Człowiek jako znak
Man as a Sign
A Jubilee Volume to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Professor Zbigniew Kloch
Contributor(s): Ewa Rudnicka (Editor), Marek Kaźmierczak (Editor), Hanna Paulouskaya (Editor), Ewa Szczęsna (Editor), Halszka Witkowska (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: man; sign; sacrum; language;thought account;
Summary/Abstract: The book contains articles written by scholars from various Polish and foreign scientific institutions, which reflect on man in different aspects and domains. The subject matter is the human being perceived as a sign in various spheres: thought and language, the world, the sacrum sphere, society, literature and art. The book shows the multiplicity of contemporary humanities and addresses liminal territories, e.g. at the interface with natural sciences.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5252-9
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5244-4
- Page Count: 504
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Russian, Polish
Człowiek – Boże igrzysko
Człowiek – Boże igrzysko
(Human – A God’s Plaything)
- Author(s):Robert A. Sucharski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:19-27
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:etymology; Indo-European languages
- Summary/Abstract:Starting from the Old Polish proverb "Człowiek – Boże igrzysko" ("Man – A God’s Plaything") the paper discusses the previous etymological attempts to decipher the very meaning of the lexeme/sign human in Polish/Slavic, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, arguing that not only the signifié of the sign human deserves to be called "A God’s Plaything", but does it also its nominal signifiant.
- Price: 4.50 €
Człowiek z definicji – obserwacje na temat pojęcia człowieka jako kategorii porządkującej w definiowaniu słownikowym
Człowiek z definicji – obserwacje na temat pojęcia człowieka jako kategorii porządkującej w definiowaniu słownikowym
(Man in definition – observations concerning the concept of man as a category organizing description in dictionary definitions)
- Author(s):Ewa Rudnicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:28-51
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:dictionaries; dictionary definition; conceptualization of the world; concept of a human being; defining and mechanisms of thinking
- Summary/Abstract:The text is devoted to the lexicographic reflection of human conceptualization in its various functions and roles. The aim of the article is to look at the term human as an element used to define words naming other elements of the world and to analyze the ways of codifying this conceptualization in the content of dictionary definitions, which are the result of the reflection of qualified lexicographers who can carefully observe the linguistic reality. The analyzes are based on definitions from dictionaries of contemporary Polish, in which the term human/people appear.
- Price: 4.50 €
Człowiek jako obraz, znak i siła
Człowiek jako obraz, znak i siła
(Man as an image, sign and strength)
- Author(s):Szymon Wróbel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:52-67
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:anarchy; fantasy; language; memory; desire
- Summary/Abstract:The presented paper is an attempt to reflect on three ways characteristic to Western philosophy and culture of defining man in terms of image, sign and strength. Thinking about a man in terms of an image introduces a complex notion of fantasy. Thinking about man in terms of a sign introduces the no less complex notion of language as a code and a set of riddles. Finally, thinking of a man in terms of strength forces author to rethink the very category of desire. Finally, the author tries to reflect on the contemporary possibility of redirecting thinking about man beyond language (sign), image (imagination) and strength (desire).
- Price: 4.50 €
„Rzeczy niezbędne dla żywej typografii”
„Rzeczy niezbędne dla żywej typografii”
(“The things necessary for the living printing press”)
- Author(s):Łukasz Wróbel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:68-86
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Comenius; Orbis pictus; semiotics; sign; reference; presence effect
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on the semiotic analysis of arrays of iconic and verbal elements that create pages of John Amos Comenius’s "Orbis sensualium pictus" (1658). Bohemian pedagogue has composed each plate of the schoolbook as an analogon of the complete sign relation model. Comenius has shortened the distance between representations in the book and their referents: signs signify indexically, also inalienability of the referent as an object in the sign relation has been assumed and implied. Manifesting its encyclopaedic ambitions to encompass the whole of the pupil’s world, the book reveals itself as a complete semiotic system. Particularly modelled sign relations are in fact one of the strategies of generating the world presence effect within encyclopaedic space of the schoolbook.
