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Another Selfless Strongwoman? Tadeusz Micinski's 'The Teacher'

W. Gutowski

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 17-27

The author compares two 'Young Poland' novellas, Stefan Zeromski's 'Silaczka' (Strongwoman), publ. 1891 and Tadeusz Micinski's 'Nauczycielka' (The Teacher), publ.1896, and revised in 1911. Both versions of the latter are included in the comparison, which juxtaposes the distinctly polarized portraits of the two main women characters. The article reconstructs Micinski's polemical strategies aimed at...

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The Romantic Space of the Steppe in Juliusz Slowacki's Beniowski

G. Czerwinski

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 1-16

Juliusz Slowacki was another great Romantic poet who created a unique vision of the Ukrainian steppe. However, in Beniowski (1841) we can find two types of steppe landscape, one associated with the west bank of the Dnieper, the other extending over its east bank. This distinction has inspired the interpretation presented in this article.The steppe of Podolia has been tamed and coexists with the civilized...

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The Cracow Anniversary of Jan Czubek and a Handful of Notes on Piotr Kochanowski's Translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

J. Weinberg

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 81-88

The long list of round anniversaries that are going to be celebrated in Poland in 2005 probably does not include the centenary of the complete editio princeps of the early 17th-century translation of Orlando furioso. The project was carried out thanks to the extraordinary dedication of Jan Czubek (1849–1932) and published in the series Library of Polish Writers, under the auspices of the Polish Academy...

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'The Broken Cont(r)act': George Steiner's Idea of Modernism

J. Franczak

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 57-67

This article is an expanded commentary on George Steiner's 'The Broken Contract', an essay which explores the modernist crisis of the logocentric order. Steiner traces its origins to Rimbaud's 'split subject', Mallarmés's negation of linguistic reference and the writings of Nietzsche. Modernism, also known as a the Age of the epi-Logue, reveals itself as a radicalization of the nihilist, attitudes...

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Sound Poetry Scores (Bernard Heidsieck's Cycle Poemes-Partitions)

A. Hejmej

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 69-80

Rooted in the tradition of oral poetry and a number of avantgarde movements of the last century (futurism, Dadaism and Lettrism), sound poetry entered the European literary and cultural scene in the 1950s. Bernard Heidsieck began his poetic sequence called Poemes-partitions in 1955 and continued to expand it in the following decades. The Poemes-partitions inaugurated one strand of this type of poetry,...

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'What is to be done with that Sacred Thing?': Religious Themes in the late Work of Miron Bialoszewski

A. Glen

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 29-41

The author examines the problem of man's relation to the sphere of religion (language, ideas, topoi) and Transcendence in the late phase of Miron Bialoszewski's creative life. The analysis is concerned with the following issues: a critique of the phase concept of existence and the soul-body dialectic in Judeo-Christianity, the role of religious language in relating existential experiences found in...

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'An Alien Name, a Name Properly One's Own': a Genealogical and Anthroponymic Analysis to Mark the Centenary of the Birth of Julian Stryjkowski

I. Piekarski

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 1(268) > 43-56

As a result of extensive archive and library searches the author of this article was able to find out more personal information about Julian Stryjkowski and to formulate some conjectural explanations about what may have guided the writer in his choice of pseudonyms. It is claimed that the key role in Stryjkowski's preferences and antipathies was played by homophony. This thesis is illustrated by analyses...

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Emigration as a Drama of Frustrated Expectations:Tadeusz Nowakowski's Prose

Z. Andres

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 183-192

Emigration is the main theme of Tadeusz Nowakowski's prose. Since his debut it was connected with the problem of war experiences, images of death camps, camps for displaced persons, the dispossessed and victims of discrimination. Nowakowski is susceptible to a nostalgia, which could be called, on the evidence of his works, the Polish syndrome. This state of mind and feelings were no doubt influenced...

