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Memory performance in William Golding’s “Envoy Extraordinary”

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Pawlicki M.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2016

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vol. 15

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William Golding’s fascination with history is evident both in his essays and his novels. In an essay titled “Digging for Pictures” he observes that one of the main driving forces in his work as an amateur archaeologist was his desire for “a connection with the past.” Knowing Golding’s preoccupation with history, it should come as no surprise that he is also deeply interested in the means by which people represent the past to themselves – both the distant past, which they did not witness, and the past that belongs to their subjective experience. The aim of this article is to analyse Golding’s “Envoy Extraordinary”, the third novella published in The Scorpion God. The article begins with the discussion of recollective memory, concentrating on the notion of “memory performance.” It then applies this concept to the analysis of chosen passages from Golding’s novella in order to show the relational aspect of memory. The discussion emphasizes the important role of emotions in the recollection process, both in spoken and written discourse: emotions make autobiographical discourse seem more authentic, and they provide narrative continuity between the subject’s past and present selves. Those observations are made in the context of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, and Golding’s autobiographical texts, most importantly, his essay “The English Channel” from his collection The Hot Gates.

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Daniel Charles Gerould (1928–2012) In Memoriam

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Sokół L.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2013

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issue 4(31)

33-37

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Estetyczna natura wspomnienia

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Pękala T.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2017

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issue 2(45)

63-72

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The main objective of the paper is to investigate how reflection on the ‘nature of recollection’ may change under the influence of transformations in understanding moder- nity. The analysis covers the esthetic dimension of the recollection process. Recollection has gradually solidified its position: from comprehensive conceptualizations of human temporality to various analyses of time experience, resulting in distinguishing memory as a separate issue, and finally to detailed considerations of its forms. The current trends in research are set, on the one hand, by new historiography and memory studies, and, on the other hand, by reflection on perception and body memory. In either case the esthetic aspect of recollection (memories) can clearly be observed. The esthetic is connected with either the ‘poetic’ (in the creative sense) aspect of the processes of recollection understood as a process of narrative building or aisthetic reconstruction by body memory.

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W radości tworzenia i służby. Wspomnienie o prof. Janinie Bieniarzównie

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Piech S.

Folia Historica Cracoviensia

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1998

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vol. 4

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A recollection of prof. Janina Bieniarzówna.

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Wspomnienie prof. Janiny Bieniarzównej.

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Task conditions and short-term memory search: two-phase model of STM search

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Orzechowski J., Nęcka E., Balas R.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2016

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vol. 47

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issue 1

12-20

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Short-term memory (STM) search, as investigated within the Sternberg paradigm, is usually described as exhaustive rather than self-terminated, although the debate concerning these issues is still hot. We report three experiments employing a modified Sternberg paradigm and show that whether STM search is exhaustive or self-terminated depends on task conditions. Specifically, STM search self-terminates as soon as a positive match is found, whereas exhaustive search occurs when the STM content does not contain a searched item. Additionally, we show that task conditions influence whether familiarity- or recollection-based strategies dominate STM search performance. Namely, when speeding up the tempo of stimuli presentation increases the task demands, people use familiarity-based retrieval more often, which results in faster but less accurate recognition judgments. We conclude that STM search processes flexibly adapt to current task conditions and finally propose two-phase model of STM search.

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Gdy przyjaciel odchodzi… Sylwetka-wspomnienie. Studium przypadku

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Wojtak M.

Stylistyka

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2019

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vol. 28

131-142

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The subject of the analysis is a specific utterance realising the poetics of the profile of recollection. The author of the utterance refers to the convention of the genre only in the framework of the text. He uses a variety of concepts in the main segment, adding the general shape of a letter with elements of memories, vita and biography to the statement. The originality of expression, however, is determined by references to other genres adopting the nature of genre copies. In the early passages of the utterance, a funeral oration emerges from the obituary form, and in further parts reviews and other forms of critical literary discourse are filtered through the remembrances. The stylistics of utterance diversifies and enriches epistolary conventions as well asothermanners of a monologue into a dialogic utterance.

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A Few Theses on Art, Alienation, and Abolition

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Anderson J.

