Keywords: tradition; Kresy literature; house; horizons; talk-river; sanctum; emigrate; Shoah; history; autobiographical; Kresy; emigration; 20th century
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Keywords: Russian literature; Eco‑philosophical issues
The research is devoted to the selected problems related to eco‑philosophical issues analysed on the basis of Russian literature of the last two centuries — issues so far absent in literary studies discourse of the contemporary Polish and European Russian studies. The author searches and analyses philosophical problem concerning relation and interaction between people and animated nature represented mainly by animals, with consideration of assessment and moral qualification of human actions resulting from this relation (eco‑ethics). The purpose of the thesis is to determine and understand quality of human existence and coexistence with other species on the basis of selected literary works (prose and poetry) as well as journalism.This interdisciplinary thesis combining the disciplines of literary studies and natural history, is an attempt to contribute to the studies called the Third Culture (term introduced by John Brockman) which includes various disciplines of natural science (and exact sciences) and humanities. The lecture given by Charles Snow at the end the fifties considerably contributed to the rapid development of these disciplines. Snow distinguished and described growing split between two cultures: traditional humanities and sciences. At present these sciences and humanities create one current in culture — the Third Culture. Its representatives synthetically combine in their work various disciplines depending on current needs. In Brockman’s opinion in humanistic science, whose representatives have hermetic and marginal disputes, old ideas are only transformed while in natural sciences creative questions are put, new information appears and problems are formulated anew. Nowadays, according to Brockman, the Third Culture strongly attracts the representatives of humanities who think that ideas should be verified in compliance with empirical facts, and everything humanities are concerned with (e.g. literary studies) should take account of achievements of natural sciences. The author takes into consideration achievements of socio‑biology, zoosemiotics and cognitive ethology — sciences exploited by eco‑philosophy. The thesis presents the relation ‘human being – animal’ in a historical process against the background of the development of philosophical and natural sciences. Therefore, an arrangement of the material is determined by non‑literary phenomena, e.g. Darwin’s theory of evolution. The thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter — Individual and species subjectivity of animals. Moral status of animals against the background of the development of eco‑philosophical thought (not only Russian) — the author attempts to describe animals as a subject, taking into consideration various concepts of subjectivity of animals, to determine the place of an animal in philosophy of nature over the centuries, and to analyse an attitude towards animals in Russian philosophy (e.g. Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Pyotr Kropotkin). The second chapter — Animal as a person / thing / inferior existence in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century. Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others — is devoted to the review of the relation ‘human being – animal’ in the works of the title corypheuses and writes such as Nikolay Shcherbina, Ivan Turgenev, Vladimir Sollogoub, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Chertkov. The third chapter — Russian literature of the first half of 20th century about “younger brothers”. From Velimir Khlebnikov to Daniil Andreyev — describes problems concerning overcoming anthropocentrism in relations between people and animals, hunting, vegetarianism and cruelty to animals. The starting point for the discussion are works of the writers: Khlebnikov and Andreyev. The above issues are also analysed on the basis of the works of Mikhail Artsybashev, Sergei Yesenin, Andrei Platonov, Alexander Dobrolubov, Nikolaj Zablocki, Lidija Zinov’eva‑Annibal, Jelena Guro, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Prishvin and others. In the fourth, the most extensive chapter — Influence of the 20th century experiences on the eco‑ethical tendencies in the post‑war and contemporary Russian literature. From genocide to bioethics — the author makes attempts to show an animal as a victim of war, gulag, starvation, collective farming and civilization development in the works of Viktor Afanasyev, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir Tendryakov, Valentin Rasputin. The last chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the complex relation ‘human being – animal’ not only in extreme conditions but also in ordinary, unexceptional ones, e.g. in the works of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Andrei Bitov, Svetlana Vasilenko.The thesis reflects human attitude towards animals in the works in which an animal has not been presented as a mask, symbol, allegory but as an animal in the literary sense. Therefore, the works presenting images of animals which have nothing to do with ethological truth (e.g. fable) have not been taken into account in this thesis. It represents modern trend of posthumanities. Posthumanities is an ethical and intellectual attitude which among others supports scientifically and legitimizes actions aimed at protecting various species, and which promotes studies in ‘human being — animal’ relations called in short animal studies. The studies originated in the western intellectual thought long time ago and nowadays they are defined as interdisciplinary studies and institutional academic discipline in the academic process. The thesis is aimed at propagation of the studiesin Poland.The author tries to prove that in the Russian literary works an animal is not merely a pretext for exploring extensive implications of the ideology which rejects both instrumental, purely utilitarian attitude towards animals and primitive or sentimental anthropomorphism and introduces instead thinking which is rational, scientifically justified and ontologically and ethically prolific.
