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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Femininity and Its Transformations in Subsequent Adaptations

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Łaszkiewicz W.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2015

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vol. 11

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The aim of the following paper is to examine the portrayal of female characters and femininity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Since Tolkien’s heroines have been both praised and severely criticized, this paper will, first of all, investigate and recapitulate the arguments in favor and against Tolkien’s depiction of women. Secondly, it will be argued that the ambiguity surrounding these fictional characters stems from the writer’s private relationship with women. Finally, the paper will analyze how Tolkien’s ambiguous female characters have fared in various adaptations of his works, particularly in the cinematic versions produced by Peter Jackson and in fan-made art.

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De la comedia espagnole à la comédie française: trois exemples chez les frères Corneille

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Dumas C.

Romanica Wratislaviensia

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2013

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vol. 60

79 – 87

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This article sets off the links and discrepancies between Spanish Golden Age comedias cómicas and their adaptations by French playwrights in the middle of the XVIIth Century. The exam ples of three comedies — Pierre Corneille’s Le Menteur and La Suite du Menteur (from Alarcón’s La verdad sospechosa and Lope de Vega’s Amar sin saber a quién), and Thomas Corneille’s Don Bertrand de Cigarral, (adapted from Rojas Zorrilla’s Entre bobos anda el juego) — show that, whatever may be the approach (gallicization, in the first two plays, or keeping a Spanish frame for the plot, in the third one), the adapters’ main concern is to create an atmosphere as well as characters that in both cases would appeal to the audience. The fact the Corneille brothers clearly wrote those three adaptations with one actor in mind (Julien Bedeau, alias Jodelet) for the main comical parts proves their wish to implant the plots in the topical French drama production of the XVIIth Century.

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Twórczość Tadeusza Różewicza w radiu

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Zwolińska B.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2017

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vol. 39

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issue 1

185-199

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In the article I focus on the works of Tadeusz Różewicz presented on Polish Radio, of which the most numerous are the works of dramatic art adapted for radio, such as: Akt przerywany [The Interrupted Act], Białe małżeństwo [White Wedding], Kartoteka [The Card Index], Kartoteka rozrzucona [The Card Index Scattered], Odejście Głodomora [The Starveling Leaves], Pogrzeb po polsku [Polish funeral], Stara kobieta wysiaduje [The Old Lady Sits Waiting], Śmieszny staruszek [The Funny Old Man], Świadkowie albo nasza mała stabilizacja [The Witnesses, or our little stabilisation], Wyszedł z domu [He Left Home]. Apart from this, Różewicz’s one acters have been broadcast as radio dramas titled Teatr niekonsekwencji [Theatre of Inconsistency]. His poetry have been utilised with varying degrees of success, forming the basis for such poetic programmes as Radio w radiu [Radio on radio], based on a selection of poems from the volumes Uśmiechy [Smiles], or Recykling [Recycling]. A separate group is constituted by programmes forming a kind of tribute to poetic masters: Prus (Rozmowy w Alei Zdrowia) or Staff (Tadeusz Różewicz pisze Staffa). Apart from this, I’m interested in programmes presenting the author’s prose in the collected work Matka odchodzi [Mother Leaves], and also the cycle of five interviews Dialogi poetów. Rozmowy o życiu [Poets’ Dialogue. Conversations about life], being the result of the meeting of Tadeusz Różewicz and Czesław Miłosz in the Teatr Słowacki in Kraków in July 1999. Comparing the radio versions of the texts of these dramas, I arrive at the conclusion that in the majority of cases the directors and engineers of these adapted dramas, falling back on the caveat “based on”, made bold choices, shortening individual scenes or omitting them entirely. In addition, I consider that the creators of these dramas were not attempting to excessively modernise Różewicz’s art, maintaining their climate, their specific rhythm, based on their fragmentary nature, the sequence of scenes as well as the poetics of collage and recycling.

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Konflikt lokalny w Brzezinach i jego społeczne skutki

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Michałowska E.

Studia Regionalne i Lokalne

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2004

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issue 4(18)

109-125

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Artykuł dotyczy konfliktu lokalnego, który powstał w wyniku zaniechania niemal w ostatniej chwili podjęcia decyzji o powołaniu powiatu brzezińskiego. Wywołało to bardzo żywe protesty mieszkańców Brzezin, które miały być siedzibą starostwa. źródłem konfliktu społecznego w Brzezinach, przejawiającego się w gwałtownych, zbiorowych protestach mieszkańców, polegających m.in. na blokowaniu przejazdu przez miasto, było nieutworzenie tam siedziby powiatu. Doprowadziło to do napięć w realizacji przez społeczność lokalną funkcji politycznej i funkcji wykonywania zadań publicznych. Skutkiem tego powstały opozycyjne wobec siebie grupy w łonie społeczności lokalnej. Jedną z nich była władza lokalna i związani z nią ludzie, drugą komitet protestacyjny, a w późniejszym okresie stowarzyszenie "Teraz Brzeziny". Efektem konfliktu lokalnego, zgodnie z jego modelowym ujęciem, jest wzajemne przystosowanie się stron. W Brzezinach proces przystosowania należy rozpatrywać jako przystosowanie pomiędzy stroną rządową a przedstawicielami społeczności lokalnej w formie kompromisu negocjacji prowadzących do rozwiązania problemu. W rezultacie doprowadzono do utworzenia powiatu brzezińskiego, choć nie w takich granicach, jak zakładał projekt pierwotny.