- Price: 4.50 €
«Деревья были высотой с кипарис, а их листва непрерывно опадала»
«Деревья были высотой с кипарис, а их листва непрерывно опадала»
(„The height of the trees was like that of cypress trees, and their leaves were falling without ceasing”)
- Author(s):Nina Braginskaya
- Language:Russian
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:87-97
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis; prophetic dream; martyrs in the paradise; trees of rose; mystic Rosalia
- Summary/Abstract:The article explores a difficult passage from "Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis" (ΧΙ, 5-6, Satur’s description of the staying of the executed martyrs in paradise). The bewilderment of publishers and translators is caused by the spectacle of the trees that lose their leaves in the Garden of Eden, instead of eternal blossom or bearing fruit, which was the topic of “heavenly text”. As a way out, they chose the marginal reading “the leaves were on fire” or the conjecture “the leaves were singing”. However we are not talking about the species of rosewood, but about the unprecedented huge not bush but tree of the rose, which continuously drops fragrant petals, never exposing the branches. In the practice of Romans, a shower with rose petals correlated with both – the solemn glorification of the triumphant and the mourning commemoration of the departed, called Rosalia, since the grave, crypt, monument were decorated with roses. In the Passio the grave meeting of the living, who remained on earth, and the souls of the dead martyrs, takes place in the Eden under the shade of a rose tree, which is mystically identical to visiting their graves decorated by rose bushes.
- Price: 4.50 €
Wgłębienie się w znak
Wgłębienie się w znak
(Going into the Sign)
- Author(s):Michał Janocha
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:98-113
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Byzance; art; theology; icon; canon; tradition
- Summary/Abstract:Considering the category of the Byzantine canon Yuri Lotman remarks that, looking from the historic point of view, it is not the transition from one sign to another, but going deeply into the sign. The new text remains always the new-discovered old text. Byzantine art is generally sacral art, and it’s strictly connected with the experience of orthodox faith. The art finds its expression in the canon. The faith finds its expression in the dogma. Therefore the histories of Byzantine art and of Byzantine theology are related. Their turning-point is Iconoclasm, that concludes the period of formation of Christian dogma and of iconographic canon. After the last Council (787) and the Triumph of Orthodoxy (843) the dogma of faith and the dogma of art is generally configurated. It is the period of consolidation and contemplation the dogma and the canon, the period of “going deeply into the sign”.
- Price: 4.50 €
O znaku niekonwencjonalnym w kulturze staroprawosławnej
O znaku niekonwencjonalnym w kulturze staroprawosławnej
(On the Matter of Unconventional Sign in the Old-Rite Orthodox Christianity)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Janus
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:114-124
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Old Ritual Believers; Semiotics; Liturgical Pronunciation; Binary (Duality) of the Russian Culture
- Summary/Abstract:The paper pertains to treatening a linguistic sign as unconventional, i.e., invariant, with its content and expressive shape (form) rigidly attached to each other. A given content can be expressed in one way only, there is no synonymy, no polisemy, no translation. The phonetic aspect of the linguistic sign, its exceptional liturgical expression (prounanciation) in the Old Slavic language is examined, expression that is rooted – as by Boris Uspensky’s findings – in the XII Century. By the reference to texts been read during the Christmas Liturgy Service in the female monastyr in Wojnowo (Poland), in 1977, the most characteristic features of the prounanciation are scrutinized. The unconventional sign underlies the binary of culture, different aspect of life gain their semiotic importance.
- Price: 4.50 €
Kod personalny w obrzędzie dorocznym jako tekście kultury
Kod personalny w obrzędzie dorocznym jako tekście kultury
(A Personal Code in an Annual Ritual as a Culture Text, as Exemplified by the Feast of Corpus Christi in Spycimierz)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Smyk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:125-144
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:semiotics; Tartu–Moscow semiotic school; Tolstoj; Propp; morphology of the tale
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the personal code of the Corpus Christi feast in Spycimierz (Poddębice county, Łódź voivodeship), distinguished by its tradition of a two-metre wide flower carpet created by the parishioners along the entire two-kilometre route of the procession. The author applies an innovative solution by using the findings of V. Propp concerning character functions in a fairy tale to interpret the ritual. The author identifies the following ritual roles: 1) the hero-protagonist (collective: the whole community of the parish, children scattering flower petals; individual: people skilled in creating flower patterns and managing works); 2) the villain (people who hamper flower picking and tourists destroying flower carpets); 3) the donor (institutional: parish priests, the mayor; individual: people giving flowers to parishioners); 4) the helper (families and tourists coming to Spycimierz to arrange flower carpets together with the parishioners); 5) the false hero (people from the parish who take credit for the feast but do not help prepare it). To sum up, the article presents the ritual process of transformation of the parishioners and their guests into ritual characters.
