The article discusses a broadly understood relation between the translation of a poetic text and versification. Assuming that reading a poem (as well as its translation) is always an interpretation that heavily depends ...

The article is an interpretation of Esse by Czesław Miłosz and a fragment of a book by Dorota Masłowska Darling, I killed our cats (Kochanie zabiłam nasze koty). It presents similarities and differences in the perception ...

The article is an attempt of presenting creative works of priest Wojciech Dembołęcki in the context of various canons of perceiving a written text (defined according to different criteria and rules) – from the genological ...

The article reconstructs the development of Ingarden’s viewpoint on the notions of content and form of a literary work of art. The author of the article thus calls up a specific methodological proposition formulated by ...

The article discusses the existence and functioning of the notion of canon in the social consciousness after 1989 in the context of Polish prose of the last twenty years. It points to two semantic circles connected with ...

The article compares the poem by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Hymnus trium puerorum with Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz to show how processed and personalized heritage of romanticism becomes a part of the modern classical attitude ...

The tactic of inquiring reading (close reading, explikation de texte) focuses mainly on the text’s subject – it is beneficial if it is of topical character. It is then easier to find and interprete intertextual connections ...

The article is an attempt of describing the relation of a philosophical tale as a genre to the canon. It is characterized as (de)canonization: on the one hand the story fights with the existing canon by means of satire, ...