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Meandry kultury popularnej

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Łeńska-Bąk K.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2017

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issue 10, Antropologia - folklor - historia

95–106

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Popular literature has always been raising many different emotions and research issues. One of the research groups, represented by Piotr Kowalski, criticized popular literature thoroughly. A new wave of scientists emerged in the nineties. They tried out different research methods, criticizing popular literature (especially fantasy) much less than might be expected. This met with a huge degrees of scepticism from Kowalski who did not agree with those methods and tried to prove them wrong in his two last publications. This article presents Kowalski's views, in the meantime trying to argue with them.

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Alpy w twórczości Hedwig Couhrts-Mahler

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Kolbuszewska E.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2016

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vol. 10

97-108

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Known as the “queen of kitsch”, Hedwig Courths-Mahler [HCM] (1867–1950) wrote 208 novels for women, for whom she provided an escape from the stifling reality into the world of ideal dreams and feelings. The novels were set in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the spatial settings serving only as abackground for the events presented and usually not playing any major role in the plot. Novels that do stand out in this respect are those set in the Alps. Other types of space did not play arole as important as that of the mountains. In some respects the formula of HCM’s novels featuring mountain motifs reflected the poetics of Bergroman or mountain novel, a popular thematic variety of 20th-century novel. In line with the conventions characteristic of Bergroman, the mountains in HCM’s novels were not just abackground and scene for the action. To avarying degree they also determined the protagonists’ fate. Dramatic events like avalanches, storms, slides, falls into precipices, physical injuries, unpredictable disasters would crystallise their moral attitudes. Often the mountains would also provide abackdrop for their passionate romances.

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Biblizmy we współczesnej literaturze popularnej na przykładzie „Kolekcji Kryminałów” Joanny Chmielewskiej

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Gorzelana J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2016

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vol. 23

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issue 1

21-38

PL

The aim of the work is to highlight the vitality and functional diversity of biblisms in contemporary ‘low’ literature imitating everyday language. This article presents the results of the use dozens of lexical units. Sometimes biblisms are modified- most often they are mentioning modifications (eg. Man cannot live by bed alone ← Man cannot live by bread alone). Less frequently we meet shortening modifications (eg. pluck hair ←pluck the hair out) and developing ones(have some remains of oil in the head ← have oil in the head). These modifications can often be justified contextually. Biblisms used in crime novels usually emphasize the seriousness of the situation and they can also introduce an element of humor.

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(Re)konstruowanie rzeczywistości w polskiej literaturze popularnej początków XXI wieku (na wybranych przykładach)

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Mazurkiewicz A.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

67-80

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Popular culture, now being a medium of social dialogue, has stopped being perceived as a register of “lower” existential experiences, and its creations became the testament not of a cultural degradation, but of creativity of its authors, who seek fiction clichés which offer a new look at the deeply rooted social phenomena. Thus, if it is done with inertia and awkwardness typical for the subject, its potential of “explaining the world” should not be underestimated.

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O „Poetyce doświadczenia” Ryszarda Nycza. Z komentarzem do jednego zdania. Wersja do użytku badaczy literatury popularnej

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Kraska M.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

51-66

EN

How do people read popular literature? Is it possible to connect reading popular literature with category of aesthetic experience (what kind?), or – eventually – what kind of theory could successfully describe this relation? All those questions create a context of the analysis of the book Poetyka doświadczenia (The Poetics of Experience) by Ryszard Nycz. Its author postulates that literature should be understood as a form of the enunciation of experience. He circumscribes here an experience as a specific kind of two-way interaction between readers and their cultural environment, society or nature. It seems that a wide definition, which includes – for example – testimonies of community memory and private, idiosyncratic expressions – describes popular literature, too. However, the author of the article, precisely focusing on the motifs in Nycz’s theory, which directly or indirectly relate to popular literature, doubts its ability to read popular culture. He argues that Nycz’s formula, in fact, is based on modernist conception of high literature with its sacralisation, which eliminates understanding aesthetic experience as a form of pleasure or ludic involvement.

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Archiwariusz na dnie rozlewiska

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Dajnowski M.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

255-264

EN

The paper is a short critical essay concerning the history of Polish nineteenthcentury fantastic and its relationships with Lithuanian and Byelorussian (Albaruthenian) folklore.

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Po co i jak czytać literaturę popularną w szkole

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Szczukowski D.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

187-200

EN

The paper concerns the didactics of literature in the postmodern culture. It focuses on the means and strategies of reading popular literature at school. Popular literature is still treated as inferior to high literature in the literary education. Yet, it may become an important element of literary education. Popular literature, which is closer to students, may be just as good tool to interpret our reality as high literature.

