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SCARED TO DEATH (Smiertelna groza)

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Bal M.

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)

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2008

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issue 6(114)

95-116

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Accepting the idea - as expressed by Lakoff and his successors - that metaphors constitute the primary forms of language, the author analyses narrative content concealed in metaphors, whilst in parallel demonstrating a metaphoric(al) status of theoretical notions (both in humanities and natural sciences). An account of profits and losses ensuing from omnipresence of metaphors, which is not infrequently imperceptible, leads one to the conclusion that theory should be treated as a kind of practice which - as a metaphor - is akin, by means of family similarity, to ideology. Theory will always remain a practice being rooted in empiricism, and deprived of objectivism which is otherwise ascribed to it.

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FACE TO FACE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT, OR ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

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Ciuk S.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2008

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vol. 52

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issue 4

113-133

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The purpose of this paper is to present the problem of unemployment from a new and fairly untypical perspective which was achieved thanks to the adopted form of narrative. The text consists of two stories about the experience of being unemployed: one told by the jobless person and the other by his life partner who is also the authoress of this article. The two stories later merge in the final section of the article where the fragments of the life-world of the unemployed and his partner presented here are juxtaposed with a wider discourse and reflection upon unemployment.

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Wokół narracji tożsamościowej Sokrata Janowicza

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Sawicka-Mierzyńska K.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2012

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vol. 3

173-185

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The article deals with the writings of Sokrat Janowicz approaching them as a kind of identity narrative characterised by a twofold, complimentary function: consolidating the subject and maintaining the Belarussian ethnos. It is revealed that the narrative's cohesion and continuity, which writer confirms with his personal signature, become guarantees of the survival of Belarussian identity. The narrative space emphasises the places (Białystok, Krynki) that hierarchise and evaluate its constitutive elements.

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ROLAND BARTHES A VÁCLAV HAVEL JAKO SPIKLENCI LITERATURY – K PRINCIPU LITERÁRNÍ PŘESVĚDČIVOSTI

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Češka J.

World Literature Studies

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2018

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vol. 10

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issue 2

69 – 79

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The study focuses on the reflection of quasi-argumentative strategies based on narrative. Nevertheless, the narrative perspective is not reflected by the authors, it is even published as a rational argumentation core. In contrast to secret narratives, I build a purposefully composed literary work that reveals the neglected aspects of human existence (using imagination). At the same time, I express the hypothesis in which the persuasiveness of literature lies: the deprivation of the author’s subject, which happens by placing the reader in the imaginary perspective of narration. In the extrapolation I see Roland Barthes and Václav Havel as conspirators of literature (they are hiding literary investment in their essayist contemplation) against Kundera’s straightforward and admitted art of the novel.

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Dějiny teorie vyprávění: psaní a narativní strategie

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Jedlickova A.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2007

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vol. 55

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issue 3

365-388

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Theorists of narrative studies often claim that the history of narrative theory is impossible to narrate because of its specific nature, consisting in the discontinuity of development due to disproportional introduction (and implementation) of the theory in various research cultures connected with diverse traditions of philological studies, which has resulted in a cluster-like character of particular narratologic systems. Narrative theory may represent a case study in the context concerned, i.e. in the discourse questioning historiographic methods in general. The question that narratologists may share with historians is this: are there any spheres of human culture and periods of its development so specific in their character as to prevent us from mediating them by means of current historiographic methods? A scheme for writing the history of narrative theory is presented here, based on negotiating between a history of ideas (including virtual links between related concepts dislocated in time and space) and an institutional history that enables us to understand the gaps. Various narrative modes are employed to re-construct the development of narrative studies as a coherent process. Recent attempts at replacing the history of narrative studies with a selection of canonic text are subject to criticism; the first synthetic essays on the topic Fludernik (2005) Herman (2005) are analyzed here in order to discern the principles of 'making a history of narrative theory possible'.

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WHY WE HELP MORE WILLINGLY IN REACTION TO STORIES

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Trzebinski J.

Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)

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2006

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vol. 15

163-172

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People understand social reality as stories. Narrative is not only a linguistic matter; it is a powerful and early-acquired way an individual interprets social events, his/her own identity, and that of other people, as well as making decisions. The data confirm that interpretation of personal matters within a self-narrative framework related to a stronger motivation to fulfill personal goals and to life meaningfulness. The differences in sustained content of self-narratives result in style of adaptation, for example, in reactions to successes and failures. A narrative frame of understanding other persons also influences our social behavior. Presenting the story of an ill person, in comparison to a description of the illness, not only activates a narrative approach toward this person, but increases the probability of helping behavior in subjects - in this case, the promise of donations of bone marrow for leukemia patients or the willingness to spend time on soliciting money for medical treatment. A higher general ability in narrative interpretation strengthens the above effects. Results of other studies may suggest the kind of factors responsible for these effects.

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Postmoderní fikce a destabilizace metanarativu: Urmedvěd Jiřího Kratochvila

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Trpka V.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2009

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vol. 57

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issue 1

54-67

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This article investigates how the hypothesis of a plural reality is manifest in the fictional world of Urmedved (Ur-bear-novel, 1999), a work by Jiri Kratochvil (b. 1940). He employs for this purpose the theoretical concept of Postmodern fiction as an expression of a style that foregrounds the ontological structure, which was developed by Brian McHale, and the model of the narrative universe, as constructed by Marie-Laure Ryan. The analysis of these premisses of Postmodern fiction is aimed chiefly at the recursive narrative structure of the novel, which enables the disruption of the ontological boundaries or the bridging of narrative levels of different ontological status. McHale's theoretical concept of the ontological dominant is explained by employing Lyotard's hypothesis about mistrust of metanarratives. Because metanarratives are based on the premiss of a single accessible reality, a single real world, this loss does not merely mean the loss of trust in ideology, but also disrupts the need for a single real world. Moreover, this need is important for us as human beings - it reveals itself to be the organization of discontinuous entities into coherent wholes (as in the case of myth). Kratochvil's Urmedved reveals the ideological abuse of the need for a single reality, while undermining this human need. Postmodern fiction may destabilize the metanarrative by laying bare the contrivedness that distances from reality an individual member of the society veiled in the metanarrative. By the very nature of the need for one real world, however, the metanarrative remains dear to us.

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O DVOCH POHĽADOCH NA NARATÍVNU EXPLANÁCIU

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Zeleňák E.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

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2010

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vol. 65

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issue 8

762-769

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The paper deals with one of the central topics of the philosophy of history - the narrative. Two different views of narrative and consequently of narrative explanation are distinguished. According to the first position (defended, for instance, by Hayden White), reality itself does not have a narrative structure, but since we are familiar with the narrative form, we can explain events if we present them as a story of a particular kind. According to the second position (maintained, for instance, by David Carr), in order to explain, we need to capture real connections (narrative or other) between events. That is, our narratives should depict structures already present in reality. The paper outlines these two general views and points out to the fact that they are based on different ontological presuppositions and different views of the nature of the explanatory power of narrative.

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PRAGMATIZATION OF NARRATIVE IN WITTGENSTEIN’S LATER PHILOSOPHY: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE

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Synytsia A.

Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

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2022

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vol. 29

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issue 3

327 – 347

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The main views on the nature of narrative in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy are analysed. It is shown how, realizing the research narrative, he paid attention to the linguistic means of expression of our thoughts, reference to the actual reality, the logical component of argumentation. It is shown that in order to place worldview accents more clearly and strengthen the expressive effect of thought, Wittgenstein pragmatised the narrative, in particular, used metaphors, images of learning, took into account the historic-cultural context. It is important for him to show that the form of the narrative influences what meanings the interlocutor will comprehend. Through a system of micro- and macro-narratives, Wittgenstein intended to express his opinion as clearly as possible, although he made the reader an active participant in the narrative. The thinker did not deviate from the analytic-scientific standards of philosophizing, although he showed that the relevant analysis of the narrative is significantly complicated by the ambiguities of its interpretation, the uniqueness of human experience and the identity of each narrator’s value system. It is argued that a pragmatic approach to narrative analysis significantly expands the research methodology of the analytic thinker and, accordingly, makes it possible to deepen our understanding of reality and human existence, as well as more clearly define the specifics of their knowledge.

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WOMAN WRESTLING WITH FATE – ON RACHEL IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS

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Nangong M.