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Keywords: comedy; humor; language game; Zhvanetsky
In this monograph, an attempt was made to determine the specifics of the language mechanisms of the comic in the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. As shown by the analysis of the material, the language of the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky represents the richest arsenal of comic and mockery. The monograph consists of introduction, three chapters, conclusion and bibliography. The first chapter outlines the theoretical assumptions on which this work relies. It deals with the basic theories of the comic and its varieties. Among other things, it attempts to describe the comic of Mikhail Zhvanetsky and indicate the peculiarities of his idiostyle. In the second chapter, attention is focused on the manifestations of the situational comic. It also considers extralinguistic factors that could influence the choice of mechanisms for creating a comic by a writer. In the third chapter, the mechanisms of the language comic are analyzed on the basis of the selected works of Zhvanetsky. One of the most characteristic mechanisms for creating a comic effect is a language game, i.e. destruction of the speech norm in order to create non-canonical linguistic forms and structures. The subject of detailed analysis were language games based on the general-movement mechanism (paradoxes and repetitions), as well as language games on the phonetic, derivational and lexical levels. In conclusion, the main findings of the study are formulated, and prospects for further research are outlined. The conducted researches give the basis to draw conclusions that numerous examples of deviation from the norm in the works of M. Zhvanetsky are not accidental. All kinds of language games and violations of the norm have specific goals related to increasing the impact on the audience. The author uses also satire – a kind of comic, different from others sharpness of denunciation. It is used as a powerful weapon, for laughter is always an important means of persuasion and social impact.
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Keywords: romanticism; Gaszyński; Krasiński; November Uprising;Great Emigration;
This book, for the first time since its original printing, gives the full edition of an outstanding Romantic poet, Konstanty Gaszyński’s ouevre. It is addressed mainly to the students of Polish language and literature and, more broadly, all the afficionados of good poetry.
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Keywords: Bulgarian wedding; ethnolinguistics
The work is devoted to the traditional Bulgarian wedding seen in categories of the rite de passage. As for the very rite, it is approached in the study as a text of “culture” made up by elements belonging to different semiotic languages. By taking advantage of the fact that the activities undertaken upon enacting the said rite combine some elements of its personal code (subject and/or object), temporal and spatial code (the placement in time and space), object code (utilising rite-related propts) as well as verbal and musical codes (if the rite is accompanied by words uttered and music), while eliciting source material the emphasis was put on the wedding’s action code. The ethnolinguistic analysis which is based in ethnographic and linguistic data (folklore texts, terminology, phraseology, proverbs) is also conducive to unveiling symbolic senses brought about by certain actions and functions performer by them in the rite’s semantic plane.
