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JERZY PIETRKIEWICZ (PETERKIEWICZ) I JEGO WKŁAD W LITERATURĘ ANGIELSKĄ

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Moskalowa A.

Zeszyty Naukowe PUNO

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2017

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issue 5

161-169

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The author is concentrating on Jerzy Pietrkiewicz (Peterkiewicz) in his capacity as a nov elist in English language and his other major works of academic importance such as: - the two anthologies of the English/Polish and the Polish/English poetry from the middle ages to and including the 20th century. He is also the author of the proles of famous or historical personalities eg. Karol Wojtyła known as Pope John Paul II, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jan Potocki – to name the few – whose characters were transmitted by BBC Radio III & IV

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The metaphorization phenomenon in the English literature texts. Actualization of the time concept through the metaphorical realization process

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Liulka O.

Journal of Modern Science

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2019

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issue 3(42)

109-129

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This article is a result of the analysis of metaphorization process and actualization of the TIME concept in the English literature texts. The analysis has been made from different perspectives such as: historical, lexical and semantic. All the results of the article are closely related to our dissertation and based on many scientific works dedicated to the similar linguistic topics. Purpose. The purpose of the article is a more precise study of the TIME concept and its metaphorization in the English literature texts. It is very important to understand the historical formation of the process as well as its correlation with lexical and semantic aspects of the linguistic. Methods. The first method of the research is the comparative analysis of different linguists’ statement about such a phenomenon as metaphor or metaphorization. The second method is the descriptive analysis of the historical background of the TIME concept formation. The third method is the analysis of the English literature texts in order to find some lexical, semantic, stylistic, pragmatic, syntactic, linguistic and psycholinguistic patterns for the TIME concept metaphorization in this kind of texts. Results. Specific metaphor properties are the reason why a very important role in a language is dedicated to the metaphor. Language embodiment of new concepts and a creation of new linguistic manners is a direct consequence of the metaphorization process. Certain linguistic forms are a place of a realization of cognitive reality images. These images are based on a metaphorical transference. The development of the TIME concept part named as time calculation had started in early English period (XIV – XV centuries). The TIME concept has been The metaphorization phenomenon in the English literature texts. Actualization of the time concept through the metaphorical realization process metaphorically realized very differently. The metaphorization depends on the period of the English history. Modern metaphorical realization of the TIME concept has changed many times but the basic metaphorical associations remained non deformed. There are prepositions which classified by the agentic / non-agentic feature. It’s been made in order to understand time properties and in order to find correlation between the TIME concept and other aspects of the textual reality. The analysis of the chosen material has led to the distinction of five predicate groups such as: activity, location, status, quality and process. The classification of the prepositions was made in the research. They were distinguished according to the predicates. As a result models of the TIME concept description have been made. It proofs the fact that the TIME concept might be realized as the agentive, objective and dative. The using of the ‘time’ lexeme as a living initiator of the action is syntactically reasoned. This action causes the personification of time in the English culture.

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Od własności bytu do przedmiotu estetycznego: studium piękna w "Gottfried Künstler: A Mediæval Story" Vity Sackville-West

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Kottke D.

Acta Neophilologica

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2021

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vol. XXIII/1

215-228

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Vita Sackville-West was an English Modernist writer, poet and gardener. In her short narrative Gottfried Künstler: A Mediæval Story (1932), a skater-artist Gottfried loses his memory due to an accident on ice and, as a result, becomes some-body else. The aim of this article is to prove that the work explores the development of the philosophy of beauty: negating classic theories, according to which beauty is grounded in being or nature, the story heads towards the contemporary concept of the aesthetic object, saying that beauty stems from art. The analysis of the story is divided into three parts: the exploration of being, the study of nature, and the discussion of the concept of the aesthetic object.

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Silmarillion — allotopia J. R. R. Tolkiena w perspektywie ardologicznej

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Maj K. M.

