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The article is an attempt to capture the most important themes appearing in columns published by Andrzej Lenartowski between 1986 and 1999 in “Słowo Ludu”. It also contains a cursory description of the column as a journalistic genre, and introduces selected facts from the biography of the writer.
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The paper is an attempt to find the mythical roots of the prose works "Tristan" by Thomas Mann and "Tristan 1946" by Maria Kuncewiczowa. The undertaken analysis has shown that the titles of both works are a conscious provocation or a pretext for taking a broader perspective on the essence and the role of myths in the modern world. In his polemic discussion with Wagner contained in his short story written in a sanatorium Thomas Mann seems to reach similar conclusions as Maria Kuncewiczowa, who in her Cornish novel invokes autobiographical motives. The love of Tristan and Isolde of the 20th century is doomed to fail. The medieval myth is confronted with the ancient myth (in the work by Thomas Mann) and with the modern bourgeois myth of family. Both Thomas Mann and Maria Kuncewiczowa intuitively sense and anticipate the theory by Levi-Strauss by showing how in the modern world devoid of love the music replaces the myth, takes over its function and becomes an illusory light at the end of the tunnel.
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Cultural identity is a very important part of national identity, as it defines the individual’s place in society. The aim is to show the Rusyn national identity consolidated in the contemporary literary works and to define the symbolism used by the Rusyn authors to emphasise their belonging to that nation. The six basic areas into which post-1989 Rusyn literature in Slovakia is divided are the following: poetry dedicated to the emerging national identity; poetry and prose based on folklore; rural-themed prose; metaphorical poetry dealing with diverse themes; literature for children and young people; literary translations. Authors belonging to the individual groups prove with their works that aspects of national identity, self-identification and, in fact, national revival continue to re-sound strongly in contemporary Rusyn literature in Slovakia.
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The education of teachers at university is a task that is being undertaken at a time of social and cultural changes, external unrest and political transformation that are affecting education itself. However, maintaining a humanistic approach to education is important. Therefore Polish language teachers at schools need to be responsible for educating young people who are sensitive to the welfare of the others, do not use the language of hate, but are critical thinkers; while at the same time university teachers are responsible for educating teachers who are resistant to political pressure. The author of the article presents a selection of literary works that refer to exclusion on grounds of nationality that can be read with students at different levels of education. Such a strategy proves that Polish language teachers can use literature to uphold humanistic values.
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The paper briefly analyses representations of the city and “writing about the city” as reflected on in contemporary humanities, in relation to Katarzyna Taborska’s book Literatura miejsca. Piśmiennictwo postlandsberskie. [Literature of a place. Post-Landsberg writing].
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2012
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vol. 16
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issue 2
43-53
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Elżbieta Zarych presented the Italian writer and musicologist’s famous monologue in the context of his other literary and theoretical books, literary and musical works that served as his inspiration, as well as, contemporary pieces which deal with the same topic. The author of the dissertation, while considering the music and melody of Baricco, focused on pieces that possess the two principal topics: ‘music’ and ‘sea.’ Baricco wrote ‘the sea is the music’ and in the monologue Novecento they both are connected in the highest form. The author presented the conception of Baricco who, in order to avoid classifying his work into literary genres, wrote just ‘stories’ while connecting the literature, the music and the painting into the ‘white music of a story’. She also presented Barrico’s concept of real and ideal music in the context of his multi-level plot and the Novecento composition. Furthermore, the author analyzed the jazz quintet accompaniment composition for the Novecento monologue written for the Italian actor Eugenio Allegri, as well as, explored the realized and unrealized ideas during the composition’s creation process. She at-tempted to characterize the imagination of Baricco who, using his musical knowledge, tries to concretize the plot of Novecento; the metaphors: ‘life is a navigation’, ‘a sea is a music’, and ‘a story is a music and a sea’, as well as, describe the life of an ideal and genial musician Danny Boodmann T. D. For Lemon Novecento, life is music and music interprets reality. The author showed that for Baricco too, music is something real and normal, and for this reason in Novecento he tells the story of real music – jazz, played in real time on a real traveling ship.
