This book, whose slashed part of the title refers to Allen Tate’s idea of poetic tension, “derived from lopping the prefixes off the logical terms extension and intension” (Tate 1938: 283; italics in the original; see also Markowski 2006: 140–141), addresses various dimensions of prompting and its techniques preserved in the old play scripts of the Abbey Theatre. They were both encoded inside the plots of the dramatic works and inscribed on the pages of the unique typographical, textual and graphic composite constructs. The research presented stems from an exploration of the duality of intention and tension within literary and editorial studies. The two concepts relate to the thematic dimensions (the motif of tension in literature) as well as theoretical literary and textual problems (the question of intent and intention in literary interpretation and editorial research). “Tension” and “intention” in literature have been considered in various manners depending on a given theoretical approach. Their treatment should require a specific approach and methodology if literary works – plays, to be more specific – subject to a critical and interpretative examination are encapsulated within the unique forms of manuscripts whose original function was to guide the stage managers, prompters, or actors through the complex process of rehearsing and producing dramas at the theatre.
zatrudniony na stanowisku adiunkta w Zakładzie Literatury Anglojęzycznej Katedry Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Filologię angielską ukończył w 2006 roku, a w 2009 uzyskał tytuł doktora nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa. Jest autorem publikacji traktujących o postkolonialności irlandzkiej, które dotyczą głównie elementów kontrdyskursu w twórczości irlandzkiego odrodzenia literackiego z przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Jego zainteresowania obejmują również współczesną dramaturgię angloirlandzką, teorię literatury i nowoczesne formy literatury cyfrowej.
Zobacz publikacje autora
- Women on Stage and the Decolonisation of Ireland. Counter-Discursiveness in the Drama of the Irish Literary Revival (1892-1926)
- Comparative studies in Anglophone Literature. (Trans)National, (Post)Colonial and (Auto)Thematic (Re)Considerations and (Re)Visions
- Litteraria Copernicana 1(21)/2017: Henry James - muzeum pisarza
- Prompting in/ex/Tensions of the Manuscript. Literary and Editorial Approaches to Selected Early Play Scripts of the Abbey Theatre
