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The book is a collection of articles devoted to short stories by Joseph Conrad. The texts have been written by both Polish and foreign researchers of the writer’s fiction as well as English literary scholars. They propose reinterpretations of short prose works which, for most part, have not met an in-depth consideration in Conrad studies. The publication intends to demarginalize short forms and turn attention to their formal and thematic depth.Apart from literary analyses, the book also contains articles devoted to issues connected with film adaptations, translations and translation studies – these are, naturally, discussed on the basis of Conrad’s novels.The book is addressed to a wide scope of readers, including professional literary scholars and literature lovers. It will be particularly valuable to readers who just begin more serious studies on Conrad as writer whose skill found the short story to be a malleable form of artistic expression.The book includes indexes of names, fictional characters and literary works.
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The collective monograph entitled Going beyond the text. Literature in reference to tradition and reality presents a variety of methodological attitudes and equally diverse literary and historical interests of a group of young researchers from the Universities of Warsaw and Silesia, and The Jagiellonian University and Adam Mickiewicz University. What binds all the sketches is the correlation of the literary texts and events of the contemporary literary life (the 20th and 21st centuries) with the literary and cultural tradition, as well as the attitude to reality, which has been understood and defined in different ways. The monograph presents the undertakings of historical and literary interpretation of the works by Joseph Mackiewicz (P.A. Kowalczyk), Stanislaw Lem and Jacek Dukaj (Sz. P. Kukulak), Jacek Malczewski (S. Trela), Jacek Kaczmarski (P. Marciniak), Janusz Głowacki (K. Olczak), Dorota Masłowska, Jacek Hugo-Bader and Joanna Bator (M. Olejniczak). Moreover, lesser-known episodes of the literary life (A. Grochowska, P. Potasińska, S.P. Kukulak, P. Urbańska, P.A. Kowalczyk, M. Mijatovic) have been recalled and interpreted. Modern comparative analysis has been undertaken (by R. Pulkowski and P. Urbańska), and original methodological suggestions have been put forward (by P. Potasińska, P. Zając and M. Olejniczak). However, the emerging from the accumulated volume of sketches picture of the condition of the literature and its ‘relation to reality’ and to the literary tradition, which is being contemporarily revived, is not full, and even was not intended to be as such. The authors of the individual chapters of the monograph present there their cognitive intuitions, rather than advance ‘firm’ historical and literary or theoretical thesis. This is also in accord with the intention of the editors of the monograph – to present a panorama, a historical and literary catalog of the problems faced by researchers in the middle of the second decade of the twenty-first century. And what is more, to do this without attempting to settle the question whether this ‘project of the future’, i.e. of the future literary studies in Poland, will materialize and will be developed and added into future monographs by the researchers who have just started their scientific career, or it will be merely an episode that will not be further elaborated on in future research or monographs. The monograph presents two perspectives: 1. traditional, historical, being apparently in accordance with the the principle that if something has happened, and if some text has been written, it is subject to the description and interpretation; 2. ‘involved’ – putting important questions about the status of literature ‘here and now’, about being a literary scholar and humanist in the post-modern civilization. It is just these elements, wherein the significance and relevance of the monograph Going beyond the text. Literature in reference to tradition and reality should be looked for. On another level, it might be written that the articles collected in the monograph constitute a kind of incomplete panorama of what is going to happen in Polish literary studies in the coming years.
