Critical Theory and Critical Genres: Contemporary Perspectives from Poland (Literary and Cultural Theory)

✍ Scribed by Charles Russel (editor), Arne Melberg (editor), Jaroslaw Pluciennik (editor), Michal Wroblewski (editor)

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Editors’ Introduction
On Criticism
A Critique Of Criticism: Ewa Kraskowska
Kant’s Redefinition of Reason: Critique, Freedom, and Enlightenment: Paweł Łuków
Distance — a Figure of Modernity: Elżbieta Winiecka
Literary Theory as Critical Epistemology and Deontology: Notes on the Concerns in Fiction in Relation to the Images of the Holocaust in Mass Media: Marek Kaźmierczak
Comparative Literature: Metacriticism and its Paradoxes: Olga Płaszczewska
Case Studies
The Protocol and the Magazine. Two Styles of Literary Criticism in the So-called Russian Formalism: Danuta Ulicka
The Subversive Potential of an Apocryphon: Danuta Szajnert
Could We Save Ourselves From the Past? Alternate Histories and Uchronias as Literary Apories of Politics and Historical Knowledge: Natalia Lemann
The Escape From Castle Tower — Feminist Re-Writing Of Fairy Tales In Polish Prose Since 1989: Magdalena Bednarek
The Ecological Novel as Critical Genre: Izabella Adamczewska
The Evolutionary Potential of Metacriticality in Reference to Watchmen — the Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Michał Wróblewski
Logo-visual Genres. From Criticism of Language to Social Critique: Agnieszka Karpowicz