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In 1638 dramatic idyll a male view of marriage is undermined by the voice of these women (Dafnis appears here as pars pro toto) who critically perceived a marital status as a life determined by abandoning the virtue of chastity. In Scene 13 one can already recognize – at least on a verbal level – the equal rights: Peneus’s male arguments are juxtaposed with Dafnis’s female ones. The nymph – in a prefeminist way? – juxtaposes her female subjectivity with male objectification in favour of the values which for Apollo and Peneus can be imagined at most: love for a woman and the continuity of a family (exalted by being related to a god).
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In the short piece by Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski’s Unscrupulous Scruple in Poland the Republic of Poland is presented as a state tainted by particular sinfulness, which may not be easily indicated nor analysed in a moralising manner as it reaches beyond the scope of Catholic examination of conscience. Therefore, the gentry could believe that they lead a sinless life. Proving the belief to be a mere illusion was the last undertaking of the magnate in the last years of his life, which may be perceived as a depiction of the turns of Fortune’s Wheel.
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The Warsaw Confederation, Piotr Skarga SJ, and Hate Speech The discourse involving the feeling of hate is understood here rather as a soft than a hard “discourse of hate”. The Warsaw Confederation called “a jewel of a free conscience” was hated (more or less) by the contemporary elite of the Church. The subjects of analysis in this paper are two booklets by Piotr Skarga (Upominanie do ewanjelików i do wszystkich społem niekatolików iż o skażenie zborów krakowskich gniewać się i nic nowego i burzliwego zaczynać nie mają [An Admonition to Protestants and to all other non-Catholics], Kraków 1591; Dyskurs na konfederacyją – [A Discourse on Confederation], Kraków 1607) and Protestant responses to them. The fundamental question is: can “the discourse of hatred”, i.e. “a concept of multiple meanings (...), involved in political and philosophical disputes, so typical for the beginning of the 21st century”, be used as a way of analysing and interpretating texts written 400 years ago? Such an indisputable argument as the title of the book by Wacław Sobieski published already 100 years ago: Nienawiść wyznaniowa tłumów za rządów Zygmunta III-go [The religious hate of crowds during the reign of Sigismund III] supports an affirmative answer to it. In a kind of “hierarchy of beliefs” in Skarga’s argument Protestants are ascribed to the lowest and exceptionally godless place and described by comparisons: 1. with adulterers, thieves and parricides (Protestants are equal to them) and 2. with pagans and Jews (Protestants are perhaps even worse than them). Th e purpose of such an argumentation is severe condemnation of the Protestant godlessness since the Catholic love towards God evokes hate towards people who – like Protestants – turned away from Him. So, on the one hand, Skarga admits that Protestants are still Christians, but on the other, he claims there is no God outside his, i.e. Catholic, church.
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In Polish literary studies methodology, Kleiner’s status as entirely marginal, if not anachronistic, can be justified only on one condition, namely if we overlook the study Content and form in poetry (“Przegląd Warszawski” 1922, r. 2, vol. 2, pp. 323–333), for it can be read as the rejected cornerstone of Polish immanent structuralism. Due to the ambiguity of the term “structuralism”, it is necessary to define its meaning here: it will be determined by the historical context, i.e. the Course in General Linguistics (first edition: 1916). Adopting Janusz Sławiński’s terminology, we may add that it is a rejected cornerstone of immanent (“unconscious”) structuralism not a formulated one.
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Czesław Miłosz's diagnosis of Julian Przyboś's emotions, verbalized with the words “No madness has devoured his heart”, can be questioned: it can be negated with two biographical facts: Marzena Skotnicówna and Uta Przyboś (and two daughters from the first marriage). While the poem Z Tatr [From the Tatra Mountains] was a victory of the theory of equivalence, Poems for Uta and Poems and Pictures became its defeat. Only the love of a child caused that, in Przyboś's youth, the programmatic "shame of feelings" in old age was rejected by Słowiarz, who, in the poem The Child and the Peacock, called himself “a grey madcap”.
