Francesca Fornari

Pracownia pisarska – o brulionach Zbigniewa Herberta

Adam LIPSZYC Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Peep Show. The Lamentations of Justyna Bargielska The author analyses poems of Justyna Bargielska from her first three volumes of poetry as well as her prose debut. Discussing then theories of Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal, the work of Nicole Loraux on the place of the feminine mourning voice in the ancient Athens’ political system, as well as Galit Hasan-Rokem’s book on the Midrashim to the Book of Lamentations, the author builds a conceptual framework which might be helpful in understanding the feminine forms of expressions of mourning. Against this background he tries to describe the ironic dirges found in Bargielska’s work, paying special attention to the dominant figure of ‘container’ which among other things seems to refer to the very poem itself, conceived as the space which is to contain loss.Anna TURCZYN Jagiellonian University (Kraków) Psychoanalysis on trial: Some notes on Krzysztof Wolański’s book Review: K. Wolański Sędzia Schreber. Bóg, nerwy i psychoanaliza, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa 2012, seria „Nowa Humanistyka”. 15 J. Lacan Séminaire livre III. Les Psychoses 1955-1956, Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1981, rozdział 11.Anna ARTWIŃSKA The University of Hamburg Negative memory. Communism and the perpetrators The article discusses the question of the perpetrators in the context of the communism studies in Poland. The author examines the possibility of applying this category in the context of the studies on the Peoples’ Republic of Poland. The main thesis is based on the conviction that Polish public discourse after 1989 has stressed the question of the victim and silenced that of the perpetrator in the anti-communist narratives. The question of the perpetrator is closely connected to the problem of violence, not only physical but also psychic or institutional. Opening the discourse on perpetrators can, according to the author, contribute to more diversified representations of the past era, where both the perspective and the trauma of victims and perpetrators will be equally addressed. 33 T. Sobolewski Polska tajemnica, „Gazeta Wyborcza” z 4.08.2011, http://wyborcza.pl/1,75475,10058495,Polska_tajemnica.html#ixzz2PsE1dG5O). 34 D. Nowacki Widokówki z tamtego świata.Anna Bednarczyk university of łódź Which is the original and what is translation? This article discusses problems related to the translation of plagiART (artistic plagiarism), a genre of avant-garde poetry that has recently gained popularity in Russia. The art of appropriation is usually written about in the context of postmodernism, and most often concerns the visual arts. Bednarczyk, however, deals with poetry, and her research questions revolve around the possibility of translating plagiART in the context of desired and real equivalence as defined in polysystem studies, the possibility of determining the authorship of both the original and the translation, as well as the ethical dilemmas related to copyright issues.Iwona Gmaj educational research institute A return to the subject Review: R. Braidotti, The Posthuman. Polity Press, Cambridge 2013 [Po człowieku, translated by J. Bednarek, A. Kowalczyk, Wydawnictwo PWN, Warszawa 2014].Jerzy Kandziora the institute of literary research of the polish academy of sciences (warszawa) Barańczak: voices from mid-1970s. The article provides a reconstruction of the parabolic reading of the works by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Erich Fromm – testimonies of the witnesses of German Nazism of 1930s and 40s. – as present in Stanisław Barańczak’s essays from mid 70s which address the authoritarian reality of the People’s Republic of Poland and the dilemmas of Polish opposition of the 1960s. and 70s. The second part of the article is devoted to the reflection on the influence of both authors on Barańczak’s New Wave poetry, especially of the elements of Bonhoeffer’s preaching rhetoric on Barańczak’s poetic volume Sztuczne oddychanie (1974).Paweł MOŚCICKI The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warszawa) Snapshots from intimate encounters Article analyses specific moment of historical interconnection between literature and photography – the years of Great Depression in the United States. The activity of national agency FSA, which was supposed to document and present to the entire society issues concerning the most economically and culturally handicapped classes, was often used as a raw