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Philip Rieff’s typology of culture and its applicability to the literary hybridization of the theological ideas of humanity and spiritual progress (a Bulgarian case study)The twentieth century has become in a special way a time of reflection on the theologi­cal roots of human thinking, including thinking in political terms; suffice it to mention such names as Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt and Erich Voegelin. One of the thinkers who joined the ongoing disputes was Philip Rieff, who in his book My Life Among the Deathworks (2006), took on the task of a controversial (according to many) revitalization of the Judeo-Christian paradigm. Reflecting on the subject of art works over several centuries, he abstracted typo­logical criteria allowing him to build a dichotomous model of art, as dedicated either to death (the non-Judeo-Christian variety) or to life (the Judeo-Christian variety). The paper attempts to verify his reasoning by reflecting on the theological models of humanity and spiritual progress in Teodora Dimova’s novel The Train to Emmaus (Vlakat za Emaus, 2014). O przydatności typologii Philipa Rieffa w badaniach nad literackimi hybrydyzacjami teologicznych idei człowieczeństwa i duchowego postępu (na jednym przykładzie bułgarskim)Wiek dwudziesty w szczególny sposób stał się czasem refleksji nad teologicznymi korze­niami ludzkiego myślenia, w tym myślenia w kategoriach politycznych; dość wspomnieć choćby nazwiska tak różnych myślicieli jak Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Erich Voegelin. Jednym z badaczy, który włączył się w toczące się dysputy był Philip Rieff, który w książce My Life Among the Deathworks (2006) podjął trud dyskusyjnej (zdaniem wielu) rewitalizacji paradygmatu judeochrześcijańskiego. Snując rozważania na temat dzieł sztuki na przestrzeni kilku wieków, wyabstrahował kryteria typologiczne, pozwalające budować dychotomiczny model sztuki jako dedykowanej śmierci (wariant antyjudeochrześcijański) lub życiu (wariant judeochrześcijański). Jego sposób rozumowania autorka poddaje próbie weryfikacji w reflek­sji nad teologicznym modelem człowieczeństwa i duchowego postępu w powieści Teodory Dimowej Влакът за Емаус (2014).
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The article analyzes the cinematographic adaptation of Polish writer Janusz Wiśniewski’s the most popular novel “Loneliness On The Net”. The director of the interpretation is W. Adamek, the screenwriter is Wiśniewski. Despite this, the film received ambiguous reviews among the audience. The cinematic version of “Loneliness On The Net” is characterized by a fairly free interpretation of the novel’s plot. Although the main theme (loneliness) and heroes are preserved, the final is changed and some accents are shifted in the film. At the same time the director uses rather interesting and unusual techniques for transferring certain details from the language of literature to the language of cinema.
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For some time, the concept ‘lifestyle’ has become the object of intensified scientific research. Starting from the 80s and 90s of the previous century, the research has placed emphasis on the deconstruction of the traditional class and gender role assignments in regard to individualistic and pluralist lifestyles and life situations. Considering the above ideas, attempt is made to trace and analyse these processes in literary forms. The question arises, whether and how these social changes are expressed in the literary narrative forms. This is specified on the example of a contemporary German writer Silke Scheuermann. As Scheuermann involves her female characters in the context of rich modern societies and thus aims at reality effects, her stories make it possible to follow the time spirit. It is to show, whether the post-modern worlds contribute to a new ‘orientation’ of the literary figures, i.e. whether their lifestyles and systems of values are the outcomes of an autonomous development or result from a variety of possibilities.
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The paper discusses the representation of the so-called Regained Territories in reportage and novels by Ziemowit Szczerek. The aim of the paper is to identify the ways of creating a caricatural imaginary geography of the Polish-German borderlands which Szczerek calls “Poniemiecja” [“Post-German lands”]. An analysis of the source material made it possible to determine the functions of the borderlands theme in Szczerek’s works (demythologisation, deheroisation, confrontation). The paper also presents strategies of revising the pioneer myth of the so-called Regained Territories and of representing the Polish-German relations in Szczerek’s works of fiction and non- fiction.
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Contemporary “war prose” contains works on both the Second World War and the subsequent conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The aim of the article is to analyse the changes of the war hero myth in autobiographical texts of the wars’ participants. Among the authors are Oleg Yermakov, Zachar Prilepin, Arkady Babchenko. As we find out, the contemporary “war narrative” is interwoven with the lack of ideology and patriotic pathos. A soldier fails to accept his war; moreover, he questions the authorities in their decision to break out the military conflict. In these conditions, it is difficult to make heroic acts and sacrifice for the good of the homeland.
