The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
51 (4/2018) Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Leszek Sosnowski Editorial Board:
Natalia Anna Michna (Deputy Editor), Dominika Czakon (Deputy Editor), Anna Kuchta (Secretary), Marcin Lubecki, Gabriela Matusiak, Adrian Mróz Guest Editors:
Luz Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo (Spain) Monika Glosowitz, University of Silesia (Poland) Advisory Board:
Władysław Stróżewski, Tiziana Andino, Nigel Dower, Saulius Geniusas, Jean Grondin, Carl Humphries, Ason Jaggar, Dalius Jonkus, Akiko Kasuya, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Leo Luks, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Carla Milani Damião, Mauro Perani, Kiyomitsu Yui
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Katarzyna Migdał Cover Artwork:
Fungus (In the Garden series, 2018; hand-made collage) © Magda Hueckel
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e-ISSN 2544-8242
Edited by
Luz Mar González-Arias and Monika Glosowitz
CONTENTS
Part I: Introduction
LUZ MAR GONZÁLEZ-ARIAS Pain and The Affects: 13 AND MONIKA GLOSOWITZ The Witness. The Cure. The Healing
Part II: Literature
SHADIA ABDEL-RAHMAN The Poetics of the Body in Pain:
TÉLLEZ Wordlessness, Figurative Language
and the Chronic Pain Experience 27
DILEK MENTEŞE Torture and Objectification of Pain
KIRYAMAN in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South 43
Part III: Performance and the Visual Arts
MÁXIMO ALÁEZ CORRAL “I Never Want to Avoid Pain”:
The Hurt Body and the Construction
of Pain in Nan Goldin’s Photography 63
KATE ANTOSIK-PARSONS Split Asunder: Obstetric Violence and Pain in Máiréad Delaney’s
At What Point It Breaks (2017) 79
Part IV: Other Affects:
Non-humans and Posthumans
JUSTYNA STĘPIEŃ Affective Entanglements of Posthuman Bodies in Pain in Matthew Barney’s
Drawing Restraint 9 99
ALINA MITEK-DZIEMBA Vulnerability, Mourning and Religious
Compassion: A Cross-Species Perspective 113
Part VI: Poetry
KELLEY SWAIN Three Poems 149
Introduction
A Topography of Souls (I & II) The Truth
ANNA ADAMOWICZ Three Poems 155
Introduction by Jakub Skurtys
to the eight-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat systems: the spine
Erysichton – Tarrare – Domery
Notes on Contributors 161