Creatio Fantastica

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2017

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issue 2(57)

73-91

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The article Silmarillion—J. R. R. Tolkien’s Allotopia From Ardological Perspective aims at outlining the methodology for studying Tolkien’s world-building project without the need of acknowledging the text-centered reading paradigm. Having differentiated tolkienology, as text-focused, philological studies, from ardology, understood as world-building studies, Maj deconstructs the use of Tolkienian’s “subcreation” in literary theory as far too indebted in the metaphysics of presence to establish a neutral framework for studying the process of constructing a fictional reality. With the examples from Silmarillion—perhaps the best instance of modern mythography, in no way resembling the narrative arc of a prototypical fantasy novel—the author builds up on the notion of “allotopia” as the world independent insofar to create its own ontologies, topographies, languages, philosophy, history, literature, art, or even physical artifacts—without the need of anchoring the overall creation in a metaphysical paradigm. Correspondingly, the text offers an insight to a number of theories in postclassical narratology or postmodern philosophy that may help in understanding the scale of Tolkien’s solemn contribution to the art of fantastic world-building.

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ROMAN DYBOSKI – PIERWSZY POLSKI ANGLISTA I ZAŁOŻYCIEL KRAKOWSKIEJ ANGLISTYKI

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Gibińska-Marzec M.

Rocznik Przemyski

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2018

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vol. 54

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issue 1(21): Historia

131-147

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The article presents Roman Dyboski (1883-1946), the founder of English Studies in Poland. He was disciple of the great humanist Wilhelm Creizenach, Dyboski chose to study English language and culture, and in 1911 organized the first Polish Chair in English Studies at the Jagiellonian University. He devoted his research to English and American literature and culture, was indefatigable in introducing the great works of literature to a wide readership in Poland and in being an ambassador of Polish culture in the United Kingdom and the United States. Dyboski was an eminent academic, most distinguished in his service to the development of Polish humanities.

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[Rev.:] Richard Griffith, The Pen and the Cross : Catholicism and English Literature, 1850-2000, London ; New York : Continuum, 2010. xii, 260 p.

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Słyszewska A., Zgierska R.

Religious and Sacred Poetry: An International Quarterly of Religion, Culture and Education

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2013

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issue 2(2)

