NEW STORIES OF LITERATURE - JOANNA MAJ

Discover a fascinating journey through contemporary Polish literature! Joanna Maj's book is a genological panorama of new stories of literature that appeared in Poland after 1989. The author analyzes how the traditional historical-literary synthesis gives way to various academic and non-academic genres, creating new ways of telling about the literary past.

• New ways of telling about the literary past
• Reorganized research tools of literary historians
• Role of recipients in new stories of literature
• Author's taxonomic approach to new stories
• Analysis of diverse material methodological, linguistic and genological

Joanna Maj proposes her own taxonomic approach, distinguishing between enumerative stories (encyclopedias, lexicons, dictionaries, alphabets, anthologies, lists), subjective stories (essays, diaries, conversations), performative stories (tourist guides, multimedia museums), visual stories of literature and hybrid forms. The author shows how new stories of literature speak out against dominant discourses, seeking locally conditioned projects, blurring the boundaries between science and narrative.

The book analyzes diverse material in methodological, linguistic and genological terms. The author examines the poetics of tourist guides as part of the comparative project Literary Bedeker new topographies of reading. This publication is a testimony of individual experiences with the literary past, offering a fresh perspective on Polish literature after 1989.

Joanna Maj is a literary scholar working at the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. She deals with forms of knowledge representation, including genological problems of historical-literary writing. Her research focuses on the analysis and interpretation of contemporary trends in Polish literature.

Universitas Publishing presents the book in 235x155 mm format, paperback. The 316-page publication is an ideal offer for literature lovers and students of Polish philology. Year of publication: 2021.