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Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, 12 Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History 12 Literary Theory, and History 12 Adam Dziadek Adam Dziadek Somatic Criticism Project Dziadek Adam This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as “symptomatology”). The author seeks to derive a more general principle Somatic Criticism Project from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts − a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text. The Author Adam Dziadek is Professor of Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His main research areas are the theory of literature, the history of literature and comparative literature, as well as the translation of scientific texts. He also deals with problems of editing and genetic criticism. He translated, among others, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy into Polish. Somatic Criticism Project ISBN 978-3-631-67428-4 CR_012 267428_Dziadek_US_A5HCk 151x214 globalL.indd 1 14.08.18 14:34 Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, 12 Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History 12 Literary Theory, and History 12 Adam Dziadek Adam Dziadek Somatic Criticism Project Dziadek Adam This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as “symptomatology”). The author seeks to derive a more general principle Somatic Criticism Project from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts − a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text. The Author Adam Dziadek is Professor of Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His main research areas are the theory of literature, the history of literature and comparative literature, as well as the translation of scientific texts. He also deals with problems of editing and genetic criticism. He translated, among others, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy into Polish. Somatic Criticism Project CR_012 267428_Dziadek_US_A5HCk 151x214 globalL.indd 1 14.08.18 14:34 Somatic Criticism Project Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History Edited by Ryszard Nycz Volume 12 Cross-Roads. Adam Dziadek Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History Edited by Ryszard Nycz Somatic Criticism Project Translated by Lindsay Davidson Volume 12 Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. This publication is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as a part of the National Program for the Development of the Humanities in the years 2016-2019 (project number: 3aH 15 0165 83). The publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Ministry cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The research grant was carried out at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Cover image: Stefan Themerson, «Drawing (untitled)», from the collection of Adam Dziadek Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg ISSN 2191-6179 ISBN 978-3-631-67428-4 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-06836-8 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-653-70881-1 (E-Pub) E-ISBN 978-3-653-70882-8 (mobi) DOI 10.3726/b14659 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Adam Dziadek, 2018 Peter Lang – Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. For Ania, Ola and Olek Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. This publication is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as a part of the National Program for the Development of the Humanities in the years 2016-2019 (project number: 3aH 15 0165 83). The publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Ministry cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The research grant was carried out at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Cover image: Stefan Themerson, «Drawing (untitled)», from the collection of Adam Dziadek Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg ISSN 2191-6179 ISBN 978-3-631-67428-4 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-06836-8 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-653-70881-1 (E-Pub) E-ISBN 978-3-653-70882-8 (mobi) DOI 10.3726/b14659 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2018 All rights reserved. Peter Lang – Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Table of Contents 1. Introduction .....................................................................................................9 2. Somatic criticism ..........................................................................................17 1. Principles ........................................................................................................17 2. Rhythm ...........................................................................................................21 3. Anagrams .......................................................................................................36 4. Contexts ..........................................................................................................41 3. Somatic writing, touching sense – Aleksander Wat .....................47 4. Somatic style – Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki .................................73 1. Somatic style ..................................................................................................73 2. Body and entity..............................................................................................74 3. Body and word...............................................................................................78 4. Body and rhythm ..........................................................................................86 5. Sound effects – about Joanna Pollakówna’s poems .......................89 6. Listening as a somatic experience – about Edward Pasewicz’s verses ....................................................................... 109 7. The sonnet corpus ..................................................................................... 123 1. Supplement.................................................................................................. 149 8. Somatext: word, picture and rhythm ............................................... 157 1. Somatext and intratypography ................................................................. 157 2. Intratypography and poetic texts ............................................................. 159 7 3. Words in pictures, pictures in words ....................................................... 164 4. Polymorphic text – about the typographic work of the Themersons ...................................................................................... 180 Bibliography ........................................................................................................ 201 Index of names ................................................................................................... 217 8 1. Introduction The body in the culture and humanities of the twentieth and twenty-first cen- turies occupies a position which is exceptionally privileged, if not quite simply central. It is even said that it is a theoretical invention of the twentieth century, an idea underlined by sociological–historical research of this phenomenon1. If we take a closer look at the history of the body