chwedorczuk is the subject of those multiple reflections. The characterization of this biographical text, on the one hand aims at presenting a detailed portrait of the author of Safona, and on the other hand, indicates how strongly it is linked to her relationships with others. Portraying Kowalska was conducted to better analyse the play between facts, opinions, or the peculiar paucity of Kowalska’s own voice. An empathetic biographer, trying to depict the individualism of her chosen heroine, often forgets that too much contextual information blurs the individuality of the writer from Lviv, and leads to situating her too strongly in the perspective of references to others. It results in in her story being hidden in stories of persons close to her, which may cause the loss of her individuality, or at least, it reveals Kowalska through a sum of biographies which do not belong to her. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42874 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42871 Między upamiętnieniem a rewizjonizmem. O dwóch portretach Jana Rodowicza „Anody” Żarnecka, Paulina Dauksza, Agnieszka The aim of the article is to compare two ways of introducing the poetics of reportage in biographical writing, using the method of comparative biography, described by Richard Holmes. The author compares two biographies of Jan Rodowicz “Anoda” by Barbara Wachowicz and Piotr Lipiński in aspects like: the use of the poetics of reportage, the selection of archival materials and the approach to it. As a result, she describes two ways a poetics of reportage can be introduced in biographical writing. The first one is described using the example of the book by Barbara Wachowicz, in which a portrait of a national hero is being constructed with archival materials provided by his own family and statements made by the members of the anti- system memory community, that were responsible for keeping the memory of the Warsaw Uprising and the post-war lives of its participants undisturbed by the state’s propaganda. The second one is represented in a book by Piotr Lipiński that uses the biography of “Anoda” to deal with the problem of transitional justice as an unfulfilled dream of Polish society. From this comparison a conclusion can be drawn that there are many ways that biographers can introduce the poetics of reportage in their writing, depending on their aims and the role they want to play in their books. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42871 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z