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The article concerns the represenation of exclusion and marginalization in the works by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. The poems show the interaction of autobiographical references with the author’s own reflections upon poetic artistry and the ways of representing otherness. Also Tkaczyszyn-Dycki’s close relationship with his mother becomes a constituting element which forms the myth of his poetic identity.
Michał Głowiński, who has been so far perceived primarily as a distinguished literary critic, well known for his analysis of the communist newspeak, is also the author of autobiographical narratives. The article analyzes certain aspects of Głowiński’s writing, such as the characters, time, space, fragmentariness, contexts and language. After almost sixty years of silence, in his texts Głowiński uncovers...
The article offers a reading of two works by Polish author Marian Pankowski, Putto and Ksiądz Helena, concentrating on the construction of otherness. It identifies the gender aspects of main character’s specificity and identity, embraces postsecular and ethical issues as well as invites a more open interpretation. It also provides a detailed analysis of narrative strategies and the creation of the...
The article argues that Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918) exemplifies the use of modernist irony, as defined by AlanWilde in Horizons of Assent: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Ironic Imagination (1981). The Polish translation of Strachey’s book, which includes only two of the four original essays, while losing the ironic undertones of the title in Ludzie epoki Wiktorii, keeps some significant...
The contemporary “material turn” in cultural and anthropological studies or rather “defence of things” has inspired a fresh reflection upon the poetry of Cyprian Norwid, whose works have for long shown the poets acute awareness of the material world. The article analyses the “tragedy” Krakus. The conflict between two characters, Rakuz and Krakus, manifests itself in the scene with unconventional use...
The article concerns a book by Anna Barcz presenting the methodology which transgresses the anthropological understanding of a literary text. Nature writing, including fictional narratives, becomes the tool of environmental protection. By attempting to re-define realism, Barcz proposes to introduce into Polish literary studies the concept of ecological realism. This idea aims at identifying the blurred...
The article interprets the metaphor of Phoenix in Józef Bohdan Dziekoński’s novel Sędziwoj. The symbolism of the mythical figure offers a structural frame which unites the whole novel. This motif, which appears in the opening and closing part of the text, is a parabolic representation of the characters’ fortunes and constitutes quasi-biographies of Kosmopolita and Sędziwoj. Also the very introduction,...
The article is devoted to the 1984 publication entitled Wykaz treści by Krystyna Miłobędzka. The author shows the multi-faceted nature of the poetic subject and the ways of its creation. She finds that liminality is a category which helps to understand the concept of subjectivity in Miłobędzka’s poetry. Additionally, the author focuses on the opposition between language and speech, poetry and reality,...
In her analysis of Kazimierz Brandys’s novels the author focuses on war and wartime as experience and “non-experience” in the perspective of Polish heroic myth and anti-civilian paradigm. In Polish culture romantic and heroic paradigm has substantial influence on the form of masculinity. Experience in this article is a metaphor, which includes participation in a war as a soldier. “Non-experience”...
The article describes the motif of women and war in three novels by Sylwia Chutnik (born 1979): Kieszonkowy atlas kobiet (Pocket Atlas of Women) 2008, Dzidzia (Diddums) 2009 and Cwaniary (The Hustlers) 2012. Drawing from the context of modern Western studies, reflections on these works concern the relationship between gender and war, assuming that it grants an active and heroic role to men while putting...
Artykuł jest znacznie przeredagowaną częścią pracy magisterskiej obronionej w Katedrze Studiów Interkulturowych Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Kwerendy do pracy były prowadzone w latach 2014–2015 na potrzeby projektu Archiwum Kobiet:piszące realizowanego przy Instytucie Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
The patriotic ideology of the nineteenth century portrayed women in a stereotypical way as either idealized Polish mothers or women knights. Only such social roles allowed them to appear in the public discourse. The article focuses on the figure of Narcyza Żmichowska, writer, poet and political activist. Both her views and life demonstrate that she did not fit the model of woman proposed in the national-patriarchal...
The purpose of the article is to expose the civilian experience of the Warsaw Uprising, the event traditionally connected with the heroic military myth of the Polish nation. The main source is a non-published diary of Zofia Charytańska, ordinary citizen of Warsaw, who records the everyday life in the German- and later Russian-occupied city areas. Her diaries show the civilian perspective on the 1944...
The article is devoted to the diaries of Jan Czekanowski, an outstanding Polish anthropologist, who travelled to Africa in the years 1907–1909. Special attention is given here to the narrator’s attitudes. Czekanowski knew Africa primarily as an anthropologist and traveller. He perceived the process of colonization as a weave of economic, political and ideological motives. He was also indignant with...
The article is devoted to the problem of idiolect in literary translation on the basis of Charles Dickens’s Christmas story The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) and its six Polish translations. Special attention is given to the character of Tilly Slowboy and the individual features of the language she uses. The article emphasises stylistic and linguistic differences which can be observed in a detailed...
The subject of the city is discussed by researchers in various fields. The following article considers the influence of literature on urban space. The author attempts to catalogue multiple aspects of the presence of literature in a city. This is illustrated by the examples from Warsaw and also other Polish cities. The final part contains the results of a survey which could contribute to further studies...
Artykuł powstał w oparciu o referat pt. Zmienny ośli świat. O ekoteatralnej podróży i boskiej przyrodzie w „Metamorfozach” Apulejusza z Madaury, wygłoszony 10 czerwca 2016 roku podczas Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej „Przestrzeń w perspektywie geo- i ekopoetyki. Interpretacje” na Uniwersytecie w Białymstoku. Wybór tematu stanowi efekt doświadczeń naukowych autora w Pracowni Ekologii Teatru na...
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