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The poetry written by the Croatian poet Delimir Rešicki is associated with some of the more influential concepts of the Romantic poets. The paper analyzes the method by which Rešicki develops Christlike motives as a model of shaping the authorial concept and comprehending the poetic identity associated with the idea of a (divine) Genius. The focus is therefore placed on two textual strategies: stylizing the lyrical subject as an urban model and representing the idea of nomadism as the predominant existential form. The phrase “theological nomadism” is hereby used to relate the convergence of Rešicki’s lyrical poetry and Romanticism to some of the recent ethical and political debates in the field of theory.
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Uncanny Styria

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The nineteenth century in the West was a period of intellectual and artistic fascination with the East, both distant and near: Asian and Eastern European. One of the regions that attracted the interest of Western Europeans was Styria, situated on the border separating Austria from Hungary and the Balkans, that is, the West from the East. Borderland cultural phenomena stimulate the imagination as much as exotic phenomena. Both disturb with their hybrid character, which results from the mixing of elements from familiar and alien cultures. With their duality and ambiguity, borderlands are the source of the uncanny, which in the Western literature of the nineteenth century became the basic ingredient of the Western image of the Styrian lands. Uncanny Styria was discovered by Basil Hall, a Scottish traveler who reported the impressions of his stay in this region in his 1830s travelogue Schloss Hainfeld; or, a Winter in Lower Styria. In the second half of the century, two Irishmen wrote about the uncanny Styrian borderland: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. Both associated Styria with vampirism: the former in the 1870s novella Carmilla, the latter in the 1890s short story Dracula’s Guest. The central thread that runs through all three texts is the decline of Styrian nobility. From Hall, it prompts expression of melancholy regret, accompanied by a sense of strangeness. In his work, the erosion of the culture of the nobility results from Styria’s isolated location in the borderlands, as well as the destructive influences of modernity. Le Fanu balances the regret with horror, related to a different interpretation of decline as cultural regression. In Stoker’s story, the terror intensifies with the sense that the regression that affects the province of Styria could extend to Western Europe.
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W powieści Umschlagplatz JAROSŁAWA MARKA RYMKIEWICZA oraz w powieści Noc żywych Żydów IGORA OSTACHOWICZA ,niesamowitość’ jest wynikiem nie tyle romantycznej fascynacji upiorami, ile głębokiej traumy zbiorowej. Ta trauma jest spowodowana kompleksem winy, który wymyka się próbom zobiektywizowania. Owa trauma sprawia, że to, co Améry nazywa ,ojczyzną’, a Flusser ,mieszkaniem’, jawi się jako kruche i wątpliwe. Tylko konfrontacja z ludzką zbrodnią leżącą u podstaw tej traumy i poczucia winy może pomóc w znalezieniu wyjścia z dynamiki ,niesamowitości’.
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In the novels Umschlagplatz by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz and Noc żywych Żydów [The Night of Living Jews] by Igor Ostachowicz, the “uncanny” is less a result of a romantic fascination with ghosts than an emblem of deep collective trauma. This trauma arises from a guilt complex which is difficult to objectify. As a result of this trauma, the notion Améry calls “homeland” and Flusser defines as “a place to live”, appears fragile and questionable. Only dealing with the crimes underlying this trauma and guilt may pave the way out of the dynamic of the “uncanny”.
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Das ,Unheimlicheʻ rührt sowohl in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewiczʼ Umschlagplatz als auch in Igor Ostachowiczʼ Noc żywych Żydów [Nacht der lebenden Juden] weniger von einer romantischen Faszination am Gespenstischen als vielmehr von einem tiefsetzenden kollektiven Trauma her – ein Trauma, entspringend einem Schuldkomplex, der nur schwer objektivierbar ist. Dieses Trauma lässt das, was Améry als ,Heimat‘ und Flusser als ,Wohnen‘ bezeichnet, brüchig und fragwürdig werden. Allein die Auseinandersetzung mit dem diesem Trauma und diesem Schuldkomplex zugrundeliegenden Menschheitsverbrechen vermag einen Ausweg aus dieser Dynamik des ,Unheimlichen‘ zu bahnen.
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