Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.05
Nelly Strehlau
Authorship in television series is a complicated and self-contradictory notion, particularly given the collaborative nature of such texts. At the same time, the growing recognition of television as a significant art form has entailed the search for an artist to whom it can be attributed, and auteur theory has, in recent decades, become increasingly prominent in television criticism. Notably, the rank of auteur, and the prestige it confers, has been applied predominantly to men. The present article attempts to consider this context while analysing three ac-claimed television series depicting women writers, namely Sex and the City, Girls and I May Destroy You , noting their thematic similarities, including self-referentiality and consistent preoccupation with autobiographical writing and its ethical dimension. In addition, the article addresses the ways in which the three series interpret and deconstruct the figure of the woman artist.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.06
K. Lisowska
The aim of this article is to analyse the conceptualisation of lesbian writing and authorship in the Polish literary tradition. The paper discusses various contexts, definitions, applications and uses of these concepts in Polish literary studies. In the article, the texts of such authors as, for instance, Inga Iwasiów, Marta Tomczok, Ewa Chudoba, Błażej Warkocki and Renata Lis are referred to. As a consequence, the specific heterogeneity of Polish discussion about lesbian writing and authorship is presented. These phenomena are situated in the broader context of Western conceptualizations of the analysed subject.
本文的目的是分析波兰文学传统中女同性恋写作和作者身份的概念。本文讨论了这些概念在波兰文学研究中的各种语境、定义、应用和使用。在这篇文章中，作者的文本，例如，Inga Iwasiów, Marta Tomczok, Ewa Chudoba, Błażej Warkocki和Renata Lis被提及。因此，波兰关于女同性恋写作和作者身份的讨论呈现出特定的异质性。这些现象被置于西方对被分析主体概念化的更广阔背景中。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.02.02
Radosław Stupak
The article presents stigma in mental health as a boundary object for different scientific disci-plines. The research that is dominated by the approaches present in medicine and quantitative social sciences has resulted in the conceptualizations of stigma and practical solutions to combat it that seem counter-effective. It has also neglected important questions about the role of stigma in society. It is argued that biomedical understanding of mental distress is inherently stigmatizing and anti-stigma campaigns based on this discourse are necessarily paradoxical and lead to self-stigma. This could be interpreted along the lines of Foucault's concepts of biopower, panopticon and governmentality. Another perspective could emerge from utilizing concepts associated with the Frankfurt School, especially Lukacs's reification and Adorno's identity thinking. Anti-stigma campaigns can be seen as a means of social control, legitimizing the use of stigmatizing labels and the biomedical psychiatric discourse that ultimately serve to preserve the social, cultural and economic status-quo.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.02.06
Rebecca Weber
This article discusses how somatic practices, and in particular, eco-somatic practices, may develop environmental empathy. Using a critical abductive approach, it weaves together frameworks of ecocriticism, embodied and situated cognition, and somatic practices, and presents examples of influential eco-somatics practitioners Sandra Reeve, Praptro Suryadarmo, Andrea Olsen, Joan Davis, and Helen Poynor. Drawing on perceptual psychology (Sewall, 1995), it argues that eco-somatic practices such as theirs, through attending to sensation in natural environments (Bettmann, 2009; Kramer, 2012; Laidlaw & Beer, 2018; among others), develop ecological perception and awareness of both inner and outer sensation. In so doing, this article offers an explanatory hypothesis of how eco-somatic practices cultivate a sense of environmental empathy.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.02.03
Paulina Zarębska
Problem solving as a higher cognitive ability is a theoretical construct operating in cognitive science and cognitive psychology. The founders of cognitive science were united by a shared vision of the mind as a tool similar to a computer – i.e. one serving to solve problems by manipulating non-sensory and abstract symbols inside the system. In interdisciplinary research into dance, the term “choreographic problem solving” (Kirsh, Muntanyola, 2009b; Kirsh, 2011; Clements , Redding , Sell, May, 2018; Stevens & Malloch & McKechnie & Steven, 2003; Leach & deLahunta, 2015) has become current in the context of a broad conception of dance practice as the inventive creation of movement in response to choreographic tasks that are the stimulus for creating motor images (James, 1890) and mental images (Franklin, 1996). The purpose of this article is to present an interpretation of the concept of solving choreographic problems in the course of improvised dance. This analysis falls within the paradigms of embodied cognition and situated cognition concepts and theories and works on the basis of initial reports from research on the influence of metaphorical instructions on the solution of choreographic problems in dance improvisation. These initial reports relate to the first conclusions drawn from analyses of research materials taking the form of video recordings, questionnaires and in-depth interviews.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.08