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„Trzydzieści lat minęło, jak jeden dzień...” (O badaniach literatury popularnej w ostatnim trzydziestoleciu)

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Martuszewska A.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

11-26

EN

The article presents changes in attitude towards popular literature and culture in last thirty years, in which despised Cinderella became the almighty queen of the book market, and dichotomy in studying works of “high” and “low” culture gradually disappears, what may be seen also in the role of “mixed” genres. Analyzing methods of working on such works and reminding overviews of research on such works included in her book The Third One, the author critically emphasizes the impact of English-language researches on the present shape of Polish researches on popular phenomena. She also calls for taking up literature that lies between “high” and “low” culture.

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„Sienkiewiczologowanie”. O Sienkiewiczowskich odniesieniach w powieściach Marii Pruszkowskiej

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Rusin J.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2019

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vol. 14

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issue 9

682-692

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References to the work of H. Sienkiewicz in the work of M. Pruszkowska (1910–1973) appear in two of her novels: Prześlę panu list i klucz (I Will Send You a Letter and a Key) (1959) and Życie nie jest romansem, ale… (Life Is not a Love Affair, but…) (1964). The former depicts the fate of a book-loving Warsaw family in the 1930s. The parents and two daughters constantly use quotations in their conversations, which come from their favourite novels, most often from the Trilogy. The sisters make their lives theatrical by impersonating literary characters and competing in the best possible knowledge of Sienkiewicz’s texts. The other novel shows the same family during the Second World War. In the conditions of occupation, references to the favourite fragments of the Nobel Prize winner’s works often gain new and surprising significance. The literary excitement of Pruszkowska’s characters is analogous to the experiences of successive generations of Polish readers.

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Poetyka pustego miasta. Pejzaże urbanistyczne w katastroficznej science fiction

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Szałasek F.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2013

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vol. 1

138-157

EN

Post-apocalyptic novel – a catastrophic branch of science fiction devoted to the vision of civilization ruined by some sort of a cataclysm – managed to form a separate poetics of space creation. Images of the presented world depend on the psychological shape of the heroes who are directly exposed to the extreme boundary experience. When picturing the landscapes of desolated metropolises, the authors use solutions typical for horror and adventure novels, the ex- and impressionistic traditions as well as techniques typical for grotesque and naturalism. By extending the paths typical for science fiction, the post-apocalyptic novel moves away from the main movement and forms a separate convention of the description. The author of the article tries to shed some light on its assumptions by providing numerous examples of urban landscapes.

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Dlaczego góralki czytają Greya?

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Rukat R.

Barbarzyńca. Pismo Antropologiczne

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2018

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issue 23

138-155

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The starting point of reflections presented in this paper is the talk which took place during my fieldwork on the cultural role of public libraries in Podhale region in February 2016. The subject of the conversation was the book ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ by E. L. James, read by one of the interlocutors. Describing its course and atmosphere I try to set it in three contexts: discursive, performative and institutional. By analogy to them, acts and narratives of reading appear as: cultural translation from Anglo-Saxon to Goral style, active experimentation with local cultural constructs and results of specifically shaped concept of readership animation through a library. The peculiar atmosphere of this institution as a place made in great measure by women and for women, remains influential as well. Such interpretation became possible by comparing the analyzed situation with the rest of research material, gathered with in-depth interviews and participant observation, as well as using the perspective of ‘reading as an action’, proposed by American pioneers of the anthropology of reading (Janice Radway, Elizabeth Long). The observation builds an image of public library as a place embedded in local systems of meaning, but on the other hand, favorable to socio-cultural innovations.

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Paradigms of Otherness. The American Savage in British Eighteenth-Century Popular and Scholarly Literature

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Perazzini F.

Review of International American Studies

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2020

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vol. 13

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issue 1

235-258

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In this article, I trace the changes in the literary and material representations of the indigenous peoples of North America within the British sphere of cultural production. As a first example, I will give an account of the episode of the “Four Iroquois Kings” envoy at Queen Ann’s court in 1710, focusing on the resonance of such a historical encounter in popular texts and iconographic material. As a second example, I analyze the popular story of Inkle and Yarico included in Richard Steele’s The Spectator in 1711, showing its impact on the early Enlightenment reflections on colonial trade. In my conclusion, I examine the role of American natives in the scholarly works of the Scottish Enlightenment, in order to show how they were used as comparable types for the observation of the roots of European civilizations thus justifying the construction of the British imperial hegemony both geopolitical terms and discursive practice.

