Call for papers 2022

2021-04-11

A literary work in statu nascendi. The creative process in literature after 1990

Editors of the quarterly "Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica" invites you to participate in the creation of a thematic issue devoted to the subject of the creation of a contemporary literary work. The leading theme is therefore the creative proces, the stages of the creation of work, its subsequent versions - published or left behind, today most often as computer files, although sometimes, in the case of authors attached to traditional forms of writing, still in manuscripts.

Therefore, we focus the considerations of researchers around literature from a texological and genetic perspective: by referring to the sources of the creative act. The essence is to analyze the work from its genesis. A creative process, the beginning of which  sometimes comes from not entirely inspirations, gives the opportunity to read the meanings of the text in a broad cultural perspective. Therefore, the subject of considerations will be literary works in statu nascendi, the analysis of subsequent variants and versions of the text (from manuscripts, through subsequent typewriter / computer scripts with corrections applied, up to the final version, which, moreover, can be corrected over time under the author's pen). is also important to recognize how the meanings of different texts change through placement in different contexts, which illuminates them, e.g. editing / layout of a poetry volume (author's and external editing), location of the poem in alternative neighborhoods in later editions, issues related to the corresponding date of the work and its subsequent versions that have not been dated. An interesting issue may also be the dependence of the act of creation on modern digital technologies, used as a tool for creating or presenting a work. In order to capture the creative process and reconstruct the "pre-text", the subject of analysis may be "documents of genesis" (Pierre Marc de Biasi, Genetyka Tekstów, Warsaw 2015), i.e., as the researcher writes: "working manuscripts author: projects, plans, notes, notebooks, sketches, drawings, reading notes, marginalia, fragments of earlier versions, excerpts from documents, draft sheets, clean copies, copies, author's corrections, etc." and other materials that help to understand the genesis: "correspondence, intimate journal, calendar, youth writings, etc.", but also contextual materials," external to the genesis of the work, but valuable for analysis: books borrowed, letters received, the writer's personal library, publishing contracts, official files and papers, wills, family archives, etc. Collections of visual documents (paintings, engravings, drawings, photos, etc.), sound (records) or audiovisual (films, video materials) collected or produced by the writer”. This auxiliary genesis dossier can be especially valuable when authors writing on computers may erase traces of work on a text by deleting draft versions.

 

Usually, textological and genetic studies relate to ancient literature collected in archives. The current project mainly refers to archives or private collections , stored more often on computer drives than in desk drawers, as it concerns authors who are mostly active creators and can share with researchers the fruits of their efforts, testimonies of the process showing the work in statu nascendi.

 

Deadline for submission of texts: October 31, 2021.

Publication is planned in issue 1/2022.

Please send your articles to the following address:

foliapolonica@gmail.com

or post in OJS "Folia Litteraria Polonica" after registration on the website handwriting (as an author). Registration link: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/about/submissions

Please prepare the article in accordance with the editorial instructions available at website: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/editorial_instructions

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(more information on the magazine's website).

 

dr hab. prof. UŁ Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec
Editor in Chief