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Aleksander Wat: A Form of Life. A Study on Writing, Experience, Presence

Aleksander Wat: forma życia. Studium o pisaniu, doświadczeniu, obecności

Author(s): Paweł Paszek / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Aleksander Wat; experience; creative process; writing; a form of life

The book "Aleksander Wat: A Form of Life. A Study on Writing, Experience, Presence" concentrates on the issues of special creative writing experience founded on the union and consonance of existential and textual structures. Literature is understood as a formation and a form of life. The first chapter is an attempt to describe a modern literature experience. The primary perspectives concern the writing experience and its influence on the shape and presence of subjectivity. The considerations included in the next two parts are based on a very meticulous reading and interpretation of the two most important works of Aleksander Wat ("JA z jednej strony i JA z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka" and "Pieśni wędrowca"). The last part summarizes the author’s main reflections.

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Bycie w terenie / Being out in the land / Estar en el terreno

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Spanish

Keywords: being out in the land; place; landscape; university; Oikos

You are warmly invited to think about rootedness through a book on the experience of place and being out in the land. We are heading towards the land led not so much by methodological determinations of the land as a category in ethnological research, but by philosophers’ creed where man is a localised being; moreover, what is human is extracted by means of being in a place which binds the orders of spacetime, of landscape, the orders locating us "here and now,” the domestic and rooting orders, but also those questioning our certainty about location, turning home into ruin. Place introduces into the domestic traces of the indescribable, the inscrutable, the indefinite. Place – materially, socially and spiritually capacious – focuses on the land as an area of the Earth, which unveils in man the sensation of enormity, the feeling of blending in and the will to co-create; but the land also becomes an area of our activity and, at the same time, a stage for nature/culture activity; the land is what is open, unveiled in a place, it cannot be ignored, it is extracted from humans during their response to the land, it exposes humans in their being in the land.

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City landscapes in comics. Comic book studies

Pejzaże miasta w komiksie. Studia nad komiksem

Author(s): Matylda Sęk-Iwanek / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: comic books; graphic novel; urban comics; comics studies; urban studies; city studies; comics

The book "Pejzaże miasta w komiksie. Studia nad komiksem" focuses on the study of comics, where the main motif becomes the analysis of urban space. The city is a research track, but also a pretext for addressing the issues of the functioning of comics, its structure and components. The author starts with an overview of the state of comics studies. Another important part of the monograph is the preparation of tools and methods which are important in the study and analysis of comics. The book constructs and describes the research methodology, including its new elements. The final part of the work, in turn, offers examples of comics analysis in the light of the study of urban space, also employing the developed tools. The adopted research perspective allows to use the methods developed in this book to study also other, not only urban, tropes and themes in comics.

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Where Home Meets the World. Four Essays on Mindfulness in Life

Gdzie dom styka się ze światem. Cztery punkty uważności życia

Author(s): Aleksandra Kunce / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: oikology; humanities; home; place; friendship; Silesia

A small thing: four oikological essays, preceded by an introductory word, on our entanglement in the “home-world.” If we were to take the title as the question, “Where does the home meet the world?”, the answer would be: “In the points that require our attentiveness of life.” Attentiveness requires discipline and precision, and it is not only about precision in actions and observations, but about our being at home and in the world, in the changing rhythms of being rooted and wandering. Being mindful guides us towards a place, and concern extends over time to finally lead us home. Home is a peculiar time(lessness); it is a dynamically understood and open place that allows us to direct our desire to what is distant, inconceivable, and unimaginable. When we say ‘home,’ we do not mean a familiar and closed stronghold but a home rooted in the idea of the cosmos. It corresponds also to the idea of Heimat. The four points of contact between home and the world are found through (1) the humanities, (2) man, (3) friendship with the place, and (4) the university. The four oikological essays look into the entanglements, overlaps, but also the truest lack of the indeterminate at the boundary of home, around the threshold that symbolically not only testifies to the boundary in rituals, but delineates the space of attentiveness. At these points where home meets the world, our entanglement in the "home-world" is brought out.

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Thinking Kafka. Texts and contexts

Myśleć Kafką. Teksty i konteksty

Author(s): Mariusz Jochemczyk,Józef Olejniczak,Miłosz Piotrowiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Franz Kafka; comparative studies; anthropology of literature; body; war; masculinity; Kafka in Poland

Kafka and his work cannot be interpreted unequivocally; his texts cannot be assigned to any of the currents of modern literature (or more broadly — art). Such an unambiguous interpretation and strict assignment would immobilize the potency and dynamics still inherent in this work. Kafka would then become yet another dead butterfly on a pin, placed in the glass case of a collector of butterfly corpses, fascinated by the natural world and running around the meadows with a net… This is what we wanted to avoid in the sketches collected in this book. Did we succeed? The essay is an approximation, “circling around”; it is a testimony of attempts to come closer, and also attempts to tame. The movement of thought here takes place essentially within two separate intellectual circuits. Indeed, the volume constitutes a two-part whole, combining a detailed analysis of selected works by Franz Kafka (interpretive approach) with a broad overview of contextual themes (somatic experience, pacifism and attitude to war, transformations, flows/influences, metamorphoses, aporias, paradoxes of modern knowledge, etc.).

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Series:Oikos. Komparatystyka Literacka i Kulturowa

Aleksander Wat: A Form of Life. A Study on Writing, Experience, Presence

Aleksander Wat: forma życia. Studium o pisaniu, doświadczeniu, obecności

Bycie w terenie / Being out in the land / Estar en el terreno

Bycie w terenie / Being out in the land / Estar en el terreno

City landscapes in comics. Comic book studies

Pejzaże miasta w komiksie. Studia nad komiksem

Where Home Meets the World. Four Essays on Mindfulness in Life

Gdzie dom styka się ze światem. Cztery punkty uważności życia

Thinking Kafka. Texts and contexts

Myśleć Kafką. Teksty i konteksty