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Review: "L' esperienza tragica come iniziazione: Lev Sestov," by Aleksander Posacki

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Głaz S.

Forum Philosophicum

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2006

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vol. 11

298-300

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The article reviews the book L' esperienza tragica come iniziazione: Lev Šestov [Tragic Experience as Initiation: Lev Shestov], by Aleksander Posacki.

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Katechumenat przedmałżeński narzeczonych

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Kulbacki P.

Studia Pastoralne

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2009

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vol. 5

133-147

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After the restoration of catechumenate in the Church its ideas are still more often applied in a post-baptism formation according indications presented in the 4th chapter of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. New suggestions appeared for marriage preparation since it should be similar to catechumenate. The main rules of catechumenate are considered in this text concerning Christian formation and applied to an initiation to the „Church of the home”. The last should be analogous to Christian initiation, being the pre-marriage catechumenate, as is shown in Familiaris consortio. It is possible to fulfill all the required periods, degrees and celebrations during one year, as it is in formal catechumenate. The article presents pastoral and liturgical foundations for such a formation.

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Poznanie religijne jako uczestnictwo. Filozofia religii Jana Andrzeja Kłoczowskiego

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Chrzanowski G.

Przegląd Religioznawczy

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2019

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issue 2/272

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The main purpose of this essay is a systematic presentation of the concept of religious experience and cognition in Jan Andrzej Kłoczowski’s philosophy of religion. The starting point is a definition of religion not only as a system of beliefs but also as an event, as a domain of reli-gious experience and practice. A religious experience in Kłoczowski’s account has no punctual characteristic but it is, in fact, a hermeneutical experience. It is a permanent dialogue with the tradition of a given religion and culture. Someone experienced is the person with a rich experience. Religious experience has both a subjective and an objective side. The subjective aspect is an innate question concerning the meaning and value of human existence. The objec-tive side includes the experience of a symbol, which refers to the transcendent reality, in which it has already been participating. The precondition of religious knowledge is previous participation in the religious order of the world and the religious values of society. The basic rule of religious epistemology is a claim that participation is ahead of cognition. In religious practice it has been carried out by initiation. In Aquinas’ thought the cognition of God is an act of grace given by the Holy Spirit as a gift of wisdom and a result of previously demon-strated act of faith, bond and love.

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“In questa casa sono tutti morti”. Di cosa parlano veramente Pinocchio e gli altri grandi libri (non solo italiani) per bambini

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Grilli G.

Italica Wratislaviensia

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2017

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issue 8.1

101-119

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In an attempt to find a possible criterion according to which to select the most representative titles and authors in the history of Italian children’s literature, one finds that a very peculiar theme characterises the books that can be considered most remarkable: death. Death, though, in Italian as well as in all the other children’s classics around the world, is not dealt with in a literal way, but in a metaphorical, symbolic, indirect one. Therefore, it is necessary to borrow interpretative approaches from other scientific fields (anthropology and philosophy, for example) in order to understand death’s deepest meaning and to discover that what it stands for, in Italian (and not only Italian) children’s literature, is an “otherness”, a “beyond”, an unknown and non-anthropocentric dimension that children must go through in order to grow up.

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Ragionando su un possibile criterio in base al quale selezionare i testi e gli autori più rappresentativi della storia della letteratura per l’infanzia in Italia, ci si accorge che un tema in particolare caratterizza o è al centro di quelli che sono, di fatto, i suoi titoli più memorabili: la morte. Essa, però, come del resto accade in tutta la grande letteratura per l’infanzia, è trattata in modo non letterale bensì metaforico, simbolico, indiretto, uno che richiede che la si interpreti avvalendosi di strumenti ermeneutici presi a prestito anche da altre discipline, come per esempio l’antropologia o la filosofia. La morte si rivela, così, per ciò che realmente è e vuole significare nei migliori libri per bambini (non solo italiani): una dimensione ‘altra’ rispetto a quella quotidiana, normale, antropocentrata, un Altrove da cui, per crescere, occorre necessariamente passare.