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On 'The Continent of the Third Day of Creation':Gombrowicz and Keyserling

A. Fiut

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 167-182

This essay is an attempt at comparing Witold Gombrowicz's and Hermann Keyserling's views on the Latin American identity. While the Estonian philosopher, whose work Gombrowicz praises in his Diary, blends depth psychology, philosophy and biology to produce in his South American Meditations a kind of phantasmatic, palaeontological psychoanalysis, Gombrowicz is skeptical of genetic and cultural conditioning...

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Juliusz Slowacki and the Sea

A. Pietrzyk

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 141-156

The article attempts to assess J. Slowacki's attitude towards the various seas he knew on the basis of his letters and poems. The discussion focuses on the following themes: the Black Sea as the poet's native sea, his cultural construction of the Mediterranean, his belief in the healing power of sea bathing, his belief (in the mystical period) in the cleansing and regenerative power of the sea, his...

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Leopold Staff's Horror of war: Rainbow of Tears and Blood

A. Poprawa

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 151-166

The poems in Leopold Staff's 'Tecza lez i krwi' (Rainbow of Tears and Blood) (1919) were written in the years of World War I. They are a record of his attempts to grapple with the horrors of that war, which presented a radical challenge to humanity. Although historians of literature have a low estimate of that volume, it is worth re-reading. Its oddly incoherent design may reflect traces of a pre-Postmodern...

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'Traits of a Strange Texture':Adam Mickiewicz's Egyptological Marginalia

L. Zinkow

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 123-140

The article deals with Mickiewicz's references and allusions to Ancient Egypt. They occur only incidentally and play no more than a marginal role in his work, yet they seem to have been a hard nut to crack for several editors. Their glosses are usually imprecise, and sometimes even downright inaccurate or misleading. The author identifies and discusses three main sources of Mickiewicz's references...

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The Holocaust and Postmodernism: Tworki by Marek Bienczyk

A. Morawiec

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 2(269) > 193-210

The article is an attempt at a reading of Marek Bienczyk's 'Tworki' (1999) as an unique literary discourse exploring the impossibility of representing and giving expression to the Holocaust. Bienczyk's novel functions both as a complement and a polemics with the predominantly martyrological and factographic texts. This discussion draws on a context, which, it should be added, is echoed in the novel...

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BETWEEN BOROWSKI AND ZOFIA KOSSAK: TADEUSZ NOWAKOWSKI'S 'THE SHED BEHIND THE YASMINS'

D. Kulesza

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 3(270) > 265-275

This article is concerned with 'The Shed behind the Yasmins', Tadeusz Nowakowski's debut, published in London in 1948. Before offering his own analyses and interpretations, the author tries to clear up a web of misunderstandings, which has marked the reception of that novel both in Poland and in expatriate publications. While arguing that 'The Shed behind the Yasmins' occupies a middle ground between...

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SAMUEL TWARDOWSKI'S ACCOUNT OF PRINCE WLADYSLAW WAZA'S TOUR: A TEXTUAL GLOSS

R. Krzywy

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 3(270) > 255-264

The article analyzes the role of historical sources in Samuel Zborowski's account of Prince Wladyslaw Waza's Grand Tour in Book III of his biographical epic 'Wladyslaw IV, King of Poland and Sweden' (1649). Zborowski's detailed narrative creates the impression that it must be a first-hand report; yet more recent studies have established that he used notes written by someone else, most probably Stefan...

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GROWING UP TO FACE DEATH AND GROWING UP TO FACE THE CHALLENGE OF FATHERHOOD IN KAROL WOJTYLA'S POETIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Z. Zarebianka

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 3(270) > 241-253

This essay examines the interrelations between the anthropological categories in Karol Wojtyla's poetic texts. Its aim is to demonstrate the essential unity and consistent development of the anthropological vision embodied in his works. The essay is focused in particular on two texts, 'Meditation on death' and 'The spell of fatherhood'. Despite all the years that separate them, both are rooted in...

