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Kultura popularna w nauczaniu polszczyzny jako języka obcego. Wstęp do kulturoznawstwa glottodydaktycznego

Author(s): Piotr Kajak / Language(s): Polish

The subject of this book situates it at the interface between cultural anthropology and glottodidactics, the so-called glotto-cultural studies. The author argues that is should be recognized as a new subdiscipline of Polish glottodidactics and, referring to the achievements of the glotto-cultural studies of the Warsaw “Polonicum,” presents his own vision of teaching popular culture.

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Nowe wspaniałe światy Aldousa Huxleya i ich recepcja w Polsce

Author(s): Krzysztof Hejwowski,Grzegorz Moroz / Language(s): Polish

The first Polish presentation of the whole literary output of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), outstanding British novelist and essayist, the author of Brave New World (1932) – a dystopia considered to be one of the most important books of 20th century. The authors discuss Huxley’s novels and non-fiction, taking into consideration the most recent publications of both Polish and English-speaking literary scholars. The book also describes the history of Polish translations of Huxley’s works as well as their reception in Poland, paying particular attention to two Polish translations of Brave New World.

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Akt pamięci. Tradycja akatystowa w kontekście form pamięci

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakóbczyk-Gola / Language(s): Polish

The book identifies complex characteristic features of the media tradition of Akathists, based on the example of the text of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God and its performances as part of worship. An analysis of the complex functions fulfilled by the Akathist in serving the aims of remembering – often characterized by heterogeneity, accomplished in different ways and playing different roles. The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God with its accompanying icon was one of the fundamental elements of Orthodox worship, influential also outside the Orthodox Church, e.g., in Polish territories.

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Filologia obca w stulecie swego istnienia. Instytut Romanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W ruchu uchwycone

Author(s): Dariusz Krawczyk,Maciej Smuk,Małgorzata Sokołowicz / Language(s): Polish

The book is an attempt at taking a broader view of the place and role of academic philological courses in the modern world. The authors discuss the philosophy of education adopted at the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Warsaw, the scholarly achievements of its staff, the current challenges and the directions of development.

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"Я не враг церкви, а еë друг и уверенный православный": церковная проблематика в публицистике Николая Лескова

Author(s): Marta Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Russian

The book contains analysis of the way of presenting issues essential for the life of the Orthodox Church in the 19th-century Russia in Nikolai Leskov’s journalistic works. Writer’s literary output is discussed in its historical and social context, against the background of contemporary press discussions. It reveals a bond between his spiritual quest, the emerging modern religiosity and changes taking place in the Church. It also allows to highlight similarities and differences between Leskov and his contemporaries and to trace the evolution of the writer’s views.

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Filozofia filologii

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

The autors of the articles look for the answers to the questions of “What is philology? What it used to be or could be?”, “Who is a philologist and what do they do?”, “How does a philologist justify and legitimise what they do?” from various complementary perspectives: the history of the discipline and its modern developments, classic texts of philosophy and the most recent literary studies practices, a personal love for words and a sense of responsibility for the shared world. These considerations are as much meta-scientific as they are identity-based, arising from the need to answer the question about the role of the contemporary scholar of the humanities.

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Humanizm między Wschodem a Zachodem

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

The publication encompasses European literature accentuating Polish literary activity. The articles pertain to the cultural dialogue between Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) cultures, the dialogue in Southern Slavdom via the Habsburg Serb centre in Karłowice, the cultural and literary activity of Jan Zamoyski and Fabian Sebastian Klonowic, thematic inclinations of Baroque poets (Andrzeja Morsztyn, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Samuel Twardowski) as well as Juliusz Słowacki’s mystical works and literary activity in the interwar period.

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Literatura a polityka. Literatur und Politik. Tom 5

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,German

The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

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Czytanie Miłosza. O trzech postaciach ideologii estetycznej

Author(s): Piotr Karwowski / Language(s): Polish

It is the first attempt to use de Man’s concept in the analysis of Polish modernist literature perceived as cultural formation of the 20th century. The features and peculiarities of Miłosz’s texts are pondered mainly theoretically and not in terms of historical poetics. The author analyses metaphorical and rhetorical reading, allegory and irony as well as three forms of aesthetic ideology: metalepsis, synecdoche and mimesis.

