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  • A Spot-On Literature (II). Presentations: Jadwiga Sawicka
    Vol. 23 No. 1 (2024)

  • A Spot-On Literature (I). Presentations: Marcin Mokry
    Vol. 22 No. 2 (2023)

    W nowym numerze pod hasłem „Literatura jak się patrzy” prezentujemy pierwszą część artykułów poświęconych wizualnym wymiarom literatury i różnego typu napięciom w relacjach słowa i obrazu. Autorki i autorzy tekstów przyglądają się – zarówno w perspektywie teoretycznej, jak i historycznej – związkom, w jakie wchodzą różne media artystyczne. Przedmiotem refleksji stają się m.in. fotografia, oglądana w horyzoncie wizualnej kultury ekologicznej, dzieła wizualne, teksty i multimedialne hybrydy Man Raya, poezja Tadeusza Różewicza czytana przez pryzmat „wizualnej widmowości” czy literackie doświadczenie fotograficzne w poezji Wojciecha Wilczyka i Małgorzaty Lebdy. Poetyckie eksperymenty ze słowem i obrazem stają się także przedmiotem kolejnych zamieszczonych w numerze tekstów, poświęconych słowno-wizualnej twórczości Karoliny Wiktor oraz Ilse Garnier. Z hasłem numeru w bezpośredniej łączności pozostaje dział Prezentacji, którego bohaterem jest Marcin Mokry, autor tomów Czytanie. Pisma, Świergot oraz żywe linie nowe usta. W eksperymentalnych formach poezji Mokrego słowo i obraz zawierają nieoczekiwanego sojusze, których próbką stają się prezentowane w numerze wiersze poety oraz maszynowe realizacje poezji konkretnej. O sojuszach tych i związanych z nimi napięciach Mokry opowiada w publikowanej rozmowie, a ich interpretacji podejmują się autorzy zamieszczonych w dziale artykułów. Numer zamyka dział Varia, a w nim tekst poświęcony archiwalnym rękopisom Konrada Bielskiego i Józefa Czechowicza.

  • Futurologies. Presentations: Joanna Mueller
    Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023)

    This time we invite you to read texts devoted to literary futurology and science fiction. SF is becoming an increasingly important discourse that helps us understand the complexities of modernity, as well as to exercise the imagination needed to face the upcoming crises. Today, science fiction is a global and post-media discourse, which is why this issue includes texts on Polish literature (Julia Nidecka), foreign literature (Kim Stanley Robinson), and music.
    The presentations section features poems by Joanna Mueller (interviewed by Katarzyna Szopa), which are examined by Agnieszka Waligóra, Jakub Skurtys and Monika Glosowitz.
    In the Miscellaneous section, we present a text about Mieczysław Porębski.

  • Critique and Critical Thinking. Presentations: Jan Maszczyszyn
    Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022)

    In the main section of the new issue, the authors examine questions related to broadly understood criticism. The articles concern, among others, Theodor Adorno's philosophy of art (Rafał Czekaj), Szczepan Kopyta's poetry in the context of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene (Patryk Szaj), the groundbreaking project of post-criticism in literary studies by Rita Felski (Tomasz Mizerkiewicz), or the role of criticism in the institution of theatre (Aneta Głowacka). These texts examine criticism in the contemporary academy in various ways, showing the limitations, potential, and necessary reformulations of this category in the light of various crises. The Presentations section, on the other hand, is devoted to the work of Jan Maszczyszyn. The writer is interviewed by Konrad Kamil Zielonka, who also devoted a separate commentary to the Trylogia Solarna. In the latest issue, we also published the short story Historia Księżycowa.

  • Transmediality of the Archive. Presentations: Ewa Zarzycka
    Vol. 19 No. 1 (2022)

    The upcoming issue of ”Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” focuses on the concept of „Transmediality of the Archive”. Authors of the essays presented in the main section scrutinise materiality of the archive,  revealing itself in its inter and transmedia form, where audiovisual, photographic and digital (or other) intermediaries transfer the sphere of  materiality of the archive into the area of constant media interactions and transmedial "flows". The subjects of the research are Białoszewski’s sound archive, the curatorship of the Themerson’s archive, Derrida’s private archive, Lewczyński’s idea of the „archeology of photography”, amateur photo albums, the ecofeminist trasmedia performance by Malik, Józef Pilch’s archival passion and contemporary literary travels through the memory archives to Galicia. The Presentations section is devoted to Ewa Zarzycka, the performance artist, and her work, in which the idea of the transmediality of the archive functions in a particularly interesting way. Zarzycka’s text on photography and famous „written drawings” are accompanied by a conversation with the artist. The issue is concluded with the Varia section, including text on the spectrality of states in Wojciech Górecki’s travel narratives.