171-174

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It is beyond any doubt that Richard Griffiths’ The Pen and the Cross is an interestingly written and a rather fascinating book, which certainly is a valuable addition to the study of Catholic writing. It provides a very basic insight into the development of Catholicism and Catholic literature in England between 1850 and 2000, which includes many notable, yet still forgotten novelists and poets. An attempt to discuss such a vast number of writers was very ambitious and certainly involved artistic as well as critical skill, and yet Mr. Griffiths manages to provide the reader with a quite clear and comprehensible description of Catholic writing. The main focus of the study seems to be the influence of Roman Catholicism on the writers (recusants, converts and even, in some cases, nonbelievers) and their works. It attempts to examine the importance of religious experience in shaping the intellectual vision conveyed in texts of most notable English writers including, among others, Hopkins, Greene, Waugh, Sparks or Lodge. Mr. Griffiths acknowledges the fact that quite frequently Catholic committed literature is on the verge of propaganda, but when it is done well, as in case of the aforementioned authors, it may provide an extremely profound outlook not only on religion but also modern culture, human behavior and original literary themes and techniques. He also raises the question whether the understanding of Catholic novels and poems is at all possible without specific knowledge connected with religion. There are, however, elements of Mr. Griffiths’ work that need some explanation. One of them is the title. More often than not authors of various critical works, including those which deal mainly or exclusively with Catholic writers, try to convey in the title as much as they can about the subject of their inquiry or the attitude taken by them. The results of this are, among many others, Some Catholic Writers by Ralph McInerny, Literary Giants, Literary Catholics by Joseph Pearce, The Catholic Revival in English Literature by Ian Ker, or Catholic Literature: An Introduction by Margaret Sum-mitt. It seems, however, that Mr. Griffiths decided to go against this tendency. He chose not to provide (at least not in a straightforward way) any specific information on the scope of literature that he is interested in nor in the attitude taken by him in his investigation. Mr. Griffiths himself must have considered his title as not very informative, as he supplemented it. Only through the second part of the title is the reader informed that the work is concerned with Catholicism and English literature in the period 1850-2000. Still, it does not say much about the content. Catholicism in English Literature would be more suggestive, not mentioning other obvious options such as English Catholic Literature, Catholic Literature in England or, what seems also applicable, English Catholic Writers. All these suggestions address the issue straightforwardly and provide a sound frame of reference. Meanwhile, Mr. Griffiths refuses to include a term crucial to his work, and one that he otherwise uses quite frequently and discusses openly in the first section as the basis for further investigation; that is, “Catholic literature”. It is understandable that he avoids the term “Catholic writers” as some of the authors renounce it and consider it inappropriate. It is also understandable that he does not want to limit his investigation to English writings alone, as a substantial part of his comments involve French literature and he successfully presents the two as closely related and, at times, even inseparable. It is confusing, however, that he avoids calling his subject what it actually is, considering that his arguments supporting the validity of the term “Catholic literature” are very convincing. One reason for this eva-sion may be, of course, the marketing. “The Pen and the Cross” surely stands out among many other titles of works devoted to similar issues and may be considered appealing to the reading public. It is also possible that Mr. Griffiths does not want to impose anything on his readers but only suggests certain tendencies, leaving much space for speculation on the subject of the relationship between Catholicism and English literature in the period given. Also, he might have considered this title the only possible way of encapsulating all the social, historical and cultural elements which influenced what can be (and by Griffiths is) called the English Catholic literature. There is one interesting implication of the combination of “the Pen” with “the Cross” which maybe did not immediately occur to some of Mr. Griffiths’ readers. “The Pen” as a symbol of poetry and prose (specifically novels of a different kind) is combined with “the Cross” which indicates a specific religious commitment. However, bearing in mind Griffiths’ comments on the turbulent history of Catholicism in England, cultural and social difficulties that Catholic believers, and above all Catholic writers must have overcome, and finally the “pitfalls” of writing Catholic literature without falling into sentimentality, it becomes apparent that producing Catholic works involved many sacrifices and may indeed be seen in terms of bearing ones’ Cross. Thus, the title can be a general statement as to the situation of English Catholic literature throughout the ages. What is also very unusual about Mr. Griffiths work is the fact that his presentation of the Catholic writers seems to be strongly influenced by his personal views and likings which are clearly visible through the tone of his descriptions. Even though he recognizes the importance and influence of all the writers he examines, it is apparent that he is fonder of some of them over others. He directs his attention especially to three outstanding figures: Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and David Jones. His admiration for them is convincingly argued and certainly well-deserved. However, while Greene is described as “a pivotal figure in the history of the Catholic novel in Britain” and Jones is treated as a highly original and forward-looking poet, Waugh is presented primarily as a re-constructor of the already existing patterns, “entrenched in a last ditch defense of traditional values” and his works, in spite of their great value, are seen as “a dead-end”. The last statement, although preceded by words of praise, seems unjust. Mr. Griffiths refers primarily and quite understandably to Brideshead Revisited as Waughs’ best work. He indicates a number of interesting ways in which traditional Catholic themes are arranged and constitute a substantial part of fictional reality. However, he seems not to notice a whole range of new, original and often surprising elements which, if carefully analyzed, may indicate new paths for the development of Catholic literature. First of all, the extensive use of satire, characteristic of Waugh’s early works, in Brideshead Revisited gains new meaning. It seems that for the first time the satire is aimed at the secular, modern way of life and religious elements alike. The reader smiles at political discussions of Rex Mottram and his friends, the adventures of homosexual Anthony Blanche as well as at Cordelia’s novenas for pigs and her collection of little black Cordelias somewhere in Africa. Bursting with laughter may occur especially at the account of Cordelia making fun of Rex about the rules of Catholic faith which supposedly include sleeping with one’s feet pointing east, sending people to hell for just a pound or keeping sacred monkeys in Vatican. All this is presented to stress how different and confusing Catholic faith is for the non-believers, and yet Waugh seems to be the first to exaggerate and distort religious truths for this purpose. He is also the first to create Catholic characters who are simply unlikeable. It seems a part of a convention to present Catholic way of life as full of difficulties and unattractive to the modern man, as it is with the Riversdales in Mrs. Wilfrid Ward’s One Poor Scruple. However, in Brideshead Revisited the reader feels no sympathy for Bridey or Lady Marchmain, the two most pious members of the family, not so much due to their sacrifice or ascetic life but their personality traits and their attitude towards other people. The potential saints are, quite surprisingly, short-sighted and egoistic. This is a strange novelty, and yet Waugh has a purpose in it. The two characters, especially when compared to other members of the Flyte family, make the reader understand that piety, devotion and knowledge of religious truths are nothing when compared to the sincere desire to act according to God’s will, however mysterious it may be. Also, Waugh reveals here his fascination with the act of conversion which he clearly values very highly. This, however, the readers may find in earlier works by G.K.Chesterton, Charles Péguy or François Mauriac. More thorough investigation would reveal a number of other innovative elements involving the creation of characters and spaces within which they function. This review, however, is not concerned with Waugh exclu-sively. The purpose, therefore, is just to signal that some important aspects of Waugh’s novels, Brideshead Revisited in particular, may not have been recognized by Mr. Griffiths. Otherwise, however, his remarks are very interesting and insightful. In his defense it should be admitted that the creative potential of Waugh’s works has not yet been fully explored by other writers. However engaging The Pen and the Cross is, it should be treated most of all as a good starting point for more careful research, since for some readers the overall character of the work may not present a sufficient examination of the topic. One simply cannot pass over in silence the very peculiar omission of such highly important figures as J.R.R. Tolkien, Rumer Godden, Geoffrey Hill and some others. Their absence at least demands an explanation as it does not allow for a fully comprehensive picture of the topic. Nevertheless, The Pen and the Cross, due to its briefness, may actually succeed in encouraging some of the readers to conduct their own examination of presented novels, poems and their creators.