material for much more advanced and complex artistic projects. Thus lots of intriguing collaborations between photographers and writers were born and their achievements are today an important and autonomous testimony not only of a moment in social history but also an episode in the history of media and their mutual relations. The author of the article tries to explain theoretical, political and ethical contexts of these collaborations.Aleksandra Wojtowicz the institute of literary research of the polish academy of sciences (warszawa) Electronic media in the editor’s toolbox – an attempt at theoretical reconnaissance The article deals with the question of the advantages of introducing editorial practices into the field of digital humanities. The author defines phenomena related to a redefinition of (Anglo-American) editorial thought and points to the results of introducing online academic editions: new type of the reader, change of the editor’s function and new paths in literary studies that open up for the participants of digital culture. The problems of the traditional editor are discussed on the basis of the case study of Waclaw Berent’s work. The methodological background for the article is provided by J. McGann, D. F. McKenzie, H. W. Gabler, as well as Polish scholars: M. Prussak, A. Karpinski i W. Bolecki.Adam Fitas the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin ‘Duha’: One Motif in Józef Mackiewicz’s Prose This article offers a structural description and interpretation of one motif in Józef Mackiewicz’s publicistic and creative prose. Duha in Polish refers to an arched beam in horse carriages in Podlachia, a historical region in the eastern part of Poland. This object carries many meanings that point to key themes in Mackiewicz’s work. First, the etymology of duha signals the writer’s rootedness in a community and language with strong east-Slavic influences. Second, duha functions as a metonymy for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, signalling the writer’s territorial identity and pointing to his central beliefs, such as the ‘national idea’ and the patriotism of the landscape. Third, it can also be seen as a figure of his ecological position, introducing important semantic fields such as the road and movement. Fourth, it contributes to creating an important metaphor in Mackiewicz’s work, namely that of a confrontation between the eastern borderlands of the Polish Republic and communism.Andrzej Hejmej – prof. UJ, zatrudniony w Katedrze Teorii Literatury Wydziału Polonistyki UJ. Członek KNoL PAN i PSKL. Przewodniczący Komitetu Redakcyjnego serii „Projekty Komparatystyki”. Ostatnio opublikował: Muzyka w literaturze. Perspektywy komparatystyki interdyscyplinarnej (2008, 2012), Komparatystyka. Studia literackie – studia kulturowe (2013), Music in Literature. Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature (2014). Kontakt: a.hejmej@ uj.edu.pl 1. W obrębie dotychczas uprawianej antropologii kulturowej ukształtował się co prawda nurt badań nad audiowizualnością współczesnej kultury, ale należałoby go uznać raczej za antropologię (audio)wizualności – antropologię kultury wizualnej. Jej charakter – z racji „tyranii oka”, rozmaitych „reżimów skopicznych”, ewidentnych dysproporcji w zakresie refleksji nad percepcją wzrokową i percepcją słuchową – skądinąd skłaniał badaczy zajmujących się dźwiękiem już od lat 60./70. XX wieku do podejmowania prób „dewizualizacji antropologii”, czego bezpośrednią kontynuacją są dzisiaj starania przedstawicieli sound studies, takich jak historyk i teoretyk sztukiAndrzej Skrendo university of szczecin Stanisław Barańczak: specters of poetry The article deals with Stanisław Barańczak’s essayistic work which is analyzed mostly in the philosophical and theoretical context, as well as in relation to the transformation of Barańczak’s poetry. The author argues that Barańczak is an inheritor of the Enlightenment, poet of high modernism, defender of the subject’s autonomy, and an author indebted to Descartes and Marx. 58 Fragmenty tego referatu przedstawiłem na konferencji Poeta i duch wolności. Sesja o twórczości Stanisława Barańczaka (Poznań 20-22.05.2013). Był on także omawiany na zebraniu Zakładu Teorii i Antropologii Literatury Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego (18 grudnia 2013 roku). Dziękuję Dyskutantom za wszystkie uwagi.Małgorzata Maria GRĄBCZEWSKA The National Library of Poland (Warszawa) Miscellanea photographica: The birth of the language of photography This article seeks to describe the potential of early photographic language and its implications