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summer 2020 no. 21 Editor in Chief Prof., PhD Tomasz Mizerkiewicz Editorial Board Prof., PhD Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Prof., PhD Ewa Kraskowska, Prof., PhD Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik, PhD Agnieszka Kwiatkowska, PhD Ewa Rajewska, PhD Paweł Graf, PhD Lucyna Marzec, PhD Joanna Krajewska, PhD Cezary Rosiński, MA Agata Rosochacka Publishing Editors introdution MA Agata Rosochacka Linguistic Editors PhD Cezary Rosiński – Polish version MA Thomas Anessi – English version Scientific Council Prof., PhD Edward Balcerzan (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland) Prof., PhD Andrea Ceccherelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Prof., PhD Adam Dziadek (University of Silesia, Poland) Prof., PhD Mary Gallagher (University College Dublin, Irealnd) Prof., PhD Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University, United States) Prof., PhD Inga Iwasiów (University of Szczecin, Poland) Prof., PhD Anna Łebkowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Prof., PhD Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia, United States) Prof., PhD Tvrtko Vuković (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Proofreaders: Marlena Roszkiewicz – Polish version Thomas Anessi – English version Assistant Editor: MA Gerard Ronge Cover and logos design: Patrycja Łukomska On the cover: Paysage aux deux figures (Landscape with Two Figures), 1908, Pablo Picasso Editorial Office: 61-701 Poznań, ul. Fredry 10 Editor: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland „Forum Poetyki | Forum of Poetics” summer 2020 (21) year V | ISSN 2451-1404 © Copyright by „Forum Poetyki | Forum of Poetics”, Poznań 2020 Editors do not return unused materials, reserve rights to shortening articles and changing proposed titles. [email protected]| fp.amu.edu.pl TABLE OF CONTENT introdution Adam Dziadek, (Textual) Poetics and Genetics | s. 4 theories Paweł Bem, The Tone of a Manuscript Literature – Edition – Life | s. 8 practices Mateusz Antoniuk, Poetics, genetics, work. (On the art of rhyming) | s. 30 João Dionísio, Variation and game rules in The Steps to Parnassus | s. 56 Michalina Kmiecik, Engrams of the Body: The Poetics of Pain Notes in Aleksander Wat’s Archive | s. 70 Maciej Tramer, Without a rough draft: Composing Baczyński | s. 86 Dariusz Pawelec, Pomarańcze na drutach by Witold Wirpsza. Problems with understanding a prose experiment in the light of a pre-text | s. 102 Sławomir Buryła, Czarny potok and the archive | s. 116 4 summer 2020 no. 21 (Textual) Poetics and Genetics Adam Dziadek ORCID: 0000-0003-4584-5704 Pierre Marc de Biasi’s seminal book Génétique des textes1 [The genetics of texts] was published in Poland in 2015. It must be emphasized that de Biasi’s book is paradigmatic: it describes the basic principles of genetic criticism (la critique génétique), the role it plays in the contemporary humanities, its prospects, and also its purely pragmatic social meaning. Génétique des textes has quickly become one of the basic reference points for all researchers interested in or practicing genetic criticism in Poland. Thus, in this issue ofForum of Poetics, it constitutes the foundation on which reflection on contemporary poetics is built. We are particularly interested in the changes that genetic criticism has undergone in recent years in Po- land and abroad, the nature of its interactions with other fields of knowledge, and, above all, the question of how genetic criticism shapes and/or may shape, modify, and influence modern poetics. The transactions between genetic criticism and other fields of knowledge should not be construed as one of barter. Indeed, this relation may best be described as an overlap of research fields – a unique form of oscillation or inter- 1 P. M. de Biasi, Génétique des textes [The genetics of texts]. CNRS, Paris 2000. Polish edition: Genetyka tekstów. Transl. by Filip Kwiatek, Maria Prussak. Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warsaw 2015. introduction | Adam Dziadek, (Textual) Poetics and Genetics 5 ference. In this issue of Forum of Poetics, this question is discussed by Jean Bellemin-Noël, who definesthe fundamental concept of a “avant-text” and combines literary practice with psychoanalysis; Daniel Ferrer, who constructs an original process of genesis based on the philosophical concept of “possible worlds.” In this case, an overlap of research fields is often associated with the “microanalysis” or “micro-reading” of a given textual fragment (similar to the one proposed by J.P. Richard in his book Microlectures; the smallest textual elements, margins, and details, which nevertheless are meaningful in the context of larger textual units, should be analyzed; it is a detailed reading and the reading of details); a “microscopic view” (similarly to R. Jakobson’s reading of one of Charles Baudelaire’s Spleens; the focus is on sounds, phonemes and the relations between them); or, finally, “micrology” (Aleksander Nawarecki’s concept2). All these terms may be slightly modified and employed in the genetic reading of selected poems, which is both a “micro-reading” and a “microscopic view,” as it focuses on almost invisible and minute