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Tom Literatura i granice. Szkice o literaturze XX i XX wieku składa się z 12 artykułów poświęconych w większości granicom przedstawionym w literaturze, a jeśli wychodzą poza świat tekstu, to przede wszystkim poruszają zagadnienia podmiotowości i relacji autora do dzieła oraz jego samoświadomości. Zbiór stanowi więc klasyczną pozycję literaturoznawczą, z wyraźnym profilem historycznoliterackim i obejmuje analizy i interpretacje różnorodnych formalnie tekstów tak odmiennych autorów, jak m.in. Czechowicz, Witkacy, Dąbrowska Mrożek, Pustkowiak, Ligocka czy Iwasiów. Każdy interesujący się literaturą, antropologią czy historią czytelnik znajdzie tutaj próby udzielenia odpowiedzi na pytanie o granice literackości i tożsamości, rozmaitych (obyczajowych, językowych, emocjonalnych, narodowych) norm i ich przekroczeń. Wszystkie zaś ukazują ważną prawidłowość: że istnienie lub wyznaczenie jednej granicy nieuchronnie pociąga za sobą tworzenie się, narastanie, przeplatanie innych granic. I odwrotnie – przekroczenie jednej z niech całą mocą uwydatnia istnienie kolejnych, których konfiguracja się zmienia, ale które istnieć nigdy nie przestają.
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Keywords: llness; Body; Soul; Literature; Culture
Projekt konferencji, jak również prezentowany czytelnikom tom jest pierwszą tego typu publikacją w Polsce, która podejmowała zagadnienie językowych/tekstualnych/kulturowych praktyk choroby, analizowała kontekstualizacje ciała chorego w odmiennych dyskursach niż paradygmatyczne critiques/clinique Gilles’a Deleuze’a czy Michela Foucaulta. Publikacja nie ma odpowiednika w literaturze krytycznej: derekonstruuje diagnozowaną przez filozofów, historyków, kulturoznawców, socjologów ciała zmianę paradygmatów kulturowych, kondycję nowoczesnego, ponowoczesnego, ucieleśnionego podmiotu, matryce nieobecnego-i-obecnego ciała chorego, jego artykulacje, mediacje w Ja-Podmiocie-Pisma-Ciała-Literatury, a jego symptomatologia pozwoliła diagnozować problematykę relacji ciała biologicznego i ciała tekstu, somatyczności i semiologii, symbolologii, tropologii, narracje sôma-sema Kultury (-r)/Literatury (-r), pisalności – konstruować projekt krytyki somatycznej, somatoestetycznej, modalności piszącego się ja w autoperformatywnych (subwersywnych) strategiach wytwarzania. Krytyka somatoestetyczna jest pluralistyczna, multiplikuje domeny konceptualne, operatory konstrukcyjne wielu dyscyplin, tworząc konglomerat wielu języków krytycznych (lingwistyki, komparatystyki, psychoanalizy, semioanalizy, feminizmu, gender, queer, culture stadies, pragmatyzmu).Performatywne reprezentacje Ja-Podmiotu-Pisma-Ciała-Literatury sondowane w odmiennych językach analitycznych pozwoliły kontekstualizować transkulturową, interdyscyplinarną, krytyczną mapę tekstualnych narracji, historii, skryptów sympto-/symbo-/semio-/troplogii choroby (m. in. gruźlicy, anoreksji, bulimii, depresji, uzależnień, chorób nowotworowych, syndromu stresu pourazowego) w somatoestetycznych domenach konceptualnych. Uczestnicy konferencji wypracowali tekstualną nozologię nowoczesnych i ponowoczesnych somatogennych modeli, ich artykulacje w Ja-Podmiocie-Piśmie-Ciała; kreślili heterotopie miejsc, przestrzeni kontroli (społeczno-politycznych i prywatnych) nadzorujących, wykluczających, represjonujących ciało: szpitala, domu (łazienki, kuchni, sypialni) rewaloryzowanych jako szczególne miejsca transgresji: życia/śmierci, zdrowia/choroby, nadmiaru/braku wolności, potwierdzając i wzmacniając stany zdekonstytuowanego podmiotu. Somatyczne doświadczenie aktualizowane przez piszące ciała autorów, mówiące, histeryzujące poetek/pisarek nie były konceptualizowane przez badaczy wyłącznie w dyskursach medycznych, systemie jednostek chorobowych, deskrypcji zespołu objawów, patologii. Autorzy wystąpień konsekwentnie poddawali krytycznemu czytaniu autoperformatywność, transgresywność tekstualnych chorób, matryce cielesnych identyfikacji