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Gombrowicz versus Art
Gombrowicz wobec sztuki
A review of P. Millati Gombrowicz wobec sztuki (wybrane zagadnienia), słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2002.
More...A review of P. Millati Gombrowicz wobec sztuki (wybrane zagadnienia), słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2002.
More...Keywords: Semiotics; Literature
A review of: A. Dziadek Obrazy i wiersze. Z zagadnień interferencji sztuk w polskiej poezji współczesnej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2004.
More...Keywords: Tazbir; Muchowski; katolik; catholic; tożsamość; identity
More...Keywords: Wiesław Felski; Czesław Miłosz; Bible; Translatology.
Review of: Wiesław Felski “Biblijne przekłady Czesława Miłosza : studium filologiczno-egzegetyczne” [‘Czesław Miłosz’s Bible Translations: A Philological Exegesis’], Pelplin 2008. Felski’s analysis of selected lines from each of the ten Books translated by Miłosz is informed by theological systems of thought, but his book also contains short discussions of the poet’s attitude to the Bible and his concept of biblical translation. Felski makes a series of interesting observations, but his study, the first of its kind, certainly does not exhaust the subject.
More...Keywords: Theatre; Performing Arts; Wiktor Rubin; Jolanta Janiczak; Review
In Catherine the Empress (Stefan Żeromski Theater in Kielce, premiere: 13.04.2013) by Wiktor Rubin and Jolanta Janiczak, the story of Catherine the Great is a pretext for reflecting upon physicality and sexuality woven in a web of political significance. The play is told from the perspective of the titular protagonist, formulating her own language and considering her own physicality. The author criticizes the creators' inconsistency in giving the floor to the male protagonist at the conclusion, and the dramaturgy of the play (built on the fragmentary personal history of the Empress) for ultimately being based on the chronology of events – from the Empress's seizure of the throne to the decision to partition Poland. This novel interpretation of the Empress's life, according to Janiczak, thus becomes "a component of the traditional mechanisms of history."
More...Keywords: Review; Jan Klata; Polish Thermopylae; Tadeusz Miciński; Polski Theater in Wrocław
A review of Jan Klata's play Polish Thermopylae, based on a drama by Tadeusz Miciński (Polski Theater in Wrocław, premiere: 3.05.2014). Kołsut points out the masterful pacing of the narrative and the director's extensive tampering with the original text, allowing Miciński's words to take on a remarkable modernity. Situating the action (through numerous historical allusions and pop-culture quotations) in 2014, Klata presents the tangled and bloody story of the relations between Poland and Russia over the last two centuries. At the same time, the reviewer sees the play's major strength in the ironic distance it keeps while allowing the topic to remain serious.
More...he article addresses the reaction of the Polish population during Second World War towards the military resistance to the occupier. The author offers a case study of the life choices of Czesław Miłosz, the poet. Considering them hopeless and counterproductive, Miłosz decided not to participate in military actions. He had no confidence in the Polish government in exile and its military decisions. Instead, the poet concentrated on writing and publishing; he also criticized what he viewed as unjustified sacrifice of life in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. His attitude was criticized then, and today continues to be a source of attacks against the poet. The article analyses the logic of national solidarity in the times of foreign occupation and the arguments of the poet’s critics. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that Miłosz’s stand was beneficial not only for himself but also for the community as a whole.
More...Keywords: Sarmatism; hegemony; categorization; stereotype; liberalism; neoliberalism; Gazeta Wyborcza
This article analyses references to Sarmatism in Gazeta Wyborcza. These references amount to a discourse that is above all political and serves not to describe an aspect of reality, but to change present reality according to a certain vision of the national community’s past. This vision is expressed through a rather homogenous image that results from understanding Sarmatism as a category (hence the use of cognitive linguistics as a basic tool to examine the newspaper’s discourse). The category of Sarmatism was founded on neoliberal ideology in the first years after the founding of Gazeta Wyborcza; later it turned to liberal ideology.
More...Keywords: review; Juliusz Słowacki; Teatr Polski w Bydgoszczy; "Samuel Zborowski"; Paweł Wodziński
An article inspired by the play Samuel Zborowski, directed by Paweł Wodziński (Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz, premiere: 28.03.2015). The author points out that Polishness is not at the heart of the Bydgoszcz production, and Lucifer – its central figure – travels between different worlds and times. This transforms the story of Zborowski into a tale of contemporary revolutionaries and rebels; of a self-made man who matures to his own subjectivity. Iwanczewska believes that in Wodziński's production myth is transgressed in order to create emancipatory potential.
More...Keywords: issuing institution; issuing bank; central bank
Initiation into discussion over the need of creation of an institution of issuing bank on Polish lands reach the period of the First Republic of Poland. At that time the idea of establishing of this bank appeared, which – in consequence of difficult political situation of the State – did not come into realization. But one should notice plenty of opinions about it, what resulted in lots of plans of establishing the first Polish issuing institution at that time. Conception of issuing bank on Polish lands materialized only in the Kingdom of Poland (excluding issuing institution from Kościuszko’s Uprising period – Dyrekcja Biletów Skarbowych, and from Duchy of Warsaw period – Komisja do Dyrekcji Biletów Kasowych), thanks to work and efforts of Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, who contributed to es-tablishment in 1828 of Bank Polski, which is considered to be the first Polish issuing bank. It increased the full economic bossom of Polish lands in spite of the lack of Polish statehood.
More...Keywords: globalisation; regionalism; Peter Sloterdijk
The author analyzes one of the most well-known books of Peter Sloterdijk, Kryształowy pałac (In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization). He notes that Sloterdijk is representing non-academic philosophy. From this perspective the German intellectual is examining consequences of the process of globalization. Additionally, the book documents leftist engagement to solving key questions of modernity. According to the author of the article, interpretations provided by the philosopher are also important for the description of the culture and literature of the borderland.
More...Keywords: Geopolitics; Poland; Middle Europe; unification/separation
To understand contemporary geopolitics, especially Polish geopolitics you have to refer to the history. Polish geopolitical philosophy has flourished in a crucial period in the history of the country - the To understand contemporary geopolitics, especially Polish geopolitics you have to refer to the history. Polish geopolitical philosophy has flourished in a crucial period in the history of the country - the time of the fall of the First Republic and partitions. Sketch of Polish geopolitics is well composed into the broader plan of European thought. This is not just a simpple analitycal exercise. Article contains the suggestion, that the events, experiences and geopolitical configurations may exhibit amazing repeatability.
More...Keywords: place; image; classicism; classical unities; poetics; Lessing
This paper demonstrates how space and spatial relations where conceptualized in the Polish poetics of the early nineteenth century. The author concentrates mainly on different uses of the term “place” in theoretical treaties of the period. Comparing how this term is used in reference to drama and to other genres which represent the epoch leads to the following conclusion. Namely, in literary criticism of the times the concept of literature understood as the practice of “painting with words” was in fact a substitute for the concept of literature as spatiotemporal structure.
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