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Z Prus do Anglii. Saga rodziny J. R. R. Tolkiena (XIV-XIX wiek)

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Derdziński R.

Creatio Fantastica

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2017

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issue 2(57)

47-71

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Professor Tolkien’s knowledge of his ancestry and the history of his family name was limited to the family legends. The article From Prussia to England. J. R. R. Tolkien’s Family Saga (14th-19thc.) describes Ryszard Derdziński’s ten-years-long research which confirmed that the Tolkien family came to England from Gdańsk in the eighteenth century and that their roots can be tracked down to mediaeval Prussia and the Harz Mountains. The presented findings of Derdziński are based on archival and genealogical research and field research. The author established that Tolkien’s family name comes from Old Prussian (Baltic) etymology and is most probably related to the history of von Markelingerode, a noble family which came to Prussia from the Harz Mountains. Derdziński describes the details of the life of Daniel Gottlieb Tolkien and John Benjamin Tolkien, two brothers from Gdańsk, from whom all English-speaking Tolkiens in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia descent. Furthermore, the author of the article presents a detailed family tree, as well as reproductions of important documents that determine the particular phases of the history of the ancestors of J. R. R. Tolkien.

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„Frank, ciągle tam jesteś?”. O listach i książkach w filmie 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

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Pławuszewski P.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2019

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issue 32

93-114

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Pławuszewski Piotr, „Frank, ciągle tam jesteś?”. O listach i książkach w filmie 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) [“Frank, you still there?”. On books and letters in David Jones’ 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 93–114. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.4. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987, dir. by David Jones) is the story of 20-year-long (1949–1969) correspondence between the American writer Helene Hanff and London antiquarian Frank Doel. The letters (edited and prepared for printing by Hanff) were published under the same title in 1970. This article is a precise analysis of the film work, particularly in the context of the two most important elements of its narrative and semantic plane (excluding the strictly historical introductory part). The first is a letter, understood mainly in its artistic function, the second, a book, both as a material object and a medium of literary content. Treating the epistolary material with ingenuity worthy of respect, the filmmakers managed to create one of the most convincing images of literary culture in the history of cinema, albeit one rather forgotten nowadays.

