Lektura etyczna — przebrzmiała moda czy interpretacyjna konieczność?

Author(s): Krystyna Koziołek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The researcher asks the question on the up-to-dateness of the research proposals derivingfrom the circle called the “the ethics of reading”. She pays attention to the fact that recentlyold-fashioned and anachronic questions on the axiology of reading have now becometypical problems of the humanities. It is supported by the conviction that particular fields ofthe humanities permeate into one another, and awareness that the ethics of the reception ofa literary work constitutes an indispensable element of an individual reading of a text.The ethics appears in reader’s consciousness before poetics. Thanks to it, the reader, unfairlydivided into an emotional and suspicious one, blends into the subject of a multi-dimensionalreading experience. Hence, big text institutions base on reader’s individual reading whoexperiences, understands and evaluates the text. Without it, academic humanities does notexist.

Sposoby popularyzowania polszczyzny pięknej i poprawnej w poradnikach językowych dla dzieci i młodzieży

Author(s): Helena Synowiec / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article discusses functions and aims of publications popularising linguistic modelsand developing learners’ language and communication awareness. It shows how the authorsof these publications, well-known linguists and didactics of the Polish language, motivateyoung people to speak Polish correctly and aesthetically, as well as how they arouse their interestsin language problems. The attention was paid to attractive forms of exercises, accessiblyformulated pieces of advice and correctness hints, as well as a functional presentation ofvarious phenomena by various authors in talks and essays on the native language. A didacticvalue of these publications was emphasized.

Kłopoty z talentem, czyli opinie o książkach na łamach „Dziennika Polskiego” w latach 1949—1956

Author(s): Urszula Lisowska-Kożuch / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

It’s been 65 years since “Dziennik Polski” from Cracow was born in 2010, the firstvolume of which was issued in February 1945. The magazine that for the first postwar yearswas trying to perform (to a certain extent) the role of a Poland-wide journal aspired to thetitle of a daily literary magazine, had a big influence on intellectual and cultural developmentof its readers. The author made an attempt to illustrate the presence of the book in thevery journal in the most difficult period, that is very much diversified due to politicalturbulences between 1949 and 1956. The magazine editors did not constrain themselves tojust printing literary texts, but were trying to broaden readers’ knowledge and influence theiropinions through publishing many reviews and articles about books. “Dziennik Polski” contained361 texts of that type, including reviews at that time, ranging from typical propagandaworks to a very precious literature. The columns they were given included NoweKsiążki, Wśród nowych książek, Książki nadesłane do redakcji, Nowości Czytelnika or WydawnictwaCzytelnika. The books were also paid attention to in a series of feature columnsRozmowy o literaturze and Rozmowy o książkach. Some positions were published in specialseries, e.g. Poznajemy literaturę ZSRR. The main reviewers of “Dziennik Polski” were JerzySkórnicki, Leszek Herdegen, Olgierd Jędrzejczyk, Włodzimierz Maciąg, and Adam Włodek.The issues raised in publications splendidly reflects the political situation at that time.The book reviews of both Polish and foreign authors, were dominated by those whose contentsfollowed the assumptions of a political propaganda till 1953. Many of them belongedto a canon of socialist realist works. Later, what can be noticed is the editors’ concentrationon literary works of mainly Polish authors. It does not mean, however, that the reviewedtexts did not contain the „engaged” titles. Though, the closer it was till the end of 1956, themore frequently they resigned from reviewing such works.

Wpływ społecznej roli książki na koordynację polskiej działalności wydawniczej w Niemczech Zachodnich w pierwszych latach po II wojnie światowej

Author(s): Agnieszka Łakomy / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Polskie Ziemie Odzyskane w pracach bibliograficznych Herberta Ristera (1908—1993)

Author(s): Agnieszka Bajor / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents an academic profile of Herbert Rister, one of postwar Western-German bibliographer associated with Johann Gottfried Herder’s Institute in Margburg.Reister is the author of several dozen bibliographies, the topic of which concerns the areaslost by Germans as a result of postwar establishments. His bibliographic interests coveredamong others Silesia, Wielkopolska and Poznań area, Pomerania and Lubuskie province, aswell as Polish-German relations. Bibliographic records, created in the beginning from the perspectiveof a revisionistic policy, have still been an outstanding supplement to territorybibliographies created in Poland. Because of that, the attention was paid to the scope ofReister’s bibliographies, the choice of materials, but also lacks in valuable Polish writingslisted in Polish academic criticism. The researcher highlights the role of Reister’s bibliographyfor a Polish receiver of these lists.

