Looking at the Draft and Thinking the Environs. Exercises in Genetic Criticism
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEKonteksty Kultury, 2024, Volume 21 issue 3, pp. 256-279
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.24.026.20861Authors
Looking at the Draft and Thinking the Environs. Exercises in Genetic Criticism
The essay is devoted to the following problem: how is it possible to search for a link between genetical analysis of the rough draft and the reflection about the spatial and social surroundings, within which the creative action took place. “Environment” here is understood, firstly, as the very same sheet of paper, used by the author to create the poem, secondly, as the interpersonal and social relation, that stimulates (but also limits) creative subject’s activity, thirdly, as the “hospital”, what means: a material space, an institution and a social situation), in which the creative subject strives to preserve their subjectivity. As the cases studied in this kind of “regime of interpretation” serve the working manuscript left by three major Polish poets of twentieth century: Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz and Zbigniew Herbert.
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Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2024, Volume 21 issue 3, pp. 256-279
Article type: Original article
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Poland
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MATEUSZ ANTONIUK – professor of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His field of research includes theory and practice of genetic criticism as well as history of Polish modern literature. Founder and head of the Centre for Creativity Research (at the Jagiellonian University, https://kreatywnosc.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/), member of the Society for Textual Scholarship (USA) and the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Member of the board of the conference series “Genesis – City – Year”. In 2013 he was a fellow of Yale University and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (program for post-doctoral scholars). In English he has recently published an essay in “Textual Cultures” (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/textual/article/view/31600).
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