for an understanding of photography in the very first years after its invention. The first section points to the hidden meanings in the language of description and the transfer of both technology and phenomena, placing themselves between the romantic belief in the power of nature and the universe, metaphysical belief in the divinity of photographs, and scientific discourse referring to its technical and mechanical aspects. “Magicality” had also penetrated into the Polish language and has become a major tool for understanding the mystery of the invention. The last paragraph of the article explains the literary metaphors, in which the daguerreotype is a figure of fidelity, but also the image that connects all the previously presented interpretations.um: self nie ma masy, koloru, właściwości fizycznych, co najwyżej lokalizację temporalno-przestrzenną), ani tym, co można przyrównać do „egzystencji”. Natura self ewidentnie nie jest jasna i łatwiej jej intuicyjnie doznać, ewentualnie performatywnie zagarnąć w czynność – niż konceptualizować. W innym fragmencie z lat 30. Woolf również wiązała „what is called oneself” – „to, co nazywane jest byciem sobą” – z doświadczeniem ciała, tym razem ciała nieposłusznego, niepoddającego się procesom „świadomego”, choć paradoksalnie – scalonego, ześrodkowanego, do którego nie stosowały się tradycyjne metafory rozbicia i rozpadu, wręcz przeciwnie: Jako doświadczenie obłęd jest wspaniały, mogę Cię zapewnić, i nie ma co na niego kręcić nosem; i w jego lawie nadal znajduję większość rzeczy, o których piszę. Wyrzuca z człowieka wszystko ukształtowane, ostateczne, to nie tylko kropla po kropli, tak jak to robi zdrowie umysłowe. A te sześć miesięcy – nie trzy – które przeleżałam w łóżku, dużo mnie nauczyły o tym, co nazywamy sobą. Self, mimo że nie jest efektem rozpadu i rozczłonkowania, niekoniecznie musi oznaczać jakiś rodzaj wewnętrznej jedności. Tak, jak proponuje je rozumieć Woolf, siebie jest paradoksalne nie tylko dlatego, że zależne jest od ciała i jego działań, ale także dlatego, że nie jest pojedyncze i nie jest neutralne płciowo (choć nie jest też płciowo zdeterminowane). W 1935 roku Woolf notowała w dzienniku (zapis z czwartego lipca): Tak, oczywiście to niezwykle ciekawe mieć do czynienia z tak wieloma różnymi siebie 5 D. Dennett The Self as a Center..., s. 103. 6 V. Woolf The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Vol. IV: 1929-1931, ed. N. Nicolson, J. Trautmann, Mariner Books, New York 1981, s. 180. Zapis z 22 czerwca 1930 roku, list do Ethel Smith; V. Woolf Pokrewne dusze: wybór listów, przeł. M. Lavergne, Wydawnictwo MG, Warszawa 2014, s. 356-357. 7 Woolf (w cytowanym za chwilę fragmencie) będzie mówiła o jednym z wariantów self „she”. Jak pisze Louise A. Poreski (The Elusive Self. Psyche and Spirit in Virginia Woolf ’s Novels, Associated University Press, London 1981) – Woolfiańska psyche (dusza), której centrum jest kolekcja jaźni (the selves), jest androgyniczna (s. 16, 41). Możliwa jest inna lektura kategorii duszy u Woolf: w The Experimental self Judy Little (The Experimental self. Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose ̧ Southern Iillinois University Press, Carbondale 1996, s. 29) pisze, że gdy Woolf używa słowa „soul”, „konsekwentnie ma na myśli centrum w sensie esencjonalnym” – a więc zasadniczo różny od natury self.Paweł PISZCZATOWSKI University of Warsaw Beyond the language mesh: Poetic function of silence in Paul Celan’s poems from Sprachgitter The article aims at determining the function of speech-figures signifying silence in Paul Celan’s poetry. Those features can be situated at the boundaries of language since they lean towards the sphere of the radical silencing of any speech. Hence, they are supposed to outline the frame of the prosopopeic space, where the memory of the victims of the Holocaust is present and forms nearly mute trace of their absence. The author concentrates on the analysis of few poems from Sprachgitter volume (especially the title poem and Niedrigwasser) in relation to other texts by Celan (Meridian, poem from Die Niemandsrose volume) as well as Reiner Maria Rilke’s poem, The Panther.Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake AdAm mickiewicz University (PoznAń) Grünewald’s Thorns: “Róża” [“Rose”] and the Isenheim altarpiece in this article szewczyk-haake contextualizes tadeusz różewicz’s poem “róża” [“rose”], from his collected poems [Poezje zebrane] of 1971, with the German renaissance painter matthias Grünewald’s isenheim altarpiece. the retable in różewicz’s poem is read in two ways. on the one hand, being characteristic of German art, the poem is interpreted in a broadly German context. on the other hand, różewicz’s return in “róża” to the “German thread” – a major theme in his oeuvre – does not cancel out the existential significance of his confrontation with the medieval masterpiece. szewczyk-haake consequently suggests that różewicz juxtaposes two ways of understanding the relationship between the work of art and its audience. according to the first, interpretation hinges on a range of key reception experiences; according to the second, interpretation is based on aesthetic experience, beyond time.Andrzej SZAHAJ Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń) Strength and weakness of hermeneutics The author discusses advantages and disadvantages of hermeneutics as seen from the perspective of interpretation. He aims at showing that Gadamer’s hermeneutics, even though it formulates quite a few accurate intuitions as to successful process of interpretation, it is, however, unable to deal with at least one essential problem, i.e. with mapping the boundaries between that which comes from an interpreted text and that which is contributed to it by an interpreter. According to the author the reason for that could be found in the fact that such a boundary cannot at all be introduced. Having said so, he suggests to reject Gadamer’s dualist attitude according to which the reality of interpretation is being divided into text and interpretation, and assume that in the process of interpretation, the latter simply overlaps with the text, thus the text itself loses any autonomy in the face of interpretation. The author claims one should leave behind the problem of an accurate interpretation, i.e. faithful to the text, and concentrate instead on cultural study of ethical and political reasons for the emergence of different interpretations. Additionally, he argues it is not true that such an interpretative freedom is opposed by the text itself. According to him the resistance is introduced by the people and their interpretations which have in the process of their conventionalisation begun to play the role of the text itself. Such a resistance can at most be associated with a set of interpretative communities existing in a society and the ideas shared by them. In that sense, he repeats an argument mentioned some years ago that the boundaries of interpretative anarchism do not belong to the text, rather to the cultural context of anDorota SAMBORSKA-KUKUĆ University of Łódź Vilnius Traces of Ksawera Deybel Her infamous biography Ksawera Deybel owes to the gaps caused by an ostentatious and persistent removal of her from the life of Adam Mickiewicz. The lack of source material added to the black legend and numerous innuendoes. Research in archives and libraries of Vilnius allowed for establishing quite an amount of documents and sources which then provided a basis for the establishment of new contexts which enabled scholars to verify hitherto existing speculations. The reconstruction of Ksawera Deybel’s biography provided a good opportunity for the examination of various and numerous misreadings. Mickiewicz – Towiański, PWN, Warszawa 1986, s. 148-149), prowadzić może do wręcz przeciwnych wniosków, które podałyby w wątpliwość cały proces wymuszonej apologii. W sposób analogiczny postępują „odbrązawiacze” pomnika poety, na podstawie nikłych poszlak wyprowadzają wnioski mające dowieść, że Mickiewicz był erotomanem i stale tracił moralny grunt pod nogami. A jednak Mickiewicz, nieszczęśliwy przecież w małżeństwie pozostał w nim do śmierci Celiny i nie zaślubił żadnej z domniemanych kochanek. 62 H. Sienkiewicz Rodzina Połanieckich, PIW, Warszawa 1986, s. 505. http://rcin.org.plAdam Dziadek university of silesia (katowice) Jan Zieliński cardinal stefan wyszyński university (warszawa) On Aleksander Wat’s notebooks A presentation of Aleksander Wat’s notebooks archived in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, USA), part of Aleksander Wat Papers. The authors present some short fragments dating back to 1950s. Devoted to four writers: Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Adolf Rudnicki and Jan Parandowski. These texts were possibly supposed to be included in Kartki z notatnika volume which was commissioned in 1958 by Wydawnictwo Literackie. 