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In her book’s introduction, the author presents the weightiness of thought (rather than just “feeling”) in the Romantic literature, to subsequently discuss selected notions of genesian philosophy hitherto appearing in academic studies on Słowacki’s works. Chapter One touches upon the problematics of human subject present in the poet’s works, in particular the transformation thereof from lowercase “me” into “Me”. Chapter Two pertains to the genesian concept of the world’s origin that appears in the studies as the opposition between emanation and creation. In the chapter devoted to similarities existing between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy and genesian philosophy, the author attempts to estimate Słowacki’s attitude to creation of the world (whether it was more on the idealistic or realistic side). The chapter that follows is where the author makes her contribution into the discussion relating to the ideological kinship between Słowacki’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s thoughts, a debate already ignited by the Young Poland movement. She shows that the ostensible similarities are – at the same time – in polar opposition to one another. In the chapter on the idea of the Holy Trinity, the author argues that Słowacki was in fact closer on that matter to the Eastern rather than Western Christian theology. The chapter that follows discusses, inspirational for the poet during his mystical period, the idea of beauty understood as divinisation, whereat the author refers to the concept of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite who considered Beauty to be one of God’s names. What follows from it is that a human being who underwent the divinisation partakes in God’s Beauty. In the chapter on mystical love the author attempts to show the significant role played by love in genesian philosophy. The concluding chapter contains a thesis that inter-religious relations in Słowacki’s mystical dramatic plays eventually assume a form of dialogue despite hostility or even fight between the followers of particular creeds. Summing up her treatise, the author refers to the famous thesis by Martin Heidegger, according to whom “poetry calls for thinking.”
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The author of this book investigates a variety of genres found in three selected generalisttelevision channels – TVP, Polsat, and TVN – and their thematic sister channels. These reflectionsmade it possible to identify diverse genres used in contemporary television, the differences betweenthe set of canonical models representing the television of the 21st century and that of late 80s,the influence of thematic channels on the current state of affairs, and – finally – the differencesbetween the programmes offered by them and the primary (generalist) channels. Such an in-depthanalysis of television in Poland and its contents made it also possible to determine the scale of“demassing” the discussed medium and, at the same time, to define the role played by thematicchannels in the context of generalist ones. The scrutiny of particular television schedules led toa more comprehensive perspective on broadcast programming of these channels. This strategyallowed for comparing the contents of each channel on both macro and micro levels. The nextstep was to establish the cannon of genres used by contemporary Polish channels, taking intoconsideration those peculiar cases which cannot be assigned to any category. Thus, the mentionedforms were thoroughly examined in order to determine their genre-related provenance. The developedmodels helped depict a stable set of genres used by contemporary television, taking intoaccount certain modifications within one pattern. What was also tackled was the influence of newmedia on the contemporary Polish television, an issue especially important from the perspectiveof technological revolution.
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Książka stanowi próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, czym mogą być literatura i sztuka dzisiaj, a co się z tym wiąże – również, krytyczne odniesienie do starego jak nowoczesność problemu końca sztuki wysokiej. Wychodząc z założenia, że mówienie o końcu sztuki jest uzasadnione, tylko jeśli rozumiemy ją jako prezentację tego, co idealne w formie uchwytnej dla zmysłów, w pracy próbowano spojrzeć na rolę twórczości i krytyki w naszym świecie, który nie jest już światem Idei w sensie heglowskim. Jako że dyskusja czysto teoretyczna w takim przypadku nie zawsze prowadzi do uchwytnych wniosków, autor zaproponował rozważenie wyżej wspomnianych problemów, posiłkując się przykładami dzieł Paula Celana, Samuela Becketta i Bruce’a Naumana, których praktyka pozwala, jego zdaniem, na sformułowanie pewnych szerszych wniosków dotyczących sensu tworzenia w epoce zwanej często postpostmodernistyczną.Książkę, której wcześniejsze rozdziały poświęcono rozważaniom na dość abstrakcyjnym poziomie, kończy polityczny apendyks, próbujący usytuować wcześniej omawiane problemy sztuki „elitarnej” i „trudnej” w kontekście postulatów polityki tożsamościowej, a w szczególności dyskusji o sensowności kanonu czy też jego represyjności.
