SUPERBIA. Aspekty, efekty, obrzeża
SUPERBIA. Aspects, effects, edges

Author(s): Olga Śmiechowicz, Kazimierz Ilski, Elżbieta Wesołowska, Jakub Handszu, Tomasz Sapota, Mateusz Stróżyński, Monika Miazek-Męczyńska, Radosław Piętka, Piotr Bering, Anna Kotłowska, Włodzimierz Szturc, Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, Agata Firlej, Krzysztof Korotkich, Ewa Gorlewska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Superbia; conceit; culture; linguistics
Summary/Abstract: The articles included in the monograph were produced within the framework of the Humanities Academic Consortium of Adam Mickiewicz University-Jagiellonian University. They touch upon almost all issues, aspects and axiological and semantic spheres related to cultural representations of pride. These include: an innovative look at ancient strategies of conceiving pride and the resources of rhetorical tricks used to describe and express lofty attitudes and megalomaniac charms; medieval reflections on the complicated relations connecting pride in one's own achievements with the obligation to express pride that borders on the humiliating; the medieval discussion on the complex relationship between pride in one's own achievements and the obligation to express humility bordering on self-deprecation; the problems encountered by lexicographers in constructing the term "pride"; the individualistic identification of the human being discovered in Romanticism; the imagological reflections on the question of national pride. The fact that nowadays, after many centuries of their ambiguous presence in European (and other) culture, Latin superbia and Greek hybris continue to arouse the emotions of the public and fascinate academic connoisseurs shows that neither science nor literature has yet said its final word on the subject.

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