czytającego/piszącego/oglądającego się podmiotu, interpretowali subwersywne praktyki ja. Autosomalna choroba Pisma – nałóg wytwarzania się, odciskania śladów Ja-Ciała w Alfabecie; egzystencjalna konieczność reprodukowania, kopiowania, kliszowania, multiplikowania się, wpisywania/przepisywania siebie-z-siebie wskazywała na uzależnienie od nieprzechodniego czasownika pisać się, sygnifikować się w procesie stymulacji pragnienia, pożądania Innego. Nadmiar wchłoniętych i niestrawionych słów wywoływał bulimiczne mdłości lub ich brak powodował permanentny, anorektyczny głód wyrażalności, konstruując autoperformatywne praktyki. Ponowoczesność formatowała strategie somatycznego doświadczenia podmiotu generowanego przez idiomatyczną fizjologię/symptomologię Ja.Ideologema chorego organizmu jest wyjątkowo labilna i operatywna: umożliwia rewaluacje autobiograficznych skryptów, deskrypcje modyfikacji podmiotów; diagnozuje problemy identyfikacyjne (zmienną markerów antropologicznych), pozwala prześledzić mapę zmian stratyfikacji społecznej, penetrować transformacje polityk państw (asymilacji/wykluczenia) adaptujących i kooptujących migrujące komórki do wewnątrz ciała społeczno-politycznego: nacje, kultury, systemy filozoficzne, religijne, a metaforyzowana kategoria mikrobiologicznej homeostazy w wielu projekcjach staje się surogatem marzeń o wolności jednostek, równości obywateli w demokratycznym systemie.Kontekstualizacje i dyskursywizacje tekstualnych reprezentacji i artykulacji choroby, ciała chorego w angielskiej, polskiej, romańskich i słowiańskich literaturach, filozoficznych tekstach, pismach współczesnych oświeconych, kodach amerykańskiej kultury filmowej prowokujące projekt krytyki somatoestetycznej generowanej subwersywnymi praktykami Ja-Podmiotu-Pisma-Ciała-Literatury-Filozofii-Kultury. Tom pokonferencyjny Choroba – ciało – dusza w literaturze i kulturze rewaluuje skrypt (-y) ciała chorego, tekstualne matryce chorób, reprezentacje doświadczeń ucieleśnionego podmiotu, restytuując projekt (-y) poetyki (-k)/krytyki (-k) somatoestetycznej. Interdyscyplinarne ramy somaestetyki Richarda Shustermana eksplorujące wiele dziedzin warunkują pluralny wymiar krytyczny dyscyplin doświadczenia ciała w wymiarze teoretycznym, jak i praktycznym, ustanawiając etyczną odpowiedzialność podmiotów za autoreprezentację, warunki i jakość egzystencji przeciw opresji przygodności; dostarczają matryc do świadomych konstrukcji tożsamości; strategii do jego odpowiedzialnych modyfikacji – kulturę/filozofię self-help, która pozwoli neutralizować ideologiczne technologie corps, doktryny władzy-wiedzy, przemieścić polityki konsumpcjonizmu.Melioracyjne doświadczenie somatoreceptora łączące teorię z praktyką urasta do postprojektu ponowoczesnej filozofii życia, która przełamuje konstrukty estetyzacji generowane przez filozofów subersji/transgresji Pisma (ekstremistów: Michela Foucaulta, Gilles’a Deleuze’a; radykałów Rolanda Barthes’a Jacques’a Derridę), wyzwala ja w akcjach wywrotowych indywidualnego praktykowania ciała derekonstruującego, derewaloryzującego ideologemy piękna narzucone przez translacyjną kulturę – stosowalna somatotropia przeciw zawłaszczającym dyskursom.Somaestetyka mapuje zagadnienie relacji człowiek-maszyna, problematyzując idee techné generującego postestetykę, jako że współczesny człowiek jest udoskonalany przez protezy, implantacje, przeszczepy – w coraz większym stopniu pozostaje zależny od maszyn, a inżynierowie-robotycy nieustannie pracują nad projektami transformacji human body, działania których antycypują kolejny cultural turns. Shusterman wysunął hipotezę, że relacyjność biologicznego/technologicznego jest jednym z paradygmatów kulturowych i pozostaje w autozwrotnym/autosymetrycznym warunkowaniu, jednak pozostaje otwartym pytanie o konsekwencje bioetyczne dla cywilizacji (życia), które wymagają czujnej rewaloryzacji. W wymiarze indywidualnym, jak i społecznym ponowoczesna tożsamość operuje cyfrowo-analogowym ciałem: nawet tak oczywistej i powszechnie dostępnej przestrzeni komunikacji jaką jest skype – w aktach wirtualizacji, symulacji biologicznego ciała, wizualnym i oralnym współwytwarzaniu podmiotów – autoperformatywne konstruowanie świadomego leib stanowi filtr ochronny przeciw wydziedziczeniu z siebie, jeśli w taki sposób czytać idee Shustermana.