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Tom zatytułowany Lektury pokoleniowe i ponadpokoleniowe. Z zagadnień recepcji jest pokłosiem konferencji naukowej „Pożytki i szkody płynące z lektury” zorganizowanej w kwietniu 2010 roku w Instytucie Bibliotekoznawstwa i Informacji Naukowej Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Publikacja zawierająca bogaty materiał, dokumentowany zwłaszcza źródłami wydawniczymi i prasowymi lat powojennych, okresu PRL-u aż po czas stanu wojennego i współczesność, zaprasza do refleksji nad trwałością oraz przemianami upodobań i zachowań lekturowych, warunkowanych procesami historycznymi, społecznymi i kulturowymi. Zebrane teksty ukazują zmiany wartościowania książki. W większości są to studia materiałowe obrazujące popularność wybranych fenomenów literackich czy prasowych. Uszeregowane w porządku diachronicznym dają możliwość dostrzeżenia prawidłowości sterujących procesami społecznych zachowań lekturowych zarówno w przeszłości, jak i współcześnie.
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Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) is, without a doubt, a true giant of the popular literature of the first half of the 19th century. As one of the most prolific authors of his time, he knew how to adapt to the literary tastes of the public from the end of the Napoleonic era until the fall of the July Monarchy. Firstly, the present study outlines the biography of this now largely forgotten writer, a key factor for understanding his literary career, and it gives an overview of his work. At the beginning of the first chapter, particular emphasis is put on the diary of Lamothe-Langon dating from 1809. Later in the chapter, the reception of Lamothe-Langon’s novels in the press of time and his literary posterity are examined. The following chapter focuses on the analysis of the paratext, an essential factor shedding light on many otherwise hidden aspects of the chosen corpus consisting of the eleven novels of Lamothe-Langon belonging to the Gothic genre. The third part of the book is devoted to the dark but fascinating universe of Lamothe-Langon’s novelistic world characterized by a highly heterogeneous assortment of characters in a spatio-temporal framework defined by a whole range of diverse phenomena proper to the world of Gothic fiction. Finally, an important aspect of the novels belonging to the corpus, namely their hybridity, both formal and generic, is thoroughly examined taking into consideration the intrinsic correlation existing between the analyzed novels and the dominant genres of their period, such as the Gothic fiction, the fantastique, the sentimental novel and the historical novel.
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Literature is an essential unit of a culture and social, political and historical changes in a society impact both culture, language, and particularly, literature. Although there are various languages in the world, literature is the main communication that connects people from different cultures and countries. Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures, thus, is designed to depict the similarities between different cultures within similar issues and topics. To meet this purpose, the book contains thirteen chapters, each of which was designed to clarify, exemplify and interpret a specific theme, underscored by remarkable authors from different cultures. Within this scope, each chapter respectively presents a topic: diseases, male gaze, children, intimate relations, antagonists or protagonists, human nature, war and depression, parenthood, death and suicide, God and religion, geography and human, revenge, and alienation. In each chapter, notable literary texts from different authors were analyzed to foreground the thematic and contextual similarities. This book, hence, provides readers different perspectives and interpretations to better internalize the common themes and messages of world classics. Although there are various studies of the remarkable senior academicians in the comparative literary field, hopefully, Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures would contribute to this field both for the academicians and readers.
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The volume comprises the papers presented at the international conference bearing the same title and organized in Targu-Mures in the period of 10─11 May 2013. The structure reflects the plurilingualism characterizing the event, the chapters being adapted to the language of the various presentations: Hungarian, Romanian, English, and German. The subchapters reflect the multitude and diversity of the topics chosen by the papers presented: pedagogy of mother tongues, methodology of foreign language teaching, theory and practices of translation, tradition of linguistic diversity in the European culture, everyday language and linguistic relations, and applied linguistics.