  • Walls. Presentations: Tomasz Bąk
    Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021)

    Essays included in the upcoming issue of “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” focus on the concept of walls and the scientific and artistic tensions surrounding them. Approaches to the subject are broad and range from the studies of materiality, historicity, through the politics of walls — both literal and figurative — and how they function (the Berlin Wall, the Gdańsk Shipyard wall, the walls of Shanghai houses), to metaphorical aspects of border points or points of resistance. Poetry of Tomasz Bąk is the focal point of the Presentations section, accompanied by a an interview and essays analyzing the poet's work from linguistic, sociological and performative perspectives. The issue is completed by the Varia section, including texts on the economy of literature, the specificity of sources in Yiddish language, and a metacritic reflection centered around the thirty years of contemporary Polish literature.

  • Minors Literatures. Presentations: Gherasim Luca
    Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021)

    Minor literatures are the subject of this issue. They expose the relationship between center and periphery, majority and minority (of language use), alongside individual and collective as well as the aesthetic and political nature of literary experiments. All the essays included in the main section focus on these problems, analyzing, amongst other things, the American New Narrative and Irish and Catalan literature. Gherasim Luca, representative of the Romanian avant-garde, is the focus of the Presentations section. It is possible to interpret his surreal works (written also in French) in the context of minor literatures. The Varia section includes articles on the Katowice neo-avant-garde and Krzysztof Uniłowski’s critical discourse.

  • Engagement and revolution. Presentations: Ananda Devi
    Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020)

    Articles in the main section are concerned with the political categories of engagement and revolution. These categories are being interpreted, recontextualised and demonstrated through a variety of examples, including artistic works which use the phenomenon of an amusement park; the literary field which is the product of the experience of the Euromaidan; the reinterpretation of Maxim Gorky’s Mother; a depiction of the Russian Red Square as a space of protest; a description of Broniewski, an event which took place in the Raster Galery; the phenomenon of the political revue, which in the Germany of the 1920s became a form of political propaganda; and an analysis of the work of Mieczysław Szczuka, a pioneer of Polish constructivism. The “Presentations” section includes excerpts of the poetry and prose of Ananda Devi in Krzysztof Jarosz’s translation, an interview with this Mauritius-born Francophone author, and essays introducing her work. The “Varia” section completes the issue. 

     

  • Post Masculinity. Presentations: John Maxwell Coetzee
    Vol. 15 No. 1 (2020)

     

    The issue’s main section is devoted to contemporary transformations of masculinity. Authors examine, among other topics, the way in which neo-television “constructs” new masculine identities; the representation of men in fantasy universes; what Polish culture has to offer men when it is read from the perspective of politicised versions of late psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis; and male initiation rites in gulags. In “Presentations”, we publish J.M. Coetzee’s speech given on the occasion of his receiving an honorary doctorate degree at The University of Silesia in Katowice, a heretofore unpublished interview with the Nobel Prize winner (in Marek Pawlicki’s translation) and an article discussing his work. In the “Varia” section, we publish observations on the work of Tadeusz Konwicki and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as a comparative analysis of the motif of bees in the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian and Leopold Staff. 

  • okładka Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2019, nr 2 (14)

    Old Polish Readings. Presentations: Kamila Janiak
    Vol. 14 No. 2 (2019)

     

    In the main section, authors examine the theme of “newness and the need to experiment” from the non-obvious perspective of literature written in Old Polish. Authors write, among other topics, about the architecture of Jan Kochanowski’s epigrams; the art of interpreting the works of Mikołaj Sęp-Szarzyński; the problem of the freedom in imitation; and the idea of experimentation in late-baroque poetry. In the “Presentations” section, we publish Kamila Janiak’s poems, an interview with the poet, and articles discussing her poetry. In the section entittled “Archives and Chronicles”, we publish Teodor and Eleanora Parnicki’s letters to the Banaś family, prefaced and edited by Piotr Gorliński-Kucik. The “Varia” and “Discussion and Polemics” sections complete the issue. 