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2022
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vol. Special Issue
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issue 17
175-184
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The main aim of the paper is to analyse the literary representations of meetings of children’s characters with Germans. The revision of the image of a German, who has been perceived as strange and dangerous for centuries, is carried out based on the example of selected contemporary books for young readers as well as literature for adults. There is a tendency to perpetuate a negative stereotype in contemporary Polish literature on the one hand and an attempt to overturn it on the other. The latter is achieved by presenting individual and often tragic German lives that so far have been marginalised in narratives about the past.
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2012
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vol. 15
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issue 1
283-293
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The paper discusses musicality of Sceny łóżkowe (Bedtime scenes) by Adam Wiedemann understood as the constructive and topical dominant of the book. The writer`s ‘dream diary’ (including a ‘testimonio’ notation of dreams from 1987 to 2000), simulating the poetics of a personal document, in fact draws the reader into multilevel intertextual games. The consequent amalgamation of high and pop culture and the poetics of collage or sampling organize the dreams records of Sceny łóżkowe. The author analyzes Wiedemann`s work as a manifesto of panfictionalism and constructivistical ‘world mak-ing’ (cf. Siegfried J. Schmidt, Ernst von Glaserfeld, Steven Tötsöy de Zepetnek, Nelson Goodman). This in turn results in revealing the false referentialism or, more precisely autopoietic self-referentialism of Wiedemann`s writing, thus showing how unuseful traditional psychoanalisys and interpretation of dreams are for analyzing the manifestly constructivistical fabric of the writer’s humoristic and grotesque oneiric projections
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Abstract The article studies Josep Lozano’s short fiction as awhole. It can be organised into three great narrative lines: historic fiction, the depiction of local reality as afigment and the writing of dreams. This study also describes these short fiction pieces taking into account the poetics of brevity, pointing out the time of discourse and how characters are depicted. Finally, loneliness is underlined as the central topic of Josep Lozano’s short fiction world. This research helps us to integrate short fiction along Lozano’s novels harmoniously, although it specifies its particular features as short stories.
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The life of Enlightenment celebrities from the spheres of aristocracy, politics and science — which were swarming with original, eccentric and brilliant figures — almost provokes to be included in the framework of the fictional story. Also many literary works from this era, amazingly modern in form and content and well written, still tempts to literary „dialogue” with them. Contemporary authors readily use these „goods” searching new themes and artistic solutions. For these reasons Jan Potocki has earned the great interest of the creators. His astonishingly original and eccentric life has inspired both Polish (e.g. M. Choromański, J. Lechoń, T. Jurasz) and foreign authors (e.g. Rüdiger Kremer). His works have aroused equally strong interest, especially The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, a masterpiece of world literature, inspiring many important and talented writers, Polish and foreign ones (e.g. M. Gretkowska, K. Rudowski, L. Rosendorfer, J. Fowles). Undoubtedly, Potocki’s work and biography can provide a lot of creative satisfaction and they are a mine of literary ideas, starting from biographical facts, by borrowing motifs and ending with stylization „games”.
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2020
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vol. 27
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issue 2
235-246
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Artykuł bada współczesne węgierskie pisarstwo kobiece w kontekście kosmopolitycznego feminizmu. Analizie poddano trzy utwory: Finnugor vampire Noémi Szécsi, Trans Noémi Kiss oraz Világító testek: 100 kis Budapest Erdős Virág. Utwory te czytam jako przykłady zaangażowania kosmopolitycznego feminizmu w przestrzeń miejską. W przeciwieństwie do kantowskiej koncepcji kosmopolityzmu, krytykowanej za nieuwzględnianie doświadczeń poszczególnych grup społecznych i regionów geograficznych, kosmopolityczny feminizm koncentruje się na tym, co lokalne i ucieleśnione. Omawiane dzieła dotyczą przekraczania granic pod względem zarówno formy, jak i treści, a jednocześnie angażują się w powszednie, afektywne aspekty codziennego życia w przestrzeni miejskiej. Ów kosmopolityczny feminizm kwestionuje zaściankowe, ciężkie, narodowe tradycje literackie i wskazuje na wyraźną linię estetyki feministycznej we współczesnej literaturze węgierskiej.
