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Sablasti filološkog zadatka. S onu stranu povratka filologiji

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Vuković T.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2022

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issue 23

213-231

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The paper follows the numerous debates on the importance of philology that have started to emerge in the 1980s, beginning from Paul de Man’s essay Return to Philology. The assumption is that despite obvious devaluation of its importance and institutional ruination, philology survives precisely because the idea of a return is inherent in it. However, as the return is in this context grasped as the return of the repressed, it is claimed that philology survives as a paradoxical discipline whose epistemological power seeks to be represented by the figure of a specter and within hauntology, as Derrida introduced it in his works. It is argued that philology today draws strength precisely from its openness to disciplinary hybridity, institutional uncertainty, and continuous rethinking of its own social role. In conclusion, the work of Vatroslav Jagić, one of the greatest Croatian philologists and world-renowned representative of Slavic philology, whose understanding of the task of philology relates to the theses presented in the paper, is included in the discussion and introduced in the dialogue.

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Korzenie pamięci. O Mirabelce Cezarego Harasimowicza

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Kwiatkowska A.

Paidia i Literatura

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2020

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issue 2

67-76

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The article attempts to interpret the novel Mirabelle in the light of hauntology, taken from Jacques Derrida’s works, existing in the Polish literary studies first and foremost thanks to the works of Jakub Momro and Andrzej Marzec. Harasimowicz’s novel recounts the history of Warsaw from the 1920s until the present-day period. The mirabelle plum tree growing on one of the backyards in Warsaw tells the story of the following generations of the city dwellers who fade away and fall into oblivion. The Holocaust, depicted in the beginning of the novel, does not, however, become the past. The recollection of the genocide is inscribed in contemporary Warsaw, in the city space and the consciousness of its inhabitants. The phantoms of the former dwellers of Nalewki, the Jewish district in Warsaw, visit their homes, little stores, and workshops, trying to end unfinished businesses and engaging with the representatives of the present-day citizens. The gesture of remembrance, which is the replanting and redeveloping a new mirabelle tree in the place of the damaged one, gives people hope for the restoration of balance and strengthens the bonds between the living and the dead.

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Po mochlos – prolegomena do możliwych jeszcze rozważań o kondycji uniwersytetu

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Chojnacki M., Żardecka M.

Człowiek i Społeczeństwo

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2020

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vol. 49

EN

The text tackles the problem of the condition of university, in a world blindly believing that the only possible worth measure is economic in nature and, in the name of this belief, setting in motion a ruthless bureaucratic machinery that throttles all kinds of creativity and nips in the bud all nonstandard actions and creations. The world apparently is “out of joint”, and things are taking an unexpected turn. University is one of the victims, but also one of active accomplices of this despicable situation. How to speak about the university to those who are exclusively in business of calculating balance of profits and losses? How to speak about it after deconstruction, when all great ideas have been already repeatedly and manifoldly dismounted and discredited? How to speak about it, when the university’s men and women have discredited themselves repeatedly as well, oscillating between libido sciendi and libido dominandi? Trying to solve this puzzle, we are following in the footsteps of Derrida, who in his texts about university makes appeal to Kant, and inspired by his invention, we set in motion two opposite traditions, represented by Lyotard, Bourdieu, Bauman and Readings on the one hand, and by Humboldt, Schleiermacher and Jaspers on the other. With Derrida, we make noises about the return of the ideas of truth, of the light of reason, of the autonomy of university. It is, however, a return of the specters of the past, in alignment with Derrida’s hauntology. Humanists are people of academia who see these specters, but at the same time are already specters themselves – even if they still show up here and there, they are almost insignificant. They are onlyallowed to contemplate their negligibility and to confess their habitual helplessness. University always had to defend itself, and it does defend itself today.

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Widma Derridy – nie-umarli w „Cmętarzu zwieżąt” Stephena Kinga

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Szalewska K.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 8 "Jak czytać (pop)literaturę?"

137-148

EN

The article is an interpretation of the novel Pet Sematary in the context of Jacques Derrida’s hauntology. The theme of undeadness is developed by using concepts from Derridian philosophies (such as specter, haunting, iteration or mortgage). In this way, the essay shows how popular literature reproduces bearing ideas for the present and develops philosophical themes fictionalizing them.

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“It’s scary here.” Haunted landscape as a research tool to look into post-expulsion landscapes

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Ćwiek-Rogalska K.