details and margins. This micro scale is crucial in genetic criticism: the focus is on the analysis of textual details which are usually magnified, although today we use technology and not a magnifying glass. Indeed, the “micro-reading” of avant-texts may influence the interpretation of the text. The “micro” scale may give rise to a completely different interpretation, expanding and discovering new semiotic fields of the text. The relations between textual poetics and textual genetics seem to be obvious but they are not: their experi- ences and practices overlap, which opens up the space of the analyzed text in a unique manner. This, in turn, opens up mis en abyme, ad infinitum, making it difficult to trace the origins of the text. Such vague textual origins, often by necessity described using the conditional (perhaps it could happen that…, or perhaps it is possible that…), are the most fascinating and important subject of genetic analysis. The “micro” scale is present in almost all of the texts in this issue of Forum of Poetics. Formal details and often marginalized aspects of manuscripts are analyzed. When magnified, such details raise a number of interpretative questions. These questions, in turn, lead to surprising discoveries: prevailing opinions are questioned or undermined. Sometimes, they are “annihilated:” genetic criticism, by definition, is anti-mythological. Indeed, it is an anti-mythology. For example, Serge Fauchereau and Lydie Marie Lachenal in their genetic edition of André Breton and Philippe Soupault’s Les champs magnétiques undermined one of the greatest literary myths related to écriture automatique (automatic writing; the words allegedly arise from the Subconscious| and are not corrected). As de Biasi says, numerous deleted words which “decorate” the manuscript in Fau- chereau and Lachenal’s genetic edition effectively debunk the modernist literary myth of automatic ritingw . In genetic criticism, we approach the text as if it were a picture. On the one hand, we are equipped with a set of tools and procedures which help us organize the material we are analyzing. On the other 2 A. Nawarecki, Mikrologia, genologia, miniatura [Micrology, genology, miniature]. In: Miniatura i mikrologia literacka [Literary miniature and micrology]. Ed. A. Nawarecki Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2000. Vol. 1, 9-29. 6 summer 2020 no. 21 hand, when we examine manuscripts, we always find places that elude explanation, raising complex interpretative questions. They may remain unanswered or be answered only partially, as evidenced by some of the texts in this issue of Forum of Poetics. Each text possesses unique narrative values: each text reveals a textual secret. Old findings give way to new textual discoveries. In this issue of Forum of Poetics, I refer to the classic French texts of genetic criticism. We publish excerpts from the seminal books of genetic criticism in Polish for the first time. Indeed, we publish excerpts from Jean Bellemin-Noël’s Le Texte et l’Avant-texte. Les brouillons d’un poème de Milosz, which was first published by the Larousse publishing house in 1972, i.e. almost half a century ago. We also publish excerpts from Logiques du brouillon3 (previously published as an article, which is the basis for the translation published in this issue of Forum of Poetics) by outstanding contemporary researcher-specialist in literary genetics Daniel Ferrer. This book should be published in Polish in its entirety, because it is an extraordinary source of methodological and theoretical inspiration. It demonstrates how genetic analysis should be performed, revealing the detailed procedures and, to repeat after Ferrer, “possible worlds” of genetic criticism and the analyzed texts. We invited Polish literary scholars who employ genetic criticism in their works to contrib- ute to this issue of Forum of Poetics: the results are surprising and fascinating. Authors employ different methodological approaches, different ways of analyzing archival materials, as well as highly diverse textual and interpretative practices. I sincerely hope that they will be evaluated and appreciated. To draw on Daniel Ferrer, the texts in this issue of Forum of Poetics may be best summarized in the words of Roland Barthes: I have a manuscript page in front of me; something which also participates in perception, in intellectual understanding, in association – but also in remembering and enjoying – and something which is called reading is set in motion. What is reading, where am I going, where do I stop? Of course, I can clearly see the textual field; but towards what is my eye drawn? What other space does it accommodate? Does it transgress the page? (but behind the page, there is the table). What fields does reading discover? How is the cosmogony pos- tulated by this simple gaze constructed? A lonely astronaut, I traverse many worlds, I do not stop: the white- ness of the paper, the shape of the signs, the form of the words, the rules of the language, the constraints of the message, the profusion of associated meanings.4 3 D. Ferrer, Logiques du brouillon. Modèles pour une critique génétique [Logics of the draft: Models for genetic criticism].

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