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From Translator to Poet and Back: Adam Ważyk’s Translation Output as Part of Polish Literature
No full textThe article offers an analysis of Adam Ważyk’s translation work, particularly in the context of its influence on the shaping of contemporary Polish poetry. The author aims to showcase the impact of Ważyk’s translations on some of the recent developments within Polish literature; to this end, she employs the distinction between translatoras-envoy and translator-as-lawmaker, as proposed by Jerzy Jarniewicz. Ważyk is here seen as an example of a “lawmaker”, and compared to Piotr Sommer – another author influential within a similar audience. The author argues that in his original choice of what to translate, Ważyk was driven by a desire to project onto the Polish context – to reproduce in his native language – a set of poetic and social circumstances associated with the French avant-garde movement; finally it served the goal of making Ważyk’s own work more comprehensible to his Polish readers. At the turn of the 21st century a group of Polish poets who had expressed interest in Ważyk were also attracted to the work of poets translated by Ważyk; the influence of these foreign authors was thus mediated by Ważyk’s own work
Debiut
Full text linkThe author describes Krzysztof Siwczyk’s debut volume, concentrating on the image of childhood and maturation included in these poems, presented by the poet without shame or excessive exaltation. She also pays attention to the unique nature of such a presentation in the Polish literature.The author describes Krzysztof Siwczyk’s debut volume, concentrating on the image of childhood and maturation included in these poems, presented by the poet without shame or excessive exaltation. She also pays attention to the unique nature of such a presentation in the Polish literature
Bargielska bez wymówek
Full text linkThe author analyzes the critical reception of the works by Justyna Bargielska, pondering over mechanisms of defense from over-interpretation or critical misuse included in the poet’s books. Using the hypothesis of narrative sources in defense against accusation as a starting point, she researches Bargielska’s writing strategies, especially in the novel Małe lisy, in order to define the role of shame within. Bargielska’s characters refuse to be ashamed of things, which are generally considered shameful. The purpose of this work is to indicate that this phenomenon – called the “shamelessness strategy” – influences the form of text itself; what it allows for, and what it makes a necessity.The author analyzes the critical reception of the works by Justyna Bargielska, pondering over mechanisms of defense from over-interpretation or critical misuse included in the poet’s books. Using the hypothesis of narrative sources in defense against accusation as a starting point, she researches Bargielska’s writing strategies, especially in the novel Małe lisy, in order to define the role of shame within. Bargielska’s characters refuse to be ashamed of things, which are generally considered shameful. The purpose of this work is to indicate that this phenomenon – called the “shamelessness strategy” – influences the form of text itself; what it allows for, and what it makes a necessity
Co robi twój podmiot? O sprzecznej historii podmiotu lirycznego
No full textCelem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie sprzeczności i niejednoznaczności zawartych w strukturalistycznym pojęciu „podmiot liryczny”. Badaczka przywołuje współczesne użycia tego pojęcia oraz historię pokrewnych koncepcji, by przez ten pryzmat wskazać istotne przesunięcia w domyślnym rozumieniu instancji nadawczej we współczesnej krytyce literackiej. Pierwotna programowa – zamierzona i politycznie motywowana – abstrakcyjność koncepcji „podmiotu lirycznego” została zredukowana do ogólnej intuicji o nietożsamości autora i podmiotu mówiącego, wtórnie zaś utrudnia postrzeganie instancji nadawczych jako efektów konkretnych i znaczących decyzji autorskich.The article aims to analyse contradictions and ambiguities embedded in the structuralist concept of “the lyrical subject”. The researcher reviews contemporary applications of the term and overviews a history of related concepts in order to show meaningful shifts in the default meaning of the issuer in contemporary literary criticism. Initial programmatic abstractness of the “lyrical subject”, both intended and politically motivated, has been reduced to a general intuition concerning the non-identity of the author and the speaking subject. The secondary consequence is that it obfuscates perceiving issuers as the effects of specific and intended authorial decisions
Bargielska sans excuses
No full textThe author analyzes the critical reception of the works by Justyna Bargielska, pondering
over mechanisms of defense from over-interpretation or critical misuse included in the
poet’s books. Using the hypothesis of narrative sources in defense against accusation
as a starting point, she researches Bargielska’s writing strategies, especially in the novel
Małe lisy, in order to define the role of shame within. Bargielska’s characters refuse to be
ashamed of things, which are generally considered shameful. The purpose of this work
is to indicate that this phenomenon – called the “shamelessness strategy” – influences
the form of text itself; what it allows for, and what it makes a necessity.L’auteure examine la réception critique de l’oeuvre de Justyna Bargielska, en réfléchissant
aux mécanismes de défense, présents dans ses livres, contre une surinterprétation
ou un abus critique. En émettant dès le départ l’hypothèse concernat la source de la
narration qui permet de répondre aux accusations, la chercheuse examine les stratégies
d’écriture de Bargielska, en particulier à travers le roman Małe lisy [Petits renards],
pour définir le rôle qu’exerce la honte. Les héroïnes de Justyna Bargielska refusent
d’avoir honte des choses considérées communément comme honteuses. Le but de
cette étude est de prouver dans quelle mesure ce phénomène – défini en tant que
stratégie d’impudeur – contribue à la forme du texte et ce qu’il rend possible ou nécessaire
à l’intérieur du texte
Who is afraid of Jonathan Littlel?
No full textArtykuł przedstawia analizę zestawu recenzji i szkiców krytycznych, które ukazały się w polskiej prasie po wydaniu powieści Jonathana Littella Łaskawe. Korzystając z narzędzi oferowanych przez tak zwane memory studies oraz koncepcji postpamięci autorstwa Marianne Hirsch, autorka bada powody różnego typu przemilczeń i swoistej autocenzury, którymi charakteryzują się owe teksty. Powieść Littella w tym ujęciu okazuje się prowokacją, na którą bardzo różnie odpowiadają krytycy różnych pokoleń. Również od przynależności do pokolenia zależy – jak pokazują analizowane teksty – sposób ujmowania i rozumienia Zagłady jako wydarzenia historycznego i otwartego problemu poznawczego. Druga część szkicu wykazuje, że Jonathan Littell konstruuje swoją powieść, biorąc za podstawę mechanizmy społecznej i kulturowej pamięci, których struktura nie jest wolna od schematów, klisz, słów-kluczy. Powieść okazuje się wymierzona specjalnie w nowoczesne i ponowoczesne metodologie czytania, który to fakt nie został właściwie zauważony ani zinterpretowany przez krytyków (którzy sami jednak z owych metodologii korzystali).The paper presents the analysis of a set of reviews and critical essays, which have been published in the Polish press after the publication of Jonathan Littel’s novel The Kindly Ones. Using the tools offered by the so-called “memory studies” and the Marianne Hirsch’s concept of post-memory, the author examines the reasons of various suppressions and peculiar self-censorship, which characterise those texts. The Littell’s novel in this depiction turns out to be a provocation, to which critics of different generations respond very differently. What is also a result of their belonging to a certain generation is the way in which they display the analyzed texts and the way of grasping and understanding the holocaust as a historical event and an open cognitive problem. The second part of the essay proves that Jonathan Littell constructs his novel basing on the mechanisms of social and cultural memory, which’s structure is not free of schemes, clichés and key-words. The novel turns out to be purposely aimed at the modern and postmodern methodologies of reading, which is a fact that has not been properly noticed and interpreted by the critics (who, however, have themselves used those methodologies)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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