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Wstęp do rozprawki — oczekiwania a rzeczywistość

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Kaszewski K.

Kształcenie Językowe

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2017

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vol. 15 (25)

83-99

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The introduction regarded as a very important part of a text, having a considerable impact on its persuasive power and substantive value. In the article I examine how pupils cope with creating this part of their texts in an argumentative form known as short essay. The research material was made up of around 100 essays on several topics, written by first form pupils from various kinds of post-secondary schools. The analyses focused on the content of the introductions, their links to the objective of each essay, the topic and main part of the text. They demonstrate that most introductions are weak in terms of their content and pragmatics; often their only significant component is a thesis (though this is not always the case either). After presenting the results of the analyses, I point to the possible causes of this unsatisfactory state of affairs.

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Sztuka w eseistycznym ujęciu Georga Simmla. Próba syntezy

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Czakon D.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2013

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issue 2(29)

27-42

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The purpose of this article is to describe the notion of art in accordance with Georg Simmel’s views. The author presents this philosopher’s stance by referring primarily to his essays related to art, such as On Aesthetic Quantities, The Picture Frame: An Aesthetic Study, and The Ear: An Aesthetic Study. The article focuses on the essence and the meaning of the art and the problem of the modern art.

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Predrag Matvejević: Jugosłowianin na emigracji, czyli między azylem i egzylem

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Kubik D.

Pamiętnik Słowiański

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2011

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vol. 61

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issue 2

127-145

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The article attempts to outline the problem of exile in essays of Predrag Matvejević, a remarkable Croatian intellectualist, deﬁning himself as Yugoslav. Starting with a short presentation of his nonconformist views on political and social issues and review of constantly returning charges against the essayist, the article focuses on tracking main features of his writing about political emigration. The paper discusses the condition of writer in exile and the consequences of being between exile and asylum. The conclusion is statement that only cultural identity offers asylum.

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Essay as the Autobiographical Heresy

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Tomczok M.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

67-79

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This article discusses the special kind of Holocaust essay which, on the one hand, remains in opposition to academic texts and, on the other, is a text which resembles an autobiography, and which reveals its author’s personal engagement in the discussed problem. By analysing Jan Tomasz Gross’ study titled Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej..., ale go nie lubię and its consecutive printed versions, the author of this article discusses the benefit of engaging in essay-writing for the scholar, who fluctuates between the academic and non-academic discourses. To this end, she also discusses other Polish Holocaust essays published in the mid-1980s (by, e.g., Jan Błoński and Roman Zimand) and the theory of the essay by Theodor W. Adorno, which triggered Gross’ formal and notional search.

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“Risky Forays into Border Lands”: „Bez autorytetu” by Stefan Chwin and Stanisław Rosiek, and the Depleting Modernity

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Kaliszuk P.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

51-66

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The article concerns a critical book by Stefan Chwin and Stanisław Rosiek, titled Bez autorytetu, which is treated as an example of the process of a certain turn in the Polish modern literature of the end of the 20th century. The author discusses the basic assumptions of critical concepts and indicates the questionable places of the problem structure emerging from those assumptions. In so doing, he treats Bez autorytetu as a form of a modern essay which developed in the conditions of mature modernism, which was reflected in the various attempts at transcending modernistic conditions, both formal and conceptual.

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The Essays of Contaminated Landscapes

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Tomczok P.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

81-91

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The article presents an analysis of the essayistic knowledge about genocide. For this purpose, the author used works by Martin Pollack. Further, the article indicates the intertwining of two threads in Pollack’s prose. The first one is the history of his family, recollections about Nazi relatives, and the dissonance which formed inside him regarding his family’s past. The other one is the study of space understood as uncovering its “contamination”, the sinister past which has marked the specific portion of the landscape. The aim of the article is to check whether it is possible to decontaminate, i.e. expunge that contamination from these landscapes in order to make them once again locations which foster life rather than are mere empty cemeteries.

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Zbigniew Herbert’s Journeys to the South. A Conversation with Andrzej Franaszek and Francesco Matteo Cataluccio, Conducted by Krystyna Pietrych (during the discussion panel at the 12th ‘Puls Literatury’ Festival in Łódź, 8 December 2018)

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Cataluccio F. M., Franaszek A., Pietrych K.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

407-420

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The topic of a conversation of three literary scholars which took place in the last months of the Zbigniew Herbert Year (2018) is the experience recorded in the poet’s poems and essays of the Mediterranean culture, antiquity as a tool of cognition, an important code as well as the experience of his real journeys to the south of Europe being a kind of dividing line in his literary output and resonating in it.

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„Na dwu i na czterech łapach”. Eseistyka nieantropocentryczna i pisarstwo Michała Cichego

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Jarzyna A.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2021

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issue 35

279-310

EN

The starting point for the discussion presented in the article is the question whether it is possible and reasonable to distinguish the non-anthropocentric essay. The author refers to the latest genological findings, indicates why the assumed descriptive categories make it difficult to recognise that genre, and then formulates a range of counter-arguments (with a particular focus on subjectivity) and defines certain requirements for the non-anthropocentric essay. The later part of the article is devoted to the work of Michał Cichy as an example of a non-representative embodiment of that form. His essays, related to the concepts by Tim Ingold and Tadeusz Sławek, are examined from the angle of the practice of intertwining the open world, which abolishes the hitherto dominating position of the human subject and creates space for non-anthropocentric expression.

