Ku percepcji polisensorycznej w badaniach literackich. O książce Aleksandry Kremer The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II

Abstract

Towards Polysensory Perception in Literary Studies. On Aleksandra Kremer’s Book The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II The article reviews of Aleksandra Kremer’s book The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry. Performance and Recording after World War II (2021), which is the first to describe and scrutinise the phenomenon related to the formation of the modern culture of poetry audio realisations in Poland during the second half of the twentieth century. This phenomenon relates to the growing interest of poets in authorial audio realisations of their poetry that crosses the boundaries of the text by harnessing new technologies to distribute, manipulate and reproduce sound. This review aims to situate the book in a context of studies on the relationship between literature and sound in the age of secondary orality and to present its potential influence on the discussion regarding the function of the latest literature in the contemporary audio-visual culture.