RSS 1.0Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze nr 08/2019
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‘The translator’s extraordinary artistry’. An Interview with Magdalena Heydel, Conducted by Karolina Król
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The interview focuses mostly on Stanisław Barańczak’s methods of translation and his translation oeuvre. Similarities between Polish and American literary life also play a significant role in the text. Another important ... -
Zbigniew Herbert’s Journeys to the South. A Conversation with Andrzej Franaszek and Francesco Matteo Cataluccio, Conducted by Krystyna Pietrych (during the discussion panel at the 12th ‘Puls Literatury’ Festival in Łódź, 8 December 2018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The topic of a conversation of three literary scholars which took place in the last months of the Zbigniew Herbert Year (2018) is the experience recorded in the poet’s poems and essays of the Mediterranean culture, antiquity ... -
“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral”. A Conversation with Marek Bieńczyk on Milan Kundera’s Works (Conducted by Olga Żyminkowska)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The interview with Marek Bieńczyk covers, in general, the subject of the philosophy of novel by Milan Kundera and the reception of his works nowadays in Poland and abroad. Marek Bieńczyk – the French translator of Milan ... -
Measures of Time of Literature. Review of Rafał Pokrywka’s book titled „Współczesna powieść niemieckojęzyczna”, Universitas, Kraków 2018
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article is a discussion of a study by Rafał Pokrywka titled Współczesna powieść niemieckojęzyczna (Kraków 2018). The author of the study analysed selected works written at the turn of the 21st century, and – in an ... -
‘Meteor’ as the First Official Łódź-Based Literary Group
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article is devoted to the first Łódź-based literary group called ‘Meteor’, which operated in 1928-1930. The author mainly focuses on providing a reliable discussion of the circumstances of the establishing of the group ... -
Essay as a Hydrofoil Boat: Reflections on Reading Jan Tomkowski’s Anthology of Polish Literary Essay
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper is a multifaceted and contextual attempt at discussing the anthology of Polish literary essay in the version proposed by Jan Tomkowski in the edition of Biblioteka Narodowa (Series I, no. 329). It is also an essay ... -
Black Love: On the Colours of Feelings in “Confiteor” by Antoni Szandlerowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The imagination of Antoni Szandlerowski in his collection of letters to Helena Beatus (Confiteor), his beloved one, is dominated by black. The aim of this article is to show that this colour plays a major role in Confiteor ... -
The Controversy Surrounding Rev. Włodzimierz Kirchner’s Brochure [Challenging Poverty in Bałuty]
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Włodzimierz Kirchner (1875-1970) – former priest, activist in the Łódź and Warsaw districts of the Christian Charity Association, he supported the efforts of the organisation by publishing articles on philanthropy. He was ... -
Césure et sublime
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Having written The Joke, Kundera changed the modus vivendi of the novel’s narrator who, with time, became a separate protagonist. This is connected with the appearance of the ellipsis as the main plot device, which is not ... -
Herstory in Young Adult Fiction by Joanna Rudniańska Based on the Examples of „Rok Smoka” and „Kotka Brygidy”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper discusses young adult fiction by Joanna Rudniańska, whose works belong to the stream of non-conformist coming-of-age novels marked by experiences of exclusively teenage girls/women, developing in Poland since the ... -
“And to be malicious and belligerent / And not to lose feminine features”: Zuzanna Ginczanka’s Satirical World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper reflects on how Zuzanna Ginczanka, dubbed ‘Tuwim in a dress’ by Adam Ważyk, was finding her way – both as a woman and, above, as a poet – in the literary, cabaret world of Julian Tuwim, Jan Lechoń, or Antoni ... -
Selected 19th-Century Poetic Paeans Celebrating Stanisław Moniuszko
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This article has a nature of a record. It was inspired by the 200th anniversary of the birth of Stanisław Moniuszko, and its main goal is to reference selected celebratory poems created in the 19th century in order to ... -
Words and Herbs: Julian Tuwim and the Poetry of Mindfulness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this article, the author discusses the subject of pro-peace education with the use of poetry, and its influence on the mental well-being of children. She indicates Julian Tuwim as one of the Polish trailblazers of the ... -
‘My Gaze as Sharp as a Pin / Penetrates the World’: The Colourful Dailiness in the Poetry of Zuzanna Ginczanka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The aim of the paper is to present preliminary research results on the sight-centrism of the poetry written by Zuzanna Ginczanka. The author of the article draws attention to a paradox: it is the sight that is favoured in ... -
Why Did Józef Czapski Change His View of the Skamandrites?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article applies to Józef Czapski’s – a Polish painter and essayist – personal literary choices; ones that often were contrary to the tastes of his generation. In 1942, after leaving the Soviet bloc, Czapski developed ... -
The Battle of the Skamander
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article offers a reconstruction of the text-based fight between Adolf Nowaczyński and Antoni Słonimski. It was not, as it is argued here, only a contest of styles and temperaments – though this exchange proved one of ... -
„Panienka”, „Godzina Polski”, 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The author of the article deals with the poetic newspaper debut of Irena Tuwim (1898-1987), an outstanding author and translator of children’s literature, but also a poet who is forgotten or read only on the margin of the ... -
How to Rise to Texts? On Joanna Pollakówna, an Essayist
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper focuses on the essayistic output of Joanna Pollakówna, a poet and a historian of art, an author of several books of sketches devoted to European painting. It draws attention to the necessity of reading her poetry ... -
A Tribute to „Barocco”: The Figurativeness of Maria Morska
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper focuses on the figure of Maria Morska, a reciter dubbed “Skamander muse”, who had a versatile and multifaceted impact on the literary circles of her day. I am conducting the quest for the artist (elusive today ... -
The Poem for the Opening of the Picador Café: History – Myth – Literature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The founders of the first literary café in reborn Poland, namely ‘Pikador’ in Warsaw, chose a poem by Jan Lechoń for the inauguration ceremony in November 1918. In the poem, titled Mochnacki, the young poet recollects a ...