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L’hybridité dans La Steppe rouge de J. Kessel : limite ou complémentarité ?

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Chaabene R.

Quêtes littéraires

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2016

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issue 6

56-64

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The Red Steppe of Joseph Kessel is a valuable work, insofar as it is mainly characterized by its generic hybridity. The six novellas oscillate between the biographical and autobiographical, between history and fiction, between the individual and the collective, between the current and the universal. A sort of juxtaposition and/or co-existence can be traced between the novella of Kessel and other literary genres such as the travelogue, the initiation story, the adventure story, the historical narrative and the fictional narrative. This interdiscursive report makes the historical text an open text, "a hybrid text."

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Lesser Known Śaiva Initiations: Critical Edition of the Vijñānadīkṣā Chapter of the Hitherto Unpublished Acintyaviśvasādākhyāgama, One of the Āgamas of the Śaivasiddhānta Tradition and Its Brief Presentation

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Ganesan T.

Cracow Indological Studies

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2014

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vol. 16: Tantric Traditions in Theory and Practice

145-167

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Various Śaivāgamas treat the important rite of dīkṣā in a detailed fashion. The account of different types of dīkṣā expounded in the Acintyaviśvasādākhyāgama is very interesting and seems to be unique in some ways. The present paper briefly discusses Vijñānadīkṣā, one of the lesser known types of dīkṣā, accompanied by a critical edition of the chapter of the Acintyaviśvasādākhyāgama.

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Liminalność i poznanie w Smudze cienia Josepha Conrada. Między uniwersalnym a kontekstualnym rozumieniem inicjacji

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Szkaradnik K.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2014

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vol. 5

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The axis of "The Shadow-Line" by Joseph Conrad is the issue of initiation in the seaman craft and, at the same time crossing the threshold of adulthood. The author of the article, referring to the concept of the rites of passage of van Gennep, Turner and Eliade, as well as the model of Campbell’s mythic “hero’s journey”, analyses the process and anthropological implications of this initiation and considers to what extent the rites de passage are universal, and to what extent they are contextual. The ship crew turns out to be a communitas, a community of the liminal phase of the rite of passage, and the protagonist must realize the model-archetype in concrete circumstances. Even though the plot resembles the structure of a magical tale, one may find there the cultural reality of seamen’s work and the Victorian era.

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Muhammad’s Night Journey to Heaven or the Initiatic Path to a Temporal and Spiritual Leadership

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Potec E.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2016

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vol. 5

135-140

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In many religious traditions, ascension into heaven is a specific way to become initiated into a new, sacred status. It is a journey which implies a dichotomy of plans: firstly the profane–sacred plan, secondly the telluric–celestial plan, both of them being transformed by the possibility of communication through transcendence. This possibility waives the dichotomy during the ascension and keeps an opening status between the elements of each dichotomy, after the ending of the ascension: the sacred will be opened to the profane, the celestial will be opened to the telluric. Muhammad Night’s Journey is an event which can be read through such a key. However Muḥammad’s Night Journey cannot be limited at this point of view. The event is more complex as we deal with an initiatic path to a temporal and spiritual leadership. As Geo Widengren concluded in his two studies The Ascension of the Apostle and the Heavenly Book and Muhammad, the Apostle of God and His Ascension, Muhammad’s Night Journey reflects a ritual of sovereignty which is specific to the Ancient Near East, in regards with the ascension of the king as a central event concerning his coronation. Muhammad’s Night Journey reflects also a ritual during which Muhammad sees God, and he is sacred as a prophet, being in direct contact with God and with the other monotheistic prophets (as the literature of the 9th century in the Islamic milieu tries to describe). This initiatic path does not have (as a result) the transformation of Muhammad into a character with divine powers; it has (as a result) the unification into Muḥammad’s person of two different powers, the temporal and the spiritual one, and the confirmation of Muhammad as a spiritual and temporal leader for a new community.

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The functionality of dream reality in an emigrant text

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Safronova L., Baizhigit B., Shmakova E.

Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski

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2023

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vol. 1

275-282

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(E)migration as a kind of initiation stage in the fate of an emigrant, when one’s life seems to start from scratch, typologically defines an emigrant text as a structure of incorporation into the social layers of a new society. This process happens mostly unconsciously and is characterized by certain typological markers, such as reference to mythological and folkloric sources, pretexts from home and world culture, stylizations, carnival, parodies, etc. In this sense, a collection by Ilya Lipkovich, Stan Lipovetsky and Igor Mandel titled “Morpheus and Orpheus. Both Dreams and Spirits: Eyewitness Dreams and Poet’s Commentary” is a model of emigrant writing, broadcasting archetypal conventional imagery systems and allowing a reader to survive the traumatic situation of the still incomplete transition.

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Zdarzenie – między horrorem a baśnią

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Pająk P.

Slavia Meridionalis

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2016

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vol. 16

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An Event – between horror and fairy taleAn Event (Događaj, 1969) is one of the few Croatian horror movies. In comparison to other examples of the use of the horror genre in Croatian cinema, the film is distinguished by its aesthetic sophistication and skilful use of fairy-tale elements. The director Vatroslav Mimica evokes the mood of horror primarily through a suitably chosen space (the movie takes place mainly in the forest and two homes) as well as the right dosage and gradation of scenes of violence. The topic of An Event is the child’s initiation into adulthood. To highlight the most important stages and milestones of the initiation process, Mimica uses the plot and symbolic elements taken from the fairy-tale convention, such as the figures of false mother and magical helper as well as the motif of fear of abandonment and the motif of incorporation. Presentation of the topic of initiation by means of fairy-tale horror allows the director to describe suggestively the key problem in horror films that is the traumatogenic interaction between the natural and cultural factors that shape human life. Zdarzenie – między horrorem a baśniąZdarzenie to jeden z niewielu chorwackich horrorów. Na tle pozostałych przykładów użycia tej konwencji w kinie chorwackim wymieniony film wyróżnia się estetycznym wyrafinowaniem oraz umiejętnym wykorzystaniem pierwiastków baśniowych. Reżyser – Vatroslav Mimica – wywołuje nastrój grozy przede wszystkim za pomocą odpowiednio dobranej przestrzeni (film rozgrywa się głównie w lesie i dwóch domach) oraz dozowania i stopniowania scen przemocy. Tematem Zdarzenia jest inicjacja dziecka w dorosłość. Aby uwydatnić najważniejsze etapy i punkty zwrotne procesu inicjacyjnego, Mimica wykorzystuje składniki fabularno-symboliczne zaczerpnięte z konwencji baśni, takie jak postacie fałszywej matki i magicznego pomocnika oraz motywy lęku przed opuszczeniem i inkorporacji. Prezentacja tematu inicjacji za pomocą baśniowego horroru pozwala reżyserowi sugestywnie nakreślić kluczowy dla kina grozy problem traumatogennej interakcji między naturalnymi a kulturowymi czynnikami kształtującymi ludzkie życie.

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„Niewinne” – od postulatu dziewczęcości do inicjacji w poezji kobiet

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Sołtys-Lewandowska E.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2018

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issue 33

9-28

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The article explores pictures of “a little girl” and of sexual initiation in 20th and 21st-century Polish women’s poetry, especially by Wisława Szymborska, Barbara Klicka, Jolanta Nawrot, Wioletta Grzegorzewska i Małgorzata Lebda. The girlhood showed in their poems is a certain potentiality of womanhood, often imbued with ripening eroticism very difficult to control. At the same time the girlhood is entangled in schematism of potential scenarios destined for a women subject: personal dependence and sense of being dominated, escape or emancipation. Initiatory poems show rather strong dependence on archetypical (The Little Match Girl) and mythicizing conventions of describing adolescence, still they can present idiomatic construction of female identity.

