PT22 - abstrakty - Przestrzenie Teorii

PT22 - abstrakty - Przestrzenie Teorii

Przestrzenie Teorii 22 - abstrakty
ABSTRACT. Pertek Grzegorz, Transgresja i literatura [Transgression and literature]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań
2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 11–38. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The author of this article attempts to redefine the category of transgression. By preparing a preliminary typology of the
existing uses of this concept, he puts forward the hypothesis that, on the one hand, transgression can be identified
with (is synonymous with) going beyond the limit of something, and on the other hand, it can be equated with the
constant conflict between its empirical and linguistic dimensions as well as its thematization and formalization. The
author proposes to define transgression as the act of setting/removing a certain limit. This definition overcomes the
above-mentioned difficulties because it not only has an ambiguous aspect (undecidability), i.e. both a positive
(construction) and a negative (destruction) dimension, but it also pushes the issues related to transgression into the
domain of negotiations, i.e. interactions with the reader (reception, tradition and criticism), from which it derives its
inventive potential.
ABSTRACT. Mastalski Arkadiusz Sylwester, Lektura deiktyczna. Rozważania o dyskursie miłości oraz poetyce
interpretacji [Deictic reading: reflections on the discourse of love and the poetics of interpretation]. „Przestrzenie
Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 39–54. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
This article analyzes confessions of love from the perspective of communication – it shows the paradoxical character
of such confessions and the disparity between this and other models of communication. By referring to the writings of
Roland Barthes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jacques Derrida as well as papers dealing with cognitive linguistics and
cognitive poetics, the article presents the interpretative consequences of deictic shifts (shifts in textual perspectives).
ABSTRACT. Lisak-Gębala Dobrawa, Polska eseistyka o malarstwie i fotografii od 2. połowy XX wieku w świetle
rozważań nad esejem jako formą (pisarstwa, poznania, doświadczania…) [Polish essays on painting and photography
from the 2nd half of the 20th century in the light of reflections on the essay as a form (of writing, cognition, and
experiencing)]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 55–69. ISBN 978-83232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
Contemporary Polish essays on paintings and photographs (by, e.g. Z. Herbert, G. Herling-Grudziński, W. Karpiński,
J. Pollakówna, E. Bieńkowska, A. Olędzka-Frybesowa, and W. Nowicki) are juxtaposed with the personal essay which
was invented by Montaigne. A wide range of commentaries, including ideas about this genre which were expressed
by Th. W. Adorno, G. Lukács, and G. Douglas Atkins, provide a theoretical background for the analysis. Selected
Polish texts are presented as artistic constructions that recreate the process of experiencing pictures and the movement
of thoughts of the essayistic “self” which uses many disguises (e.g. a traveler, amateur, scholar and critic). A particular
painting or photo, which is often artfully described by means of ekphrasis, is treated by essayists as a starting point for
analyzing many broader issues as well as for indirect self-presentation.
ABSTRACT. Lisak-Gębala Dobrawa, Polska eseistyka o malarstwie i fotografii od 2. połowy XX wieku w świetle
rozważań nad esejem jako formą (pisarstwa, poznania, doświadczania…) [Polish essays on painting and photography
from the 2nd half of the 20th century in the light of reflections on the essay as a form (of writing, cognition, and
experiencing)]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 55–69. ISBN 978-83232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
Contemporary Polish essays on paintings and photographs (by, e.g. Z. Herbert, G. Herling-Grudziński, W. Karpiński,
J. Pollakówna, E. Bieńkowska, A. Olędzka-Frybesowa, and W. Nowicki) are juxtaposed with the personal essay which
was invented by Montaigne. A wide range of commentaries, including ideas about this genre which were expressed
by Th. W. Adorno, G. Lukács, and G. Douglas Atkins, provide a theoretical background for the analysis. Selected
Polish texts are presented as artistic constructions that recreate the process of experiencing pictures and the movement
of thoughts of the essayistic “self” which uses many disguises (e.g. a traveler, amateur, scholar and critic). A particular
painting or photo, which is often artfully described by means of ekphrasis, is treated by essayists as a starting point for
analyzing many broader issues as well as for indirect self-presentation.
