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Subversive Triviality: John Ashbery’s and James Schuyler’s "A Nest of Ninnies"
In a recent study, Christopher Schmidt has analyzed an aspect of James Schuler’s poetry, which he calls “dark camp:” the reevaluation of “waste,” both in the sense of linguistic material which the poet incorporates into his work (phrases gleaned from advertising or the media), and the subject matter which he focuses on (“material detritus:” trashy, kitschy, unpoetic stuff). Schuyler’s “poetics of waste” is a camp strategy of affirming his queer identity. In this essay I argue that the 1968 novel which Schuyler coauthored with John Ashbery, A Nest of Ninnies, can be seen along very similar lines. Nest is commonly viewed as a satire or a comedy of manners. However, I take issue with this characterization and suggest that Nest should first and foremost be seen as classic literary camp, albeit not “dark,” but defiantly and jubilantly bright. I first discuss the early reaction of the novel’s reviewers, then point out the hidden queer themes in the story (which only W. H. Auden, it seems, discerned), and finally I apply Schmidt’s terms to Nest to show how it subversively challenges the bourgeois notion of seriousness in art and, connected to it, assumptions about gender and “normalcy.” The idea to write a novel together occurred to James Schuyler and John Ashbery when they were sitting in the back seat of a car taking them back to New York from East Hampton where they had spent the weekend at John Latouche’s. They did not know the people they were traveling with very well, and so the conversation was hard going. After a while, bored with the sights of the small towns they were passing through (or perhaps inspired by them), Schuyler proposed: “Why don’t we write a novel?” and when Ashbery asked how exactly he imagined doing this, his friend replied: “It’s easy – you write the first line.” Alluding to the opening sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Ashbery began with: “Alice was tired.”Footnote1 Schuyler took up the challenge and no doubt recognized the allusion, for in the novel’s first scene he placed Alice in front of a mirror: „Languid, fretful, she turned to stare into her own eyes in the mirror above the mantelpiece before she spoke.”Footnote2 Back in New York, the poets continued playing this literary dominoes in their spare time, adding alternately a sentence each. This lasted three years: from July 1952 until 1955 when Ashbery received a Fulbright scholarship and went to France where he was to spend the next ten years. Attempts to continue writing the novel in tandem via mail failed; the project was discontinued – for good, it seemed. However, when Ashbery returned to New York at the end of 1965, he was already a renowned poet (having received the Yale Younger Poets award for Some Trees) and cooperated with Holt & Co. whose editor, Arthur Cohen, expressed interest in Ashbery’s and Schuyler’s unfinished project. The two thus resumed work on the novel, although they slightly changed their method, adding whole paragraphs or parts of chapters, instead of individual sentences. The book was published in early 1968.Pozostałe osiągnięcia naukoweArtykuły (zamknięty dostęp)Journal article - 2024-09
Zdrada małżonka a ustalenie nierównych udziałów w majątku wspólnym. Glosa do postanowienia Sądu Najwyższego – Izba Cywilna z dnia 16 listopada 2023 r., II CSKP 1401/22
Pozostałe osiągnięcia naukoweArtykuły (zamknięty dostęp)Journal article - 2024-08-21
Pozorność czynności prawnej jako podstawa do pominięcia podmiotowości prawnej spółki osobowej – glosa do wyroku Sądu Apelacyjnego w Warszawie z 29.11.2022 r., VII AGa 628/22
The article aimed to analyse the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw, which the Court found under Art. 83 § 1 of the Civil Code that it is possible to change the parties to a legal transaction, thus leading to a situation in which the company's shareholders and not the company as a separate legal entity become a party to a specific contract. In the author's opinion, this position is incorrect because Art. 83 § 1 of the Civil Code refers only to the objective aspects of appearance, i.e. a situation in which the Court classifies a legal act as another type that the parties originally indicated in the simulated act.Pozostałe osiągnięcia naukoweArtykuły (zamknięty dostęp)Journal article - 2024-05-23
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity
Kękuś, MagdalenaDziubańska, ReginaMichalak, KacperPolczyk, RomualdSzpitalak, MalwinaBarzykowski, KrystianThe memory conformity effect occurs when people witness a given incident (e.g. a crime) then talk to each other about it, and the statement of one person affects the memory account of the other person with respect to this incident. The aim of this article is to improve the quality of witness testimony by verifying the effectiveness of three methods that aim to reduce memory conformity effect: (1) an extended warning against misinformation; (2) a method based on information about memory functioning and its fallibility and (3) a method consisting in motivating participants to resist influence and demonstrating their individual vulnerability to it. In the presented experiment, the innovative MORI technique was used to study the memory conformity effect. This technique allows a pair of participants to sit beside each other, look at the same screen and see a different version of the same criminal event. In the next stages, the subjects are asked to answer a series of questions about different details, thereby introducing mutual misinformation; then, the participants perform an individual memory test. In the experimental conditions, this test was preceded by one of the three tested methods in each group, with the aim of determining their effectiveness in reducing memory conformity. It turns out that the implementation of an extended warning against misinformation eliminated the memory conformity effect, while the application of two other methods led to a reduction (but not complete elimination) of the studied phenomenon.Pozostałe osiągnięcia naukoweArtykuły (zamknięty dostęp)Journal article - 2024
Sense of danger, sense of country's mastery, and sense of personal mastery as concomitants of psychological distress and subjective well‐being in a sample of Poles following Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Prospective analyses
This study investigated psychological toll of the ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine in a sample of adult Poles (N = 1245). Data were collected online in early February and August 2022. Prospective analyses that accounted for psychological health status assessed before the Russian invasion showed that higher levels of sense of danger due to the war predicted higher levels of psychological distress and lower levels of affect balance close to 6 months after Russia attacked Ukraine. Sense of country's mastery (i.e. beliefs that government, its major institutions, and citizens would effectively cope with various emergencies and crises) served as a protective factor. Likewise, Poles who had confidence in their personal mastery (e.g., beliefs in ability to exercise control over life challenges) exhibited less distress and more subjective well-being. These findings emerged after controlling for sociodemographic factors, the presence of stressful experiences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and other life events. Wars dramatically reverberate beyond the borders of the countries involved. People's own sense of mastery and their trust in the resilience of their governmental and public institutions are critical in times of coping with existential security threats and wars.Pozostałe osiągnięcia naukoweArtykuły (zamknięty dostęp)Journal article