https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1018-4467
Jakub Skurtys - asystent na Wydziale Filologii Polskiej UWr., krytyk i historyk literatury. Przygotowuje rozprawę soktorską o relacjach ekonomii symbolicznej i literatury w twórczości Adama Ważyka; współredagował tom szkiców o najnowszej poezji Tajne bankiety (Poznań 2014), publikował m.in. w „Pamiętniku Literackim”, Przestrzeniach Teorii”, „Przeglądzie Filozoficzno-Literackim”
Jakub Skurtys
Wielogłos, Numer 4 (26) 2016: Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński: potyczki, rewizje, powroty, 2015, s. 109-123
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.15.035.5169The missing part of (literary) history
The article is a review of Marta Baron-Milian’s Wat plus VAT, the first monograph about connections between economy and literature in Aleksander Wat’s work. The author tries to show Baron’s book as a part of wider phenomenon, which can be observed after the great crisis in 2008, as a result of returning of different humanistic approaches to the problems of capitalist economy. By analyzing “economic consciousnessˮ and literary strategies of Aleksander Wat (in his poetry, biography, short stories and essays), Baron reveals the theological, symbolic and linguistic basis of modern economy. It allows her to describe a specific literary “experience of economy” and penetrating analyze of main themes of Wat’s work. One of the aims of the review is to rethink Baron’s
proposition as a part of the new, thematically orientated history of polish modern literature. The other is to check, if Wat’s and Baron’s strictly modern and humanistic view of the economic systems can be still subversive and helpful against postmodern, mathematically reinforced capitalistic rhetoric.
Jakub Skurtys
Wielogłos, Numer 4 (38) 2018: Studia nad męskościami – (re)interpretacje, 2018, s. 23-45
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.18.033.10197Boys in Too Big Uniforms: Men’s Communities in Józef Czechowicz’s War Prose
The article is an attempt to present diff erent modalities of men’s communities in Józef Czechowicz’s short prose texts, which were created many years after and on the basis of his experiences during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921. The author partly refers to Czechowicz’s biography and some memories of him, and also uses the concept of “homosocial desire” and Georges Bataille’s anthropologic theories. He aims to describe a wide spectrum of Czechowicz’s after-war fantasies about male bonds: brotherhood, fi ctional in-war family model (with a subconscious search for a symbolic Father), friendship and homoerotic partnership.
Jakub Skurtys
Wielogłos, Numer 2 (44) 2020: Wspólnoty kobiece, 2020, s. 161-180
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.20.018.12409Other Gender of Avant-Garde? On the Book Płeć awangardy
The book Płeć awangardy [Gender of the Avant-Garde] is the first attempt of this kind at a comprehensive, gender-oriented presentation of the avant-garde tradition in Polish literary studies. The review of the volume starts with an outline of its place in the worldwide humanities, especially in the face of the increasingly dynamic development of women’s studies on the avant-garde. Individual texts are slightly different from the editorial introduction and its assumptions: a materialistic attempt to reclaim and reestablish feminism in the heart of the avant-garde. Thus, they are presented as a result of a meeting of several methodological schools with clear patronages at the University of Silesia: art historians, literary historians, literary critics, representatives of men’s studies, women’s studies, feminism and gender studies. Despite the political background of many of them, connected with avant-garde ideas of social and aesthetic emancipation, it is easy to see how far their dictionaries have diverged from each other and how difficult it is now to meet and establish a common understanding of basic concepts such as avant-garde, sex/gender or even political engagement.