RSS 1.0Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze nr 09/2020
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“I think that poets and, more broadly, all artists have some certain cognitive impatience in them”: An Interview with Professor Jerzy Kandziora about Stanisław Barańczak, Conducted by Karolina Król
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The interview covers the subject of Stanisław Barańczak and his works. Pondering on the way the poet pictures the existence of God in his poems is an important part of the text. Another crucial subject is the way Barańczak ... -
Odnośnie artykułu Katarzyny Kuczyńskiej-Koschany "«Panienka, Godzina Polski», 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Poszukiwanie debiutu Ireny Tuwim nie należy do rzeczy łatwych. Jej pierwsze utwory, pisane w wieku młodzieńczym publikowane były na łamach prasy łódzkiej, często pod pseudonimami, nadanymi przez jej brata, Juliana, który ... -
“The greatness of a writer consists in articulating the eternal problems and dilemmas of humanity”: An Interview with Professor Hubert Orłowski, Conducted by Karolina Król
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The interview focuses on Thomas Mann, his oeuvre and the reception of his works. The dispute around Mann’s The Magic Mountain, started by Stanisław Barańczak, is an important context of the text. In the interview an essay ... -
"Kwiaty polskie" by Julian Tuwim as a Reflection on Law, the Political System, and the State
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Kwiaty Polskie by Julian Tuwim a multi-thread multifaceted masterpiece. The author of the article discusses it through the prism of legal and political content identifiable in the text without omitting references to the ... -
The Rules of How Reality Works Through the Prism of Post-Postmodern Prose: (D.I. Drozdovskyi, "Problematic-Thematic Units and Philosophical-Esthetical Parameters of the British Post-Postmodern Novel" ["Проблемно-тематичні комплекси й філософсько-естетичні параметри британського постпостмодерністського роману"]. Kiev: Samit-knyha, 2020)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The reviewer analyses the monograph Problematic-Thematic Units and Philosophical-Esthetical Parameters of the British Post-Postmodern Novel (Kyiv, 2020) written by Dmytro Drozdovskyi, a Ukrainian scholar from Taras ... -
“Ten sam odwieczny wróg niebezpieczny.” The Universal Dimension of Tuwim’s Satire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In the article, the author analyses the satirical works by Julian Tuwim published in his poetic collections. By indicating the strong bonds between poetry and satire in the poet’s works, the author explains the ... -
All the Faces of Grochowiak: (J. Łukasiewicz, "Poeta Grochowiak" Wrocław: Warstwy, 2019)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The hereby reviewed book by Jacek Łukasiewicz entitled Poeta Grochowiak has been an impressive and monumental undertaking, yet it fulfils only some of the promises made by its author. According to the reviewer, the fact ... -
Form and Power On the Disciplinary Coding of National Identity in “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” by Witold Gombrowicz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-01)The aim of this article is to analyse Witold Gombrowicz’s short story entitled “Pamiętnik Stefana Czarnieckiego” in the context of the convergence between the writer’s worldview and the philosophy of Michel Foucault. ... -
Venice from Another Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This essay with a clearly personal touch is a narrative anchored in cultural texts which deals with experiencing Venice in a multi-faceted way. Talking about his many years of wandering around the city (in ... -
The Category of Ugliness in "Historie maniaków" by Roman Jaworski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article undertakes to interpret the collection of short stories titled Historie maniaków by Roman Jaworski using the category of ugliness. So far, this work has been analysed through a different aesthetic category, ... -
“A Production Center”: A Model of Creative Work in Tadeusz Konwicki’s Early Prose
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The aim of this article is to outline the issues related to the specificity of the image of the writer and his role in society created in Tadeusz Konwicki’s early works. This stage in the writer’s life opens with the first ... -
“Literally, there were only a few steps between the cold and warmth, and between darkness and light.” The Image of the City in "Smutna Wenecja" by Wacław Kubacki
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article discusses the image of the city presented in the novel Smutna Wenecja by Wacław Kubacki, an outstanding literary historian, and how the writer’s interests and experiences influenced the topic and the character ... -
Venice in Films. "Wenecja" by Jan Jakub Kolski (2010)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The topic of the article is the image of Venice in Wenecja, a Polish feature film directed by Jan Jakub Kolski from 2010. The imaginary image of this city was inspired by “Sezon w Wenecji” (from the volume titled Jedźmy, ... -
Venice in Poetry and Prose: Adam Wiedemann’s Visit to the City
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The main aim of the article is to identify key interpretation issues in two texts by Adam Wiedemann. Both texts feature contemporary literary pictures of visits to Venice – the Polish author wrote a short story (Sens życia. ... -
Iwaszkiewicz’s Venice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article offers an overview of Iwaszkiewicz’s Venice works, starting with his early poems from his first visit in the city on a lagoon, and all the way to a work in his final poetry collection. This overview ... -
Contemporary Icarus: Gustav von Aschenbach’s Journey towards the Sun
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The point of departure for the reflections contained in this article is the motif of the sun in Tomasz Mann’s Death in Venice. Analysing the presence of the sun in the work turns out to be fruitful for distinguishing and ... -
Venice According to Odyniec (and Mickiewicz?) in Romantic Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This text is a reconstruction of the image of Venice offered in Listy z podróży by Antoni Edward Odyniec. Against the background of Romantic traditions (Byron, Chateaubriand, Shelley, and Radcliffe), I present how the ... -
On Several Polish Poems From 1829–1870 with Venice in the Background
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The subject of the article is a review of images of Venice recorded in Polish poetry between the years 1829–1870. The paper deliberately stops in the 1870s in the selection of the literary material to be analysed, focusing ... -
Venice in Polish Literature of the Latter Half of the 16th Century and in the 17th Century as a Model Political System, a Leading Centre in the Fight Against the Ottoman Empire, and the Centre of the Pilgrimage Culture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The aim of the study is to present at least three reasons why Old Polish writers of the latter half of the 16th century and 17th century wrote about Venice. The first one was the admiration in the nobility-ruled republican ... -
A City Full of Life or a City Buried Alive? Vittorio Alfieri’s Venice and Venice in the Travel Journals by Polish Artists at the Turn of the 19th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article raises the topic of the evolving image of Venice from the perspectives of three travel accounts: by Vittorio Alfieri, Fryderyk August Moszyński, and Stanisław Dunin-Borkowski. They were all bound by the figure ...