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Stefan Kisielewski is an extremely vivid persona. Despite the fact that hewas a composer, a serious feature and novel writer, Kisielewski is best known asthe author of features published for about fifty years in “Tygodnik powszechny”.It is no overstatement to say that Kisielewski was a master as regards a “shortform”. The publication (The art of a feature by Stefan Kisielewski) is both fora professional reader and the one whom the name of the author of Lata pozłacane,lata szare tells only little nowadays. The author wants to present a famous Kisielabove all as a master of a feature form and an author who analyses and describesreality and a human being in an extremely accurate way, who has becomea teacher and master for many people reading his features thanks to the abilityto notice all the absurdity of the Polish People’s Republic, and above all, thanksto the values loudly voiced and stability of opinions.
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Ruiny istnienia gromadzą artykuły o siedmiu poetach polskich XX wieku (Józef Wittlin, Emil Zegadłowicz, Julian Przyboś, Tadeusz Sułkowski, Wilhelm Szewczyk, Bogdan Czaykowski, Andrzej K. Waśkiewicz). Autor pokazuje ich historycznoliterackie miejsce, a interpretując znane i mniej znane wiersze, odkrywa osobnicze piękno poezji ekspresjonistycznej, klasycystycznej, awangardowej i formulistycznej. Obecna w liryce twórców różnych generacji formuła „istnienia” pokazana została w egzystencjalnym i społecznym wymiarze. Podtytuł książki Szkice o poetach mniej obecnych wskazuje na słabiej rozpoznane lub zgoła pominięte przez krytykę fragmenty twórczości autorów o ustalonym prestiżu w polskiej literaturze przeszłego stulecia.
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The book collects texts of different types: cross-sectional sketches, critical portraits, interviews a as well as laudations of great poets and writers. It is a meeting with a historio-literary varietas, and faces privatized (personal) past of a reading. The 20th century literature, seen in fragments, shreds or reflections, is, thus, becoming a map of possible peregrinations and meetings. The author does not conceal that the nature of reading is looking for important meanings regardless of time. That is why, combining authors of different generations, schools and poetics, the author tries to see them in a joint experience of reality and literature. It is also a personal book as it refers to outstanding figures of the Polish literary culture the author met or entered into a cognitive dialogue with.
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The book presents interrelations among Marcin Świetlicki’s works, whichfocus on three main themes: authenticity, romanticism and (ir)religiousness.The author does not address final versions of the poet’s works exclusively, butshe analyses first editions of his particular collections. The individual volumesand poems distinguish senses, figures and categories which may be combinedinto a coherent whole.In the first chapter, poems published originally in three volumes: Cold Countries:poems of 1980–1990 [Zimne kraje: wiersze 1980–1990] (1992), Cold Countries 2 (1995),Cold Countries 3 (1997) were subjected to analysis. Modifications introduced byŚwietlicki in these poems, the poems’ new sense and evolving programme werealso addressed in the book.In the second chapter, the emphasis is put on references to the Romantic periodthat interweave poems of the author of Schism [Schizma]. It is also a reminiscence,continuation and completion of the formerly expressed criticism. In this chapter,the writings of the author of Third Half [Trzecia połowa] were interpreted in thecontexts of: metamorphosis of the lyrical “I” (a deserted lover); love (sensual andromantic) as well as phantom, spectre and living ghost figures.In the third part of the book, Świetlicki’s (ir)religiousness is pondered upon.The title of this chapter illustrates the poet’s difficulty in determining his attitudetowards religious and transcendental values. In this poetry, religion is rather ofordinary nature, often contradicting the existence of any sanctity. The sacred existsonly in the profane sphere. This chapter leads to the last part of the book whichrevolves around the image of „God Almighty” – silent, presenting his silence invarious forms – emerging from Świetlicki’s poems.All the thematic fields are concatenated by the common title: Świetlicki’s lyrical “I”.Through interpretation, the book catalogues and organises various aspects and indentitiesof the lyrical “I” that emerge from the poems of the author of Cold Countries. Thelyrical “I” is often multiplied, riven, immersed in being incomplete, being constantlyon the way – not stopping and thus, not being able to define himself, to determinehis one, definite and solid “I”.