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Czesława Miłosza diagnozę emocji Juliana Przybosia, zwerbalizowaną słowami „Żadne szaleństwo serca mu nie zżarło”, można zakwestionować: przekreślają ją dwa fakty biograficzne: Marzena Skotnicówna oraz Uta Przyboś (oraz dwie córki z pierwszego małżeństwa). O ile wiersz Z Tatr był zwycięstwem teorii ekwiwalentyzowania, to Wiersze dla Uty oraz Wiersze i obrazki stały się jej przegraną. Tylko miłość dziecka sprawiła, że w latach młodości Przybosia programowy „wstyd uczuć” na starość został odrzucony przez Słowiarza, który zanim o sobie powiedział „Krzywousty”, w wierszu Dziecko i paw nazwał siebie „siwą świszczypałą”.
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The article is an interpretative reading of a poem by Julian Przyboś entitled Z Tatr [From the Tatra Mountains]. What constitutes a starting point here are factual documents reporting the fatal accident which involved the sisters Marzena and Lida Skotnica dying on October 6, 1929 during their attempt to climb the south face of ZamarłaTurnia (in Polish part of the Tatra Mountains). The former of the two sisters was beloved by Przyboś, which to a significant extent explains why the poem in question may be interpreted as a dramatic “lyrical situation”.
Tematy i Konteksty
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2022
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vol. 17
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issue 12
425-432
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This publication contains polemic commentaries to the text by BeataGarlej „Panorama badań aksjologicznych we współczesnym literaturoznawstwie polskim” [Panorama of axiological research in contemporary Polish literary studies] („Tematy i Konteksty” 11(16)/2021). This publication has been divided into three parts: “Lublin school (KUL school)”, “Torun school” and “Warsaw school”. The lack of the authoress’s explanations of her understanding of the term ‘school’ allows tooverestimate the significance of “Torun school” and underestimate the significance of “»Garden« school”.
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Publikacja zawiera polemiczne dopowiedzenia do tekstu Beaty Garlej „Panorama badań aksjologicznych we współczesnym literaturoznawstwie polskim” („Tematy i Konteksty” 11(16)/2021). Publikacja ta została podzielona na trzy części: „Szkoła lubelska (KUL-owska”), „Szkoła toruńska”, „Szkoła warszawska”. Brak wyjaśnienia Autorki jak jest przez nią rozumiane słowo „szkoła” sprzyja przeszacowaniu „szkoły toruńskiej” i niedoszacowaniu „szkoły »Ogrodu«”.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2013
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vol. 104
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issue 3
99-118
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Wedding riddles printed in Toruń at the turn of 17th and 18th century written by the Polish patriciate as panegyrical art of words (regarded as a praise of newly married couple and joy of marriage bed) at least could equal with their literary culture level to those of nobility erotic riddles from Jakub Teodor Trembecki’s Wirydarz poetycki (Garden of Poetry). Burgher epitalamion writers did not reach for poetic metaphors but resorted to such descriptions in which significative function was committed mainly to comparisons viewed as elements leading the wedding audience to solve the riddle. In other words, the riddles expound non-metaphorical imagery shaped with periphrasis peculiar to the genre’s poetics. The riddle’s poetics settled that the difference between wedding occasional poems and pornographic poems as Garden of Poetry is tied not as much to various techniques of imagery as to what can be expressed most briefly as the vocabulary, always moral in Torunian pieces and often immoral in manuscript poems present in Garden of Poetry.