Asian and African Studies

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2015

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vol. 24

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issue 2

156 – 164

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Rachel is the wife of Jacob, the immediate ancestor of the Israelites. Her life story which is scattered in the Book of Genesis seems to show that her life was a tragedy and she was almost a loser, though she was especially beloved by her husband. But a more in-depth reading suggests that the narrative about Rachel is actually so subtle as to imply that there is another possible interpretation of Rachel as a literary character: a life of dignity and passion. Rachel’s confrontation and even wrestle with hardships presents to readers a brave and active woman image, along with her happiness, sorrow, despair and hope. Meanwhile, her life is also a symbol of tragic, but unyielding historical experience that is shared by all the early matriarchs as well as the Israelites.

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TO RESIDE IN A NOVEL (Zamieszkac w opowiesci - Paula Ricoeura próba zadomowienia w mowie)

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Wolicka-Wolszleger E.

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2010

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vol. 64

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issue 2-3(289-290)

35-40

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The characteristic features of the later works by Paul Ricoeur (I have in mind his trilogy Time and Narrative and the anthropological summa Oneself as Another) include a 'linguistic turn' - concentration on the philosophical problems of language. The heart of the matter, however, concerns speech and a semiotic system isolated from the context and functioning according to conventionally established rules. Ricoeur considered both the vernacular and linguistic creations within the cultural circuit in the categories of a 'discursive instance' (a term introduced by Émile Benveniste), and as a consequence - within an existential and onto-anthropological perspective as the modus of the human condition: the hermeneutic envisages 'being-in-language' as an inseparable feature of 'being-in-the-world'. 'Discursive instances', i. e. acts of interpersonal dialogue and communication as well as the creation and reading of narrative works in the form of biographies or autobiographies, historiography and literature, poetry and art (mutatis mutandis including normative resolutions, political institutions, social organisations, etc.) are not reduced to the sphere of 'objective facts': the products of cultural creativity and the tools of social communication. From the hermeneutic point of view they are predominantly intermediaries of the self-understanding and self-confirmation of the human subject - his 'self-confirmation in being'. Narrative works in particular - novels - become the determinants of dynamic identity, 'being-oneself' (soi-meme) amidst the variable turns, tenuous connections and chaotic variability of life and history following their courses. The human 'I' emerges in the course of reading and interpreting linguistic products as a 'project' of the different possibilities of 'being-oneself' in a confrontation with 'the other' (un autre): we understand each other only by following a roundabout road amidst the signs of mankind rendered indelible in works of culture. Culture conceived as a human 'world of life' (Lebenswelt) can be, however, both an offer of individual self-realisation and a 'source of suffering' and personal alienation. Can one find oneself at home in this 'world' by 'changing it into speech' which according to Heidegger is the dwelling and refuge of the essence of man? This is the hope placed by Ricoeur in an erudite and extremely extensive hermeneutic 'dialogue' with traditional philosophy, claiming that an interpretation is the response to the fundamental alienation established by the objectivisation of man in the works of the discourse, comparable with the objectivisation that is the outcome of his work and art.

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TRANSGENERICKÁ NARATOLÓGIA: NARATOLOGICKÁ ANALÝZA POÉZIE AKO NOVÁ SYSTEMATICKÁ TEÓRIA LYRIKY

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Kališová R.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2024

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vol. 71

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issue 2

179 – 189

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This overview essay on the implementation of narratology on reading and interpreting lyric poetry presents the main principles of the so-called lyricology, which is based on the thesis that narrative structures, such as the presence of agency, mediation and sequencing (the ordering of plot sequences), can also be observed in lyric poetry. This line of research has been followed by scholars at German universities, but has also found its way into the English-speaking academic world. The paper defines narratological concepts which are readily applicable to lyric poetry, such as focalisation, event, narrative reliability, and hierarchical stratification of the narrator (biographical author – abstract/implicit author – narrator/speaker – protagonist/character in the plot). The essay presents narratological analysis of lyric poetry as an innovative approach to the reading of lyric poetry, but also highlights the potential pitfalls of this approach and outlines appropriateness of its use.