- Price: 4.50 €
O zamęcie symbolicznym, czyli historia walki o krzyż
O zamęcie symbolicznym, czyli historia walki o krzyż
(On symbolic confusion that is the history of the battle for the cross)
- Author(s):Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:145-172
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:symbolic interactionism; sociology of knowledge; symbolic coding; symbolic confusion; symbolic misunderstanding
- Summary/Abstract:On April 10, 2010 Smolensk catastrophe happened. A few days after the crash, scouts put a cross in front of the Presidential Palace as a symbol of remembrance for the victims of the crash. From that moment a rapid process of dichotomization of the Polish society started. In my analysis I focus on considering the process of symbolic encoding of the cross in the social discourse in the context of theories of social constructivism, sociology of knowledge, symbolic interactionism, sociolinguistics and communication theory.
- Price: 4.50 €
Jak Homo sapiens spadł ze scala naturae
Jak Homo sapiens spadł ze scala naturae
(How Homo Sapiens fell from scala naturae)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Kloch
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:175-179
- No. of Pages:5
- Keywords:human evolution; theory of evolution; Homo sapiens; Charles Darwin; anthropocene
- Summary/Abstract:Like Copernicus, Darwin revolutionized the place of a man within creation: he thrown the man from the top position in the chain of beings and placed him among other living beings. Emergence of human as a species was not an unique act. Humans evolved within primates in a result of inherently non-directional evolutionary processes, and human is by no means one of this kind among animals. In a geological timescale, even the impact of humans on the Earth ecosystem may not prove profound. Thus, the proposed geological epoch “anthropocene” reflects human fondness for our own greatness.
- Price: 4.50 €
Nauka w czasach pandemii
Nauka w czasach pandemii
(Science during the Covid-19 pandemic)
- Author(s):Ewa Bartnik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:180-185
- No. of Pages:6
- Keywords:science; Covid-19; pandemic
- Summary/Abstract:In the year 2020 biomedical scientists have been faced with an unprecedented challenge, but on the other hand the established process of science communication has been perturbed, as results which had not been peer reviewed have been published very rapidly and the press and politicians have become involved in their distribution and evaluation, and this has met with a rapid reaction from scientists.
- Price: 4.50 €
Blizna jako znak
Blizna jako znak
(Scar as a sign)
- Author(s):Aleksandra Brylska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:186-196
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:atomic attacks; photography; body; scar; sign
- Summary/Abstract:In the article, the author analyzes photos which are representing the victims of nuclear attacks and the so-called shadows of Hiroshima. She reflects on the role of the wounded body and scar in creating a story about an atomic catastrophe and the status of a victim created by selected survivors. She examines the status of photography after atomic attacks and the role it plays in creating an archive of this event.
- Price: 4.50 €
Prawda dyskursu średniowiecznej kroniki
Prawda dyskursu średniowiecznej kroniki
(Discourse and Truth in the Medieval Chronicle)
- Author(s):Maciej Abramowicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:197-208
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Middle Ages; chronicle; truth; discourse; Henry of Flanders
- Summary/Abstract:All narrative genres of French medieval literature employ a complex rhetorical device which is conceived to persuade the reader to believe in the historical veracity of the narrative that he or she is reading. That this and other related discursive devices can also be found in a chronicle may strike one as surprising, considering that this genre depends on historical referentiality by definition. My analysis of the 13th-century chronicles of Henry of Valenciennes has shown that the notion of ‘truth’ presented in the text does not fit within the narrow parameters of referential or historical truth. This broader notion of truth can be referred to as syncretic truth, one that combines the truth about historical events with commonly accepted cultural assumptions, beliefs, and ideals. It is on the authority of this notion of truth that the idealisation of the main character, who thereby assumes the role of a textual sign, takes place. In this frame of reference, Henry of Flanders is more accurately defined as an ideal ruler and warrior rather than the Emperor of Constantinople of 1206–1216.
