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No. 1-2 (1), Preliminaries
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2011, No. 1-2 (1), Preliminaries

Paweł Bohuszewicz
Cultural History of Old Polish Literature: a Case Study

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Keywords: cultural history of literature; „middle-class literature”, laughter, comicality, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), anti-hermeneutics

Abstract:
The article presents an analysis of the most interesting case of practising cultural history of past literature in Poland, which is the book by Witold Wojtowicz Między literaturą a kulturą. Studia o „literaturze mieszczańskiej” przełomy XVI i XVII wieku (Szczecin 2010). The text has been divided into four chapters: the first one contains the analysis of Wojtowicz’s book carried out by means of the tools for analysis of an academic text devised by Author-Network Theory (ANT). The second chapter presents the case mentioned in the title in the context negative for it, which is hermeneutics and its postulate of “fusion of horizons”. Finally, in the third and fourth chapter, there is an analysis of how the author perceives the terms which are the most important for him and his book, as well as cultural history of literature as a whole, which are culture and literature.

About Author:
BOHUSZEWICZ PAWEŁ – literature specialist, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Polish Literature at the Faculty of Languages of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Contact email: bohuszewicz[at]umk.pl

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