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W stronę Albionu – i z powrotem. Rec.: Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, W stronę Albionu. Studia z dziejów polsko-brytyjskich związków literackich w dobie wczesnonowożytnej. Lublin 2017. „Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Literatury Wczesnonowożytnej”. [T.] 4

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Śnieżko D.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2022

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vol. 113

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issue 2

285-294

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Książka „W stronę Albionu” Mirosławy Hanusiewicz-Lavallee to gruntowna, bogato udokumentowana monografia tytułowej problematyki, ujęta w ramy dwóch odmian komparatystyki: genetycznej i typologicznej. Pierwsza z nich przynosi szereg wartościowych rozpoznań i ustaleń w sprawie tła historycznego, kanałów transmisji, autorstwa, podstaw przekładów, technik translatorskich, edycji. Komparatystyka typologiczna natomiast otwiera przestrzeń dla mistrzowskich interpretacji polskiej poezji barokowej w kontekście angielskiej poezji metafizycznej.

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The book “W stronę Albionu” (“Towards Albion”) by Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee is an in-depth, richly documented monograph of the matters specified in its title and formulated within the framework of two kinds of comparative studies: literary genetic and typological. The former brings a collection of noteworthy examinations and settlements of historical background, channels of transmission, authorship, bases of translation, translation techniques, and editions. The latter, by contrast, opens a space for masterly interpretations of Polish Baroque poetry in the context of English metaphysical poetry.

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Tolkien w oczach mediewisty

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Honegger T.

Creatio Fantastica

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2017

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issue 2(57)

7-23

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The Lord of the Rings, ever since its publication, has been something of a nuisance to traditional literary critics and has been maligned often and with zest. The main reason for these strong—and often irrational—reactions are primarily due to the fact that The Lord of the Rings does not fit into the literary mainstream and challenges standard critical assumptions about what a work of twentieth-century fiction should be like. The standard tool-kit of the literary critic seems utterly inadequate. Mediaevalists, in contrast, have often taken a more sympathetic view of Tolkien’s work. Honegger’s article Tolkien Through the Eyes of a Mediaevalist will therefore present several ‘mediaeval’ approaches towards Tolkien, evaluate their critical value and discuss their contribution towards a more adequate understanding of Tolkien’s literary work.

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Super size me: Experiments with the shape and size of contemporary sonnets in English

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Wącior S.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2016

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vol. 64

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issue 11: Anglica

213-224

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The paper discusses theoretical issues of the development of contemporary sonnets in English with special attention devoted to the size and shape of the poems. The sonnet’s verbal space of fourteen decasyllabic lines arranged in quatrains and tercets undergoes a drastic re-arrangement in the texts of modern sonneteers. The most characteristic experiments with the form of the sonnet concern, among other things, expanding its structure by means of doubling the poem’s length, redefining the concept of the line of verse and substituting a decasyllabic iambic pentameter line with a block of lines stripped off any metrical beat and often prosaic in rhythm or immuring the sonnet within other texts and thus multiplying its meanings. The other tendency operating in contemporary sonnets is hybridization of the form by means of amalgamating the verbal with the visual, a process which expands the sonnet generically and makes of it an inter-art form.