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Мегаполис как источник страхов в перспективе массовой литературы (антология „Мифы мегаполиса”)

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Radosz J.

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

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2019

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vol. 44

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issue 1

255-266

RU

The anthology Myths of Megapolis (Mify megapolisa), published in 2007, due to the variety of the presented short stories shows various perspectives of the metropolis’ life and the fears of its citizens. The article discusses and classifies these fears and analyses their connection with the substance of the metropolis itself.

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Włodzimierz Zajączkowski – badacz folkloru ludów tureckich

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Godzińska M.

Almanach Karaimski

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2014

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vol. 3

37-40

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Zajączkowski was a historian and turkologist who was interested not only in language and literature but also in traditional culture, which was not so popular among colleagues of his own generation. He conducted ethnographic research among Turkish peoples in a very professional manner. The most important of his works concern the Tatars of Dobruja and the Gagauz people. His main monographs are dedicated to these two groups, their language, literature, traditions and rituals. Today, Zajączkowski’s works are extremely valuable and unique.

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Wspólne drogi literatury popularnej i komparatystyki kulturowej

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Regiewicz A.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

27-50

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It has been two decades since Słownik literatury popularnej edited by Tadeusz Żabski and the monography of Anna Martuszewska on the meaning of popular literature were published, and we are today pleased to notice that “the third kind” has not only provided space for scientific discourse, but has also become one of the leading objects of reflection and didactics in the academic world. Despite constant efforts to build coherent and possibly capacious methodological apparatus to study popular literature, it is still hard to find a universal key to conducting research in this scope. This certainly is a consequence of reaching out to various disciplines and instruments developed by various methodologies, enforced by broad spectrum of influence of popular literature: from the text itself to all kinds of artistic forms (graphic arts, comics, cinema, media, new media) and cultural practices (ritualization, theater, performance). One of the research proposals is cultural comparability, enrooted in the American school of comparative study, which analyses the text within its entire cultural image. The point of interest is the moment of “reading” literary, cultural phenomena as well as other human activities in the world, based on their interactions. Comparability uses tools developed on the grounds of post-structural literary studies to confront the text with other cultural narratives, thus opening it in a discursive manner to other than literary interpretative contexts, which manifest their creative power and vitality.

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The Old Serbian Alexander Romance and the Greek Phyllada

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Usakiewicz K.

Colloquia Humanistica

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2014

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issue 3

EN

The paper includes a short introduction and four excerpts from the Old Serbian Alexander Romance translated into Polish by Maciej Falski. Tekst zawiera krótką prezentację zagadnienia filiacji Opowieści o Aleksandrze w bałkańskiej przestrzeni kulturowej oraz przekład fragmentów tzw. Serbskiej Aleksandreidy na język polski.

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Ikony serbskiego romantyzmu jako bohaterowie współczesnej literatury popularnej

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Koch M.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2011

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issue 1

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The paper discusses the presence of two icons of Serbian romanticism in contemporary culture. The male icon, Petar Petrovic Njegos (1813–1851), and the female one, Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja (1828–1878), are presented. The main claim of the paper is that after the demise of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when a new national identity reemerged, few women writers introduced the central figures of romanticism as main characters in their prose works in order to take part in feminist and national discourse. This tendency is illustrated with Milica Micic Dimovska’s novel Last Fascinations of MSS (1996) and Ljubica Arsic’s short story The Other One Who Waits in the Dark Night (1998). However, in the first decade of 21st century, these icons of romanticism also became heroes of popular literature. The case of Isidora Bjelica and her two prose works Secret Life of P. P. Njegos (2007) and The Serbian Woman (2009) illustrates this point.

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Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)

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Ostalska K.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2021

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issue 11

204-221

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This article analyzes selected short stories in Cecelia Ahern’s thirty-narrative collection Roar (2018) to see how (and with what losses or gains) the perspectives of posthuman and postfeminist critique can be incorporated via the common dystopic umbrella into the mainstream female readership of romance literature. The dystopic worlds created by Ahern in Roar portray inequality and power imbalances with regard to gender and sex. The protagonists are mostly middle-aged women whose family and personal lives are either regulated by dystopic realities or acquire a “dystopic” dimension, the solutions to which are provided by, among other tropes, “posthuman” transformations. Roar introduces other-than-human elements, mostly corporeal alterations, in which the female bodies of Ahern’s characters become de-formed and re-formed beyond androcentric systems of value. The article raises the question of whether feminist and, to some extent, “posthuman” (speculative) approaches, need to be (and indeed should be) popularized in such an abridged way as Ahern does in her volume. The answer depends upon the identification of the target audience and their expectations. Ahern’s Roar represents popular literature intended to be sold to as many readers as possible, regardless of their education, state of knowledge, etc. Viewed from that perspective, what some critics could perceive as the collection’s structural weaknesses constitutes its utmost marketing asset. The essay argues that despite not being a structurally innovative work of art, Ahern’s book fulfils the basic requirements of the popular fiction genre, intermittently providing some extra, literary gratification and popularizing rudimentary elements of the posthuman and postfeminist thought.