Polish Journal of Landscape Studies

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2020

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vol. 3

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issue 6

27-47

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The article deals with the idea of “haunted landscape” as a research tool in analyzing post-expulsion landscapes. I propose a new perspective on analyzing narrations concerning expulsion and resettlements of lands where a drastic demographic change took place. I use existing research connected with the idea of Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, as well as other analytical sources dealing with folktales of different regions. As material for analysis, I propose various records from ethnographic research conducted in the Czechoslovak borderlands, stored at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, concerning the space of a “traditional house” and the new settlers’ views on their new home.

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Szczęśliwy książę Jana Dormana jako autoarchiwum

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Rewerenda M.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

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2019

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issue 3-4(271-272)

196-212

EN

The paper proposes to study the documentation of Jan Dorman’s production based on Oscar Wilde’s Happy Prince as a model for Jan Dorman’s thinking about a connection and a feedback loop between theatre and archive. The production forms the basis for a more detailed examination of Dorman’s multi-layered interest in his own archive as well as the ways in which memories of his art and private life can be preserved. Using the findings developed in the area of archival turn and hauntology, the paper elaborates on the most important spheres of Dorman’s intentional self-archiving: his frantic collecting and cataloguing, the habit of constructing a cultural repository for himself and his co-workers, confabulating and self-mythologising, recycling of objects, characters and motifs to be used again in subsequent productions. In the resulting vision of Dorman’s archive, it appears to be a deliberately constructed performative space rather than merely a collection of material traces of his professional and private life.

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Widmo. Instrukcja obsługi (pierwsze uruchomienie)

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Hoffmann K.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2017

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issue 30

299-312

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The paper’s aim is mainly propaedeutic: to provide the reader with the explanation of basic concepts of Derridean ‘Hauntology’. The first part of the article is based on three concurrent publications: first of all on the Polish translation of Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida (2016) but also on Widmontologie nowoczesności by Jakub Momro (2014) and Widmontologia by Andrzej Marzec (2014). It focuses on the concepts of spectralization of being, spectralization of time and the “visor effect”. In the second part of the paper one can find applications of the hauntology to the contemporary cultural critical practice (e.g. to teletechnologies).

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The paper’s aim is mainly propaedeutic: to provide the reader with the explanation of basic concepts of Derridean ‘Hauntology’. The first part of the article is based on three concurrent publications: first of all on the Polish translation of Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida (2016) but also on Widmontologie nowoczesności by Jakub Momro (2014) and Widmontologia by Andrzej Marzec (2014). It focuses on the concepts of spectralization of being, spectralization of time and the “visor effect”. In the second part of the paper one can find applications of the hauntology to the contemporary cultural critical practice (e.g. to teletechnologies).

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In-between Wor(l)ds: Spectrality in Banville’s Eclipse and Beckett’s Fiction

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Tereszewski M.

Anglica Wratislaviensia

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2014

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issue 52

41 - 49

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This article examines the role of ghosts in John Banville’s Eclipse and Samuel Beckett’s fiction as it relates to the concept of hauntology coined by Derrida in Specters of Marx. Particular emphasis is placed on how spectrality destabilizes one of the most salient themes in both Banville’s book and Beckett’s fiction; namely, self-definition. In both Beckett’s fiction and Banville’s Eclipse the reader is presented with a protagonist whose solipsistic self-examination stages what is, in effect, the impossibility of self-expression. Among the many similarities between Banville’s and Beckett’s work, one other theme that is of primary interest for this article is related to the various images of ghosts who, as interstitial phenomena, bring to the fore the ontological, or, to use Derrida’s homonym, hauntological ambiguity of literature. Hauntology brings to light the in-between, unfixed ontology of the self as a textual entity and is, therefore, a particularly fruitful theoretical backdrop to both Beckett’s and Banville’s conceptualizations of self-discovery.

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Umieć sobie wybaczyć. Widmontologiczne ujęcie Umiłowanej Toni Morrison

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Moryń J.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2020

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issue 40

133-143

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Reconciliating with one’s self. Hauntological decoding of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. This article focuses on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and its reading that may be uncovered through the theory of hauntology. As a novel, Beloved inscribed itself into the discussion of the image of memory in literature thanks to its retrospective nature. The reality observed in this work by Toni Morrison is actively shaped by the past and haunted by the specters of past atrocities and deceased characters. Among the problems tackled in this article are the differences between memory and interpretation; traumatic memories; and the relation between one’s memory and identity. Events and characters present in this book are characterized by their ambiguity, their contestation of binary oppositions, such as presence/absence; life/death; freedom/slavery, and being defined through a plethora of meanings and traces. Despite all these characteristics pointing towards deconstructionism as the proper theory with which the novel may be decoded, the article proposes to dissect Beloved through hauntology. This work presents hauntology as a theory applicable to literary criticism that is capable of producing a captivating reading of the discussed novel, as well as outlines the main differences between hauntology and trauma theory, with the latter being the dominant approach used in analyzing Morrison’s book. This article employs the theory of hauntology in the shape in which it is proposed by Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, Jodey Castricano and Andrzej Marzec.

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Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest powieść Umiłowana autorstwa Toni Morrison oraz odczytanie jej z perspektywy widmontologicznej. Umiłowana jest powieścią wpisującą się w dyskurs dotyczący pamięci w literaturze ze względu na swoją retrospektywną naturę: rzeczywistość w dziele Toni Morrison jest aktywnie kształtowana przez przeszłość oraz nawiedzana przez widma minionych koszmarów oraz nieżyjących postaci. Pośród zagadnień poruszonych w tej pracy znajdują się różnice pomiędzy pamięcią a interpretacją, traumy pamięci oraz relacja pomiędzy pamięcią a tożsamością. Zarówno wydarzenia jak i postaci występujące w utworze charakteryzują się ambiwalencją, kontestacją binarnych przeciwieństw (obecność/abscencja; życie/śmierć; wolność/niewola) oraz są podszyte szeregiem nadających im znaczenia śladów. Pomimo że cechy te wskazują na dekonstrukcjonizm jako teorię odpowiednią do rozszyfrowania powieści, artykuł proponuje spojrzenie na Umiłowaną przez pryzmat widmontologii. Praca ta przedstawia widmontologię jako teorię krytyki literackiej zdolną do wyprodukowania interesującego odczytania powieści, oraz zaznacza różnice dzielące widmontologię od teorii traumy, jednej z dominujących teorii wykorzystywanych w analizowaniu Umiłowanej. Ten artykuł posługuje się teorią widmontologii proponowaną przez Jacquesa Derridę, Marka Fishera, Jodey Castricano oraz Andrzeja Marca.

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Literatura jako (auto)kreacja. Widmowy świat prozy Jerzego Pilcha

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Nakoneczny T.

Slavia Occidentalis

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2016

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issue 73/2

85-94

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The article is an attempt at presenting the works of Jerzy Pilch in the context of a literature-centric tradition according to which a writer enjoys a privileged position in a culture. This allows him/her to speak about the world and him/herself from the viewpoint of a finder of truth, a depositor of universal values. In the culturally altered reality of the last few decades, a writer affected by the literature-centric tradition needs to look for various forms of compensating for lost status. A case in point is Jerzy Pilch, whose most elaborate style, combined with mythologizing his own biography, are a tool for “coping” with the generally lower standards of culture. The inconsistencies and incoherence of the writer’s auto-creation, their spectral nature, reminiscent ofDerrida’s philosophy, reveal the genuine dimension of the struggle with modernity faced by Pilch the traditionalist.

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Brzeziński J.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2016

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vol. 19

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issue 1

290-303

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The article is a critical reading of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx. Apart from presenting the Eagleton's and Negri’s critical interpretations and philosophical unproductiveness of Derrida's proposals, I also try to show their inability to fulfill the ethical and political promises, which they makes.

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Artykuł jest krytyczna interpretacją Widm Marksa Jacquesa Derridy. Obok przedstawienia krytycznych odczytań Eagletona czy Negriego, próbuję pokazać nie tylko filozoficzną jałowość propozycji Derridy, ale także niezdolność do wywiązania się z politycznych i etycznych obietnic, które składa.

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Czas, który wypadł z ram. Antropocen i ekokrytyczna lektura tekstów literackich

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Szaj P.

Forum Poetyki

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2021

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issue 24

6-25

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The first part of the paper offers a theoretical consideration of the Anthropocene as an epoch in which human and geological times have radically mixed. It outlines insights formulated within the Anthropocene discourse, as well as findings of climatology. They encourage developing the Anthropocene’s hauntology as an epoch in which “the time is out of joint”. The second part of the paper applies theory to literary studies practice (especially in terms of ecocriticism). Author reconstructs proposals to practice ecocriticism in the times of the Anthropocene formulated by Timothy Clark and Lynn Keller, and undertakes initial attempts at translating them into the Polish context.

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Pierwsza część artykułu podejmuje teoretyczny namysł nad antropocenem jako epoką, w której nastąpiło radykalne wymieszanie czasu ludzkiego i geologicznego. W części tej przedstawione są wglądy formułowane w obrębie dyskursu antropocenu, a także ustalenia klimatologii. Skłaniają one do wypracowania widmontologii antropocenu jako epoki, w której „czas wypadł z ram”. Druga część artykułu przekłada ustalenia teoretyczne na praktykę literaturoznawczą (zwłaszcza ekokrytyczną). Autor rekonstruuje propozycje uprawiania ekokrytyki w czasach antropocenu sformułowane przez Timothy’ego Clarka oraz Lynn Keller i podejmuje wstępne próby przełożenia ich na kontekst literatury polskiej.

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Dermot Bolger’s Ghosting the War

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Kędzierska A.

Avant

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 2

PL

Dermot Bolger’s Walking the Road (2007) is a tribute to Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), one of the greatest Irish poets of the First World War. Focusing on the life and afterlife of Ledwidge who, as depicted in Bolger’s play, emblematizes the condition of other Great War combatants doomed to oblivion, this essay, concerned with the various functions of the deployment of ghosts in Bolger’s drama, argues that spectrality can become an effective means of revealing the plight of the war dead: the unremembered, whose names were effectively erased from public memory and who, thus turned into homeless revenants, were forced into a continual involvement in the war from which they cannot escape, even after death. As a spectral witness who moves between pre-warIreland and the world of the trenches, Bolger’s hero makes one aware how similar these realities are. Furthermore, as a classic case of shell shock, he demonstrates the role of haunting in the narrative of trauma, identity and memory. Last but not least, whilst enhancing the gothic dimension of the war, Frank’s perceptions, as well as his spectral discourse, not only contribute significantly to illuminating the enigma which he personified, but, by providing an insight into his search for himself, they convey the plight of truth seekers, as well as grasp, yet never fully encompass the Irish experience of the war.

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Dermot Bolger’s Ghosting the War

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Kędzierska A.

Avant

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 2

PL

Dermot Bolger’s Walking the Road (2007) is a tribute to Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), one of the greatest Irish poets of the First World War. Focusing on the life and afterlife of Ledwidge who, as depicted in Bolger’s play, emblematizes the condition of other Great War combatants doomed to oblivion, this essay, concerned with the various functions of the deployment of ghosts in Bolger’s drama, argues that spectrality can become an effective means of revealing the plight of the war dead: the unremembered, whose names were effectively erased from public memory and who, thus turned into homeless revenants, were forced into a continual involvement in the war from which they cannot escape, even after death. As a spectral witness who moves between pre-warIreland and the world of the trenches, Bolger’s hero makes one aware how similar these realities are. Furthermore, as a classic case of shell shock, he demonstrates the role of haunting in the narrative of trauma, identity and memory. Last but not least, whilst enhancing the gothic dimension of the war, Frank’s perceptions, as well as his spectral discourse, not only contribute significantly to illuminating the enigma which he personified, but, by providing an insight into his search for himself, they convey the plight of truth seekers, as well as grasp, yet never fully encompass the Irish experience of the war.

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Sablasti filološkog zadatka. S onu stranu povratka filologiji

Korzenie pamięci. O Mirabelce Cezarego Harasimowicza

Po mochlos – prolegomena do możliwych jeszcze rozważań o kondycji uniwersytetu

Widma Derridy – nie-umarli w „Cmętarzu zwieżąt” Stephena Kinga

“It’s scary here.” Haunted landscape as a research tool to look into post-expulsion landscapes

Szczęśliwy książę Jana Dormana jako autoarchiwum

Widmo. Instrukcja obsługi (pierwsze uruchomienie)

In-between Wor(l)ds: Spectrality in Banville’s Eclipse and Beckett’s Fiction

Umieć sobie wybaczyć. Widmontologiczne ujęcie Umiłowanej Toni Morrison

Literatura jako (auto)kreacja. Widmowy świat prozy Jerzego Pilcha

– „To jeszcze nie dowód”. Badania nad Josephem Conradem w długim cieniu kryzysu literatury porównawczej

Too Good For Sociology

Hauntology, Performance and Remix: Paradise // Now?

Hauntology, Performance and Remix: Paradise // Now?

16-bit dissensus: post-retro aesthetics, hauntology, and the emergency in video games

Shakespeare, Authority and Hauntology: Postdramatic Performance in Walny Theatre’s Hamlet

Widmowa aktualizacja marksizmu czy spektralna bujda

Czas, który wypadł z ram. Antropocen i ekokrytyczna lektura tekstów literackich

Dermot Bolger’s Ghosting the War

Dermot Bolger’s Ghosting the War