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From Modernity to Post-Modernity: Conflicting Voices in Literary Discourse – A Corpus Analysis of You and One

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de Sousa A. M. P., Correia A. M.
Topics in Linguistics
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2014
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vol. 13
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issue 1
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This paper discusses the possibilities of a corpus analysis applied to literary study and interpretation. It is thus its goal to present some findings related to the disambiguation of some pronominal references, i.e. you and one, as they occur in speech and thought presentation in prose fiction, across periods in the 20th century. The texts selected are two of Virginia Woolf's novels (early and late modernist period) and one by Hugo Hamilton (in the postmodern era). The analysis benefits from a multi-layered interpretive framework drawing on discourse analysis, corpus-based approaches and literary study, particularly in that it unpacks ways in which writers make use of linguistic structures. These involve readers in a dialogic interpretation of the text's “polyphony” and “heteroglossia”, either conveying the generic pronoun reference or the protagonist's inner voice.
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“It Came Up All the Time, Like a Fixation”: The Ubiquity of Racially-Based Prejudice as Presented in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia

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Chojnowska J.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
31-39
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The purpose of this article is to present the problem of racially-based prejudice in the USA in the post-Civil Rights Movement era. The article is based on Danzy Senna’s critically acclaimed novel, Caucasia (1998). Being a so-called Movement Child of interracial couple, and growing up in the USA in the 1970s, Senna met with different kinds of biased thinking coming from both sides of the color line. The novel tells the story of a young, biracial girl, Birdie, and reflects Senna’s experiences. The article analyzes the different forms and levels of racial prejudice which Senna depicts in her novel to comment on the pervasiveness of the problem in the USA of the 1970s.
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Two Exercises in Consilience: Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting

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Oramus D.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
19-29
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The aim of this essay is to compare how Darwinian references are used in the writings of two late 20th century American authors, Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut who both choose the Galapagos archipelago as the focal setting of their symbolical narratives, as we see in Vonnegut’s novel Gala´pagos and in Dillard’s essay ‘‘Life on the Rock: the Gala´pagos.” As far as Dillard’s prose is concerned, she also depicts the archipelago in other short narratives from Teaching a Stone to Talk and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Although neither Dillard nor Vonnegut have a conspicuously political agenda, they both consider the theory of evolution a heavily ideological subject and both apply the Darwinian paradigm to describe nature and the human race within nature.
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The Gardening Fallacy: J. M. Coetzee’s Michael K as a Parody of Voltaire’s Candide

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Michta K.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
41-50
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The aim of the essay is to demonstrate that John Maxwell Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K can be perceived as a parody of Voltaire’s Candide, a novel intended as a ridicule of Leibniz’s Theodicy. While Voltaire proposed to withdraw from the world and ‘‘to cultivate one’s own garden” as a remedy to Leibniz’s ill-conceived optimism, Coetzee shows that Voltaire’s praise of passivity and life in accordance with nature, symbolized by a retreat into gardening, is as erratic as Leibniz’s philosophy. The essay concludes that Coetzee’s Michael K can be treated as a caricature of Voltaire’s Candide.
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Aldous Huxley’s Early Novels: An Unfolding Dialogue About Pain

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Jodłowska J.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
51-61
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The article examines four early novels by Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point – in connection to each other and to Huxley’s essays, in terms of an overarching theme of a cycle of pain, and thereby connects the novels to Brave New World. In the course of the analysis, the methodological problems of approaching the novels as ‘‘novels of ideas” are discussed, focusing on the problem of reducing characters to type, which makes it more difficult for readers to notice the way Huxley constructs individual characters and the arguments he wishes to explore with them. Finally, implications of the existence of this overarching theme for reading strategies are discussed.
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“Pretty Maids All in a Row”: Power and the Female Child in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

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Lelekis D.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
63-82
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This article explores Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911) as a “hybrid” text and an example of “exploratory fiction.” Of primary interest is the parallel between Mary’s growth and the garden’s rehabilitation. Through Mary Lennox, arguably Burnett’s most complex fictional child, the novel challenges traditional patriarchal values with a depiction of female-based power dynamics. The novel makes a significant contribution to the shift in the way the female and the child was stereotypically portrayed in literature before the twentieth century.
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Heart of Darkness: Piercing the Silence

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Khan A.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
73-82
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‘Dead silence’ can resonate with more meaning than the spoken word, the absence of oral discourse signaling the presence of an unsettling subject, as Edward Said commented in Culture and Imperialism. Heart of Darkness pierces this silence through its assessment of Victorian society’s corrosive capitalist core. The novella’s symbolism and collapse of binaries anticipates modernism, and these techniques allow Conrad to censure white men, both those with real and petty power; and white women, who are depicted as colonialism’s passive or active enablers. This portrayal ultimately condemns the characters’ brutality even as it expresses cynicism about humanity’s potential for compassion.
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Skaz a Michail Zoščenko

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Kosáková H.
Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
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2019
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vol. 60
117-130
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The present study deals with the narrative strategy which B. Eikhenbaum explored during the first two decades of the 20th century, and which is closely connected with the spontaneous verbal praxis. The Russian writer Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958) offered a wide scale of application of this strategy in his work, including the communication with his readers. The goal of the study is to examine Zoshchenko’s variable types of skaz usage, and to offer alternative readings of his texts.
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Świat uczonych w dziele Jana Amosa Komeńskiego: "Labirynt świata i raj serca" i płynące z niego przesłanie do współczesnego świata nauki i edukacji

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Jastrzębski M.
Siedleckie Zeszyty Komeniologiczne seria Pedagogika
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2021
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vol. 8
169-183
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This paper is part of the trend of reading the relevance of the works by John Amos Comenius for modern times. The author examines Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart, a unique literary work by the Czech scholar. The article aims to present the image of the world of scholars presented in the mentioned work and expose its message for the contemporary academic world. Although Comenius devoted many of his works to the project of transforming the world of academia, the examined work is rather an allegorical story criticising the condition of the scholars’ world than a project of its reform. In this article, the author chooses not to complement this critical vision with what can be learned from Comenius’ other works, and instead focuses only on the very picture of the world of scholars presented in the work under study. As a result, the author concludes that the most important message to the contemporary world of academia from Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart is a call for a moral-spiritual renewal.
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"Wiedza", która szkodzi. Przesłanie dla współczesności płynące z Labiryntu świata i raju serca Jana Amosa Komeńskiego

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Jastrzębski M.
Siedleckie Zeszyty Komeniologiczne seria Pedagogika
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2022
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vol. 9
29-46
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The research focus of this article is the following problem: how what is socially regarded as knowledge can be used to spread disinformation, thus endangering the recipient. This phenomenon is referred to here as ‘harmful knowledge’ and is analysed with reference to John Amos Comenius’ The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. The article aims to examine this work with regard to its application to the diagnosis of contemporary world problems.
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Przedmiotem badań w niniejszym artykule jest następujący problem: W jaki sposób to, co społecznie uchodzi za wiedzę, może być wykorzystane do szerzenia dezinformacji, stanowiąc niebezpieczeństwo dla odbiorcy? Zjawisko to nazwano tutaj „wiedzą szkodliwą” i przeanalizowano w odniesieniu do Labiryntu świata i raju serca Jana Amosa Komeńskiego. Celem badań jest egzegeza owego dzieła pod kątem zastosowania jej do diagnozy problemów świata współczesnego.
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