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Keywords: Literature; criticism; history of literature; science fiction;post-secularism;
Criticism After Literature constitutes the next stage of the critical project undertaken by Krzysztof Uniłowski over the decades. Criticism is understood here not only as a certain way of thinking, but also as a culturally creative practice. As such, it takes various discourses, including non-literary ones, and even itself, as its object of interest. In some chapters, the monograph undertakes theoretical considerations, while others are devoted to the interpretation of literary works.The monograph discusses the role of criticism at the beginning of the 21st century, where it finds itself in a new reality for literary communication (in the chapter “Criticism After Literature”). However, the considerations also tend towards metacritical reflection (“Hospitality of Criticism”), theoretical and literary reflection (“Textualism, Materialism, Immersion, Interpretation”) or post-secular reflection (“Don’t Touch Me…” and “The Defenders of Literature and Their (Cryptotheological) Fantasies”). Moreover, the author considers critical practices and their conditions (“The Avant-garde in the Television Era”).Part of the monograph is devoted to the interpretation of literary works. In the chapter “Hope from the Stars,” the author looks at the gnostic conditions of dystopia; in “History as Parody,” he touches upon the story of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski; and in the chapter “Zły Zagłoba,” he delves into the relationship between Sienkiewicz’s character and Anna Brzezińska’s Mr. Krzeszcz.
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Keywords: Joseph von Eichendorff
This bibliography devoted to Joseph von Eichendorff (born in Łubowice near Racibórz) concerns the publishing and media activity in Poland between 1989−2018. The presented listings include book publications, journals, doctoral dissertations, ephemeral publications, as well as films, theater plays, festivals and other media activities. The volume is concluded with an essay on the reception of von Eichendorff ’s works in Silesian press post-1989.The monograph attempts to map Joseph von Eichendorff ’s place in the consciousness of critics, translators, literary scholars, historians, historians of literature, cultural studies scholars, folk studies scholars and ethnologists on the basis of collected articles, notes and reports from the Polish press. An attentive reader will find among the listings the names of German scholars as well as translations of their articles into Polish, published in Polish journals or collected volumes.The aim of this monograph has been to study the range of reception of the works of “the last knight of German Romanticism” in the last three decades. The user of this bibliography will notice not only numerous translations of Joseph von Eichendorff ’s poetry, but also other accomplishments of the translators of his poetry and prose. The most extensive chapter concerns texts published in yearly, quarterly, monthly, bimonthly, fortnightly and weekly journals, social and cultural journals, scholarly and popular science journals, trade journals as well as local periodical press published by the local government offices and municipal offices, associations and societies, and German minority associations. The listings entail poems published in the Polish translations, as well as articles, notes and reviews devoted to the selected aspects of Joseph von Eichendorff ’s creative work, written in Polish and German, but also in English, or even in Latin or the Silesian dialect.
