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O literaturoznawczym profesjonalizmie, etyce badacza i kłopotach z terminologią rozmawiają prof. Teresa Walas, prof. Henryk Markiewicz, prof. Michał Paweł Markowski, prof. Ryszard Nycz i dr Tomasz Kunz
SYMPLOKE AS A FIGURE OF MIMESIS IN PLATO’S PHILOSOPHYThe essay Symploke as a figure of mimesis in Plato’s philosophy is an attempt to reconstruct two different models of mimesis in Plato’s thought. The first model (Repulic) is ontological and based on the notion of truth as manifestation of real being (eidos or physis). Here, a copy or imitation is but a non-being, an appearance, or „a weak being”...
TINKERING WITH MOZART: DZIADY PART III AND DON GIOVANNIThe essay is devoted to a very specific and interesting example of intersemiotical link between the scene of the Senator’s ball in the third part of „Dziady” by A. Mickiewicz and „Don Giovanni” by W. A. Mozart. Analysis of some elements of the opera included by Mickiewicz in his text, in the way of ‘bricolage’, leads to the conclusion that the...
INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND COMPARATIVE LITERATUREThe paper focuses on the history and current situation of the discipline of comparative literature, particularly on the question of interdisciplinarity and comparative literary studies. A general discussion on interdisciplinarity (as a concept, a methodology, a way of thinking) leads to the conclusion that there are several branches of comparative literature...
THE BOOK AND „THE BOOK”This article analyses one of Schulz’s most famous stories which is based on an ancient symbol of the Book. The Book can be understood as the refl ection of an archaic myth or as a dream about the state of androgyne, a sign of the lost childhood and a metaphor of the Saint Spirit. The protagonist rejects the Bible as a false source of the revelation and finds the illumination...
A GESTURE OF LAUGHTER IN THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC: RECONNAISSANCEThe article reconstructs „a gesture of laughter” in the literature of the Second Polish Republic. It reminds that in the beginning of 20’s in the 20th century laughter was considered by Polish writers (inspired by Stanisław Brzozowski and some other thinkers of Young Poland) as a gesture of cultural and antropological...
THE CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S BOTANICAL EPIPHANIESEpiphany belongs to the most common themes of literary criticism concerning Czesław Miłosz’s poetic work. The interpreters accentuate that: 1. the importace of the epiphanical experience lies in the momentary character of it (Marian Stala); 2. the poetry brings us in the epiphany to the religious sublimation (Jan Błoński); 3. the epiphany is a trope of reality,...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S ITALY (SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE 19th CENTURY ’ITALIAN TRAVEL’)Some records from Andersen’s journeys to Italy, included in his En Digters Bazar (A Poet’s Bazaar, 1842), are worth reading as examples of Italian travel writing set in a wider context of literature of the Romantic period (from Goethe and Madame de Staël to E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine). Furthermore, the text...
Recenzja książki „Kartografowie dziwnych podróży”. Wypisy z polskiej krytyki literackiej XX wieku, red. i wstęp M. Wyka, oprac. K. Biedrzycki, J. Fazan, D. Kozicka, M. Urbanowski, J. Zach, Kraków 2004, s. 620.
MORE THAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY. CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S ADVENTURES WITH PHOTOSThe article concerns Czesław Miłosz’s late poetry which contains a few poems dedicated to old photographs (from XIX and beginning of XX century). Active dialogue which Miłosz displays in his works runs symmetrically and paralle. On the one hand Miłosz admiring feminine beauty (Piękna nieznajoma) or condemning bloodthirsty crowd (Człowiek-Mucha)...
RESCUE FOR EUROPE IN ROMAN JAWORSKI’S „WEDDING OF COUNT ORGAZ”. ON THE ILLUSORY CONCEPT OF MODERNITYIn the article, the author presents a map of the main trends associated with the problem of Europe and European identity which are of particular importance for the broadly understood modernism. In this context, the novel by Roman Jaworski „Wesele hrabiego Orgaza” (The Wedding of Count Orgaz), whose...
MARIE POSPIŠILOVÁ IN CRACOWThe subject of the article is the 2-week long stay of the Czech actress, Marie Pospíšilová in Cracow in the year 1885. It is worth mentioning that up until now, this event has not been described anywhere. The author presents the silhouette of the visitor as well as the reason and circumstances of her visit. He also describes the reaction of the critics and of the public...
THE BASIS OF RENÉ GIRARD’S ANTHROPOLOGYThe article presents the fundamental category of René Girard’s anthropology, namely the concept of desire. The author discusses, above all, its imitative nature which is revealed in its two basic types: the external and the internal one. The characteristic is supplemented with the metaphysical dimension which appears at times when the object of the desire is...
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