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“Enactments of Life”: The Short Stories of Nadine Gordimer concentrates on Nadine Gordimer’s short fiction, beginning with her earliest works and ending with those published in the last years of her life. Gordimer’s stories are discussed in the context of her novels, essays, interviews, and archival material. It is argued that Gordimer saw writing as “an enactment of life,” whose aim is to explore the experiential, dynamic, and fragmentary truth about people living in her times. The first monograph entirely devoted to Gordimer’s stories, this book will give its readers insight into Gordimer’s development as a writer and public intellectual, showing how her artistic and political evolution is reflected in her short fiction.
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The book is a collection of studies presenting the specificity of the experience of modernity in Łódź against the background of other cities – manufacturing centers of the second industrial revolution in Europe. The publication analyzes the representation of Łódź’s space in literature, from the 1880s to 1939, in literary works written in Polish, Yiddish, German and Russian, which results from the multicultural character of the city. The author takes into account, to a lesser extent, selected recent works. He uses both the most outstanding and forgotten texts, he also reaches for journalistic texts and popular literature. The main idea and compositional axis of the book is the reconstruction of the components of the “Łódź text” (following Vladimir Toporov’s “Petersburg text”). The development of the “Łódź text” is related to the most important events in the history of the city presented chronologically: the revolution of 1905–1907, World War I, and the Great Depression, because they had a decisive impact on building local identity. The “Łódź text”, shaped at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, turns out to be, in the light of analyses, still present and productive for subsequent generations of authors.
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The publications included in the anthology on Łódź workers' folklore, serial novels and satire from the daily and occasional press concern materials collected and interpreted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In addition to collections of workers' songs and songs popular among the wider social masses, the anthology contains also satirical texts, newspaper serial novels and cartoon stories, as well as texts of advertisements placed in the press. The articles by specialists and researchers accompanying this content create the necessary cognitive contexts, thanks to which this book tries to fill the not very well-penetrated, several-decades-old gap in reflection on this sphere of the poorly researched metropolitan culture of Łódź. At the same time, it is a popular science book to some extent and does not claim to be comprehensive, nor is it an example of a theoretically unified approach based on the ambition to use the most modern strategies, methods and interpretative assumptions. It is rather an attempt to map the dynamic and fluid phenomenon that was the border between workers' folklore and popular culture in modern Łódź. Therefore, it is a contribution to further research in various fields of the humanities, as well as a creative and educational material, as well as a kind of inspiring text database that can be used by urban culture animators. The anthology therefore presents material for further revealing interpretations.
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This book serves as a handy lexicon of the most important terms related to Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). It is was designed primarily for teachers of foreign languages, but many of the solutions described in it can be successfully used in teaching a native language. Each of the alphabetically-arranged entries contains a brief explanation of the chosen concept and, where possible, information on the results of research on the effectiveness of a given solution. Many of the entries contain suggestions for free tools and ideas for activities to be used in the classroom or in self-study – all described in the section "How do I get started? (“Jak zacząć?”).
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This book is a collection of eleven scholarly papers containing analysis and interpretations of different texts of cultures, mainly literary works, from across the Spanish-speaking world from different historical periods: from the Golden Age to the most recent popular culture. In the collection, diverse research perspectives and methodologies are represented, with particular consideration of cultural studies oriented towards the analysis of ideological and political implications and the interconnections of literary and artistic discourse. The studies contained in the book are dedicated to narrative fiction, poetry, essay, drama and audiovisual production.
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The book is a tribute to Rita Pletl’s decades-long teaching and research career, a modest summary of her significance to those with whom she has worked together, believing in the timelessness of intellectual accomplishments, exigence, moral strength, but also of culture and creativity in the classical sense. The texts that make up the volume are varied: they include essays, studies, memoir-like writings, summaries, articles presenting empirical research, and greetings from friends and family. Our volume is an homage and an expression of gratitude, the celebration of the invaluable, persistent work that has characterised Rita Pletl’s life and career.
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