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Rękopis z zaświatów. „Hrad smrti” Jakuba Demla

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Pająk P.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2013

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issue 4

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In the story The Castle of Death(1912) Jakub Deml presents an esoteric text, which allows initiation, that is to say the revival and improvement of human spirit, because it points the way to the absolute hidden behind the words. The highest form of initiation is transcendence, which consists in the unity of life and death. To achieve this, the candidate of initiation must die in this world. Deml shows the horror of death by the conventions of a horror story. In The Castle of Death, writing and reading the esoteric text means the confrontation between the life-giving language and the ineffable silence of death. This confrontation leads to the acceptance of silence, because in the world of absolute language as the medium of the spirit loses its raison d’être. To emphasize the uniqueness of esoteric text, Deml uses the form of a found manuscript. He presents the moment of transition between temporality and transcendence as a dream that goes back to a source of human life.

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Rytualne i nierytualne oblicze „fali” w szkole

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Jaskulska S.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2017

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issue 43

113-128

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In the paper I ask whether the similarities between the institutional hazing and tribal rites of initiation, pointed to by authors who describe this phenomenon, make it possible to talk about a ritual character of the brutal phenomenon of how freshmen are treated by older students, and if they do, then how can it translate into potential preventive measures. I discuss this issue based on the example of hazing at school. Having chosen the distinctive features of the rites of passage as my point of reference, I refer to school hazing as a pseudo-rite and I recommend taking into account its ritual character and the non-ritual objectives it completes in the preventive and repair measures at school.

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Zagubieni w labiryncie: trzy współczesne obrazy filmowe – trzy przestrzenie zagubienia (szkic interpretacyjny)

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Karolina Sieńkowska K.

Załącznik Kulturoznawczy

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2014

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issue 1

259-299

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The complexity of labirynth’s construction is inseparably connected with the complexity of its symbolical meanings. For centuries mankind − driven by various feelings − has given labirynth figurative meanings. Poetry, pain- ting and all other kinds of art have shown the world as a maze. Cinema as well. This work is an attempt of following the labirynth motive in chosen film works. In each of the cases a labirynth will be discussed in the context of its relations with a man. Researcher focuses mainly on the way the labirynth affects the people inside him.

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БУЛГАКОВСКИЕ РЕМИНИСЦЕНЦИИ В РОМАНЕ ЧАПАЕВ И ПУСТОТА ВИКТОРА ПЕЛЕВИНА

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Chudzińska-Parkosadze A.

Acta Neophilologica

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2018

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vol. XX/1

107-121

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This article is devoted to the issue of reflecting ideas, motifs, themes, types of protagonists and conflicts of the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov in Pelevin’s novel Chapayev and Void. The central figure in Pelevin’s novel – Peter Emptiness (other versions of his name: Pyotr Pustota, Pyotr Voyd), reminds the reader of a hero from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel – Ivan Homeless. The life situations of the respective heroes are analogous. The model of master and pupil is also an allusion to the relationship between Ivan and the Master. Pelevin’s reminiscence code also concerns the female hero Anna, who reflects Margarita as the ideal of beauty. Moreover, Pelevin seems to continue Bulgakov’s deliberations upon the evolution of Russian history, the constant and still valid conflict between the hero and Russian society. Additionally Pelevin uses the theme of spiritual initiation as the only way of escaping from the misery of Moscow’s reality

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The Inverted Initiation Rituals in Shakespeare with a Special Emphasis on Hamlet

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Wicher A.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2021

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vol. 23

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issue 38

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The article deals the possibility of applying Vladimir Propp’s, basically anthropological idea of “the inverted ritual” to the interpretation of certain plays by William Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. The said inversion concerns three rituals: the sacrificial ritual, where the passive and obedient victim suddenly rebels, or at least becomes difficult to control (which is the case, for example, of Ophelia in Hamlet); of the initiatory ritual, where the apparently benevolent master of the characters initiation is shown as a monster (which can be exemplified by Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle); and of the matrimonial ritual, where the theoretically loving husband (more rarely wife), or lover, is revealed as a highly malicious and unpredictable creature, an example of which can be Hamlet himself. The article makes use of the work of such critics as G.K. Wilson, Harold Bloom, Vladimir Propp, René Girard, and Mircea Eliade.

