Na manowcach humanistyki, czyli lektury w świetle krytyki i dydaktyki (O książce Doświadczenie lektury. Między krytyką literacką a dydaktyką literatury pod redakcją Krzysztofa Biedrzyckiego i Anny Janus-Sitarz)

Abstract

On the peripheries of the humanities, or, reading in the context of literary criticism and teaching of literature The volume Doświadczenie lektury. Miedzy krytyką literacką a dydaktyką literatury (The Experience of Reading. Between Literary Criticism and Teaching of Literature) edited by Anna Janus-Sitarz and Krzysztof Biedrzycki is an important book devoted to the question of reading as practiced by scholars, critics and teachers. The monograph contains views of historians of literature such as, for example, Anna Burzynska, whose article opens the book, and others like Piotr Śliwinski, Wojciech Ligeza and Krzysztof Biedrzycki. Other essays focus on school as a place where books are read in an improper way. Zofi a Budrewicz, Anna Janus-Sitarz, Witold Bobinski, Leszek Jazownik, Jerzy Kaniewski write about the present situation of teenagers in the Polish system of education and their attitude to reading. Some texts are connected with two titular notions: ‘reading’ and ‘experience’. Their authors are: Barbara Myrdzik, Malgorzata Latoch-Zielinska, Anna Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta Piątek, Anna Pilch, Krystyna Koziolek, Marta Rusek. The collection also contains articles presenting the issue of teaching (by Ewelina Strawa, Karolina Kwak, and Kordian Bakula). The last part of the book is composed of essays interpreting the works of Czeslaw Milosz (by Grazyna Tomaszewska), Gustave Flaubert (by Magdalena Marzec), Michal Witkowski and Dorota Maslowska (by Dorota Kozicka), Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (by Jaroslaw Fazan). The Experience of Reading. Between Literary Criticism and Teaching of Literature is a very modern and interesting project. It shows that the borders of these two disciplines are not far from each other.