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Artykuł podejmuje złożoną tematykę rozwoju gatunkowego współczesnego sonetu angielskiego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem problematyki formalnego ukształtowania tego typu wierszy, przede wszystkim jego rozmiarów oraz interakcji, w jakie wchodzi z innymi formami sztuki. Najbardziej charakterystyczną tendencją, z jaką mamy obecnie do czynienia, jest między innymi wydłużanie struktury sonetu poprzez podwajanie liczby linijek, redefiniowanie pojęcia wersu ze struktury zbudowanej z pojedynczej linijki do blokowego układu nawet kilku zdań, często pozbawionego cech poetyckiego wyrażania, czy wreszcie zanurzenie sonetu w słownej substancji innego tekstu nierzadko stworzonego z dowolnie dobranych sekwencji słów bądź fragmentów prozy. Drugą istotną cechą jest łączenie sonetu jako utworu literackiego ze sztukami wizualnymi i wyzyskiwanie potencjału intertekstualnego wynikającego z takiej amalgamacji odległych sobie tekstów artystycznych.

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Uncanny Styria

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Pająk P.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2019

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issue 9(12) cz.1

149-162

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The nineteenth century in the West was a period of intellectual and artistic fascination with the East, both distant and near: Asian and Eastern European. One of the regions that attracted the interest of Western Europeans was Styria, situated on the border separating Austria from Hungary and the Balkans, that is, the West from the East. Borderland cultural phenomena stimulate the imagination as much as exotic phenomena. Both disturb with their hybrid character, which results from the mixing of elements from familiar and alien cultures. With their duality and ambiguity, borderlands are the source of the uncanny, which in the Western literature of the nineteenth century became the basic ingredient of the Western image of the Styrian lands. Uncanny Styria was discovered by Basil Hall, a Scottish traveler who reported the impressions of his stay in this region in his 1830s travelogue Schloss Hainfeld; or, a Winter in Lower Styria. In the second half of the century, two Irishmen wrote about the uncanny Styrian borderland: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. Both associated Styria with vampirism: the former in the 1870s novella Carmilla, the latter in the 1890s short story Dracula’s Guest. The central thread that runs through all three texts is the decline of Styrian nobility. From Hall, it prompts expression of melancholy regret, accompanied by a sense of strangeness. In his work, the erosion of the culture of the nobility results from Styria’s isolated location in the borderlands, as well as the destructive influences of modernity. Le Fanu balances the regret with horror, related to a different interpretation of decline as cultural regression. In Stoker’s story, the terror intensifies with the sense that the regression that affects the province of Styria could extend to Western Europe.

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O poezji cmentarnej (graveyard poetry) – Robert Blair i Edward Young

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Kasperski E.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2012

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issue 2(5)

179-198

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The term ‘graveyard poetry’ or Graveyard School of Poetry is used in the history of literature to refer to a collection of English poems of the 18th century whose character is primarily meditative and refl exive. The graveyard poets chose intensely emotional lyric genres such as dramatised and full of strong emotions meditative monologue, elegy or last will. They allowed the authors to express deeply subjective and intimate feelings, which revealed the supressed and hidden in the social discourse unoffi cial aspect of their psyche. They led to poetry which is direct, personal, confessional, intimate and reaching out of the rigour of Neoclassical convention. The compositions refl ected on mortality and immortality, passing of time, fragility of human life, horror of death, interment, grave, ‘coffi n bed’ after death, symbolism of the dead, decomposing bodies and bleak cemetery night and silence. They were full of sorrow, lugubriousness, grievance, dispair and melancholy caused by irreparable loss of a close person who passed away. They asked dramatic questions about the sense of life and death, about the meaning of the symbolism of graves for the living and the postmortem ‘what’s next’. The graveyard poetry literary and artistically wise ennobled and canonised the motif of grave and cemetery, which changed into meaningful and symbolic scenery. The Graveyard School of Poetry might have appeared to be a reaction to modern and scientifi c conversion of the world and universe image and therefore might have seemed to be a regressive and nostalgic turn towards Middle Ages and Baroque. In fact, it was paving the way for the future as well as for the romantic, radical revaluation and changes in literature, especially through opening towards subjective, extreme emotions of an individual, striving for direct poetic form of expression and by virtue of concentrating on boundary existential refl ection. The history of literature features above others the names of two poets who were the fi rst to compose poems initiating the graveyard poetry movement as a collective historical-literary phenomenon and infl uencing the successors – a Scottish poet, Robert Blair, the author of The Grave and Edward Young, the author of The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton: good, evil and the devil

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Tomkowski J.

