Wybory autorskie. Przyczynek do charakterystyki zjawiska

Abstract

The author of the article asserts that nowadays the anthologist is a persona of increasing prestige. She also tackles the widespread use of the terms “choice” and “anthology” as practically synonymous. She focuses on the specificity of the increasingly popular kind of choices – that with a strongly resounding author‑subject, presenting chiefly one’s personal canons. Such choices can be situated in the context of the so‑called ego‑documents – accounts referencing personal experience, made in this instance not from the position of a historian or literary critic, but that of a reader. The author of the article is interested in the cultural context of the phenomena presented: the contemporary culture of citation, but also of uninhibited “use” of quotations, freed from the burdens of the culture of the original, replacing originality with innovation, unlimited “cloning” unscathed by the fear of the finite.