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Pamiętnik Literacki
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2014
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vol. 105
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issue 3
251-256
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The review focuses on a few key elements of Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik’s book which, according to the reviewer, prove the monograph’s exceptional value. The elements are as follows: reinterpretations of Polish concepts of brain’s cognitive abilities (by Przybyszewski and Irzykowski) from the perspective of contemporary cognitive sciences; applicability of Polish structural school for the most recent narrative studies; constructing a model which couples narratives with the cognitive experience of individuals derived from their everyday life.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2014
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vol. 105
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issue 3
145-163
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The sketch makes an attempt to build a new typology of female characters in Andrzej Kuśniewicz’s selected novels with a view to the functions they perform. The author lists five main functions which women undertake in selected texts, and they are as follows: woman as an absentee, woman as the one who adopts male symbolism, woman as a projection of male fantasy, femininity as a threat, and woman as an element of biology. Such ordering, according to the author, makes it possible to join the numerous features and cultural meanings usually ascribed to “the second sex,” thus facilitating a broader analysis of the women protagonist’s embroilment in the matters created by males, not limited to one only feature. In the second part of the paper the author proposes some interpretations of selected figures with resort to the described methodology and enriching it with the tools developed by gender and men studies.
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This paper is an analysis of the discourse emerging around the novels by Stanisław Brzozowski in Poland between 1945 and 1989. The publishing timeline sets the background for the more important focus on the reception of his work. Three distinct periods are discussed – 1945–1956, when his novels were regarded as an aftermath of the interwar period, and thus banned under the Stalinist regime; 1956–1974, when his work wasfrequently reprinted and became a subject of historical and literary research; finally, 1974–1989, when Brzozowski’s novels came under proper academic scrutiny.
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The virtual space (especially "the new media”) provides non-normative sexual and gender identities with a great chance to change the unfavorable social situation they live in. The possibilities of emancipation, which result from new communication technologies, necessitate the return to the widely understood political, and, at the same time, they force the remodeling and adjusting of the previously used methods of strategic activity to the new environment. In the essay, the author shows that personalized access to a multitude of sources of information and an inner agonism, which is typical of virtual ways of communication, remain the foundation of the political. The main idea is supported by an analysis of events that are the signs of a change that is happening in the sphere of the political. So, we have a pluralism, which enables one to shape their identity in a free way; as a result, one develops a different perception of one's gender identity and sexuality and the meanings they acquire in the social sphere. Then, thanks to the new media, there takes place a change in the representation of queerness, which, according to Ranciere, brings about a new way of conceptualization of queerness. This opens up a totally new horizon of activism for groups who want to change their image in the social imagination. However, it is important to fill the empty spaces between in the content and the visual form of the message, which can only be possible with the agonic and conflictual structure of the message. Finally, we should take into account the way the representation is aestheticized because it remains a key issue in the process of emancipation. The political understood as an area of limitless activity, aimed at changing the representation of non-normative persons, can also soften the subversive force of a message, or remodel it for its own benefit through the opportunistic practices of the mass media. What is more, pluralisation can turn out to be an excuse for those who promote hate, or race hate, speech.
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