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Śmierć w imię sztuki, czyli w jaki sposób literatura popularna uczyniła Kubę Rozpruwacza artystą malarzem. Rozważania na marginesie powieści Michaela White’a Sztuka morderstwa

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Olkusz K.

Acta Philologica

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2015

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issue 47

73-84

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Powiązania pomiędzy sztuką a aberracjami o charakterze psychologicznym od dawna fascynują zarówno psychologów, jak i teoretyków sztuki, a obecnie stały się nośnym tematem literackim. Przykładem tego zjawiska jest powieść Michaela White’a Sztuka morderstwa, w której pojawiają się motywy związane z uwikłaniem sztuki w zbrodnię. Stereotypowe przeświadczenie o korelacji między aktem twórczym a cierpieniem powiązane zostaje z reinterpretacją postaci seryjnego mordercy, w tym wypadku słynnego Kuby Rozpruwacza. Powieść White’a stanowi egzemplifikację próby wyjaśnienia bodźców twórczych jako tajemniczych i destrukcyjnych, wpisując się w modę, która nastała po ukazaniu się powieści Dana Browna Kod Leonarda da Vinci.

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Connections between art and various forms of sychopathy have long fascinated psychologists as well as art critics and have recently become a potent literary theme, as exemplified in Michael White’s novel The Art of Murder, featuring the motif of an artist involved in murder. The article demonstrates how the stereotypical conviction about the correlation between artistic creation and suffering is reinterpreted in the novel via the figure of serial killer, in this case Jack the Ripper. It is argued that White’s novel exemplifies a trend of describing a creative act as mysterious and destructive alike, which developed in the wake of the publication of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

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Emma Tennant. Rozważna i romantyczna

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Poniatowska I.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2019

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vol. 63(2 (465))

115-123

PL

The article is devoted to the works of Emma Tennant, an English writer, the author of, inter alia, the continuation of Sense and Sensibility, Emma, as well as Pride and Prejudice. A characteristic feature of Tennant’s writing was the ability to give new meanings to the texts and myths of the popular culture – so she did with the story of Elinor and Marianne, or Sylvia Plath, to whom she devoted one of her better texts. The article, based on the example of Emma Tennant’s writing, focuses on the issues of the strategy of creating literature as rewriting and functioning of feminist ideas in the modern literature.

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Meandry kultury popularnej

Alpy w twórczości Hedwig Couhrts-Mahler

Biblizmy we współczesnej literaturze popularnej na przykładzie „Kolekcji Kryminałów” Joanny Chmielewskiej

(Re)konstruowanie rzeczywistości w polskiej literaturze popularnej początków XXI wieku (na wybranych przykładach)

O „Poetyce doświadczenia” Ryszarda Nycza. Z komentarzem do jednego zdania. Wersja do użytku badaczy literatury popularnej

Archiwariusz na dnie rozlewiska

Po co i jak czytać literaturę popularną w szkole

„Trzydzieści lat minęło, jak jeden dzień...” (O badaniach literatury popularnej w ostatnim trzydziestoleciu)

„Sienkiewiczologowanie”. O Sienkiewiczowskich odniesieniach w powieściach Marii Pruszkowskiej

Poetyka pustego miasta. Pejzaże urbanistyczne w katastroficznej science fiction

Dlaczego góralki czytają Greya?

Paradigms of Otherness. The American Savage in British Eighteenth-Century Popular and Scholarly Literature

Мегаполис как источник страхов в перспективе массовой литературы (антология „Мифы мегаполиса”)

Włodzimierz Zajączkowski – badacz folkloru ludów tureckich

Wspólne drogi literatury popularnej i komparatystyki kulturowej

The Old Serbian Alexander Romance and the Greek Phyllada

Ikony serbskiego romantyzmu jako bohaterowie współczesnej literatury popularnej

Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)

Śmierć w imię sztuki, czyli w jaki sposób literatura popularna uczyniła Kubę Rozpruwacza artystą malarzem. Rozważania na marginesie powieści Michaela White’a Sztuka morderstwa

Emma Tennant. Rozważna i romantyczna