Author-critic: A new archetype of a current state of postmodernity

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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2025.2.06

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postmodernism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, self-referentiality

Abstract

The text is devoted to the examination of the new, contemporary concept of “author-critic”. An essentially postmodern idea which presupposes the necessity of an artistic project that is radically self-referential. By referring to the historical and modern examples from the chronicles of proto-postmodern and postmodern thought, it is achievable to understand sociopolitical and cultural contexts that play a huge role in establishing the ideology and aesthetics of “author-critic”

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2025-04-15

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Krajnik, Łukasz. (2025). Author-critic: A new archetype of a current state of postmodernity. Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, (22/2), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2025.2.06

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