Najnowsza historia Polski w publikacjach „drugiego obiegu” w latach 1980—1981

Author(s): Zbigniew Osiński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The second circuit involves illegal publications unapproved of by censorship. Numerouspublishing houses connected with a political opposition conducted an intensified activity between1980 and 1981 because of the growth of a social interest in “the second circuit”. Theeffect was a crop of publications on among others the latest history of Poland (the period ofthe 20th century). Apart from the actions of independent circles in favour of putting the historyaway, characterized as taking care of objectivism and the real course of events the publicationsappeared which due to a factual level and a dose of subjectivism were getting closerto the official historiography. Some circles strongly manipulated the texts of the past for theirown political and ideological needs. Also, there were many books involving simplificationsand mistakes deriving from insufficient academic method. The role of the majority of historicalpublications of “the second circuit” for putting the latest history of Poland away and fillingin “white stains” left by the official historiography was not to be overestimated.

O edycjach Krzyżaków 1410 Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego w wydawniczej serii Biblioteka Karola Miarki

Author(s): Aleksandra Gajowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the history of the edition of Knights in 1410 by Józef IgnacyKraszewski, published between 1959 and 1990 in “Śląsk” Publishing House. Four editions ofthis hardly-known novel by the author of Dziwadło published in a publishing series ofBiblioteka Karola Miarki (BKM) were characterized. The attention was paid to the fact thatKnights in 1410 became a bridge linking the event in question as it was the first and the lastbook prepared within the BKM series. The question of mistakes made when editing the textwas raised. A full list of titles published with a cycle logo of Biblioteka Karola Miarka waspresented.

Korzyści i zagrożenia dotyczące czytelnika lokalnej prasy (przykład „Strzelca Opolskiego”)

Author(s): Justyna Lehun / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

A local magazine is for a reader a source of benefits and dangers. Both overt and covertmechanisms which can influence a reader and shape his/her worldview can be noticed ondifferent structure levels of materials they contain. On the basis of “Strzelec Opolski”, a localweekly magazine, dangers involving among others language mistakes in texts or vocabularyvulgarization, as well as unquestionable benefits such as any interventions taken by the editorialboard and its preventive measures aiming at repairing reality were shown.

Z inspiracji Ministerstwa... — zeszyty naukowe szkół wyższych (1953—1958)

Author(s): Dorota Degen / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In 1953 Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe joined the publishing of the zeszytynaukowe brochures of higher education institutions and, thus, a „trend” for centralizationand unification, also within academic publications, started, inspired by the authorities at thattime (represented by the Ministry of Higher Education).Series of zeszyty naukowe brochures became a common phenomenon. In the name oftaking care of a proper development of young research workers, the zeszyty naukowe brochuresremained in the structures of all Polish higher education institutions. According tothe assumptions approved of, they were to serve a young academic staff, giving a possibilityof coming into being on a broader forum and constitute a proof of life of particular academiccentres. In the beginning, the editorial committees of the zeszyty naukowe brochures wereformed in technical universities. A year later universities were included, whereas in 1955 agriculturistand economic institutions.The zeszyty naukowe brochures as a new type of academic publication were stronglypromoted till 1956, however, because of the lack of a coherent idea of their functioning, theyquickly became the object of criticism due to the lack of the appropriate mechanisms of theirexchange and a rational edition policy. The became a reflection of a harmful, expensive andlittle-effective publishing centralization in science for a short period of time. The form of thezeszyty naukowe brochures was undergoing changes, but they always constituted an indispensableelement of a publishing landscape of the Polish science. Currently, the very typeof publication can be an extremely interesting subject of research, not only for the researchersof the postwar book market.