- Price: 4.50 €
Homo Signorum – znakowość ludzkiego ciała a tworzenie nowego modelu świata w Anglii przełomu XVI i XVII wieku
Homo Signorum – znakowość ludzkiego ciała a tworzenie nowego modelu świata w Anglii przełomu XVI i XVII wieku
(Homo Signorum – The semiotics of the human body and the making of the new world-picture in England at the turn of the 17th century)
- Author(s):Barbara Bienias
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:209-234
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:astrology; astronomy; body in the Renaissance; Scientific Revolution; celestial influences
- Summary/Abstract:Using the example of early modern English astrological and astronomical texts such as the medical case books of Simon Forman (1552–1611) and Richard Napier (1559–1634) and the treatise Astrostereon by Edward Gresham (1565–1613), as well as dramatic works, this text discusses the relationship between Renaissance astrology and epistemology in the context of celestial influences on the human body. Michel Foucault’s categories of ressemblance and signatures, and the metaphor of a seal in wax, are employed to demonstrate the semiotics of the human body in this period. The primary assumption of the article is the ordering function of the sciences of the sky in the Renaissance, which ensured both social and cognitive order.
- Price: 4.50 €
Maurycego Dzieduszyckiego „Dziennik z podróży do Włoch”, 2 marca – 4 maja 1876 r.
Maurycego Dzieduszyckiego „Dziennik z podróży do Włoch”, 2 marca – 4 maja 1876 r.
(Maurycy Dzieduszycki’s Diary from a Trip to Italy, March 2 to May 4, 1876)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Olechowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:235-276
- No. of Pages:42
- Keywords:sources for the history of Galicia in 1876; travel diaries; Poles travelling to Italy in 1876; Poles in Italy in 1876; Maurycy Dzieduszycki (1813–1877)
- Summary/Abstract:A diary from the only trip to Italy ever made by Maurycy Dzieduszycki (1813–1877), a conservative Galician writer, historian, art connoisseur, and politician. The author describes the sights and monuments visited during his travels, as well as meetings, mostly with representatives of the clergy, church dignitaries, and Poles who lived in Italy. In Florence, he visits the youngest (among his thirteen children), a 14-year-old daughter treated there for tuberculosis, who dies the day of his arrival. He is assisted with funeral arrangements by his friend, Teofil Lenartowicz, a Polish poet and sculptor established in Italy. One of the reasons for Dzieduszycki’s trip to Italy was a private audience with Pius IX to update the Pontiff on the assistance for the Uniate clergymen who fled to Galicia from the diocese of Chełm abolished by the tsar in 1875.
- Price: 4.50 €
Człowiek jako znak nieprzezroczysty
Człowiek jako znak nieprzezroczysty
(Man as an opaque sign)
- Author(s):Grażyna Borkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:277-292
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:biography; history; 20th century; Polishness; Jewishness
- Summary/Abstract:The article polemicises against the book’s catchword, Human Being as a Sign. The author accepts the slogan but makes an essential correction: human being is an opaque sign, le signe opaque. Apart from systemic, foreseeable threads, human biographies quite often–virtually, always–introduce elements that disturb the model solutions. The author analyses this phenomenon based on the lives of two literary critics, Józef Rosenzweig (1865–1951) and Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski (1880–1967). The former apparently tried to escape his Jewish identity, more or less efficiently; the latter, in spite of his impressive education and extraordinary personality traits, was enchanted by the ideals of the National Democracy and the one who developed them – namely, Roman Dmowski. While the juxtaposition of these two men is rather coincidental, they share certain regularities: as it appears, the ‘Jewish question’ was in the twentieth century not only an object of journalistic and political disputes but also a real biographical problem, a task to revisit and rework on one’s own.
- Price: 4.50 €
Wschód to Wschód i Zachód to Zachód, i nigdy się nie spotkają?