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Wykłady o aspekcie polskiego czasownika

Author(s): Marek Łaziński / Language(s): Polish

The author describes various logical and linguistic oppositions which influence the choice between a perfective and imperfective verb, verb prefixes and aspectual classes. The description of events and the narrative are considered the main functions of the perfective aspect. The use of the imperfective aspect in legal texts, such as criminal-law codes, is also discussed in the work.

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Znaki czy nie znaki? Tom 1

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

A presentation of different attitudes towards the term “sign.” An analysis of syntactics, that is, a combination of linguistic signs, and the place of this branch of knowledge in the system of linguistics. A discussion of the structure of discourse and issues concerned with non-linguistic signs, including the relations between body language and belonging to a given culture, concepts of national body languages, as well as theoretical and methodological problems connected with the humanities’ turn towards semiotics of culture and the possibility of conducting phraseological studies from this perspective.

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Ernest Hemingway

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

This collection of essays reflects the directions of contemporary criticism of Hemingway’s prose and represents diverse critical strands and approaches. Aiming at critical variety over consensus, the authors demonstrate the rich legacy of the master from Key West and hope to convince the reader that Hemingway’s prose can still hold its appeal.

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Tryumf amatora. O społecznościowych praktykach tekstualnych w świecie mediów elektronicznych

Author(s): Krzysztof Gajewski / Language(s): Polish

The monograph discusses computer media from the perspective of literary criticism and cultural anthropology. It analyses in depth phenomena such as: fake news, internet memes, the authorship of Wikipedia, the functions of accounts in social media, the practices of live streaming, simultaneously using the methodology of traditional literary criticism. Many textual occurrences are connected with participation practices through computer media on the Web.

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Literackie obrazy kultury. Perspektywa glottodydaktyczna

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

The texts included in the volume are concerned with using literary works which contain important cultural content in teaching Polish as a foreign language. The book is a small anthology of texts portraying Polish culture as well as valuable lesson scripts.

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Annie Proulx

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

The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.

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Mickiewicz – wieszcz i przewodnik

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

The articles in this collection deal with the reception of Mickiewicz as a poetical, political and ideological mentor. They present him from different angles: as the author of Philomath papers, journalistic pieces, speeches and political and social manifestos, a poet and religious reformer, the co-author and participant of various spiritual projects, the initiator of spiritual renewal in the emigrant community, the originator of the first Polish religious order, as well as the co-founder of the first Polish religious sect and an authority for the future generations of the followers of his ideas and work.

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West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The monograph covers the main aspects of studies on West African languages related to the diversity of structural patterns and complexity of their linguistic assignment. It includes various topics ranging from linguistic description and conceptualization patterns to the sociolinguistics of contemporary refugee camps. Typological diversity is enriched with the presentation of pidgin structures and sign languages. Structural differences between languages are seen from a comparative perspective, which also indicates the areal dimension of linguistic processes. The presentations of linguists from both Europe and Africa develop the idea of convergence area in West Africa, which is motivated by the contact between languages of different affiliations to language families and common cultural basis of language development.

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Toni Morrison

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

An analysis of the works of the most prominent African American female writer of the 20th century, Toni Morrison, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and was the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Prize (1993). In her works, Morrison draws attention to the rich African American culture and history, as well as American racial heritage, with a particular focus on women’s issues.

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Łuk i kołczan. Łacińskie epigramaty miłosne (XV-XVII wiek)

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Latin

The book contains a selection of Latin love epigrams from the 15th to the 18th century, written by Michele Marullo, Jacopo Sannazaro, Jan Kochanowski and John Owen. The preface to this bilingual, Latin-Polish edition, contains profiles of these outstanding Renaissance and Baroque poets, as well as Greek and Latin sources of their works.

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Narracja i performatywność. O późnej prozie Leopolda Buczkowskiego

Author(s): Bogdan Owczarek / Language(s): Polish

The book focuses on late works of Leopold Buczkowski, one of the most unusual and controversial Polish writers of the 20th century, often called a “Polish Beckett”. The author analyses in detail "Timely Beauty" ("Uroda na czasie"), "Bathing in Lucca" ("Kąpiele w Lucca"), "The officer at the Vespers" ("Oficer na nieszporach") and "A Stone in the Nappies" ("Kamień w pieluszkach"), published after 1970 Buczkowski’s late works considered the most hermetic and the least commented on. Buczkowski’s works linked Polish literature to the most important trends in the avant-garde Western novel. The key problem and motif of the book is the crisis of the novel in contemporary prose and performativity.

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