M. Kisiel
The article focuses on the posthuman authorship in the late short stories of Samuel Beckett in relation to the recent developments in new materialism and material ecology. Beckett’s works insist on the distinctive signature of their author, joining together his trademark minimalist style with his persistence in retelling the same narrative situations over and over again. At the same time, hardly ever does Beckett cease to deprive his narrators of their voices, forcing them to stammer, to struggle with their speech, to be betrayed by it, or to remain completely mute. His hardly readable later short stories seem to abandon any form of the sentient narrator in favour of treating language as self-sufficient matter his abstract spaces consist of, albeit in a manner different from that adopted by the concrete literature. These circumstances interestingly correspond to Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann’s notion of storied matter which emphasises the textual capacities of non-human actors, blurs human and non-human reader-ships/authorships, and affirms the narratives embedded in the material, understood – after Jane Bennett – as the realm of vibrant entities. In my reading, I analyse how these concepts might allow us to rethink those “materialist works” of Beckett and the possible non-human agencies they are entangled in.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.11
Eimear McBride, Katarzyna Ostalska
The article examines the second novel of Eimear McBride (2016) The Lesser Bohemians from a viewpoint of New Materialisms, with a special emphasis on Karen Barad’s concept of “mattering” and the notion of performative matter. Apart from Barad, the article draws upon the works of N. Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, to suggest a posthumanist reading of McBride’s novel. The article examines embodiment in The Lesser Bohemians as both material and performative, arguing that its matter “authors” the text and the female body. The idiom of The Lesser Bohemians goes under scrutiny to trace analogies with modern science, especially quantum physics, which links McBride’s novel (2016) with Barad’s research.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.12
M. Cieślak
Christine Edzard’s 2001 The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream , her second Shakespearean project after her 1992 As You Like It , is an independent film par excellence . Produced by Sands Films, a company she co-founded, it is an experimental project contesting and subvert-ting authority mechanisms of mainstream filmmaking. Edzard worked with over three hundred amateur performers – children aged eight to twelve from London schools – on a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to produce a children-owned version of the play. This experimental film can be discussed on a number of planes – educational, artistic, cultural, and political – but the main area it touches upon is that of cultural authority. Significantly titled, the film suggests that it both belongs to children, and is addressed to them; therefore, the issues of its educational value with a specific target audience in mind, and of ownership of a significant cultural text, are prioritized. However, the project is also a fascinating material for analysis from the point of view of gender studies, because the age of Edzard’s actors is incompatible with the play’s focus on marriage, sexuality, and domestic power. This paper discusses the way in which the film approaches the questions of textual and cultural authority, and how those questions are informed by the film’s approach to the play’s gender politics.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.26913/avant.2021.03.07
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Nelly Strehlau, K. Więckowska
This article serves as an introduction to the anthology devoted to the study of altering authorships in contemporary literature and culture. Drawing attention to the influence of Roland Barthes’s and Michel Foucault’s works on the author and authorship, the essay emphasises the importance of the context of both production and reception in determining the authority over and responsibility for the literary/cultural text. By altering authorships we mean various processes of diffusing authorial authority, on the one hand, and reassessing authorship for alternative authors, on the other. Conceptualised as authorial absences and authorial presences, the acts of questioning and transforming the practices of authorship and the process of (re)introducing alternative or marginalised authors discussed in the article testify to the continuing significance of the authorship debate. In this context, authorship can be approached as “a living absence” (Berensmeyer et al.), opening space for disruptions, dispersals, redefinitions, negotiations and reconciliations of authorial presences.
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