Wschód to Wschód i Zachód to Zachód, i nigdy się nie spotkają?
(East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet?)
- Author(s):Zoja Morochojewa, Matylda Urjasz-Raczko, Anna Wróbel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:293-309
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:internationalization; University of Warsaw students; identity; Eastern and Western civilizations; Dialogue Centered Learning (DCL)
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the main conclusions from the sociological research conducted in 2014–16 among the foreign students from Eastern Europe and Asia at the University of Warsaw (UW). The authors argue that the UW represents a “classical” university education, the aim of which is reproduction of one model of subjectivity: a citizen related to a one-culture national state. The foreign students, though, are representing quite a different model of socialization. While in the European social world this is an individual, who is in the centre, striving to be autonomous and independent, in Eastern civilizations a notion of “Me” is based not on an individual subjectivity, but on the ability to launch a and support the relation with “Other”. The authors argue that a new model of education should be taken into account at the UW: a Dialogue Centered Learning (DCL) program, which takes into account these differences in the perception of an individual and the world in the East and West.
- Price: 4.50 €
Małe ojczyzny, wielka ojczyzna i emocje – czyli o istotności ich powiązań w obecnej Polsce
Małe ojczyzny, wielka ojczyzna i emocje – czyli o istotności ich powiązań w obecnej Polsce
(Small fatherlands, big fatherland and emotions – about their connections in present Poland)
- Author(s):Joanna Kurczewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:310-327
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:little fatherland; nation; spac; memory; emotion
- Summary/Abstract:The article titled "Small fatherlands, big fatherland and emotions – about their connections in present Poland" refers to diverse dimensions of functioning of individuals in society. The author confronts two patterns: one, built of the idea of the national community – determined mainly by the romantic tradition (the metaphor of “national wardrobe” seems to be a good image of the complex relations) and second, built on the idea of identity ties(the metaphor of the “wardrobe of identities” reveals the dynamics of individual social activities). Emotions – in this context – are situated in the diverse local and regional centers of public activity; the space implies the ontology of contemporary understanding of the nation. There are three context described in the paper: 1. remarks about two meta-theoretical wardrobes, 2. remarks about small fatherland treated as the social and cultural space, 3. remarks about the „essence” of small fatherland and its places of cultures of emotions.
- Price: 4.50 €
Inteligent jako znak w przestrzeni polskiej
Inteligent jako znak w przestrzeni polskiej
(Intelligent as Sign in The Polish Space)
- Author(s):Jan Kieniewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:328-332
- No. of Pages:5
- Keywords:Intelligent; Polishness; net; sign
- Summary/Abstract:In the essay, Polish intelligents were treated as network nodes that as signs in the social system appeared walking, standing and sitting. This symbolic view of their role indicates their importance in giving meaning to Polish national space.
- Price: 4.50 €
Rosyjscy czytelnicy "Konrada Wallenroda"
Rosyjscy czytelnicy "Konrada Wallenroda"
(Russian readers of "Konrad Wallenrod")
- Author(s):Maria Prussak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:335-344
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:translation; reception; censorship; conflict; history
- Summary/Abstract:In Russia Adam Mickiewicz quickly earned respect and a prominent position in the democratic literary society. Konrad Wallenrod, translated in prose by Stefan Shevyriev and published in 1828 a few months after the Polish edition immediately became very popular and by 1834 its fragments had been translated twenty times. The reception of the poem is paradoxical; in a description of the withdrawal of freezing Teutonic Knights defeated by Lithuanians the Russians saw Napoleon’s flight from Moscow. Thus, surprisingly, a picture of the same event captured in a poem about a fight for freedom has a different meaning to two nations. Therefore Konrad Wallenrod confirms Stefanowska’s thesis of “poetry dominating over truth”.
