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“Distant woods”: the matter of books and the modernist pastoral
2021
International audience; This paper is part of a broader project that aims to examine the importance of the materials used in the making of illustrated books from a medial and ecocritical perspective. I focus on a specific case study in which I explore the attitude to nature encapsulated in the use of and reference to wood in British interwar wood-engraved illustrated books. My departure point is the English artist Paul Nash’s Places (Heinemann, 1922), a short collection of prose poems and wood-engravings. An elegy produced at a time when Nash was trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Places was published after he made the great war paintings depicting the human …
«The Uneasy Modernist: John Middelton Murry »
2014
International audience; This presentation discusses John Middleton Murry "The Trajectory of an Intellectual" (1919)
« Some types of Synaestheses in The Foundation of Aesthetics »
2014
International audience; This presentation explores the complexity of I.A. Richards's The Foundation of Aesthetics, taking into account the material and layout of the book vis-à-vis Richards's theses.
"Czytano je z zajęciem, a często ze wzruszeniem" : o zapomnianych powieściach Hanny Krzemienieckiej
2019
Janina née Bobińska Furs-Żyrkiewiczowa (1866–1930) is a forgotten author of works documenting the life of the Polish landed gentry and the intelligentsia in Russian Ukraine at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her three novels – Fatum. Studium psychologiczne (1904). A gdy odejdzie w przepaść wieczną… Romans zagrobowy (1906), Lecą wichry!( 1921) – in an interesting way they combine conventions of moral realism, decadent and lyrical atmosphere of modernism and the traditions of the “Ukrainian school” of Polish Romantic poetry (the writer was related to B. Zaleski). The prose of Krzemieniecka, the wife of a Pole and a high-ranking Russian officer, contains many autobiographical themes a…