ABSTRACT. Imperowicz-Jurczak Małgorzata, „Bene nati” w interpretacji plastycznej Piotra Stachiewicza [Piotr
Stachiewicz’s visual interpretation of Bene Nati]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University
Press, pp. 71–87. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The author describes the underappreciated, artistically innovative illustrations that Piotr Stachiewicz created for a
jubilee edition of Bene Nati, which had been issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Eliza Orzeszkowa’s
work as a writer in 1891. The author emphasizes the variety of Stachiewicz’s illustrations which portray the novel’s
storyline, dramatic and genre scenes, characters and a winter landscape. These differ in format as well as the way in
which they are integrated into the text and in which the images’ borders, which perform an interpretive function, are
treated. When a border is interrupted and an illustration encroaches on the space that was intended for text, this
means overstepping the boundaries of the fictional world and entering the real world. A reference to Andriolli’s
illustrations brings to mind the world that was created in Pan Tadeusz [Sir Thaddeus] and constitutes a form of
Aesopian language.
ABSTRACT. Walczak Jakub, Libretto jako (u)twór. Zagadnienia genologiczne i metodologiczne – zarys problematyki
[The libretto as a genre: problems and approaches]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, pp. 89–100. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
This article deals with issues connected with defining the libretto in the light of genre classification and the function
that libretti perform as part of musical compositions. Libretti, which are marginalized by both literary theory and
musicological research, are considered to be dependent texts even though most libretti are compositionally complete
and can be analyzed by using the concepts of literary theory. At the same time, although the libretto is not an
independent genre, it has its own subgenres which are identified based on the subject matter, function and structural
properties (e.g. tragedy, comedy and farce).
ABSTRACT. Bąkowska Patrycja, W sarmackim teatrze życia (nie)codziennego [In the Sarmatian theater of (non)daily
life]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 101–116. ISBN 978-83-2322827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The main purpose of this article is to show Old Polish literature and culture with regard to their performative aspects.
By referring to Richard Schechner’s reflections, the author presents the Old Polish period “as a performance”. She
focuses on issues such as time, space and behavior, which allows us to notice those activities of nobles that led to the
formation of their personal and collective identity. An analysis of poems and diaries reveals different ways of creating
one’s “self”. Various gestures and ceremonies as well as the skills that nobles developed through school education
and socialization processes unified the Old Polish society, even though it was ethnically and religiously diverse.
ABSTRACT. Wojnowski Konrad, Performatyka – teoria katastrof? [Performance studies – the theory of catastrophes?].
„Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 117–138. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1.
ISSN 1644-6763.
The author of Performatyka – teoria katastrof? [“Performance studies – the theory of catastrophes?”], which is a crosssectional investigation into performance studies, tracks the trains of thought about catastrophes in different theories of
performativity, ranging from J. L. Austin’s to Jon McKenzie’s ideas. Of particular interest is how particular
theoreticians integrate the term ‘catastrophe’ into their conceptual frameworks and how they evaluate it. By criticizing
the approach taken by Judith Butler, who postulates “melancholic performance studies”, which brings to mind
Adorno’s idea that is explicated in Minima Moralia (traurige Wissenschaft), the author tries to show how we can
productively use Austin’s theses that are presented in the first chapters of his famous How to Do Things with Words.
In the author’s opinion, Austin allows us to approach communicational catastrophes from a different perspective,
which is often forgotten, i.e. of the functioning of contextual systems. It is shown that the tension between felicity and
infelicity may be at the core of the popularity of performativity which is understood as a tool for researching
contemporary cultural phenomena.
ABSTRACT. Hendrykowski Marek, Marlboro Man. Studium dla niepalących [The Marlboro Man: a study for nonsmokers]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 139–150. ISBN 978-83232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The long history of the “Marlboro Country” and “Marlboro Man” advertising campaigns (1954-1989) represents the
renewability of a certain image which was perfectly designed and meticulously thought out. This history constitutes a
well-developed “syntagma” which consists of not one but many different, individual versions of a message. What is
important is that the administrators and creators of these advertisements succeeded in keeping a semiotic balance
between the personal characteristics of a particular model and the image schema which this model was to maintain.
Each of these versions sustained the image that had once been created (stability of a cliché) and at the same time
featured different representatives of this image and presented them in ever new ways that refreshed the previously
achieved expression (dynamics of innovation). This was a multi-stage project which had been planned to “last long”.
The “shape” of the Marlboro Man’s model face is a kind of personal testimony to the excellence of the product
offered. The representatives of this image kept changing, but its matrix, which made these representatives similar to
one another and instantly recognizable as part of a well-known stereotype, turned out to be surprisingly stable and
unchanging over several decades.