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

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2021

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vol. 5

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issue 3

92-119

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Marcuse suggested the alienation of art from society intrinsic to the aesthetic form represents and recollects an unreal world capable of indicting existing social arrangements while simultaneously providing a sensuous experience of another possible, liberated reality denied by established institutions. Drawing on and recasting part of Marcuse’s theory of art and the aesthetic dimension, the author puts forward several theses regarding art, alienation and abolition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC). First, art implies alienation; yet, because of that condition, art offers an antidote to estrangement conducive to PIC abolition. Second, Marx explained why key components of capitalism engender alienation, but expounding upon his analysis reveals how incarceration and the concomitant punitive paradigm also reinforce and reproduce estrangement; art, understood as recollection, can aid in abolition of those institutions. Third, authentic justice implies unimpeded use of creative capacities denied and distorted by the PIC, but art can act as recuperation of those capacities in ways that transform our understanding and practice of justice. Fourth, art can offer a foretaste of liberation while anticipating, expressing and heightening our understanding of the possibilities for fuller freedom and PIC abolition, going against and beyond reformist reforms that have historically functioned to strengthen and expand the PIC. Finally, art augments the spirit of abolition and intimates a mode of being antithetical to imprisonment, the PIC and the alienated way of life associated with criminalization and State coercion.

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Rejuvenating Effect Memories in the Novel Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz

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Stelingowska B.

Konteksty Społeczne

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2017

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vol. 5

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issue 1

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The aim of the article is to present the value of memories which have a therapeutic and rejuvenating character. Memory, which is the ability of remembering, storing and recollecting past events is the process accompanying humans throughout all their lives and thus influencing their personality and character. Extracting memories from the past has its own meaning and purpose evoked in the desire for catharsis. The title character of Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz recollects the memories of the tragic experience of the Second World War and through the confession in front of a stranger she becomes free from the ballast of her life and dies rejuvenated and liberated. Karpowicz created the “salvaging” novel, which falls into the contemporary trend of literature that works with memories from the war times presented in more human dimension.

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Celem artykułu jest ukazanie wartości wspomnień, które mają charakter terapeutyczny i odmładzający. Pamięć, która jest zdolnością zapamiętywania, przechowywania i przypominana rzeczy minionych jest procesem, który towarzyszy człowiekowi przez całe życie, składając się na jego osobowość i charakter. Wydobywanie wspomnień z przeszłości ma swój sens i cel, który zawiera się w pragnieniu swoistego katharsis. Tytułowa bohaterka Sońki Ignacego Karpowicza wraca wspomnieniami do tragicznych przeżyć z czasu II wojny światowej i dzięki przeprowadzonej przed obcym człowiekiem spowiedzi życia uwalnia się od balastu i ze spokojem, odmłodzona i wyzwolona odchodzi ze świata żywych. Karpowicz stworzył powieść „ocalającą”, wpisując się tym samym we współczesny nurt twórczości przywracającej wspomnienia czasów wojny, ukazanych w nieco innym, bardziej ludzkim wymiarze.

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Les fils enchevêtrés de la mémoire et de l’imagination dans Mémoires d’un ange maladroit de Francis Dannemark

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Komandera A.

Quêtes littéraires

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2022

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issue 12

151-160

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This paper deals with the theme of memory in the novel Mémoires d ’un ange maladroit by Francis Dannemark, a Belgian author writing in French. In order to verify the hypothesis that the writer succeeds in depicting the complex functioning of memory, we examine writing techniques, narrative devices and numerous metaphorical constructions used by the author, and describe them, taking into consideration “memory authorities” (author, hero, reader). The analysis proves that the novel is not a simple variation on memory and its mechanisms but also contains essential observations on the writing process, including the play with the fictionality of a literary work, and on the act of reading. Recollection, memoirs writing, novel writing, reading: all these activities resemble a puzzle.

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L’article traite du thème de la mémoire dans le roman Mémoires d’un ange maladroit de Francis Dannemark, auteur belge francophone. Pour vérifier l’hypothèse avancée que Dannemark réussit à illustrer le fonctionnement complexe de la mémoire, nous soumettons à l’examen les techniques de l’écriture, les dispositifs narratifs et de nombreuses constructions métaphoriques employées par l’auteur, et nous les décrivons en fonction des « instances mémorielles » (auteur, personnage, lecteur). Il se révèle que le roman n’est pas une simple variation sur le thème de la mémoire, ses mécanismes, mais qu’il contient une importante réflexion sur le processus de l’écriture, le jeu avec la fictivité de l’œuvre littéraire comprise, et l’acte de la lecture. Rappeler des souvenirs, rédiger des mémoires, écrire un roman et le lire, toutes ces activités ressemblent à un puzzle à reconstituer.

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