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| Жан Делвіль, "Мертвий Орфей", 1893 |
Професори Варшавського університету Едвард Касперські та Жанета Налевайк запрошують спеціалістів з теорії та історії літератури, мистецтвознавства та інших суміжних дисциплін (зокрема, з України) взяти участь у колективній монографії «Символізм чи символізми? Теорія, літературні та мистецькі практики».
Для участі у проекті треба до 15 березня 2011 року надіслати короткий зміст (abstract, не більше 250 слів) майбутньої статті на адресу tekstualia@o2.pl польською чи англійською мовами. Завершені тексти (приблизний обсяг – один друкований аркуш) очікуються до кінця червня 2011 року.
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Symbolism or Symbolisms?
Theories, Literary and Artistic Practice
An Experimental Project with Focus on Object Development and Publication of Monograph under the Same Title
An Invitation to Participate in the Project
The questions of symbolism in theory, literature and art accumulated some kind of special actuality in the second half of the 19th century – an expression of this actuality was the famous manifest of symbolism from the year 1886 written by Jean Moréas.
However the symbolist idea and practice did not appeared in the mentioned period nor were they enclosed in it. The symbolist ideas started to appear in the 18th century (when concentrating on the modern times only), they remained present in the 19th and 20th century and are still carried on, in the 21st century. Moreover, recently some efforts have been undertaken to undermine the legitimacy of symbolism, which, without a doubt, makes this formation more intriguing and gives the reason to examine it closer.
An enormous, various and comprehensive work of literature, theory and art has been collected in the area of symbolism in recent centuries, that work requires some attentive and careful research and synthesis. A portion of material for research so broadly conceived is impossible to contain in one monograph only, but we would like to take the initiative and start a broader and long-lasting work in this area. We would like to start this undertaking with our monograph called “Symbolism or Symbolisms?”.
The main idea of this monograph shall be the question, whether we have been dealing, from 18th to 21st century, with a single, coherent and heterogeneous symbolist formation or just the opposite – with many separate and autonomous formations of symbolisms, which – by demonstrating the mutual relationship, the adequacy and by competing with each other – were subjected to specific, local and historical determinants and eventually took a theoretically, literally and artistically crystallised form.
We would like to undertake following topics, which, among the others, would cover issues concerning the extend, to which the symbolist proposals in question were under the influence of:
1) Aesthetics and Poetics of the Individual Authors (for example: the Proposals of Novalis, Samuel Tylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Adam Mickiewicz, Cyprian Norwid, Taras Szewczenko, the Individual French, Russian and German Symbolists, Leśmian, the Surrealists, the Existentialists, etc.)
2) Current Trends of Literary and Artistic Works (Classicism, Romanticism, Gothicism, Parnassianism, Modernism, Decadence, Expressionism, Surrealism, Postmodernism and Others);
3) The Influence of Linguistic and Literary Traditions and National Contexts, as well as the International (Global) Context;
4) The Extend of the Change and Adjustment of the Style and issues of Various Literary Periods over time.
The crucial problems in the suggested research areas appear, above all other things, in question if and to what extend had the symbolist theories and practises taken a distinct and peculiar form. The crucial questions will concern the assumptions, the essence and function of these symbolist formations. The questions will not concentrate on narrow factual descriptions nor will they deal with partial and exiguous texts. Provided we carried out such a generalising goal in our monograph, we would obtain some material for future typology of various versions of symbolism.
This invitation is addressed to all those, whose research interests are situated within the area of above marked theories and practices of symbolism: namely to the specialist in Polish, French, German, Slavic, English studies or philosophers and art historians. The aim of the monograph is to present an international, historical and comparative cross section.
We are waiting for your abstracts of max. 250 words in Polish or English until 15th March 2011. Use following e-mail address: tekstualia@o2.pl For completed texts (in size of about a single publishing sheet) we are waiting until the end of June 2011.
You are cordially invited!
prof. dr hab. Edward Kasperski
The Department of Comparative Studies
Faculty of Polish Studies
University of Warsaw
e-mail: e.kasperski@uw.edu.pl
dr Żaneta Nalewajk
The Department of the Literature of the 20th Century
University of Warsaw