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Slavophile Ideas: 'Ziewonia', Adam Mickiewicz's College de France Lectures and Towianski's Slavonia

M Ruszczynska

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 4-5 > 341-353

The article outlines three models of the development of Romantic Slavophile ideas. The first focuses on the beginnings of this intellectual trend and the pioneering contribution of Herder and Chodakowski. The initial impulse was then carried on by the literary group 'Ziewonia', which flourished in Galicia after 1830. In an attempt to revive links with representatives of neighbouring Slavic nations,...

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The Tricky Presence of Stanislaw Brzozowski in a Chain of Ideological Adventures of the Polish Intelligentsia

K. Fiolek

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 4-5 > 383-392

The presence of Stanislaw Brzozowski's thought in the twentieth-century history of the Polish intelligentsia is as complicated as the origins and the fortunes of that wilful and independent-minded social group. His is invoked as an inspiration or a negative reference point in countless documents produced across the whole range of the ideological spectrum. For some he is something of a patron saint...

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'To Understand and Name Everything...': Strange Everyday Reality in the Short Stories of Kornel Filipowicz

W. Lipowski

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 4-5 > 453-474

This is an overall review of the distinctive qualities of the fiction of Kornel Filipowicz (1913-1990), writer of short stories, novels, scenarios, but also a poet. This reassessment is based on his short of stories published in the 1970s and 1980s (ie. a total of thirteen volumes of fiction). The article points to the poetics of the epiphany as the key interpretative model for Filipowicz's fiction...

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The Kaunas Period in Józef Albin Horbaczewski's Life in Independent Lithuania

E. Vaitkeviciute

Ruch Literacki > 2005 > 46 > 4-5 > 393-406

The cultural and literary developments of the first half of the 20th century remain an important object of study, especially when it comes to tracing patterns of change that have shaped Europe's present cultural makeup. This article is part of an ongoing study of intercultural change in Western Europe in the early twentieth century, extended to cover corresponding developments in Poland and Lithuania...

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Ruch Literacki

Another Selfless Strongwoman? Tadeusz Micinski's 'The Teacher'

The Romantic Space of the Steppe in Juliusz Slowacki's Beniowski

The Cracow Anniversary of Jan Czubek and a Handful of Notes on Piotr Kochanowski's Translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

'The Broken Cont(r)act': George Steiner's Idea of Modernism

Sound Poetry Scores (Bernard Heidsieck's Cycle Poemes-Partitions)

'What is to be done with that Sacred Thing?': Religious Themes in the late Work of Miron Bialoszewski

'An Alien Name, a Name Properly One's Own': a Genealogical and Anthroponymic Analysis to Mark the Centenary of the Birth of Julian Stryjkowski

Emigration as a Drama of Frustrated Expectations:Tadeusz Nowakowski's Prose

On 'The Continent of the Third Day of Creation':Gombrowicz and Keyserling

Juliusz Slowacki and the Sea

Leopold Staff's Horror of war: Rainbow of Tears and Blood

'Traits of a Strange Texture':Adam Mickiewicz's Egyptological Marginalia

The Holocaust and Postmodernism: Tworki by Marek Bienczyk

BETWEEN BOROWSKI AND ZOFIA KOSSAK: TADEUSZ NOWAKOWSKI'S 'THE SHED BEHIND THE YASMINS'

SAMUEL TWARDOWSKI'S ACCOUNT OF PRINCE WLADYSLAW WAZA'S TOUR: A TEXTUAL GLOSS

GROWING UP TO FACE DEATH AND GROWING UP TO FACE THE CHALLENGE OF FATHERHOOD IN KAROL WOJTYLA'S POETIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Slavophile Ideas: 'Ziewonia', Adam Mickiewicz's College de France Lectures and Towianski's Slavonia

The Tricky Presence of Stanislaw Brzozowski in a Chain of Ideological Adventures of the Polish Intelligentsia

'To Understand and Name Everything...': Strange Everyday Reality in the Short Stories of Kornel Filipowicz

The Kaunas Period in Józef Albin Horbaczewski's Life in Independent Lithuania

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