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Mieszkańcy „opacznego miniaturowego uniwersum”. Zwierzęta w twórczości W.G. Sebalda

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Kończal K.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2015
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issue 1
227-250
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The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which the forms and presence of animals are presented in the works of the German writer, Sebald, through selected approaches in animal studies. The article shows that animalistic discourse plays an important, if not central, part in Sebald’s literary imagination, which has gone largely unnoticed by critics for a long time, due to their predominant focus on the issues of memory, the Holocaust, and melancholia. The main subjects of analysis here are the novels The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz, which are focused predominantly on the issue of human-animal relationships both on a textual and on a visual level. Firstly, the author will characterize the images of animals depicted in Sebald’s prose, then she will examine the animal carto raphies, i.e. spaces where the writer locates his non-human protagonists, and in the end, the text will analyse the poetics of contrast and analogy through which Sebald describes the entanglement of the human’s mind in the exploitation of animals. The analysis will demonstrate that the coexistence of humans and animals in Sebald’s works is not linear, but rather creates sophisticated constellations of ostensibly distanced events from various periods and sources. Sebald places an animal’s suffering right at the centre of the turbulent and disastrous history of the 19th and 20th centuries and, through this inclusive gesture of empathy towards non-human animals, strictly breaks with the anthropocentric perspective of writing.
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Za pan brat ze ślimakiem. O pewnym zwierzęcym motywie w poezji Ryszarda Krynickiego

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Filipowicz A.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2015
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issue 1
207-226
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Brotherhood with the SnailAbout a Certain Animal Motif in the Poetry of Ryszard Krynicki A poetic interest in animals is one result of Ryszard Krynicki’s being inspired by Japanese haiku, which he combines with the distinctive meanings of Western culture. Buddhist tradition allows him to see an animal as a representative of the universe in common with humans, and as a real existence in itself. In his poems the Eastern sensitivity and way of thinking become an opportunity to revise humanity’s imaging of nature. Paradoxically, therefore, what is spiritual allows Krynicki to experience an empirical encounter with the animal and show the conditions for the questioning of the anthropocentric paradigm.
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Słoń a sprawa literaturoznawców, czyli o zoofilologii słów kilka. Rekonesans

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Krupiński P.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2015
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issue 1
13-23
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This article is  entirely dedicated to  zoophilology-a  new discipline of  research, which emerged with the fusion of philological sciences and modern, ethically deepened animal studies. The author-following Aleksander Nawarecki, who coined the term-is trying to define the genesis, subject of  research, and methodology of zoophilology. Its most important intellectual context is the non-anthropo-centric humanities, also called posthumanities. One of the main tasks of zoophilology studies is to show how writers question the evaluative opposition between men and animals. More and more often getting to know the perspective of animals-their non-human point of view, which is so difficult to imagine-is becoming one of the ambitions of modern literature and art. The role of zoophilologists is conceived as trying to analyze and interpret such “postanthropocentric” texts. It is an attempt to reach a deeper understanding of how literature enables us to put ourselves in the position of others.
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Obserwowanie cierpienia? O traumatyczności doświadczeń dzieci i zwierząt związanych z polowaniami na podstawie wybranych utworów literackich

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Naplocha A.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2018
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issue 4
245-258
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The paper deals with the problem of traumatic experiences of children and animals related to hunting from the point of view of animal studies. The subject of hunting covers usually only the ethical side of this hobby. In the defense of animals which are the object of hunting activities, the emphasis is mainly on human interference in the law of nature and its influence on reducing the local wildlife population. The article presents a topic related to the psychological aspect of hunting, which is often overlooked in the general social discourse. The subject of the survey was to present one of the aspects of the human psyche – traumatic experience as the influence of hunting on the participating children. Based on selected examples of literary works on hunting the impact of those traumatic experiences of children is outlined. The effects of traumatic experiences and the situations of transferring the trauma from one’s experience and considering it as its own are presented. In addition, the article presents the problems of traumatic experiences in animals and their suffering not only related to the somatic but also to the psychic side. Based on ethology, the hunting influence on mental suffering animals is shown with particular emphasis on those which live in the herd. The issues presented in the article are testimony to the similarity of humans and animals’ mental experiences in humans and animals.
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(Re)wizje naturalizmu w świetle badań nad zwierzętami (animal studies). Rekonesans

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Piechota D.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2015
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issue 1
165-173
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The main question discussed in this article is: Can we re-interpret naturalism’s novels or short stories  from a non-human perspective? The researchers of animal studies perceive the world as an ecosystem where humans, animals, and plants live in a symbiosis. They also perceive the human as a part of nature. Moreover, with regard to Charles Darwin’s discoveries, it is worth to mention that the theorists of naturalism called the human being an animal. Naturalists introduce a new protagonist into literature called the animal hero. Thanks to animal studies, he is perceived as a subject, not a thing (as was the case earlier). What is more, we can reconstruct different relations between species. One of the most important problems for naturalism and animal studies is empathy towards other creatures. Naturalists, as well as the researchers of animal studies, use different tools to analyse and interpret novels and short stories. First of all, they introduce different narrators in order to be objective. Furthermore, they indicate parallelisms between the human and animal world, they avoid subjective comments, and sometimes they use the strategy called the stream of consciousness to present other creatures’ thoughts.
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Słoma (dla zwierząt). Subiekcje etymologiczne

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Bogalecki P.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2017
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issue 3
13-21
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The article is an attempt to utilize the pre-philosophical etymological meanings of the word subject in a proposal for the reflection that fits into the discussion on the possibilities of new posthumanistic approaches to the matter of subject. Its first part comprises etymological inquiry, inspired by the philosophy of M. Heidegger and the proposal of K.Okopien, into the Greek word ὑποκείμενον, the Latin subiectum and the Polish podmiot. In the second part, three new, ethically oriented proposals for perceiving the problem in the perspective of studying animals have been derived from the three former meanings of the Polish subject – a foundling, fraud, and bedding.
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