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The article describes a local conflict which arose when the decision on the establishment of the Brzeziny district (powiat) had been waived at the last moment. This resulted in strong protests of the inhabitants, who hoped that the district authorities would be located in Brzeziny. The conflict impaired the local community's ability to exercise its political function and to execute public tasks. Two opposed groups emerged in the local community: representatives of the local authority and people connected with them on the one hand, and the protest committee, later the Teraz Brzeziny (Time for Brzeziny) association, on the other. The consequence of this local conflict, taken as a model, is mutual adaptation of both opposing sides. In Brzeziny, the adaptation took the form of a compromise negotiations between the government authorities and local community's representatives, which brought a solution to the problem. As a result of the compromise, the Brzeziny district has been established, however not within the originally planned boundaries.

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Othello and the Ambivalences of Italian Blackface

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Bassi S., Scego I.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2020

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vol. 22

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issue 37

67-85

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Blackface is a cultural practice that appears ubiquitously in Italian history cutting across the political spectrum; it also lends itself to suprising anti-racist actions. This essay examines the use of blackface from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century by looking at its appearance in popular culture and, contextually and dialectically, at its adoption in selected performances of Othello, a play that holds special meaning in Italy because of its famous operatic adaptations. Africa and blackness were often represented in Italian visual arts in the early modern period, but the early colonial ventures of the new independent Italy create a new exotic imaginary that is particularly manifest in popular culture. Othello is influenced by new African discourses but it allso exists in a parallel dimension that somehow resists facile political interpretations. The colonial ventures of post-unification and Fascist Italy do not reverberate in any predictable manner in the growing popularity of the play. After World War II new forms of exoticism emerge that will be subverted only by a new postcolonial scenario that also coincides with a re-emergence of racism. Against the respective historical backdrops, we examine the idiosyncratic versions of blackface by Tommaso Salvini, Pietro Sharoff, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carmelo Bene, and Elio De Capitani to suggest continuities and discontinuities in Italian interpretations of Othello.

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Odporność nornicy rudej na boreliozę

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Tarnowska E.

Edukacja Biologiczna i Środowiskowa

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2015

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issue 2

34-37

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Nornica ruda jest leśnym gryzoniem stanowiącym główny rezerwuar bakterii z rodzaju Borrelia, wywołujących boreliozę. Jednocześnie wykształciła odporność na zakażenie bakteryjne przez utrwalenie się pewnych wariantów genu receptora błonowego TLR2 odpowiedzialnego za rozpoznanie patogenu i aktywację odpowiedzi immunologicznej. Różne warianty genu wyewoluowały w wyniku presji selekcyjnej spowodowanej przez krętki z rodzaju Borrelia. U nornic w Szwecji wykazano istnienie trzech odrębnych grup haplotypów w obrębie częściowej sekwencji (1173 pz) tego genu. Dwie wyodrębnione grupy haplotypów (c1 i c2) były bezpośrednio związane z odsetkiem zakażonych nornic. W zależności od posiadanych wariantów genów zakażenie wśród osobników wahała się od 16 do 50%. Ponadto wykazano, że sekwencja ta u nornicy rudej jest pod wpływem selekcji pozytywnej. Osobniki z taką adaptacją mogą uzyskać przewagę ewolucyjną w środowisku o dużym zagęszczeniu zakażonych krętkami z rodzaju Borrelia wektorów, głównie kleszczy.

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Bank vole is a highly adaptive forest species of rodent. It is known to be a reservoir of Borrelia sp. spirochetes, the etiological agent of Lyme disease. Bank vole also developed the adaptation in membrane Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) gene to avoid disease development. TLR2 is involved in pathogen recognition and initiation of immune response. In Swedish populations of bank vole three different groups of haplotypes of TLR2 gene partial sequence (1173 bp) were found. The frequencies of two of them (c1 and c2) were directly correlated with the incidence of Lyme disease in bank vole populations. Morbidity among vole populations varied from 16 to 50% and depended on gene variants. Higher resistance was found in populations, where c2 TLR2 haplotypes were present. Recent studies have shown that TLR2 sequence in bank vole is under positive selection. Individuals with adaptive variants (c2 group) may have had an evolutionary advantage in environments with high frequency of infected vectors (mainly ticks).

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Domestykacja i uniwersalizacja w adaptacjach dla młodzieży: polskie i judeohiszpańskie „Podróże Guliwera”

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Linde-Usiekniewicz J., Kołakowski M., Kacprzak M.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2017

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issue 7(10)

55-68

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The paper presents a comparative study of two adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, which were published at the turn of the 20th century in two different literary polysystems: a Polish adaptation by Aleksandra Callier (1908) and a Ladino adaptation by Alexandr Ben Ghiat. The paper discusses not only the respective places both adaptations take in the two literary systems of the cultures of that time, but also selected linguistic, narratological, and genre-related issues, as well as matters concerning the representation of the world, the protagonist, and domestication. The analysis shows that the Polish version is strongly domesticated as opposed to the Ladino version which stripped of most realia acquires a universal character. Both versions fall within the framework of the adventure story genre, partly due to borrowings from other literary texts.

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