  • COVER 2019 1 (13)

    Luce Irigaray’s Philosophy. Presentations: Anna Kańtoch
    Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

     

    In the main section, we publish essays on the philosophy of the French thinker Luce Irigaray. Among a number of topics, the contributors address: the subversive meanings of virginity; the philosopher’s connections with Italian feminist movements; the work of gender difference; and feminine confessional accounts. The section is completed by a conversation between Katarzyna Szopa and Luce Irigaray, author of “The Bodily Encounter with the Mother”, as well as two texts by Irigaray which appear in Poland for the first time: “There Can Be No Democracy Without a Culture of Difference” and “How Sexuate Difference Can Rescue Our World”. The “Presentations” section is wholly dedicated to the work of Anna Kańtoch, an author who specialises in genre fiction. We publish an excerpt from her latest novel alongside essays discussing her literary output to date. The issue is completed by the “Discussions and Polemics” and “Varia” sections. 

  • Tom 12 Nr 2 (2018): Materialność nowoczesności

    Materiality and Modernity
    Vol. 12 No. 2 (2018)

    The main section of this issue is devoted to studies of the relation between philosophical, literary and artistic facets of modernity, as well as to the materiality and medium of language. Grzegorz Marcinkowski writes about the Benjamin-type experience of shock; Kacper Bartczak discusses modern American poetry from the perspective of the materiality of language; Anna Kałuża examines contemporary art in the process of discovering the materiality of its medium; Jakub Kornhauser traces the evolution of the object as the material vehicle of creative expression; Katarzyna Trzeciak depicts the transformations of materialities in Kraków’s Nowa Huta; Katarzyna Szopa makes a revision of Anna Świrszczyńska’s views on feminism; Dezydery Barłowski adopts a perspective informed by gender to examine the views of William Burroughs. In the “Varia” section, the reader will find articles addressing, among other topics: Imaginative and artistic affinities between Bruno Schulz and Tomasz Różycki; Witold Gombrowicz’s specific aestheticism; the debate over the shape of Polish literary studies as initiated by the publication of Feliks Bentkowski’s Historia literatury polskiej (A History of Polish Literature, 1914). This issue also contains the “Discussions and polemics”, “Chronicles”, and “Archives” sections (the latter featuring “Funeral Speech for Zofia of the Potockis” in Agnieszka Łatajska’s edition). 

  • Park: Space and Metaphor. Presentations: Natalia Malek
    Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018)

    In the main section of this issue, the reader will find ten articles essays on linguistic, literary, and cultural images of parks. The authors address the following issues: the park in the era of digital images and its future imaginative representations as inspired by architectural visions; also – by contrast – the nostalgic and past-rootedness of park areas; and such areas’ fairy-tale reconstructions. In the “Presentations” section, we are concerned with the work of Natalia Malek, with featured essays by Anna Marchewka and Katarzyna Trzeciak. Contributors to the “Discussions and Polemics” section comment on recent publications. The issue is completed by “Varia”, featuring Karolina Szymborska’s “Postmodern metamorphoses of the fairy tale in Poland” and Krzysztof Obremski’s “Speech on the occasion of the introduction of the War Oder of Virtuti Militari”: a rhetorical interpretation of Józef Piłsudski’s speech”, and the “Chronicles” section. 

  • Literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Presentations: Adam Kaczanowski
    Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017)

    This issue’s main section presents a series of essays on the literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Contributors examine literary depictions of Lithuania from the 17th century to the present. Two featured texts analyse an image of the Chocim campaign, and the editorial work of Vilnius-based Benedictine Nuns under the reign of the Prioress Franciszka Anna Wołłowiczówna, respectively. Alongside these, the reader will find a text about 20th-century poet Tymoteusz Karpowicz and his love of the landscapes of Vilnius. The “Presentations” section is devoted to the work of poet and author Adam Kaczanowski. The “Archives” section contains an article entitled “De Bicinensi Proelio. On the Battle of Byczyna”. The issue is complemented by the sections “Varia”, featuring Hanna Kocur’s “Écriture féminine in the Interwar Period” and Adam Kubiak’s “Painting Grass: An (Even) Smaller Piece of Writing About the Peripheral Humanities”; “Reviews and Discussions”; and “Chronicles”.  

  • Games Worth the Candle. Presentations: Donat Kirsch
    Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

    In the issue’s main section, we present essays and articles concerned with game studies. Krzysztof M. Maj, Michał Kłosiński, Sven Dwulecki, Arras Khadeli, and Miłosz Piotrowiak, among other scholars, address the topics of virtual worlds, transmedial narration, and the reality of terror and war as filtered through the medium of the game. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Polish author Donat Kirsch, interviewed by Andrzej Śnioszek. We publish ample excerpts from Kirsch’s fiction. The issue is completed by the sections “Reviews and Discussions”, “Varia” (featuring essays on the poetry of Halina Poświatowska and the fiction of Dorota Masłowska) and “Archives”, where the reader will find an interview between Teodor Parnicki and Stefan Szlachtycz, the director of the 1976 film adaptation of Parnicki’s novel Tylko Beatrycze (Only Beatrice). The transcript of the interview and its editing was provided by Polish philology students as a project for a course in text criticism and the preparation of critical editions conducted by Piotr Gorliński-Kucik. 