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This article investigates contemporary Hungarian women’s writing in the context of cosmopolitan feminism. The literary works explored are Noémi Szécsi’s The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Noémi Kiss’s Trans and Virág Erdős’s Luminous Bodies: 100 Little Budapest, which I read as examples of a cosmopolitan feminist engagement with urban space. As opposed to the Kantian concept of cosmopolitanism, which has been critiqued for failing to take the experiences of particular social groups and geographical regions into account, cosmopolitan feminism focuses on the local and the embodied. The discussed texts thematise border crossing both on the level of form and content, while they engage with the mundane, affective aspects of everyday life in an emphatically urban setting. This cosmopolitan feminism challenges parochial, heavy, national literary traditions and points towards a distinct feministaesthetics in contemporary Hungarian literature.
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The article deals with selected topics concerning a somewhat forgotten dispute between Jan Błoński and Henryk Bereza. The genesis of the dispute dates back to the 1980s, when Bereza described the phenomenon he called the “artistic revolution in prose”. The main  purpose of the article is to show the complex motifs that led Błoński,  who opposed Bereza’s concepts with particular anger. The sources of  these motifs – usually far from issues related to the assessment of the value of literature itself – can be sought, among other things, in the  negative attitude of Błoński-the intellectual to writers of peasant and  working-class origin. In the second part of the article, Bereza’s method is shown – on the example of the concept of first language – as free  from non-literary factors.
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Niniejszy artykuł porusza wybrane wątki dotyczące nieco  zapomnianego sporu między Janem Błońskim a Henrykiem Berezą. Geneza konfliktu sięga lat 80., kiedy Bereza opisał zjawisko nazwane przez niego „rewolucją artystyczną w prozie”. Głównym celem  zawartych w artykule rozważań jest ukazanie złożonych motywów, jakie powodowały Błońskim, który wystąpił przeciw konceptom krytyczno- i historycznoliterackim Berezy ze szczególną ostrością. Źródeł tych  motywów – na ogół dalekich od kwestii związanych z oceną wartości  samej literatury – można szukać, m.in. w negatywnym stosunku  Błońskiego-inteligenta do pisarzy o pochodzeniu chłopskim i  robotniczym. W drugiej części artykułu metoda Berezy zostaje ukazana – na przykładzie używanego przez niego pojęcia język pierwszy – jako suwerenna wobec czynników pozaliterackich.
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This paper examines the representations of the Bavarian and Kansai dialects in contemporary German and Japanese literature in the light of the concept of language ideologies. First, I will present general objectives of sociolinguistic analysis of dialect representation in fictional texts. Next, I will discuss the connection between language standardisation process and social attitudes towards dialect on the example of two countries from different cultural circles: Germany and Japan. Finally, using methods derived both from linguistics and literature studies, I will examine dialect representations in selected contemporary novels in order to establish the influence of language ideologies.
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W niniejszym artykule przeanalizowano reprezentacje dialektów bawarskich i kansai we współczesnej literaturze niemieckiej i japońskiej w świetle koncepcji ideologii językowych. W części pierwszej przedstawiono ogólne cele socjolingwistycznej analizy reprezentacji dialektu w tekstach literatury współczesnej. Następnie omówiono związek między procesem standaryzacji języka a postawami społecznymi wobec dialektu na przykładzie dwóch krajów z różnych kręgów kulturowych: Niemiec i Japonii. Na koniec, posługując się metodami wywodzącymi się zarówno z lingwistyki, jak i literaturoznawstwa, zbadano reprezentacje dialektów w wybranych współczesnych powieściach w celu ustalenia wpływu ideologii językowych.
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The article is dedicated to the works of selected writers who manifest their relations with a particular place – Częstochowa and its environs in their poetic texts This are the places where they spent the early years of their lives or settled down in as adults. Selected poetic works show how a place important for an author shapes his or her view on life, the sphere of values and imagination. The wording used in the title encompasses the achievements that go beyond the narrowly understood regionalism; they preserve the traces of places and at the same time give them deeper meanings.
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Przedmiotem uwagi w artykule jest twórczość wybranych pisarzy, którzy w tekstach poetyckich manifestują związki z określonym miejscem – Częstochową i jej okolicami, gdzie spędzili wczesne lata życia lub osiedlili się tu w wieku dojrzałym. Na przykładzie utworów poetyckich wybranych twórców prześledzono, w jaki sposób miejsce ważne dla twórcy kształtuje jego światopogląd, sferę wartości, wyobraźnię. Użyta w tytule szkicu formuła obejmuje tu dokonania, które wykraczają poza wąsko rozumiany regionalizm; utrwalają ślady miejsc, a jednocześnie nadają im głębsze znaczenia.
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