- Price: 4.50 €
Józef Jowialski jako alegoria
Józef Jowialski jako alegoria
(Józef Jowialski as an allegory)
- Author(s):Jerzy Axer
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:345-353
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:comedy; allegory; emblem; gentry humour; melancholy
- Summary/Abstract:The title character in Aleksander Fredro’s comedy Pan Jowialski [Mr Jovial] has been a bone of contention for scholars interpreting the work ever since its world premiere in Lwów in 1832. The paper briefly outlines the main threads in these disputes and proposes a new interpretive perspective. An analysis of Act IV, Scene 1 reveals that the allegorical picture sketched by Wiktor the painter is based on entries from Rev. Alojzy Osiński’s "Słownik mitologiczny" ["Dictionary of Mythology"] (Warszawa 1806–1812). Fredro had this book in his reference library. Transformations and modifications of dictionary expressions enable Fredro to create his own allegorical composition engaging all of the stage characters. Jowialski himself becomes this world’s central figure: “Jove”. This scene, usually shrugged off as a “stage gag”, might thus be recognised as the playwright’s instructions explaining the scheme of the whole comedy.
- Price: 4.50 €
Bez biografii
Bez biografii
(No biography)
- Author(s):Agata Zalewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:354-367
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:death; life; love; body; feelings
- Summary/Abstract:The title’s “no biography” points directly to the aim of the paper, namely an interpretation of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Tatarak [Calamus] that suspends the biographical context. This particular work in the writer’s oeuvre seems to require such a construal. When read – most often – as a text that is autobiographical or contains evident references to the writer’s biography, it loses its uniqueness. It thus becomes little more than an excuse for increasingly bold comparisons between the feelings of the protagonist, Marta, and the passion felt by Iwaszkiewicz himself from his infatuation with a much younger man. Meanwhile, the artistic magnitude of this short story by no means lies in any biographical context, but in the system of meanings it creates and utilises. Starting from the composition (including a story-within-a-story structure), through the portrayal of the characters, all the way to the significance of the title’s sweet-flag plant.
- Price: 4.50 €
Ciało Grochowiaka
Ciało Grochowiaka
(Body of Grochowiak)
- Author(s):Halszka Witkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:368-387
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:turpism; poetry; Stanisław Grochowiak; body; death
- Summary/Abstract:The text “Body of Grochowiak. Turpism or resurrection” is an analysis of Stanislaw Grochowiak’s poetic aesthetics, through the prism of how he describes the human body. The author questions the thesis, well-established in literary research, that Grochowiak was a turpist poet, focused on death, ugliness and pain. However, it shows how important the context in which the poet was creating is. Showing humanity through images devoid of Arcadian beauty is a fuller perspective, thanks to which poetry becomes more human, helps to disenchant the cruel reality by giving new meanings to suffering. It can not only become a companion of everyday life, but also help to find a language to tell about the post-war reality, often filled with pain and lack of hope.
- Price: 4.50 €
Dręcząca nieoczywistość znaku (na podstawie opowiadania Vladimira Nabokova "Znaki i symbole")
Dręcząca nieoczywistość znaku (na podstawie opowiadania Vladimira Nabokova "Znaki i symbole")
(The agonising nonobviousness of the sign (based on Vladimir Nabokov’s short story "Signs and Symbols"))
- Author(s):Teresa Dobrzyńska-Janusz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:388-408
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:sign; interpretation; ambiguity; cognition
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the problem of recognition of sings and relevant understanding of their respective meanings, as well as the question of in what ways interpretative hypotheses determining the content of a literary work are conditional upon the reader’s cultural competencies and worldview assumptions. These considerations are related to my interpretation of Nabokov’s short story Signs and Symbols, which turns into a series of alternative readings. The ambiguity of the Nabokov text can be regarded as an expression of the author’s cognitive relativism. The proposed analysis leads to the conclusion that the story is about a cognitive drama of a human who endeavours to understand what is (or is not) a sign and what is happening in the reality surrounding him.
- Price: 4.50 €
Uciekł człek
Uciekł człek
(Gone is Man)
- Author(s):Piotr Mitzner
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:409-413
- No. of Pages:5
- Keywords:announcements; newspapers; library; Internet; pandemic
- Summary/Abstract:The author reviews a number of old newspapers, dated between 1793 and 1918 (access to a wider selection was not possible due to the prevailing pandemic). He draws particular attention to news items and to small advertisements, which document the lives of ordinary people against a background of major historical events. Finally, he presents a short anthology of small ads placed on the Internet during the current pandemic.