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Keywords: history;totalitarianism; axiology;metaphysics;
Despite their belonging to two separate literary generations, namely, those born around 1910 and 1920, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Konstanty A. Jeleński, and Czesław Miłosz represent the very same cultural formation. They were all Polish humanists moulded by the common paradigm of values founded upon the basis of shared reading list.In consecutive parts of her work, the author shows the ways in which Herling-Grudziński, Jeleński, and Miłosz, at subsequent stages of their lives, were entangled in history. Part One describes them as grappling with totalitarianism and the artist’s moral dilemmas, providing historical and political backdrop to the fates of future émigrés and indicating the ramifications of their choice to emigrate for their artistic work. The chapter entitled Wobec historii i polityki [Towards History and Politics] is a particularly close account of Herling-Grudziński’s discussion with the diagnosis contained in The Captive Mind over the course of nearly fifty years.Part Two of the book is devoted to the involvement of the said writers into Europe’s literary life. In the chapter Wobec wspólnoty [Towards Community] the author discusses their relationships with the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She gives the account of Jeleński’s output in both the field of literature and opinion journalism as the editor-in-chief of Parisbased monthly Preuves, as well as Herling-Grudziński’s contributions to a Rome-based magazine Tempo Presente.The book’s final part, entitled Wobec powinności artysty [Towards Artist’s Duty] is devoted to metaphysical and axiological problematics present in writings by Herling-Grudziński, Jeleński, and Miłosz. What was conspicuous in all they put their minds to – the literary art, the commentaries they worded, explanations they addressed to Western public opinion, and finally, in their endeavour to most adequately express their views on metaphysical foundations of art and existence – was their personal stigma and personal involvement. Thereby, the History, along with their histories, gained an individual human dimension.
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Keywords: Byzantium; Byzantine novel; romance; Theodore Prodromos; Rhodanthe and Dosikles; Byzantine Literature
At the court of Komnenoi, in the twelfth century only four novels (romances) were written. One of these was Rhodanthe and Dosikles by Theodor Prodromos, the first novel since eighth hundred years. The author was the most famous poet of his time and he wrote numerous secular and religious works. Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles consists of nine books in which the author describes, in the realities of ancient Greece, the adventures of two young beloveds. Rhodanthe and Dosikles were captured by pirates, imprisoned and separated, but in the end they meet again. Behind the trivial tale there is a work full of rhetoric art and full of allusion to the twelfth century Byzantium.
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Keywords: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski; poetics; scholastics
The topic of the work are scholastic inspirations in the poetics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. The work consists of an introduction, six chapters and conclusion. The intoduction presents the state of research and layout of the work. The first chapter shows, how Sarbiewski uses concepts taken from the scholastics. The second chapter compares the views of Aristotle and Sarbiewski on poetics. The third chapter presents the way Sarbiewski uses the concept of analogy. The fourth chapter presents his view on the problem universals. In the fifth chapter his vision of human being was described. In the sixth chapter Sarbiewski's understanding of creativity was compared with romantic views on it. In final, the conclusions were formulated.