6 Zob. I.M. Wirtz Zur lyrischen Gestalt von Rilkes „Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge”, „Quarto” 2012 nr 35, s. 19-23 (cytat ze s. 22).Wacław FORAJTER University of Silesia (Katowice) Blinding whiteness. A problem of colonial desire in Sygurd Wiśniowski’s Children of the Queen of Oceania The main problem of the article is the portrait of half-breeds in the Polish travel literature about 19th century New Zealand. The main protagonist of Wiúniowski’s book is Tikera who is a half-breed woman. Her descent becomes a cause of the narrative complications. As a half-Maôri and half-European woman, she feels incomplete and monstrous. Thus, at any price she attempts to escape from this confusion by the marriage with a white man. Wiśniowski’s novel, despite its idea of emancipation from under the power of oppressive authority, is entirely contingent with Eurocentric outlook referring to Western civilization superiority over the exotic wildness.Katarzyna Marak – doktor literaturoznawstwa w Katedrze Filologii Angielskiej UMK, autorka książki Japanese and American Horror: A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games, oraz rozmaitych artykułów na temat fantastyki grozy oraz japońskiej i amerykańskiej kultury popularnej. Zainteresowania badawcze: kultura popularna Stanów Zjednoczonych i Japonii, komparatystyka kulturowa, game studies, reception studies. Nasłuchiwanie i słyszenie są tyleż doświadczeniem, co przeżyciem. Dźwięk jest ważnym elementem wielu form sztuki i popkultury, jak również kultury w ogóle – jednak jego rola jest rzadko wspominana i dyskutowana w rozprawach naukowych. Także w badaniach konwencji fantastyki grozy teoretycy nierzadko analizują techniczne zalety, wady lub funkcje dźwięku w filmie czy grach wideo, nie zatrzymując się jednak nad kwestią, dlaczego dźwięk jest w stanie oddziaływać na odbiorców w taki a nie inny sposób. Celem tego tekstu będzie zatem zarysowanie problematyki roli dźwięku w tekstach fantastyki grozy na podstawie rozważań badacza, którego dzieła są wyjątkowo odkrywcze i pouczające w tej kwestii – Davida Toopa. Toop jest angielskim pisarzem, kuratorem, muzykiem i autorem książek na temat muzyki, dźwięku i ich doświadczania przez słuchających. Istotną rolę w jego podejściu do tych zagadnień odgrywa jego doświadczenie artystyczne, zakorzenienie w brytyjskiej kontrkulturze hipisowskiej i nieustanna obecność na scenie muzyki improwizowanej. Do szczególnie ważnych dzieł Toopa zaliczają się publikacje: Rap Attack; Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World; Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds; Haunted Weather: Odgłosy w bezgłosie: niesamowitość dźwięku według Davida ToopaBeata Kubiak Ho-Chi University of Warsaw An Affective Topography of Contemporary Tokio in Yoriko Shōno’s Novel Taimu Surippu Konbināto [Time Slip Kombinat] Kubiak Ho-Chi reads Yoriko Shōno’s novel ‘Time Slip Kombinat” (1994) in the light of Brian Massumi’s theory of affect. She highlights the importance of affect and the cognitive potential of studying the emotional interaction between the individual and the place (Tokyo) in Shōno’s novel. She also emphasizes the correspondence between the chaos of the city and the chaos of feelings, which becomes apparent in the novelistic world after the industrial catastrophe. While Shōno is still untranslated into Polish, in Japan she is counted among the most revolutionary contemporary writers. Saturated with an atmosphere of surrealism and a nightmarish combination of dream and wakefulness, her experimental prose represents a postmodern Japan as well as a modern individual lost in the globalized world, filled with fear and lacking all faith in the future.Krzysztof Mrowcewicz the institute of literary research of the polish academy of sciences (warszawa) Discreet charm of glass, or a still life with a goblet The text is devoted to one of baroque ekphrasis – the description of goblets, cups and chalices. The author associates the poems from the epoch devoted to objects with still lives whose development can be traced in 16 and 17 centuries. He analyses in detail three works by Miaskowski, Zbigniewa Morsztyn and Naborowski (a previously unpublished verse attributed to the poet), which can provide basis for the reconstruction of the worldview of the whole era. 31 Sz. Starowolski Reformacya obyczajów polskich, Wydawnictwo Biblioteki Polskiej, Kraków 1859, s. 299.Anna Ziębińska-Witek Historical Writing: The Difficult Relationship between Theory and Practice Review: Ewa Domańska, Historia egzystencjalna [Existential History], Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2012Adam F. Kola nicolaus copernicus university (toruń) We’re all comparativists! (Fortunately in different ways) Review of Tomasz Bilczewski, Komparatystyka i interpretacja. Nowoczesne badania porównawcze wobec translatologii, Horyzonty Nowoczesności 83 (Cracow: Universitas,