%0 Journal Article
%T Between the Eye and the Ear. About Szpital żydowski w Warszawie by Maria Konopnicka
%A Krzyżanowska, Magdalena
%J Wielogłos
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.20.032.13424
%N Issue 4 (46) 2020: Strategie szczerości
%P 115-135
%K mental illness, noise, experience, sound, language, cognition, hearing, expression, sight
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/miedzy-okiem-i-uchem-o-szpitalu-zydowskim-w-warszawie-marii-konopnickiej
%X 
	In my article, I interpret the work Szpital żydowski w Warszawie [Jewish Hospital in Warsaw] by Maria Konopnicka with emphasis on the way it depicts acoustic phenomena. For the purpose of the analysis, I juxtapose their function with the role assigned to visual references. To this end, I refer to the methodology of sound studies and visual studies. As it turns out, Konopnicka recognizes acoustic phenomena as a way of expressing extreme emotions and limit-experiences (in this case – mental illness) as well as human authenticity. Moreover, by constructing an opposition between sight and hearing, she is able to contrast the world’s rational and irrational aspect and express a crisis of faith in terms of positivistic epistemology.

	* Publikacja powstała przy wsparciu finansowym uzyskanym z Programu zintegrowanych działań na rzecz rozwoju Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (ZIP), współfinansowanego ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój 2014–2020, ścieżka 3.5.