Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze nr 08/2019: Recent submissions

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    • Constellations of Stains: The Matter of Experiencing and the Measure of Writing in the Essays by Józef Czapski and Marta Piwińska 

      Borowczyk, Jerzy (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      This text is an attempt at repaying the author’s debt (both as an academic intellectual and as a regular reader) towards two inspiring essayists: Marta Piwińska and Józef Czapski. From the latter, the author of the article ...

    • Admiration in Place of Imitation: Four Medallions by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński 

      Śniedziewska, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      The medallions devoted to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Ribera are a major collection of texts within Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s entire output. Through them, he proved that he was able to write a moving text about ...

    • Svetlana Slapšak’s Feminist Essay: A Polygraph of Contemporary Culture 

      Koch, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      The article discusses the problem of the theory and practice of contemporary Serbian feminist essay. The text indicates how – at the turn of the 21st century – the essay participated in the reading of the nationalist culture ...

    • The Essays of Contaminated Landscapes 

      Tomczok, Paweł (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      The article presents an analysis of the essayistic knowledge about genocide. For this purpose, the author used works by Martin Pollack. Further, the article indicates the intertwining of two threads in Pollack’s prose. The ...

    • Essay as the Autobiographical Heresy 

      Tomczok, Marta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      This article discusses the special kind of Holocaust essay which, on the one hand, remains in opposition to academic texts and, on the other, is a text which resembles an autobiography, and which reveals its author’s ...

    • “Risky Forays into Border Lands”: „Bez autorytetu” by Stefan Chwin and Stanisław Rosiek, and the Depleting Modernity 

      Kaliszuk, Przemysław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      The article concerns a critical book by Stefan Chwin and Stanisław Rosiek, titled Bez autorytetu, which is treated as an example of the process of a certain turn in the Polish modern literature of the end of the 20th ...

    • A Container with an Insect Corpse: On Essays by Marek Bieńczyk 

      Czyżak, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      The article contains considerations on Marek Bieńczyk’s literary output and his book Kontener, published in 2018. All essays from the volume manifest their autobiographical and literary character. The main aim of the paper ...

    • New Century – ‘New Essays’? 

      Lisak-Gębala, Dobrawa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
      This article constitutes an attempt at organising the non-conservative tendencies in Polish essays published in the 21st century, which apply to themes, the lowering of the tone, and forms of writing. One major stream is ...

    • Editorial 

      Jarzyna, Anita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)