- Price: 4.50 €
Bohaterowie swoich czasów
Bohaterowie swoich czasów
(Heroes of their time)
- Author(s):Hanna Paulouskaya
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:414-429
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:animation; Soviet culture; children’s culture; ancient mythology; reception of antiquity
- Summary/Abstract:In contrast to the great Hollywood productions, ancient mythology entered Soviet screens in the form of animated cartoons for children. Ideological by nature, USSR culture adopted and changed for its needs also ancient myths and their heroes. This article analyses what changes took place and what meaning ancient heroes acquired in Soviet productions of the 1970s and 1980s. The subject of the analysis is the series of animations “Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece” (1969–1974) directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaia and the film “Narodziny Heraklesa” (1982) directed by Yulian Kalisher.
- Price: 4.50 €
„38 litrów wody, czyli trzy czwarte twojego ciała…”
„38 litrów wody, czyli trzy czwarte twojego ciała…”
(“38 liters of water, three-quarters of your body…”)
- Author(s):Marek Kaźmierczak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:430-452
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:nihilism; film; gondola; body; camera
- Summary/Abstract:The paper refers to the film directed by Lech Majewski titled "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The author of this paper suggests an interpretation built on nihilism to be able to show that human is a kind of mistake of nothingness. We can think about art in a similar way that means that art is a kind of mistake of life in a biological sense. The word mistake can find positive meanings, but it depends of the experience of love, good or beauty. The film "The Garden of Earthly Delights" functions as the image full of intertextual connections is worth of cognition and understanding.
- Price: 4.50 €
Tworzywo i znaczenie – rola fotografii w filmie Raula de la Fuente i Damiana Nenowa "Jeszcze dzień życia"
Tworzywo i znaczenie – rola fotografii w filmie Raula de la Fuente i Damiana Nenowa "Jeszcze dzień życia"
(Material and meaning – the role of photography in the film by Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow “Another Day of Life”)
- Author(s):Izabela Tomczyk-Jarzyna
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:453-468
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:animation; collage; documentary authority; philosophy of photography; photo transparency; space
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on the role of photography in the film “Another Day of Life” inspired by Ryszard Kapuściński’s prose of the same title. Photography was used to prepare artistic concepts and create the figure of main characters. Photography as an element of the film material was subject to activity similar to the collage method. As a semantic element, the act of photographing allowed to mark the moment of blurring the boundaries between text and image in the process of getting to know the world and blurring spatial relations. These ambiguous decisions were used by the authors to tell about Kapuściński’s birth as a writer.
- Price: 4.50 €
O semiotyce kultury cyfrowej na przykładzie dyskursu sztuki
O semiotyce kultury cyfrowej na przykładzie dyskursu sztuki
(On the semiotics of digital culture on the example of art discourse)
- Author(s):Ewa Szczęsna
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:469-484
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:semiopoetics; digital art; digital poetics; digital sign; semiotic figures
- Summary/Abstract:In this text the author reflects on the semiotic existence of culture discourses in connection with the rapid development of digital technology. The author analyzes selected texts of digital art as examples of the transformation in how works of literature, sculpture, or film exist. The article covers how movable font, which changes in shape and color, participates in shaping literary meanings; the creation of semiotic and interactive figures; the textualization of the user’s actions and body; dematerialization; processuality; narrativization; the temporalizing of sculpture which changes before the eyes of the recipient; the presence of alternative narratives in literature and film; multi-variant plots co-created by the recipient; and the artistic use of other discourses. The author proves that the structure and specificity of the digital sign lies at the base of the changes. The digital sign is immaterial, programmable, and hybrid, and combines aspects of expression, meaning, and action, which makes it efficient.
- Price: 4.50 €
Reminiscencje
Reminiscencje
(Reminiscences)
- Author(s):Maciej Abramowicz, Barbara Bienias, Aleksandra Brylska, Teresa Dobrzyńska-Janusz, Katarzyna Marciniak, Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa, Bogusława Rokoszewska, Ewa Rudnicka, Izabela Tomczyk-Jarzyna
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
- Page Range:485-496
- No. of Pages:12
- Price: 4.50 €