  • Men's affairs. Presentations: Marta Syrwid
    Vol. 8 No. 1-2 (2016)

    Among the topics discussed in this issue’s main section are ways in which cultural transformations have affected the idea of masculinity. Subject matter includes: representations of masculinity in literature after 1945; male figures in Gombrowicz’s novel Ferdydurke (represented within the project of anal criticism); the theme of fatherhood in Polish poetry after the 1990s; and the end of masculinity using for its point of focus Sapkowski’s novelistic series Wiedźmin (The Witcher). The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Polish novelist Marta Syrwid, author of, among other fictions, the novel Bogactwo (Wealth). This section contains critical essays, an interview with the author, and one of her stories. The issue is completed by the regular sections “Reviews and Discussions”, “Varia”, and “Chronicles”.  

  • Father, our neighbor. Prezentacje: Edward Pasewicz
    Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)

    The main section of this issue is devoted to the figure of the father. Contributors examine this figure in a variety of contexts: psychoanalytical, political, religious, post-secular, and philosophical. Among their interests is the genesis of the conscience as a product of the child-father relation and the consequences of the weakening of the father’s position. They address from many angles the crisis of the traditional ideals of masculinity, as well as transformations of the ideas concerning the roles, and the experiences of being, a father, brother, and/or son. Moreover, father figures become integrated into the issues of revolution and tyrannicide. For illustrative material, the authors have sourced texts of two different kinds: literary (e.g., Sienkiewicz, Schulz, Orzeszkowa, Mach, Kafka, Wat, Karpowicz), and philosophical (Hegel, Agamben, Schmitt). The “Presentations” section features an interview with the poet Edward Pasewicz, texts which examine his work, and a selection of his poems. The issue is completed by the regular sections: “Varia”, “Reviews and Discussions”, and “Chronicles”.  

  • Duels. Presentations: Sylwia Chutnik
    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015)

    This issue of the journal is fundamentally devoted to debate, both critical and literary-historical. In the main section, authors analyse situations of conflict and polemics among critics, poets, satirists, and authors. Among the subjects of consideration are: Jakub Wujek, Hieronim Morsztyn, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Kazimierz Wyka, and Ludwik Fryde. The “Presentations” section contains texts which examine the work of author Sylwia Chutnik; it also features an interview with the author of Kieszonkowy atlas kobiet (An Atlas of Women: Pocket Edition), excerpts from her latest novel Jolanta, and her talk about “the city”, given at The University of Silesia’s Philological Faculty. The issue is competed by the regular sections: “Varia”, which features a study of the work of Magdalena Tulli; “Reviews and Discussions”, including, among other texts, critical analyses of Anna Kronenberg’s Geopoetyka (Geopolitics) and of the correspondence between Jerzy Giedroyć and Teodor Parnicki; and “Chronicles”.  

  • Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2014 nr 1/2 (5)

    Economics of literature - Histories of literature. Presentations: Justyna Bargielska
    Vol. 5 No. 1-2 (2014)

    This issue is devoted to the economics and histories of literature. In the sections given over to economics, we look at representations of Holocaust, madness, psychoanalysis, links between Marxism and psychoanalysis, and the celebrity status of authors. In the sections concerning history, the reader is invited to ponder, among other matters, the possibility to revive (or “resurrect”) a literary work, to estimate the chances of small literary canons, and to study the identity of the literary historian. In the “Presentations” section, we introduce the work of Justyna Bargielska. Alongside an interview with this author, the reader will also find here her talk “Can Leda Eat the Swan?”, given to the Philological Faculty of The University of Silesia. This section also features two interpretative essays. Additionally, this issue of the journal includes the regular sections “Reviews and Discussions”, in which critical analysis has been given to, among other publications: Ryszard Nycz’s Poetyka doświadczenia (The Poetics of Experience); Magda Heydel’s Gorliwość tłumacza (The Zeal of the Translator); Nowy regionalizm w badaniach literackich. Badawczy rekonesans i zarys perspektyw (New Regionalism in Literary Studies. Research Reconnaissance and an Outline of Perspectives); edited by Małgorzata Mikołajczak and Elżbieta Rybicka; and Dariusz Nowacki’s Kto im dał skrzydła (Who Gave Them Wings). The issue is completed by the “Varia” and “Chronicles” sections. 

  • Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2013 nr 2 (4)

    Craving for writing. Presentations: Mariusz Sieniewicz
    Vol. 4 No. 2 (2013)

    The articles published in this issue are concerned with writing, in a broad sense of the word. Individual authors address and analyse chosen tropes and problems as found in the writings of, among other authors: Gallus Anonymus, Wincenty Kadłubek, Marcin Paszkowski, Stanisław Samuel Szemiot, Czesław Miłosz, and Jerzy Pilch. Two articles have been devoted to Old-Polish memoir writing. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Mariusz Sieniewicz. This issue features an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, whose working title – as affirmed by the author – is Smak rabarbaru (The Taste of Rhubarb). Among the texts found in the “Archives” section, the reader will find a translation of an excerpt from Julius Caesar Scaliger’s Poetics. Additionally, this issue includes the regular sections “Reviews and Discussions”, which features critical analyses of several recent publications: Krzysztof Mrowcewicz’s Małe folio (Small Folio); Alina Świeściak’s Melancholia w poezji polskiej po 1989 roku (Melancholia in Polish Poetry since 1989); Elżbieta Dutka’s Zapisywane miejsca (Inscribed Places), Sławomir Buryła’s Tematy (nie)opisane (Themes (Un)Described) and Hanna Kirchner’s Nałkowska albo życie pisane (Nałkowska, or a Life in Writing). 

  • Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2013 nr 1 (3)

    Psychoanalysis, politics, social change. Presentations: Krzysztof Siwczyk
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013)

    The articles in the main section of this issue address problems raised by Lacan, Ranciére, Freud and Žižek. Moreover, the issue also features a translation of Mladen Dollar’s text “Freud and the Political”. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Krzysztof Siwczyk. In this section, the reader will find a conversation with the poet and essays discussing his output.  The “Archives” section features Teodor Parnicki’s letters to Aleksander Wat, introduced by Piotr Gorliński-Kucik. Finally, the issue includes the “Reviews and Discussions” section, which features, among other contributions, a review of Wielkopolski alfabet pisarek (The Greater-Polish Alphabet of Female Authors); a discussion about the “dilemmas” of queer studies; a review of Od poetyki przestrzeni do geopoetyki (From the Poetics of Space to Geopoetics), edited by Elżbieta Konończuk and Elżbieta Sidoruk; and a review of a collection of poems by Max Herrmann-Niesse. In the “Varia” section, the reader will find articles comparing the theories of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz to Harold Bloom’s conception of influence; discussing Jan Brzękowski’s novel Międzywojnie (The Interwar Period); and a recording of a game of Scrabble. 

  • Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2012 nr 1-2 (2)

    Słowacki after two hundred years. Presentations: Andrzej Bart
    Vol. 2 No. 1-2 (2012)

    The articles published in this issue’s main section concern the life and work of Juliusz Słowacki. Among topics of analyses and interpretations, carried out from new research perspectives, are Słowacki’s relation to Zygmunt Krasiński, as well as the poet’s links with Towianism. New readings have been given of such romantic masterpiece as Król-Duch (King-Ghost), Mazepa, and Beatrix Cenci. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Andrzej Bart. The section features a conversation with Bark, author of Rewers (Reverse), and two essays that discuss his fiction. The issue also contains the section “Reviews and Discussions”, featuring, among other texts, reviews of Krystyna Kłosińska’s Feministyczna krytyka literacka (Feminist Literary Criticism) and Tadeusz Sławek’s Ujmować. Henry David Thoreau i wspólnota świata (To Take Away. Henry David Thoreau and the Community of the World); and, finally, the “Chronicles” section.  

  • Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2011 nr 1 (1)

    Different life of history (in literature). Presentations: Darek Foks
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011)

    The articles published in the main section focus on the theme of history’s life in literary works. Among the issues examined by the contributors are: alternative histories; counterfactual simulations of the future; the documentary possibilities of graphic narrative (comics); the phenomenon of the author’s return to history. Generally, the contributions’ scope of research is located at the intersection of traditional historiography and historical depictions as eligible to interpretation and subjected to narrative and literary laws. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Darek Foks. Alongside excerpts from his poetry, this section also features a conversation about the poet’s output and an essay analysing it. The issue also contains the sections: “Archives”, featuring an essay about “Censorship and Parnicki’s novels”; “Reviews and Discussions”, featuring reviews of Ryszard Koziołek’s Ciała Sienkiewicza (The Bodies of Sienkiewicz) and Michał Paweł Markowski’s Życie na miarę literatury (Life Befitting Literature); and “Chronicles”.