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Opowiadanie w ruchu. Literatura i badania postzależnościowe

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Zduniak-Wiktorowicz M.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2012

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vol. 3

227-240

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The book reviewed is a post-conference monograph bringing methodological findings, re-interpretations, and analyses of domestic prose in the area of postcolonial research now developing in Poland. The thematic keystone of the articles collected is the issue of migration as a response to oppressive experiences of Polish history and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries

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Osobowość a uczestnictwo w grach fabularnych. O relacjach między tożsamością, myśleniem narracyjnym i stylem gry

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Krawczyk S.

Homo Ludens

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2013

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issue 1(5)

139-164

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The paper demonstrates one possible way of seeking an answer to the question: “What is the connection between a player’s general personality characteristics and the way he or she participates in role-playing game sessions?” An empirical study with 44 participants is presented, including its theoretical background, conduct, and results. Three phenomena play a pivotal role here: identity, narrative style of play and autonarrative inclination. The paper explains them, characterises the employed research methods and delineates the reasons for academic interest in these aspects of psyche. Afterwards, the results of the study are shown. They serve as an argument in support of the thesis that the three studied phenomena are related to one another.

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Semantic Field Analysis in the Study of Parent-Child Relationships

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Budziszewska M.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2009

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vol. 40

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issue 4

78-87

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This article discusses the applicability of semantic field analysis to the study of development and change in important interpersonal relations on the example of parent-child relationships. The narrative material was compiled from responses of 348 teenagers and young adults aged 13-30 years. Participants wrote about their parents ('Tell me about your parents'). On the basis of the context, semantic fields were generated for the high-incidence phrase 'to love one's parents', which is the primary model of conceptualizing the parent-child relationship in our culture. The results demonstrate the material complexity of the 'love for parents' semantic field in the study group, and reveal the associative network of other semantic relations involving this concept. They also confirm the hypotheses on subtle developmental changes in the understanding of 'love for parents' between early adolescence and adulthood. The study presents the application of methods based on linguistic analysis of language to the analysis of developmental changes in important personal relationships.

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K METODOLOGICKÝM OTÁZKAM ANTROPOLÓGIE A „OBRAZU ČLOVEKA“ S „ĽUDSKOU DÔSTOJNOSŤOU“

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Lohmann G.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

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2018

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vol. 73

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issue 8

660 – 674

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The study deals with the genealogy of the meaning of anthropology. We encounter it first in Aristotle’s negative definition of anthropology as a “narrative about man” with features of a gossip. Second time we encounter it in Kant’s dual definition of anthropology. From a pragmatic point of view he perceives it as a normative narrative about people from the position of a participant and from the perspective of the primacy of the “life-world”. The third instance is its secular status of a human as the “as yet undetermined animal” (Nietzsche), who is not “just” an animal but neither is he God. The fourth instance is the status of anthropology as a practical knowledge of oneself in relation to oneself (culture) in the synthesis of knowledge of human sciences (Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner). Finally, its current self-understanding is the result of the development of the human rights agenda after 1945 with regard to “the image of man” with “human dignity.”

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SÚČASNÝ STAV HISTORIOGRAFIE MAĎARSKEJ FILOZOFIE

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Mészáros O.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

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2020

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vol. 75

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issue 1

1 – 12

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The presented study makes a brief summary of the history of historiography of the Hungarian philosophy from the first half of the 19th century up to present days. Afterwards it deals with main tendencies of the contemporary historiography. It introduces the main results of innovations in this field as follows: the refusal of the standard narrative in the Hungarian philosophy, the reconstruction of forming canons, the reinterpretation of the function of the so called national philosophy as well as places of Erdélyi and Szontagh in it and the revelation of specific features of the so called school philosophy.

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NARIHIRA, KENKO AND 'FIVE AMOROUS WOMEN'. LITERARY TRADITION AND IHARA SAIKAKU'S NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE (Narihira, Kenko i 'Piec kobiet namietnych'. Tradycja literacka a sposob opowiadania Ihary Saikaku)

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Sonnenberg K.

