The climate crisis has not only caused some species to die out. Nature is responding to rapidly changing environmental conditions and this response is more often than not unpredictable. Many weird fiction texts have for a long time talked about the eccentric life of plants and animals that can undergo strange transformations and stage astonishing interventions in human worlds. (...)
“there’s certainly enough pain (…) but not enough poetry:” Halina Poświatowska’s autothematic poems
Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik
A b s t r a k t
The interpretation of the poem [I cannot be merely a human] from the collection Oda do dłoni [Ode to hands] allows the author to reflect on Halina Poświatowska’s poetry. (...)
Eco-psychological analysis of ecological autobiography. The case of Mary Oliver’s Upstream: Selected Essays
Shuai Tong
A b s t r a k t
This study examines the confluence of psychoanalysis and ecocriticism in American nonfiction, particularly analyzing the ecological autobiography “Upstream: Selected Essays (2016)” from the Freudian eco-psychoanalytic perspective. (...)
Tagi: fall 2024, Shuai TongEconarratology and the problem of metalepsis and description in Wiktor Żwikiewicz’s Druga Jesień [A Second Autumn]
Maciej Mazur
A b s t r a k t
This article presents an econarratological analysis of metalepsis and descriptive techniques in Druga Jesień [A Second Autumn], a somewhat forgotten experimental novel by Wiktor Żwikiewicz, which I retroactively classify as an example of weird fiction in Polish literature. (...)
Tagi: fall 2024, Maciej Mazur