ABSTRACT. Grądziel-Wójcik Joanna, Prospekty i ścieżki awangardy. Przypadek Tadeusza Peipera [The prospects for
and paths of the avant-garde: the case of Tadeusz Peiper]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, pp. 151–168. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The author presents the ways in which “Peiperism”, i.e. a model of thinking about the avant-garde as exemplified by
the reception of Tadeusz Peiper’s works, is disintegrating today. Research on avant-garde poetry which privileged a
theoretical perspective resulted in the distorted reception of texts, thus building a doctrinal model of the first avantgarde that marginalized or objectified literary works. However, the restoration of the superior role of poetry which
was absorbed and dominated by the structural concept of poetic language compels readers to “leave the beaten track”
and try to read Peiper’s works in a different way. At the same time, established opinions on the intellectual and
nonphysical as well as fully expressible and complex model of the Cracow avant-garde are redefined. A closer look at
the texts reveals interpretational differences and shows that avant-garde authors’ utopian projects are not necessarily
congruent with their output.
ABSTRACT. Kościelski Kamil, W labiryntach czasu i wieczności. O „Lśnieniu” Stanleya Kubricka [In the labyrinth of
time and eternity: on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, pp. 171–187. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
In the interview which appeared after the premiere of The Shining, Kubrick said that the fantastic qualities of reality in
his movies are “treated in a very […] ordinary way”. He indicated that uncanny events are also depicted in this way in
Jorge Luis Borges’ writings. The comparison made by Kubrick should not be disregarded since the labyrinth motif,
which does not appear in Stephen King’s book that has been adapted for the screen, is an important theme in Borges’
works as well as in The Shining. The Garden of Forking Paths, which was also written by this Argentinian writer, not
only explores the above-mentioned motif, but also describes the conception of time which can be found in The
Shining and in the last scene of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Borges’ literary works might be helpful in
comprehending Kubrick’s notion of the fourth dimension. The coexistence of different times in The Shining, in turn,
refers to the theological idea of eternity. This conception corresponds to the main character’s nature – especially his
desires, aspirations and anxieties. The established perspective provides an opportunity to exemplify what Kubrick
meant by showing the fantastic qualities of reality “in a simple, non-baroque style”.
ABSTRACT. Bohuszewicz Paweł, Markiewka Tomasz Szymon, Autor: empiryczny, modelowy czy wirtualny? [An
empirical, model, or virtual author?] „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp.
191–205. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
The article titled Autor: empiryczny, modelowy czy wirtualny? [“An empirical, model, or virtual author?”] presents a
discussion about the terms used in the title which was held by the article’s authors. P. Bohuszewicz defends the
validity of the concepts of an empirical and a virtual author, the latter being the result of “rewriting” Umberto Eco’s
idea of a model author. T. Szymon Markiewka claims that the concept of a model author and that of a virtual author
are unnecessary multiplications of theoretical entities: we only need the concept of an empirical author, but we also
need to remember about all the complications related to this concept.
ABSTRACT. Kopka Aleksander, Spotkania intertekstualne. O dialogu Hélène Cixous z Jacquesem Derridą [Intertextual
meetings: a dialogue between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam
Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 207–219. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
Where else, if not “in a text”, can two bright minds, or two writers, meet? Is it possible for two intellectuals who
engage in a dialogue to understand each other without appropriation, i.e. without constantly borrowing from each
other and commenting on each other’s ideas? This essay is an attempt at answering these questions by using the
unique relation between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida as an example. The friendship between these two is
based on efforts to understand each other’s thoughts and writings – but all this is not without respect for each other’s
singularity, sovereignty and intimacy.
ABSTRACT. Wysłouch Seweryna, Adaptacja filmowa – przekładem czy montażem? [A film adaptation – a translation
or montage?]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 223–227. ISBN 978-83232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
This article presents arguments against some of the ideas presented in Marek Hendrykowski’s paper Adaptacja jako
przekład intersemiotyczny [Adaptation as intersemiotic translation] („Przestrzenie Teorii” [Space of Theory] no. 20
(2013). The author challenges two assumptions: 1) the list of translation operations which was proposed by
Hendrykowski and which she considers to be heterogeneous: these operations are performed either on a text’s surface
(rhetorical operations) or in its deep structure (transaccentuation, compression and amplification); and 2) the concept
of adaptation which is understood as montage, since the idea of montage restricts the issue of translation to
compositional activities and isolates it from sources of hermeneutic and cognitive inspiration.
ABSTRACT. Faulstich Werner, Strobel Ricarda, „Uksiążkowienie” jako problem estetyczno-medialny. ”Obcy – ósmy
pasażer Nostromo” – studium przypadku [“Novelization” as an aesthetic and media issue: Alien – a case study].
„Przestrzenie Teorii” 21. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 231–259. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1.
ISSN 1644-6763.
There is no literature (e.g. a novel, feature film) without a medium (e.g. a book, film), but one should be clearly
differentiated from the other. Particular works can only be compared based on a comparison made between particular
means of expression, i.e. media. A production-related and aesthetic approach, which has been regarded as
unscientific for a long time, should be replaced by the much more appropriate media-related and aesthetic approach.