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Keywords: Sophie Merau-Brentano; women's literature of the classical-romantic era; cooperation with Schiller; epistolary novel; artist; self-realisation
Series: Niemiecka Literatura Kobiet (3), ISSN 2719-8170 Sophie Mereau-Brentano (1770-1806) was one of the few first professional German writers. She was given the opportunity to publish under her own name, publish magazines or negotiate with publishers. However, she owed her position on the publishing market largely to the support of her 'colleagues' - Friedrich Schiller and Achim von Arnim. The publication "Sophie Mereau-Brantano. The dilettante on the Weimar Parnassus", edited by Renata Dampc-Jarosz and Nina Nowara-Matusik, brings the readers closer to this little known Polish author of the classical-romantic era and her two prose works translated into Polish - the epistolary novel Amanda und Eduard and the novel Marie. The monographic studies of the third volume of the German Women's Literature series focus on those aspects of Sophie Mereau-Brentano's work which illustrate the stages of her creative development, the influence of the cultural field on the formation of personality (Renata Dampc-Jarosz/Katowice), cooperation with Schiller (Norbert Oellers/Bonn), co-creating the history of women's literature, in particular the epistolary novel genre (Karina Becker/Paderborn) and the artist's and art paradigms in Marie's autobiographical novel (Nina Nowara-Matusik/Katowice). Also translated as part of a translation project, involving research and teaching staff as well as students and doctoral candidates at the University of Silesia, the novel Amanda and Eduard and the short story Marie deal with themes of art, the self-fulfilment of women in the bourgeois society of the time, and - or above all - the constant search for love and happiness.
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Keywords: humour; translation of children's literature; cognitive approach to translation; conceptual integration; mental maps
The present book combines the results of my studies on developmental psychology, theories on humour, translation theories and cognitive linguistics with the special emphasis on the theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration. Gill Fauconnier and Mark Turner’s model of conceptual blending serves as a basis for creating mental maps that can be used by translators as tools in translating humour, especially wordplays. // The book contains several examples of translating humorous elements taken from English children’s literature (Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Roald Dahl’s The BFG and Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry) into Polish and Portuguese in its European and Brazilian version with the use of mental maps. Cognitive aspects of translation are strongly emphasised, while translation theories and developmental psychology can be treated as a background for translation analysis and evaluation.
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Keywords: Ken Bugul; African literature; Senegalese literature; postcolonialism; fantastic
The purpose of this monograph is to analyze the supernatural and real elements, which intertwine in Ken Bugul’s prose. The coexistence of the supernatural and the real constitutes the key to understanding the œuvre of this versatile Senegalese author, oscillating between the Western and the African culture. The publication presents the diversity and hybridity of the supernatural – fantastic, marvelous and uncanny – elements, as well as the protagonist’s lack of rootedness, her fragmented self and multiple identities. The proposed analytical approach is based on Western and African studies on the supernatural in literature, along with postcolonial, feminist and sociological theories.
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Keywords: periphery; Croatian literature; Croatian culture; canon; regionalism
The multi-author monograph titled Peripheries in Croatian Literature and Culture is the result of an international Croatian studies scientific conference held on May 7-9, 2019, which the Croatists of the Institute of Slavonic Philology organized on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Croatian philology at the Silesian University in Katowice. The speakers delivered 80 papers and the whole conference was attended by about 100 participants. Among them were representatives of many Croatian studies both from Croatia, Montenegro as well as from Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Germany and Australia. This publication is one of the two parts of the two-volume post-conference book, which consists of texts from the fields of literary and cultural studies. It is divided into three sections, titled: Periferija - teorija, poetika, politika, Čitanje periferije and Na periferiji kanona. The range of topics is very wide: from old Croatian literature (e.g. Kajkavian literature) and folk literature (e.g. the question of the place of folk literature in the history of Croatian literature or the phenomenon of Dalmatian border mentality) to "newer" literature, both prose and poetry, essays and journalism. The monograph also contains several articles dealing with general issues, such as the condition of the humanities in the postmodern world, regionalism, and the attitude of Croats toward Yugoslavia. The authors devote much space to the problem of the canon. There are also articles on television series, comic books and the status of minority literature. The post-conference volumes are edited and published in cooperation with several Croatian university centres. In the case of the literary and cultural studies volume, these are the Croatian Studies departments of the University of Zagreb and of the University of Zadar.
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