Przegląd Orientalistyczny

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2010

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issue 3-4 (234-235)

177-186

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This article focuses on the ways in which intertextual references influence the narration in Ihara Saikaku's 'Koshoku gonin onna' (Five Amorous Women). The author chooses two classical texts, i.e. 'Ise Monogatari' (The Tales of Ise) and Yoshida Kenko's 'Tsurezuregusa' (Essays in Idleness) to illustrate the range of purposes the literary allusions in 'Five Amorous Women' serve. The distinction is made between the purely stylistic use of quotations from 'Tsurezuregusa', which involve neither playing with the source text nor a change in the meaning of Saikaku's narrative, and the parodic use of 'Ise monogatari' evoked mainly to bring humour into the stories. The important difference in the tone used while referring to the two classical works is also emphasised.

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OHLASY NA RICOEUROVO DIELO ČAS A ROZPRÁVANIE

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Sivák J.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

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2015

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vol. 70

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issue 4

307 – 320

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„Procope“, a series of the Parisien publishing house Cerf, is designed to elicit critical discussions about selected authors, writings or issues. The first in this series has been Ricoeur’s Time and narrative in discussion published in 1989. Included in it are seven critiques or responses to Ricoeur’s Time and narrative written by philosophers, poets, and linguists, as well as the author’s replies.

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FICTIONAL TELLERS A RADICAL FICTIONALIST SEMANTICS FOR FICTIONAL DISCOURSE

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Predelli S.

Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

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2021

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vol. 28

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issue 1

76 – 106

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This essay proposes dissolution of the so-called ‘semantic problem of fictional names’ by arguing that fictional names are only fictionally proper names. The ensuing idea that fictional texts do not encode propositional content is accompanied by an explanation of the contentful effects of fiction grounded on the idea of impartation. After some preliminaries about (referring and empty) genuine proper names, this essay explains how a fiction’s content may be conveyed by virtue of the fictional impartations provided by a fictional teller. This idea is in turn developed with respect to homodiegetic narratives such as Doyle’s Holmes stories and to heterodiegetic narratives such as Jane Austen’s Emma. The last parts of the essay apply this apparatus to cases of so-called ‘talk about fiction’, as in our commentaries about those stories and that novel.

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SCARED TO DEATH (Smiertelna groza)

FACE TO FACE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT, OR ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Wokół narracji tożsamościowej Sokrata Janowicza

ROLAND BARTHES A VÁCLAV HAVEL JAKO SPIKLENCI LITERATURY – K PRINCIPU LITERÁRNÍ PŘESVĚDČIVOSTI

Dějiny teorie vyprávění: psaní a narativní strategie

WHY WE HELP MORE WILLINGLY IN REACTION TO STORIES

Postmoderní fikce a destabilizace metanarativu: Urmedvěd Jiřího Kratochvila

O DVOCH POHĽADOCH NA NARATÍVNU EXPLANÁCIU

PRAGMATIZATION OF NARRATIVE IN WITTGENSTEIN’S LATER PHILOSOPHY: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE

WOMAN WRESTLING WITH FATE – ON RACHEL IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS

TO RESIDE IN A NOVEL (Zamieszkac w opowiesci - Paula Ricoeura próba zadomowienia w mowie)

TRANSGENERICKÁ NARATOLÓGIA: NARATOLOGICKÁ ANALÝZA POÉZIE AKO NOVÁ SYSTEMATICKÁ TEÓRIA LYRIKY

Opowiadanie w ruchu. Literatura i badania postzależnościowe

Osobowość a uczestnictwo w grach fabularnych. O relacjach między tożsamością, myśleniem narracyjnym i stylem gry

Semantic Field Analysis in the Study of Parent-Child Relationships

K METODOLOGICKÝM OTÁZKAM ANTROPOLÓGIE A „OBRAZU ČLOVEKA“ S „ĽUDSKOU DÔSTOJNOSŤOU“

SÚČASNÝ STAV HISTORIOGRAFIE MAĎARSKEJ FILOZOFIE

NARIHIRA, KENKO AND 'FIVE AMOROUS WOMEN'. LITERARY TRADITION AND IHARA SAIKAKU'S NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE (Narihira, Kenko i 'Piec kobiet namietnych'. Tradycja literacka a sposob opowiadania Ihary Saikaku)

OHLASY NA RICOEUROVO DIELO ČAS A ROZPRÁVANIE

FICTIONAL TELLERS A RADICAL FICTIONALIST SEMANTICS FOR FICTIONAL DISCOURSE