Czytelnictwo prasy studentów w Bibliotece Głównej Politechniki Śląskiej w Gliwicach. Komunikat z badań

Author(s): Anna Kamińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article discusses the research done on reading press by the students of the main libraryof Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. The subject of research was getting toknow readers’ motivation and its conditions. Observations prove that students are readingless and less, deriving information above all from textbooks and the Internet.

Książki na receptę, recepta na życie

Author(s): Wanda Matras-Mastalerz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Books can heal! Appropriately adjusted to reader’s age, needs and interests become animportant element of psychological strategies. They help when we carefully choose them, interest,touch and force thought and reflection. Directed reading from the earliest yearsshould be treated as a strategy of a rational investment in the future. A healing power of theword included in wise texts has been known for the time immemorial. A famous inscription“Psyches iatreion”, that is “A clinic for a soul” was hung before the entrance to the library ofRamzes II in Egyptian Teb in the 13th century BC. Bibliotherapy, as a type of a mental supportbases mainly on the usage of healing and therapeutic values of the literature (literarytherapy, fabletherapy, fairytherapy). Being at the borderline of psychology, medicine,bibliology and pedagogy, it is a kind of help when solving personal problems through directedreading. It gives stimuli for an emotional development, and brings about the enrichmentof imagination, the growth of sensitivity, and empathy, shapes attitudes, broadensvocabulary and knowledge, and is a condition of a critical development of thinking, as wellas can become an inspiration for various forms of an intellectual activity. The book can becomea solution to the problems of an every-day life for each age group of readers. A fascinatingbook allows for a better understanding of ourselves and others, gives a possibility ofa deeper “insight into ourselves” and often constitutes help in defining the sense and aim oflife. Many a time, books can support treatment, supplement a psychological help or even replacethe usage of some pharmacological medicaments. They should be used regularly, accordingto a recipe for a happy and wise life.

Działalność Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Rudzie Śląskiej na rzecz osób z niepełnosprawnością wzroku. Komunikat z badań

Author(s): Piotr Biesiada / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

A report from the studies is devoted to the activity of Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna inRuda Śląska with those sight impaired readers between 1999 and 2009. The first part of thearticle briefly presents the development of a “spoken book” in Poland in the 20th century,and, then focuses on reading by the blind and visually impaired. The data gathered in tables,concerning the purchase of “spoken books”, registered readers, entrances and types of rentalswere elaborated on in the second part. Additionally, attractions prepared for both visuallyimpaired and non-impaired readers were listed.

Między dwudziestoleciem a PRL-em. Czytelnik w polskiej refleksji bibliologicznej lat 1946—1960

Author(s): Irena Socha / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The subject of the paper is developing “a reader” as a research category in the Polishbibliological thought after war (1946—1960). The very conceptions, formed in theoreticalworks in question and particular research realizations were to a large extent a continuationof a bibliological and library theory as well as a library practice of the interwar period, but atthe same time, brought new research and terminological proposals, especially after a politicalthaw in 1956. They became an important stage of development of the Polish theory of bookscience, influencing its evolution towards “an open discipline” and “meta-discipline”.

Kształtowanie przestrzeni publicznych Katowic w świetle antropologii polityki

Author(s): Tadeusz Nawrocki / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Dzieje militaryzmu – Hyksosi w Egipcie

Author(s): Barbara Le Mercier / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Książki „zalecane” przez Andrzeja Trzecieskiego

Author(s): Anna Sitkowa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article discusses occasional poems in which Andrzej Trzecieski praised the 16th century worksand their authors. The poems, printed in „recommended” books fulfilled, above all, advertising functions.Among others, it was emphasized that Trzecieski encouraged equally enthusiastically to read works bythe authors enjoying authority in the 16th century and the debuting ones, wrote praises of Latin worksand written in the national language. He appreciated advantages of works that are fundamental froma today’s perspective, but also indicated the „advantages” of literary ephemerides. Worth attention, froma religious point of view, were Trzeciewski’s praising rhymes, both in books submitted to print by reformationadvocates and the Catholic church.

