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Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies

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Spyra P.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2017
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issue 7
194-213
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The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest - in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency to demonize fairy belief and to view fairies as merely a form of demonic manifestation. Fairy belief left its mark on all four plays, to a greater or lesser extent, and intertwined with the religious concerns of the period, it provides an important perspective on the problem of religion in Shakespeare’s works. The article will attempt to establish whether Shakespeare subscribed to the tendency of viewing fairies as demonic agents, as epitomized by the Daemonologie of King James, or opposed it. Special emphasis will also be put on the conflation of fairies and Catholicism that one finds best exemplified in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. The article draws on a wealth of recent scholarship on early modern fairies, bringing together historical reflection on the changing perception of the fairy figure, research into Shakespeare’s attitude towards Catholicism and analyses of the many facets of anti-Catholic polemic emerging from early modern Protestant discourse.
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Beyond the Garden: On the Erotic in the Vision of the Middle English Pearl

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Spyra P.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2013
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vol. 3
13-26
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The Middle English Pearl is known for its mixture of genres, moods and various discourses. The textual journey the readers of the poem embark on is a long and demanding one, leading from elegiac lamentations and the erotic outbursts of courtly love to theological debates and apocalyptic visions. The heterogeneity of the poem has often prompted critics to overlook the continuity of the erotic mode in Pearl which emerges already in the poem’s first stanza. While it is true that throughout the dream vision the language of the text never eroticizes the relationship between the Dreamer and the Pearl Maiden to the extent that it does in the opening lines, the article argues that eroticism actually underlies the entire structure of the vision proper. Taking recourse to Roland Barthes’s distinction between the erotic and the sexual to explain the exact nature of the bond which connects the two characters, the argument posits eroticism as an expression of somatic longing; a careful analysis of Pearl through this prism provides a number of ironic insights into the mutual interactions between the Dreamer and the Maiden and highlights the poignancy of their inability to understand each other. Further conclusions are also drawn from comparing Pearl with a number of Chaucerian dream visions. Tracing the erotic in both its overt and covert forms and following its transformations in the course of the narrative, the article outlines the poet’s creative use of the mechanics of the dream vision, an increasingly popular genre in the period when the poem was written.
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The God of the Middle English Cleanness and His Erotic Exhortations of Purity

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Spyra P.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
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2012
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vol. 47
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issue 4
133-145
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The Middle English Cleanness is a poem unique in the medieval context in that it couples its homophobic discourse with a powerful vindication of sexual pleasure and its role in relationships without referring to the procreative telos of marriage. In fact, Cleanness does not even stress that the only proper arena for erotic desire is the marriage bed, with the narrator emphasising the mutuality of pleasure instead. The article investigates the text’s rhetorical interplay between the vilification of homosexuals and the divine endorsement of heterosexual lovemaking. Going beyond the established critical consensus on the issue, it argues that the contrast between the two serves not only to allow the author to vent his homophobic prejudice but also connects with the epistemological concerns of Pearl, the text that precedes Cleanness in the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript.
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Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies

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Spyra P.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2017
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issue 7
194-213
EN
The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest - in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency to demonize fairy belief and to view fairies as merely a form of demonic manifestation. Fairy belief left its mark on all four plays, to a greater or lesser extent, and intertwined with the religious concerns of the period, it provides an important perspective on the problem of religion in Shakespeare’s works. The article will attempt to establish whether Shakespeare subscribed to the tendency of viewing fairies as demonic agents, as epitomized by the Daemonologie of King James, or opposed it. Special emphasis will also be put on the conflation of fairies and Catholicism that one finds best exemplified in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. The article draws on a wealth of recent scholarship on early modern fairies, bringing together historical reflection on the changing perception of the fairy figure, research into Shakespeare’s attitude towards Catholicism and analyses of the many facets of anti-Catholic polemic emerging from early modern Protestant discourse.
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Religijne inspiracje w twórczości muzyków jazzowych

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Spyra P.
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio L – Artes
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2016
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vol. 14
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issue 2
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The main purpose of the dissertation is an attempt to answer the question of how religion inspired and still inspires the works of jazz musicians. Some people think that jazz and religion have nothing in common or even that they are in opposition. The present article tries to show that this common way of thinking is not correct: jazz grew from religious music, and owing to its creative freedom (improvisation) it can be very a good way of expressing religious feelings. The thesis consists of two major parts. The first part contains an attempt to systematize the relationship between music and religion. Relying on the knowledge about ethnography and religion, the author discusses the subordinate role of music in relation to religion. The next chapter presents the most important philosophical and theological attempts to explain the phenomenon of music. The last chapter is devoted to the presentation of the religious roots of jazz. The second part discusses the works of selected jazz musicians in the context of different religions. Featured here are the following faiths: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology and some original religious systems. At the end of the paper there is a summary. The author proves that over the centuries religion has accompanied and inspired the works of the most famous musicians who have gone down in history as outstanding jazz musicians. Many of them openly declared their faith, thanked God on CD’s, in interviews, in the titles of songs. Many of them created forms associated with religious (sacred) music. Others sought in the spiritual world their identity, sources of their talent and mystery of making music, and some were inspired by selected aspects of religion.
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Chaucer and His Bastard Child: Social Disjunction and Metaliterariness in "The Two Noble Kinsmen"

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Spyra P.
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
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2015
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vol. 12
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issue 27
113-124
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Teaching Psychomachia in The Castle of Perseverance

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Spyra P.
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
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2021
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vol. 7
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issue 1
89-98
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Blaski i cienie współczesnej ewangelizacji na przykładzie Szkoły Ewangelizacji św. Andrzeja

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Spyra P.
Roczniki Teologiczne
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2017
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vol. 64
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issue 12: Homiletyka
145-160
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In recent decades there have appeared many communities in the Church that fit in the widely understood notion of the New Evangelization. One of them is St. Andrew's School of Evangelization, whose charism is the formation of new evangelizers for the New Evangelization. In the following thesis, the author analyzes the formation program of this community in terms of its conformity with the Church's modern teaching on evangelization. It outlines the key assets and shows how the SNE is practically implementing the Magisterial Guidelines for the new evangelization. It also shows the shortcomings and contradictions of the formation program, pointing to specific errors and abuses, especially in the field of liturgy.
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W ostatnich dziesięcioleciach pojawiło się w Kościele wiele wspólnot, które wpisują się w szeroko rozumiany nurt nowej ewangelizacji. Jedną z nich jest Szkoła Ewangelizacji św. Andrzeja, której charyzmatem jest formacja nowych ewangelizatorów dla nowej ewangelizacji. W poniższym opracowaniu autor analizuje program formacyjny tej wspólnoty pod kątem zgodności ze współczesnym nauczaniem Kościoła o ewangelizacji. Wylicza najważniejsze atuty działalności SNE i pokazuje jak ta wspólnota w praktyczny sposób realizuje wytyczne Magisterium odnośnie do nowej ewangelizacji. Pokazuje również, że program formacyjny zawiera szereg braków i sprzeczności, co przekłada się na liczne błędy i nadużycia, zwłaszcza w dziedzinie liturgii.
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