Werner Faulstich and Ricarda Strobel’s reflections on the novelization of film refer to Ridley Scott’s picture titled Alien
(1979), Richard J. Anobile’s movie novel (photonovel) which is based on Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson’s
comics as well as to Alan Dean Foster’s novelized screenplays. Moreover, references are also made to two popularscience books: Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross’s The Book of Alien (New York 1979) and H.R. Giger’s Giger’s Alien
(Basel 1979), which are treated as “books written on the basis of a film”. The film Alien deals, in a disguised form,
with the topic of a man’s fear of a woman as the one who gives birth. It describes the sequence of processes that
occur in a woman’s body, from conception and pregnancy to birth, as seen by a man who is “on the outside”. A man
perceives a woman’s reproductive capacity, which is unattainable to him, as something alien and disturbing.
ABSTRACT. Bulanowski Marek Oktawian, Przyjemność lektury [Pleasure of reading]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22.
Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 263–267. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
Henryk Markiewicz’s book Czytanie Irzykowskiego [Readings of Irzykowski] is a collection of studies dedicated to the
work of a leading Polish modernist critic who was also an influential theorist, historian of literature and author of the
experimental novel titled Pałuba. Although this collection does not constitute a monograph on Karol Irzykowski’s
work, the variety of methodological approaches that are presented in the articles reveals Markiewicz’s characteristic
interests and shows that contemporary literary studies focus on reading and history rather than theory (P. de Man).
These studies were influenced by the ideas of Russian formalists (B. Eichenbaum), semiotics and Marxism; however,
Markiewicz does not faithfully adhere to any methodological school. Above all, his studies show that he is interested
in literariness, literary works of art, the history of ideas and correct interpretation.
ABSTRACT. Lukas Katarzyna, Leśmian (rosyjski i angielski) w żywiole intertekstualności [Leśmian’s poetry (Russian
and English translations) in the realm of intertextuality]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz
University Press, pp. 268–275. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 1644-6763.
Marta Kaźmierczak’s book which is titled Przekład w kręgu intertekstualności. Na materiale tłumaczeń poezji
Bolesława Leśmiana [“Translation and intertextuality: a study based on the translations of Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry”]
is the first comprehensive monograph on Bolesław Leśmian’s poems that have been translated into English and
Russian. The aim of the study is to examine how the “intertextual signals” from the source texts were translated into
languages that are cognate with and distantly related to Polish. The author understands intertextuality as a significant
relationship between a particular literary text and another text, a group of texts (e.g. philosophical), or cultural texts
(e.g. a macrotext concerning Slavonic beliefs) that come before a given text in time. The intertextual elements in
Leśmian’s poems are classified thematically, i.e. according to the domain to which they refer and based on the extent
to which they are recognizable to those who have read the texts that are referred to.
ABSTRACT. Legeżyńska Anna, Herbert w hermeneutycznej sieci [Herbert in a hermeneutic network]. „Przestrzenie
Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 276–286. ISBN 978-83-232-2827-1. ISSN 16446763.
The author of this article discusses several books that were written by Artur Grabowski, a Cracow poet, critic and
researcher who is an expert in the theory of poetry, theater, drama and contemporary art, by focusing on his latest
book Herbert-Hermes. Konteksty nowoczesności w esejach, dramatach i wierszach Zbigniewa Herberta [HerbertHermes: The Contexts of Modernity in Zbigniew Herbert’s Essays, Dramas and Poems] (The Jagiellonian University
Press, Cracow 2013). This book represents an original attempt at situating Herbert’s essays, selected poems and a
drama (Jaskinia filozofów [The Cave of Philosophers]) in the context of interpretive, hermeneutic practice which is
treated quite loosely, and it has been highly favorably reviewed. The author of the present article draws attention to
the erudition and inventiveness of Artur Grabowski, who has managed to start a new thread of research on Herbert’s
work, but she also challenges ideas presented in certain passages of the book.
ABSTRACT. Bochniarz Marek, Kino Nipponu przełomu cyfrowego [Nippon Cinema at the digital turning point].
„Przestrzenie Teorii” 22. Poznań 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 287–291. ISBN 978-83-232-27-28-1.
ISSN 1644-6763.
This article is a review of a book written by Mitsuyo Wada Marciano – Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age. The
author of this book examines the recent developments in the Japanese film industry at the turning point in the
development of digital technologies. The book seeks to overcome the western approach to the subject, reinterprets
classic films and explores new trends in transnational Japanese cinema (the term was proposed by the author to
explain the situation of Japanese films in the context of Asian countries).