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Ontological Framework of the canvases. The sinus of space of the Dutch bourgeois - on the basis of Zbigniew Herbert's essay writing

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Anthropos?

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2015

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issue 24 Miasto i miejsce

189-222

EN

Zbigniew Herbert was an essayist penetratingly recognizing the iconosphere of the days of the 17th century. His statements concerning the Dutch Golden Age painting, referring to the sociological and anthropological interests in the daily life of an average man, take into consideration the following elements of the bourgeois microcosm: behaviours and cultural roles, social and national roles, living space, and family models. The vision of the Dutch bourgeois is not unambiguous. Its complexity results from the combination of ethical, aesthetical and epistemological problems, from the discussion on the philosophy of perceiving phenomena and the strategy of telling about them. The portrait of the bourgeois community is determined by the writer's characteristic irony which causes an incessant change in views and evaluations.

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Józefa Wittlina zapomniana historia roślinna

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Osiński J.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2018

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vol. 62(1 (460))

161-170

PL

The article is devoted to Józef Wittlin’s text “Ogródek” i historia [“The Garden” and History] (1938), which has not been discussed so far and which was intended as a review of the translation of Walafrid Strabus’s poem Hortulus. In the analysis of this text, the author not only indicates the features characteristic of Wittlin’s works, but also puts his considerations into the broad context of philosophical and botanical findings concerning the life of plants, their functioning in relation to man and historical significance. Thus, the article is an attempt to reconstruct Wittlin’s plant history, which is a precursor to the latest research in biology, as well as ecocritical and posthumanist movements in philosophy and literary studies.

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The use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays by intermediate and advanced EFL students

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Kapranov O.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2017

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vol. 3

87-101

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This article involves an empirical linguistic study aimed at elucidating the use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays written by a group of intermediate EFL students (further referred to as ‘participants’). 20 participants were recruited at Stockholm University, Sweden and matched with a control group comprised of 20 advanced EFL students at the same university. The participants and their respective controls were given five pictorial stimuli containing famous architectural landmarks in Sweden. The participants and the control group were instructed to write a one paragraph descriptive essay about each pictorial stimulus using either i) an imaginary and creative approach or ii) a non-imaginary and purely descriptive approach. The corpus of the participants’ and controls’ essays was subsequently analysed in the computer program WordSmith (Scott, 1996). Quantitative analysis in WordSmith yielded descriptive statistics involving word frequencies. Then, the corpus was analysed manually for the presence of metonymy and metaphor. Qualitative findings seem to support previous research (MacArthur, 2010; Haghshenas & Hashemian, 2016), which suggests that the use of metonymy tends to be associated with the intermediate level of EFL writing, whilst both metonymy and metaphor are predominantly found in the writing by advanced EFL learners.

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The Necessity of Over-interpretation: Adorno, the Essay, and the Gesture of Aesthetic Experience

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Johansson A.

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

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2013

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vol. 50

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issue 2

149-169

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This article is a discussion of Theodor W. Adorno’s comment, in the beginning of ‘The Essay as Form’, that interpretations of essays are over-interpretations. I argue that this statement is programmatic, and should be understood in the light of Adorno’s essayistic ideal of configuration, his notion of truth, and his idea of the enigmatic character of art. In order to reveal how this over-interpreting appears in practice, I turn to Adorno’s essay on Kafka. According to Adorno, the reader of Kafka is caught in an aporia: Kafka’s work cannot be interpreted, yet every single sentence calls for interpretation. This paradox is related to the gestures and images in Kafka’s work: like Walter Benjamin, Adorno means that they contain sedimented, forgotten experiences. Instead of interpreting these images, Adorno visualizes the experiences indirectly by presenting images of his own. His own essay becomes gestural.

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A Container with an Insect Corpse: On Essays by Marek Bieńczyk

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Czyżak A.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

37-50

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The article contains considerations on Marek Bieńczyk’s literary output and his book Kontener, published in 2018. All essays from the volume manifest their autobiographical and literary character. The main aim of the paper is to make a diagnosis connected with the particular and common (mis)understanding of the relations between death and life, mourning and vitality, melancholy and literature. This objective is accomplished through essay strategies. In texts that are part of Kontener, the suggestive and expressive subject makes continual new inquiries in order to find the essence of their (Bieńczyk’s) personal, and especially textual, identity.

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Lubomír Martínek – „český Conrad“

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Poslední P.

Studia Slavica

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2013

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vol. 17

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issue 1

47-52

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Lubomir Martinek follows in the Czech prose after 1989 in a special way Joseph Conrad. Although with a large pattern he shares distrust of constructs such as “nation”, “country” or “family”, while consistently writes only Czech and in his essays and short stories seen and heard by subjecting philosophical construct “the story thinking”. A key role is played by rational view of the world and human experience, questioning the ethics and ideology.