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Drukowane w Toruniu na przełomie XVII i XVIII stulecia zagadki weselne, pisane przez polski patrycjat, jako dzieła panegirycznej sztuki słowa (były wszak pochwałą młodej pary oraz uciech małżeńskiego łoża) przynajmniej dorównywały poziomem kultury literackiej tym szlacheckim zagadkom erotycznym, jakie zachowały się w Wirydarzu poetyckim Jakuba Teodora Trembeckiego. Mieszczańscy autorzy epitalamiów nie sięgali po metafory poetyckie, lecz poprzestawali na takich opisach, w których funkcja znaczeniotwórcza była powierzona głównie porównaniom jako temu, co naprowadzało weselne audytorium na rozwiązania zagadek. Innymi słowy: w zagadkach mamy do czynienia z obrazowością niemetaforyczną, gdyż kształtowaną znamiennymi dla poetyki gatunku peryfrazami. Poetyka zagadki rozstrzygała o tym, że różnica między weselnymi wierszami okolicznościowymi a wirydarzowymi wierszami pornograficznymi wiąże się nie tyle z odmiennymi technikami obrazowania, ile z tym, co najkrócej można określić jako słownictwo – zawsze obyczajne w drukach toruńskich i często nieobyczajne w wierszach rękopiśmiennych z Wirydarza.
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The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with sexual parity? Ugly men look at beautiful women – this patriarchal discrimination can’t be cancelled either by the parity of sex in The Story of Beauty, nor men who twice outnumber them in The Story of Ugliness. Also as the unfair sex they are prior sex: they humiliate themselves and elevate women
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The text is a review of the Dariusz Śnieżko’s book Kompleksja literatury. Studia staropolskie (The Complexion of Literature. Old-Polish Studies) (TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS, Krakow 2019). The only serious doubt regards the sound of the title (readers might not know the word “complexion”). Kompleksja literatury is a fascinating book. For whom? – certainly students of Old-Polish literature (and it will be also inspiring for scholars of the next historical and literary epochs). What? – revealing the most important dimensions of Old-Polish literature. Why? – because in works published so far the scant use of source texts proves to be representative of the most general material remaining of Old-Polish literature in its intertwining of anthropology and dialectics of orality and literacy.
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Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii (Rome, 1588), an emblematic work by Tomasz Treter, is the subject of analysis aiming at diagnostic indication of its two dimensions, namely those related to emblems and panegyrics. Comparing apologias of one of the most significant persons in the Catholic church and merely moderate results of Hosius’ combats against evangelists in his diocese (first in the Bishopric of Culm, then diocese of Warmia) allows to call the inhibition of Counter-Reformation in Warmia only a limited success at the very most. The discrepancies between the contents of poems and chalcographies by Treter and their historical veracity reflect the scheme of allegory, which allowed even contradiction of signs and their meanings, and panegyric, with its truth about the past versus lie being fabrication or fiction.
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Each period possesses its own concept of world and man. The article presents the attitude of a man of Baroque to the surrounding reality, on the example of Wacław Potocki’s work. The author indicates the Biblical mediation of anthropological and existential threads, which endows Potocki’s poetry with a universal dimension.
Tematy i Konteksty
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2020
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vol. 15
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issue 10
338-358
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In blurred poems of „Wirydarz poetycki” there is a strong power of sexual desire ant this is the power that rules the human world. There is no such thing as soul in human. They only have bodies that are almost identical to the intimate parts. „Picture is domain of art, literality is domain of pornography” – there in no need to argue with that words of Jerzy Bartmiński. When taking them as most general guide in lecture of blurred poems, we can find the guide which show sus literary culture of this poems.
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W wierszach pochodzących z tomu Wirydarz poetycki jest silna siła pożądania seksualnego i to jest siła rządząca ludzkim światem. Podmiot liryczny utworów dowodzi, że w człowieku nie ma czegoś takiego jak dusza. Ludzie mają tylko ciała, które są prawie identyczne z częściami intymnymi. „Obraz jest domeną sztuki, dosłowność jest domeną pornografii” - z tymi słowami Jerzego Bartmińskiego nie trzeba się spierać. Biorąc je za najbardziej ogólny przewodnik w wykładzie wierszy niewyraźnych, możemy znaleźć przewodnik, który ukazuje kulturę literacką tych wierszy.
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The research on the epistolary art in the First Polish Republic is certainly one of the more difficult challenges. Such research requires extraordinary skills, sometimes the manuscripts are barely legible, while the relations between the writer and the reader were often complicated (clientism was not, after all, a one directional phenomenon) and the aggrandizment of a given letter’s addressee was often proportional to the sender’s apparent self-humiliation, thus the social conventions were interwoven with individual preferences. The recently published volume of Epistolografia should be seen within its context, that is, the earlier two volumes of the “Biblioteka Tradycji” (“Library of Tradition”) series. In this series, we find studies and analyses belonging to history, cultural history, and history of literature. The first series contained a number of academic luxury editions of early Polish literature. Indeed, those early letters remain an inexhaustible source of knowledge on the culture of those times.  
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The research on the epistolary art in the First Polish Republic is certainly one of the more difficult challenges. Such research requires extraordinary skills, sometimes the manuscripts are barely legible, while the relations between the writer and the reader were often complicated (clientism was not, after all, a one directional phenomenon) and the aggrandizment of a given letter’s addressee was often proportional to the sender’s apparent self-humiliation, thus the social conventions were interwoven with individual preferences. The recently published volume of Epistolografia should be seen within its context, that is, the earlier two volumes of the “Biblioteka Tradycji” (“Library of Tradition”) series. In this series, we find studies and analyses belonging to history, cultural history, and history of literature. The first series contained a number of academic luxury editions of early Polish literature. Indeed, those early letters remain an inexhaustible source of knowledge on the culture of those times.
EN
Contrary to common conviction, which treats pure nonsense and logic as a relation of incompatibility and incongruity, it is the relation of contiguity that appears to be fundamental for the principle of the paralogic of pure nonsense. Like in the poetry of nonsense also even nonsensical jokes or absurd situations appear to be peculiarly logical (i.e. paralogical). Studies of metaphor and panegyric seem to be this trope, which most closely leads to the goal which is a theory of literature view of pure nonsense.
Tematy i Konteksty
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2019
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vol. 14
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issue 9
663-681
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The paper consists of two parts. The first one is dedicated to Przyboś as a son of Podgórze and to his relations with gothic cathedrals. The second one is dedicated the connection between the Atlantic and the Holocaust, and it is con-stituted around the idea of double vastness: the enormity of ocean waters and the martyrdom of the Jews; the poetic importance, however, lying not only in the very comparison, but in the possibility of proving its legitimacy.
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The 9th issue of the magazine published by the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University, i.e. “Litteraria Copernicana” is the subject of this review. The issue is entitled “The body in early modern Polish literature”. The informative value of this magazine mostly lies in the fact that early modern Polish literature has begun to be read in a manner that is characteristic of the contemporary humanities which are concerned with this peculiar topic of studies, i.e. the body.
Tematy i Konteksty
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2019
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vol. 14
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issue 9
267-276
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Did the Union of Lublin pass the test of time in 1683 in perhaps in the most difficult period for it? The Lithuanian relief of Vienna was only simulated, but if everything was calmed down, it was because the anti-Royal opposition was strong and John III was weak. At the same time, a problem arose of how to proclaim the glory of the Viennese triumph without humiliating the late and infamous Lithuania? The answer is a school Jesuit theatre and a performance entitled Picture of Victory [...].
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The subject of the following rhetorical analysis is Józef Piłsudski’s speech entitled Przemówienie na bankiecie z okazji wprowadzenia orderu “Virtuti Militari” [Speech Delivered on the Banquet of Introducing The Order of “Virtuti Militari”], made on 22.01.1920 at the first meeting of the Chapter of the Order. Piłsudski’s speech at the burial of Słowacki’s remains in the crypt at Wawel Cathedral was “a masterpiece of the art of oratorical art.” The same level of mastery can be grated to the speech delivered at the first meeting of the Chapter of “Virtuti Militari”. It is not only Piłsudski, as an author, that links the two speeches, but also the fact that both of them were delivered at important historical moments: the first one is the speech of the creator of the independent Republic of Poland, the latter – a speech of the creator of the independent Republic of Poland, who rescued the Polish state by carrying out May Coup. Still, what is the most important in rhetorical interpretation is the same outstanding ars verbis that linked them, highlighting the relativity of the opposition poetry-prose.
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