Pożyteczne i szkodliwe lektury według Jana Amosa Komeńskiego

Author(s): Mariola Jarczykowa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Jan Amos Komeński expressed his opinion on positive and negative effects of reading booksmany times, especially in pedagogic contexts. His views on the role of a book in religious education,reception of ancient writers, female reading, and topographic art are interesting. Komeński suggesteda foundation of specialist libraries with a limited access to books, preparation of compendium devotedto different groups of readers: learners, babysitters, etc. A great educator warned against excessivereading, did not avoid strong criticism of ancient and modern authors, provided means of an efficientacquisition of knowledge, on the basis of selected sources and a proper techniques of reading takingnotes from a book.

Księgi uczone i pożyteczne rekomendowane w „Zabawach Przyjemnych i Pożytecznych”

Author(s): Bożena Mazurkowa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The subject of considerations is formally diversified advertisement texts and occasional poems publishedin the first Polish literary periodical. They constitute an interesting source of studies on readingculture at that time. Texts written by highly‑regardededucation activists and writers (Grzegorz Piramowicz,Urban Szostowicz) and Michał Gröll, a publisher, printer and bookseller distinguished for our nativeculture, contain a directly or indirectly expressed encouragement to take into account publications ofan academic nature and writings of a broadly‑undersstoodusefulness when choosing books. The analysisof a source material allows for defining various strategies used by the above‑mentionedauthors inorder to interest readers with books proving technical and scientific novelties, achievements in medicalknowledge and works useful in an every‑daylife at that time. The subject of inquiries is a broad spectrumof persuasive means serving a proper presentation of author profiles and indication of a text renown topublish and their life usefulness.

Lektury galicyjskiego arystokraty doby międzypowstaniowej (literatura w życiu i edukacji Stanisława Tarnowskiego do 1863 roku)

Author(s): Grzegorz Nieć / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Stanisław Tarnowski represents an old Polish aristocracy, possessing great culture whereas familyand social contacts cover all three partitions and emigration in difficult times (repressions, censorship,Germanization). Elites, including the intelligentsia being shaped, shaped at that time, gave a tone toa social and political life in Galicia in the period of autonomy. Correspondence and writings, as well asfragments of Stanisław Tarnowski’s book collections allow for reviewing a literary education of a youngGalician aristocrat, a literary historian and critic to be. He was brought up in a house with a big and richlibrary, his education was shaped by famous people of a book, among the closest of whom he got familiarizedwith Romantic works and was fascinated with plays by Schiller and Lessing at school. During hisjourney to Spain, Egypt, Holy Land and Constantinople he also traced the paths of reading. Books andliterary classes helped him to survive difficulties of an Austrian prison, in which he found himself aftera failure of a January uprising. Literary knowledge and culture acquired through years allowed him a fastand brilliant academic and political career, despite a delayed beginning for objective reasons.

Biblioteka szkoły powszechnej miejscem edukacji czytelniczej i bibliotecznej (1918—1939)

Author(s): Hanna Langer / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Changes in pedagogy happening at the beginning of the 20th century influenced among others thedevelopment of school libraries.Their condition, especially in the first years after regaining independenceby Poland, was catastrophic. Among others it was actions taken by the Ministry of Religious and PublicEnlightenment that was to bring about a proper functioning of libraries. A commission responsible forevaluation of books for school youth was appointed in 1923 and an Instruction concerning libraries for theyouth in state schools was released in 1925, in which it was underlined that a well‑furnished library is ne‑cessary for a proper functioning of school and realization of a didactic‑educational programme, includingthe development of reading. Reading and library education was treated as one of themost important dutiesof a civic youth education. It was to involve such elements as using information publishing houses, cata‑logues and library files,mastering the ability to choose a proper book, getting ready for a self‑developingwork, including the ability of proper note taking, and was to be connected with teaching curricula.Thebest place for a reading and library education was a library, a reading room with a free access to shelves.As the school libraries usually did not have proper book collections in particular, cooperation with pub‑lic libraries is what was suggested. It developed best inWarsaw where a chain of best functioning publiclibraries for children functioned at the end of the 1930s.