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Przekaz fotograficzny

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Barthes R., Michera W.

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2014

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vol. 68

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issue 3-4(306-307)

212-217

EN

A translation of a classical text: Le message photographique, originally published in “Communications” in 1961.

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Eseiści kondycji żydowskiej – po Zagładzie: Maurice Blanchot i Bogdan Dawid Wojdowski

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Kuczyńska-Koschany K.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2017

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issue 30

385-399

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The main object of the author’s reflection is the Jewish situation after the Holocaust expressed in the genre of literary essay. The thoughts of Maurice Blanchot and Bogdan Dawid Wojdowski – both prominent essayists – are taken into consideration as an example. Whereas the French writer’s reflections on the Jewish situation are part of his observations about the category of infinity, the Polish essayist’s realizations are intermingled with his own tragic fate as a Jew. Blanchot and Wojdowski wrote after the Holocaust, which is an unique turning point in history for the Jews and their diaspora as well as for the Mediterranean culture.

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Hannah Arendt i sobowtóry. Próba myślenia

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Kuczyńska-Koschany K.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2020

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issue 37

119-132

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The essay discusses an issue that has not yet been studied separately: Hannah Arendt and her autobiographical crumbs scattered across other people’s biographies that she wrote and in her own biographies, both literary and cinematic. I called it an attempt at thinking, i.e. a synonym of a (biographical) essay. When Arendt writes about, e. g. Walter Benjamin or Rahel Varnhagen, she also – sometimes – writes about herself. When she smokes a cigarette in a specific way (rather than any other) or speaks German, she creates specific non-verbal doppelganger-like constructions.

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Koncepcja „czwartego stanu” Edmunda Burke’a podana przez Thomasa Carlyle’a. Refleksje o polityce i komunikowaniu

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Nieć M.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 2(28)

321-340

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Since 19th century, we have been speaking about speeches of Edmund Burke, about his concept of “fourth estate”. Scientists and politics still are discussing about speeches of Burke, did he say, or didn’t say “fourth estate”. I looked differently, in article, I consider political thought of Thomas Carlyle. Political writer from Scotland quoted a speech of Burke in essay ‘On Heroes’. I present reception idea of “fourth estete” to political thought of Carlyle. I consider, why did Carlyle write, not why didn’t Burke say? Burke and Carlyle lived in different a historical time, but like a political time. Moreover, I analyze speech of Burke, his a langue and a matter; and in finally, I compare political thought of Burke and Carlyle.

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Павловићево читање народне и старе српске поезије

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Despić Đ. M.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2021

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issue 21

265-278

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Using the analytical method, the paper points to the extents and implications of Pavlović’s research of Serbian verbal folk and medieval literature. Along with this, the paper tries to present this segment of his essayistic work in the context of the wider Pavlović’s essayistic and poetic opus as well, emphasizing their prolific and versatile corresponding. His essays are in a function of thoughtful and evaluating reflections of our oldest literature strata, which eventually shapes up the image about literature and historical span of Serbian poetry and the experience of a unique spiritual continuity. Pavlović’s Essays on Folk and Old Serbian Poetry (orig. Ogledi o narodnoj i staroj srpskoj poeziji) represent an example of how broadness of interests, an impressive intelect, erudite competency, an open and explorative spirit, but also inevitable artistic sensibility and frequent poetic expression become a trigger for new readings and interpretations surely valuable for new generations of readers and researchers.

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У раду се аналитичким методом указује на домете и импликације Павловићевог проучавања српске усмене и средњовековне књижевности. Притом, текст настоји да овај сегмент његове есејистике представи и у контексту ширег Павловићевог есејистичког, али и песничког опуса, истичући њихово плодно и разноврсно кореспондирање. Његови есеји у функцији су смисаоног и вредносног осветљавања наших најстаријих књижевних слојева, чиме се до краја уобличава представа о књижевно-историјском распону српске поезије и искуство јединственог духовног континуитета. Павловићеви Огледи о народној и старој српској поезији представљају пример како ширина интересовања, импресиван интелект, ерудитна компетенција, отворен и откривалачки дух, али и незаобилазан уметнички сензибилитет и неретко поетска експресија, постају замајац нових читања и тумачења, сасвим сигурно драгоцених за будуће генерације читалаца и изучавалаца.

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WAR OF WORDS: THE DISCOURSE OF HATE IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

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Kozak K.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue XIII

219-231

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The beginning of the eighteenth century was a time particularly significant for the development of the English newspaper and the corresponding discourse of propaganda which violently issued from their broad pages. Circumstances aiding this development include: an expanding middle class, increasing literacy,thriving club and coffee-house culture and, crucially, a developing party political system. Although at the beginning of the eighteenth century the two-party system was not yet fully visible on an ideological level, nevertheless, the Whigs and Tories were becoming the two most politically influential factions. This rivalry defined the political situation in early eighteenth century Britain and laid the foundation for a powerful ministerial propaganda machine, which set out to discredit opponents while justifying the policies of the government. The article explores this potent political tool through an examination of extracts from key contemporary essay periodicals and newspapers in order to present this perpetuated discourse of hate and fierce rivalry.

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