Affective Modernism:

This work aims to provide an interpretation of certain aspects of Polish Modernist literature
that have not been properly recognized until now. The research on Modernist culture in
the context of affect includes case studies of avant-garde poetry and works of literature
by authors such as B. Schulz, W. Gombrowicz, W. Szymborska, A. S´wirszczyńska, L. Lipski,
K. Filipowicz, and M. Białoszewski. As a result, this book proposes a more universal
theoretical framework and introduces original categories such as affective realism, affective
pressure, violence of sensation, relational interpretation, affective criticism, sensed and
notional meaning, and affective literary communities.
The author critically investigates the notion of Modernist literature and art, distinguishing
between intellectual and realist-emphatic trends. Rather than describing the duality of
Modernism, she examines the diversified, inconsistent, and tension-ridden qualities
of Modernism evident in individual works as well as in wider formative and cultural
tendencies.