TY - JOUR TI - Uses of anthology AU - Jakubowiak, Maciej TI - Uses of anthology AB - In a review of a book Wielcy artyści ucieczek. Antologia tekstów o „Życiu i czasach Michaela K.” w trzydziestą rocznicę publikacji, an author analyses the mere idea of an anthology of interpretations, describing its two possible understandings: as a collection of incomparable perspectives and as a field of conflict. The author emphasizes difficulties of interpretational procedures related to the novel by J.M. Coetzee and points to a political meanings of an act of reading. Additionally, texts collected in the anthology are classified by different attitudes towards the work of meanings in the novel, and some reductional practices are criticized. Finally, the author places the anthology in a wider horizon of interpretational strategies in contemporary humanities, asking questions regarding their importance – or lack of it.   VL - 2014 IS - Issue 3 (21) 2014: Nowe (i stare) światy. Utopie i dystopie w filozofii i literaturze PY - 2015 SN - 1897-1962 C1 - 2084-395X SP - 123 EP - 132 DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.14.037.2995 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/pozytki-z-antologii-o-ksiazce-wielcy-artysci-uczieczek-antologia-tekstow-o-zyciu-i-czasach-michaela-k-w-trzydziesta-rocznice-publikacji KW - Coetzee John Maxwell KW - theory of interpretation KW - anthology KW - theory of literature