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AGONISTICKÝ TÓN AKO PREJAV RITUALÁLNEJ INICIÁCIE HRDINOV FOLKLÓRNEJ PRÓZY

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Gábor Ľ. G.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2017

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vol. 11

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issue XI

285-292

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The presented article attempts to explain the actions of heroes in folk tales as mani-festation of their ritual initiation progress. This paper concludes with suggestion that the young and underestimated heroes have to pass a fight with an enemy of old age. With his defeating the hero finishes his own initiation and becomes a stable component of social hierarchy in the world of folk tales.

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On the Alchemic Images of Mother the Earth in Aleksey Skaldin’s Novel The Adventures and Wanderings of Nikodim The Elder. Selected Motifs

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Okroj K.

Slavia Orientalis

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2021

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vol. LXX

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issue 4

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Wariatka i zakonnica? Anusia Marii Konopnickiej jako przypowieść antropologiczna o dorastaniu

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Chyła K.

Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk

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2019

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issue 9

479-490

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Cel badań. Celem badania było przeanalizowanie, w jaki sposób Maria Konopnicka wykorzystała w swej noweli Anusia, po części o charakterze wspomnieniowym, motyw inicjacji, zwłaszcza w kobiecość. Metodologia. Dociekania oparłam na ustaleniach Mircei Eliadego, Brunona Bettelheima czy Mary Douglas. Powstało dzięki temu szerokie tło, uwzględniające perspektywę religioznawczą, antropologiczną i psychiatryczną, na którym dobrze widać wielkie zalety ujęcia literackiego, całą jego subtelność i sugestywność. Czerpałam również z rozpoznań feministycznych, z tekstów Sandry M. Gilbert i Susan Gubar, Nancy K. Miller czy Krystyny Kłosińskiej, aby podkreślić wyraźną u Konopnickiej persewerację motywów często obecnych w literaturze kobiet: szaleństwo, przebywanie na marginesie, szycie, żałoba. Wyniki. W literaturze XIX wieku i nieco młodszej spotykamy nieraz obrazy domów, w których część kobiet mieszka za kulisami, w miejscach, gdzie życie toczy się intensywniej niż to odmienne, poddane pełnej kontroli życie salonów, często przedstawianych jako bezduszne, a u Konopnickiej wręcz nieobecnych. Ta inna przestrzeń staje się też przestrzenią innej kultury. By to pokazać, przywołuję przykłady baśni i ballad, a także modlitw, legend, pieśni nabożnych, w kulturach tradycyjnych wykonywanych przez kobiety dla kobiet, również dla dzieci. W taką właśnie kulturę włącza Anusia troje swych wychowanków. Następnie za pośrednictwem wariatki Kani, niegdyś ladacznicy i gorszycielki, przez wszystkich odpychanej i pogardzanej, której Anusia udziela swojej opieki, wkracza w ich życie seksualność i śmierć. Wnioski. W Anusi, przypowieści inicjacyjnej, spełnia się potrójne wtajemniczenie zasugerowane przez Eliadego: wedle tego badacza, człowiek wstępuje w dorosłość za sprawą sacrum, Erosa i Tanatosa – z chwilą, kiedy pozna te trzy obszary, nie jest już dzieckiem.