Nauka

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2022

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issue 2

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Monasticism And Pleasure In The Mary Play From The N-Town Cycle

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Wiącek T.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uczelni Vistula

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2018

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issue 58(1) Filologia

57-64

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In The Mary Play, a late medieval English mystery play, young Virgin Mary is sent to the Temple in order to live her life in accordance to monastic values of humility and piety. However, on the very threshold she is visited by an angel who presents her with gifts of heavenly sustenance, which form and taste evoke in her sensual pleasures of great volume. This appears to not only contradict her previous pious statements, but also suggests sinful excess and overindulgence. The aim of this paper is to analyze the reasons why Mary’s response to the heavenly gifts can be perceived as sinful in the context of the medieval approach towards food and excess in consumption, as well as prove that Mary’s behaviour is actually a part of a valuable moral lesson in restraint and monastic values of charity and piety. The analysis of the play is supported by works of historians of medieval drama such as Peter Meredith and Stephen Spector, social historians of the Middle Ages, such as Roy Strong and James G. Clark, focusing on monastic life, food and attitude towards food, as well as the ideas, rules and realities governing life in a cloistered society as described in the Benedicti regula monachorum.

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W późnośredniowiecznym angielskim misterium pt. The Mary Play, młoda Maryja zostaje wysłana do Świątyni, aby rozpocząć życie zgodne ze średniowiecznymi monastycznymi ideami pokory i pobożności. Po przekroczeniu progu Świątyni odwiedza ją anioł z darem w postaci manny, której wygląd jak i smak wywołują u Maryi uczucie zmysłowej, nie zaś duchowej przyjemności, co nie tylko zdaje się zaprzeczać jej wcześniejszym pobożnym deklaracjom, ale też sugeruje grzeszne nieumiarkowanie. Artykuł ma na celu ukazać przyczyny, dla których reakcja Maryi na niebiańskie podarunki może zostać uznana za grzeszną w kontekście średniowiecznych reguł monastycznych, jak i ogólnego stosunku do jedzenia oraz nieumiarkowanej konsumpcji w średniowiecznej Europie, oraz udowodnić, że mimo tych wątpliwości późniejsze zachowanie Maryi jest w rzeczywistości częścią moralnej lekcji na temat monastycznych cnót, takich jak powściągliwość, dobroczynność i pobożność. Analiza tekstu sztuki oraz argumentacja wspierana jest opracowaniami krytycznymi z historii dramatu średniowiecznego, pracami z zakresu badań nad historią średniowiecznego społeczeństwa, głównie Roya Stronga i Jamesa G. Clarka, oraz reguł związanych z realiami monastycznego życia opisanych w Benedicti regula monachorum.

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JERZY PIETRKIEWICZ (PETERKIEWICZ) I JEGO WKŁAD W LITERATURĘ ANGIELSKĄ

The metaphorization phenomenon in the English literature texts. Actualization of the time concept through the metaphorical realization process

Od własności bytu do przedmiotu estetycznego: studium piękna w "Gottfried Künstler: A Mediæval Story" Vity Sackville-West

Silmarillion — allotopia J. R. R. Tolkiena w perspektywie ardologicznej

ROMAN DYBOSKI – PIERWSZY POLSKI ANGLISTA I ZAŁOŻYCIEL KRAKOWSKIEJ ANGLISTYKI

[Rev.:] Richard Griffith, The Pen and the Cross : Catholicism and English Literature, 1850-2000, London ; New York : Continuum, 2010. xii, 260 p.

Z Prus do Anglii. Saga rodziny J. R. R. Tolkiena (XIV-XIX wiek)

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