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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation and struggle allied with various ideologies to subsequently become an integral part of post-structuralist culture theory and recently the New Humanities, also known as post-theory. The book positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by established and rising scholars and provides greater insights into various aspects of Polish intellectual culture during the past decades. The publication constitutes an important voice in the discussion on criticism by demonstrating the specific theoretical and pragmatic perspective of the debate in Poland in relation to Europe and the rest of the (post)modern world.
List of contents
Contents: Ewa Kraskowska: A Critique of Criticism - Pawel Luków: Kant's Redefinition of Reason: Criticism, Freedom, Enlightenment - Elzbieta Winiecka: Distance - the Figure of Modernity - Marek Kazmierczak: Literary Theory as Critical Epistemology and Deontology: Notes on the Concerns in Fiction in Relation to the Images of the Holocaust in Mass Media - Olga Plaszczewska: Comparative Literature: Metacriticism and its Paradoxes - Danuta Ulicka: The Protocol and the Magazine. Two Styles of Literary Criticism in the So-called Russian Formalism - Danuta Szajnert: The Subversive Potential of an Apocryphon - Natalia Lemann: Could We Conserve Ourselves From the Past? Alternates Histories and Uchronias as Literary Apories of Politics and Historical Knowledge - Magdalena Bednarek: Leaving the Tower. Feminist Rewriting of Fairy Tales in the Contemporary Polish Prose since 1989 - Izabella Adamczewska: The Ecological Novel as a Critical Genre - Michal Wróblewski: The Evolutionary Potential of Metacriticality in Reference to «Watchmen» - the Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - Agnieszka Karpowicz: Logo-visual Genres. From Criticism of Language to Social Critique.
About the author
Charles Russell is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey (USA), where he was Director of American Studies and Associate Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience.
Arne Melberg gained his PhD in Literature at the University of Stockholm (Sweden) and is now Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo (Norway).
Jaros¿aw P¿uciennik is Professor Ordinarius of the Humanities at the Chair of Theory of Literature at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of ¿ód¿ (Poland) with specialization in literary culture, cognitive semiotics, and new media of reading.
Michä Wróblewski is a PhD student at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of Lód¿ (Poland). He has published on pop culture, cognitive cultural studies and critical theory.
