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Poetics of the Happy Ending in Mike Leigh's Films

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Śliwińska A.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2015

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vol. 16

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issue 25

95-103

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Poetics of the Happy Ending in Mike Leigh’s Films While the most recent cinema is about surprising us with strange formal solutions, whose finale is intended to completely confuse and outsmart us, Mike Leigh makes fi lms which surprise us with their “typicality”, at the same time (paradoxically) leading to fi nales that we may not expect. Among researchers on melodrama, there are voices clearly assessing happy endings negatively. It is pointed out that a happy ending oft en looks as if it were “tacked on” and artifi cial, ignoring the overall plot rather than being integral to the rest of the fi lm. In the case of Mike Leigh’s films, the situation looks (ostensibly) similarly. Leigh oft en leads the viewer through the dramatic lives of his characters, and watches the process of families’ lives being ruined, one aft er another, only to finally make them rise like a phoenix from the ashes. It may be stated that Leigh’s fi lms in a somewhat artifi cial way take advantage of the happy ending. Th is artifi ciality, however, is not about a banal or ridiculous ending, but about one we have not been prepared for by the director.

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(Nie)szczęsliwy happy end. O szczęściu w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży (na przykładzie powieści „Panna Nikt” Tomka Tryzny)

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Szwagrzyk A.

Amor Fati

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2015

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issue 1

97-110

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Happy ending is known to every reader and viewer. Happy endings is present in the culture of antiquity. In the literature for children happy ending is often unhappy, goes only unhappy. Science of happiness (polish term: felicytologia) answer questions on happiness in the literature for children and young people. Doing an analysis of the novel in 1994 under the title "Miss Nobody", author: Tomek Tryzna. The novel is about an adolescent girl who is going through a lot of drama. It has various difficult problems, can not find happiness. Her happiness turns out to be really bad luck. The girl decides to commit suicide, because she is very lonely and does not under-stand her family and friends. She has the nickname 'nobody', invented his friends. Nick shows that Mary is insig-nificant person. Marysia falls with love twice in her friends – Kasia end Ewa. Friends do not love her. Happiness and sadness always come together in her life. Children's literature shows how happiness and unhappiness are together in life. The concept of (un)happiness is necessary to describe a novel for young readers, where happiness is often bittersweet.

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I (nie) żyli długo i szczęśliwie. Konstrukcje zakończeń w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie

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Rybak K.

Literatura Ludowa

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2019

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vol. 63

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issue 1

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The article focuses on endings of selected contemporary Polish children’s books about the Holocaust. In the majority of these stories, events are set in a ghetto. Crossing its wall is a turning point for the protagonists. I understand crossing this physical boundary as a positive preview of the future, a negative sign of the end of life, and a new beginning of one’s uncertainty about one’s fate. The study is divided into three parts devoted, respectively, to the biographies of Janusz Korczak, the endings of selected texts (including XY by Joanna Rudniańska, Szlemiel by Ryszard Marek Groński and Bezsenność Jutki by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala) and the case study of Arka czasu by Marcin Szczygielski. The collected observations are then analyzed in the context of the happy end convention, which, according to some researchers, is strongly associated with children's literature.

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Tematem artykułu są zakończenia wybranych współczesnych polskich tekstów o Zagładzie przeznaczonych dla młodego czytelnika. Miejscem akcji większości opowieści jest getto, a przekroczenie jego muru jest momentem przełomowym dla bohaterów, który można rozumieć wielorako, zarówno jako pozytywną zapowiedź przyszłości, negatywny znak końca życia czy nowy początek niepewności o swój los. Studium jest podzielone na trzy części, poświęcone odpowiednio biografiom Janusza Korczaka, zakończeniom wybranych tekstów o Zagładzie (m.in. XY Joanny Rudniańskiej, Szlemiel Ryszarda Marka Grońskiego i Bezsenność Jutki Doroty Combrzyńskiej-Nogali) oraz studium Arki czasu Marcina Szczygielskiego. Zebrane obserwacje zostają zanalizowane w kontekście szczęśliwego zakończenia, według niektórych badaczy silnie przynależnego literaturze dziecięcej.

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Poetics of the Happy Ending in Mike Leigh's Films

(Nie)szczęsliwy happy end. O szczęściu w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży (na przykładzie powieści „Panna Nikt” Tomka Tryzny)

I (nie) żyli długo i szczęśliwie. Konstrukcje zakończeń w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie