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Co zrobić z poetyką? – perspektywa studencka

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Tuńska W.

Forum Poetyki

2016

issue 4-5

104-113

The purpose of the article is to consider to what degree the changes that have taken place in literature (the turn toward cybernetic literature) have directly influenced both literary criticism and poetics understood as a scholarly discipline and academic subject. Based on various examples, I reflect on whether the Polish philology students of today are equipped with tools for studying “techsts,” and also whether the creation of new tools is needed. The student perspective adopted here is meant to permit an analysis “from below” of the influence of new media on culture, and the question of how literary works are experienced by their audience in the (post-) digital age.

Artykuł ma na celu rozważenie, czy zmiany, które dokonały się w obrębie literatury (zwrot w stronę literatury cybernetycznej), mają bezpośredni wpływ zarówno na krytykę literacką, jak i poetykę rozumianą jako dziedzina naukowa oraz przedmiot wykładany na uniwersytecie. Na podstawie różnych przykładów autorka zastanawia się, czy student filologii polskiej zostaje wyposażony w narzędzia do badania tzw. techstów, a także czy koniecznie jest powstawanie jakichkolwiek nowych narzędzi. Przyjęta tu perspektywa studencka ma pozwolić na oddolną analizę problemu wpływu nowych mediów na kulturę oraz kwestii odbioru dzieł w dobie (post)digitalnej.

“Kubla Khan” and Islamic Structures: Retracing Symbolism and Investigating Imagination

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Chatterjee S., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A., Głaz A., Kniaź-Hunek L., Bendrat A., Prażmo E., Terejko P., Szczypa P., Czemiel G., Antoszek E., Galant J., Komsta M., Frelik E., Waszkiewicz A., Oleszczuk A., Waszkiewicz A., Okuń-Jaśkowiak A.

New Horizons in English Studies

2019

issue 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’spoem “Kubla Khan” draws upon the historical Xanadu, the summer palace of Mongol ruler Kubla Khan, and presents an architectural space that uses a commixture of imagination and mimesis to present a space of historical and supernatural transactions and transcends geographical limits.The architectural characteristics of Kubla Khan’s pleasure-dome in Xanadu are replete with similarities with various elements of Islamic architecture. The walled-in structure bears a great deal of resemblance to the layout of Islamic paradise gardens which are often found in the chaharbagh structure in mosques and Islamic sites.Further, the poem proposes a setting which has marked similarities with Kashmir and its geographical spaces and the same has been posited by several scholars.In this paper, I have aimed to present a coherent sequence of arguments in an attempt to relate the similarity of Xanadu with real geographical spaces and its intersection with elements of Islamic architecture through an examination of its actual history along with various tales of Xanadu found in the accounts of Marco Polo and other travellers. The paper also compares Xanadu with the structural compositions of the Taj Mahal in India and later, the Mecca, and also engages in discussing its allegorical significance in relation with the Islamic paradise or Jannah.The paper also discusses the possible sources for Coleridge’s poem and how they might have influenced him and his dreams and investigates the poem’s role in revisiting the fabled summer city of the Mongol ruler and its pleasure-dome configuration that resembled his paradise.

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1 Frelik E.

1 Galant J.

1 Głaz A.

1 Kniaź-Hunek L.

1 Komsta M.

1 Okuń-Jaśkowiak A.

1 Oleszczuk A.

1 Prażmo E.

1 Szczypa P.

1 Terejko P.

1 Tuńska W.

1 Waszkiewicz A.

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Co zrobić z poetyką? – perspektywa studencka

“Kubla Khan” and Islamic Structures: Retracing Symbolism and Investigating Imagination