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Introduction. In this article, the aim of the author is to analyze how Maria Konopnicka uses the motive of initiation in her early novella called Anusia, bearing a clear resemblance to the author’s past. Methods. Drawing from sources which could be associated with psychiatry, anthropology or feminist critique, by among others Bruno Bettelheim, Mary Douglas, Mircea Eliade, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Nancy K. Miller or Krystyna Kłosińska, the author has created a background of perspectives which allow Konopnicka show the advantages of a suggestive, subtle and meaningful literary approach. Results. In nineteenth century literature we often meet a special class of women living in the backstage of the house, where life throbs more intensively than in the parlor, so frequently portrayed as stiff and soulless, a parlor which in the story by Konopnicka is significantly never mentioned. Instead we are invited into a small wardrobe, Anusia’s kingdom and center of the children’s world. Here, undisturbed, freely and wildly, blossoms a kind of culture that is partly oral and partly written, and may be easily described as semi-folk. That places Konopnicka in a rich context which the author Illustrates using examples of fairytales, prayers, legends, ballads, and religious songs, traditionally connected with female audience, and the art of interpretation cherished by them. The other crucial question in the children’s lives is their sudden encounter with a despised outcast and scandalizer, a mad woman known by the entire town and notorious for having formerly been a city harlot. Anusia, a respectable, modest old maid, pities her and nurses her when she falls sick, thereby exposing her pupils to the mystery of erotism and death. Conclusion. Konopnicka’s novella seems to be consciously shaped after Eliade’s scholarly work, where the initiation process is divided clearly into three parts: sacrum, death and sexuality.

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The Archaic Perception of Death —An Integrated Model

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Matsyna A. I.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2015

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issue 1

68-77

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Studies of ancient funerary rituals lead to the philosophical problem of the opposi-tion of life and death. Ancient cultural forms that remove this opposition are based on the specifically irrational and correlate with irrational ideas about the soul and its desti-nation after death. The modern rational mind eliminates these forms. Based on an ontologically balanced paradigmatic synthetic approach, considering the features of ontology and myth, a dynamic model of the archaic perception of death—metaphysics of overcoming—was formed. This integrated model most accurately reflects the pre-philosophical way of the transcendence of the being. The metaphysics of overcoming can be the core of the ancient ritual comprehension theory.

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Review: "L' esperienza tragica come iniziazione: Lev Sestov," by Aleksander Posacki

Katechumenat przedmałżeński narzeczonych

Poznanie religijne jako uczestnictwo. Filozofia religii Jana Andrzeja Kłoczowskiego

“In questa casa sono tutti morti”. Di cosa parlano veramente Pinocchio e gli altri grandi libri (non solo italiani) per bambini

L’hybridité dans La Steppe rouge de J. Kessel : limite ou complémentarité ?

Lesser Known Śaiva Initiations: Critical Edition of the Vijñānadīkṣā Chapter of the Hitherto Unpublished Acintyaviśvasādākhyāgama, One of the Āgamas of the Śaivasiddhānta Tradition and Its Brief Presentation

Liminalność i poznanie w Smudze cienia Josepha Conrada. Między uniwersalnym a kontekstualnym rozumieniem inicjacji

Muhammad’s Night Journey to Heaven or the Initiatic Path to a Temporal and Spiritual Leadership

The functionality of dream reality in an emigrant text

Zdarzenie – między horrorem a baśnią

„Niewinne” – od postulatu dziewczęcości do inicjacji w poezji kobiet

Rękopis z zaświatów. „Hrad smrti” Jakuba Demla

Rytualne i nierytualne oblicze „fali” w szkole

Zagubieni w labiryncie: trzy współczesne obrazy filmowe – trzy przestrzenie zagubienia (szkic interpretacyjny)

БУЛГАКОВСКИЕ РЕМИНИСЦЕНЦИИ В РОМАНЕ ЧАПАЕВ И ПУСТОТА ВИКТОРА ПЕЛЕВИНА

The Inverted Initiation Rituals in Shakespeare with a Special Emphasis on Hamlet

AGONISTICKÝ TÓN AKO PREJAV RITUALÁLNEJ INICIÁCIE HRDINOV FOLKLÓRNEJ PRÓZY

On the Alchemic Images of Mother the Earth in Aleksey Skaldin’s Novel The Adventures and Wanderings of Nikodim The Elder. Selected Motifs

Wariatka i zakonnica? Anusia Marii Konopnickiej jako przypowieść antropologiczna o dorastaniu

The Archaic Perception of Death —An Integrated Model