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Literature on Trial
Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions Germany, Poland, and Russia to show how fluid the relationship once was between the genres of criticism and those of literature. An alternative history of literary criticism, Literature on Trial marks a shift from earlier studies' focus on aesthetic principles to an emphasis on the development of literary-critical forms. Chrostowska relates cultural and institutional changes in these areas to the formation of literary-critical knowledge. She accounts for the ways in which critical discourse organized itself formally and deemed some genres 'proper' while eliminating others. Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life.
To Cast the First Stone
The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” To Cast the First Stone traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today. Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wass...
Utopia in the Age of Survival
A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges. Utopia in the Age of Survival makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as an action-guiding hypothesis—that is, as something still possible. S. D. Chrostowska looks to the vibrant, visionary mid-century resurgence of embodied utopian longings and projections in Surrealism, the Situationist International, and critical theorists writing in their wake, reconstructing ut...
The Eyelid
In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people’s nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive Illusion – a social media-like entity that hijacks creativity – overtakes the masses, Chevauchet, the old radical, weakens and disappears, leavi...
Figura domu
Figura domu. Szkice o najnowszej anglojęzycznej literaturze emigrantów z ziem polskich i ich potomków w Kanadzie analizuje najnowszą, anglojęzyczną literaturę polskiej grupy etnicznej oraz potomków emigrantów z ziem polskich w Kanadzie. Twórczość ta rozwija się dynamicznie w ostatnich latach, a szczególny jej rozkwit można zaobserwować od 2010 roku. Tytułowa figura domu to zarówno oś analityczna wyznaczająca różnorodne podejścia do pojęcia domu, jak i metafora poszukiwania przynależności i zakorzenienia w Kanadzie. Wśród autorów, których twórczość została poddana analizie, znaleźli się pisarze znani i nagradzani – Ewa Stachniak, Andrew J. Borkowski i Kat...
Political Uses of Utopia
Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced and lie somewhere between—or, better yet, beyond—the mainstream caution against it and the conviction that another, better world ought to be possible. Representing ...
Permission
Consisting of anonymous e-mail messages sent by the author to an acclaimed visual artist over the course of a year, Permission is the record of an experiment: an attempt to forge a connection with a stranger through the writing of a book, and thus a search for fellowship in solitude, as well as a testimony to the isolating effects and creative possibilities of the digital age. With reveries touching upon the insipid landscape of post-Cold War Poland, the elongated shadows of the Holocaust, and the narrator's "safe passage" to America, Permission not only updates the "epistolary novel" for our time by embracing the permissiveness we associate with digital communication, it opens up a new literary frontier.
Essen, töten, heilen
Über die Entstehungsbedingungen der Literaturkritik. Während im deutschsprachigen Raum zwischen Literaturkritik (als Sonderform journalistischer Auseinandersetzung mit Gegenwartsliteratur) und Literaturwissenschaft (als systematische, analytische und historisierende Auseinandersetzung mit Werken aller Epochen) unterschieden wird, kennt man im romanischen und anglo-amerikanischen Sprachraum diese trennscharfe Unterscheidung nicht: literary criticism bzw. critique littéraire bezeichnen beide Disziplinen. Unklar war bislang, wieso es zu einer solchen Unterscheidung kam. Mögliche Antworten liefert die Hinterfragung der Entstehungsbedingungen der Literaturkritik um 1700, etwa in der gelehrten Streitkultur, in der programmatischen Verbindung von Moralphilosophie und Geschmack nach Shaftesbury oder in der Rationalisierung der Ästhetik nach Pope. Die Autorinnen und Autoren rekonstruieren die Praktiken des modernen literaturkritischen Schreibens an zentralen Punkten seiner Entstehung um und nach 1700, um perspektivisch eine Systematik diskursiv etablierter Praxisformen zu entwickeln, die entscheidende Bausteine zur Klärung der Frage, wie Literaturkritik entstand, liefert.
