A Transz-Atlantik megállói

Author(s): Lajos Pálfalvi / Language(s): Hungarian

Pálfalvi Lajos's biographical monograph of Witold Gombrowicz is an outstanding task. Gombrowicz is one of the most important polish writer of the twentieth century, who criticised the polish literatural canon from the inside. Pálfalvi's book is really important, not only because in hungarian area just a few study deal with Gombrowicz, but also his work contains common lessons too , like methodology of writing history of literature, the social role of literature, the inside dynamic of modernism and the special nature of the central-european literature.

Az érzékiség dicsérete

Author(s): Sarolta Deczki / Language(s): Hungarian

This book is a complation of reviews about the questions of sensuality, physical existence and experience. During the analysis comes up metaphysical, political, governmental, phenomenologycal, poetic, etc. aspects, so everything what has something to do with our physical existence.

Az olvasás esemény

Author(s): Dobos István / Language(s): Hungarian

Dobos István's Az olvasás esemény titled book is very important in the view of literary comprehension. The author's attention spread from the begining of the 20th century to the contemporary literature. He analyze the storytelling works depending on consistently elaborated criteria, and with that, he fulfill the expectations of monography genre. With the reinterpretation of the prosaic works of Kosztolányi Dezső, Krúdy Gyula, Móricz Zsigmond, Esterházy Péter or Kukorelly Endre, this book can be read as the era's own history of literatural summary. Beside the interpreatiton of works he shows the contemporary literature's significant changes while validate the international literature research's perspective.

Pierwsza połowa Marcina

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

„Pierwsza połowa Marcina” to zbiór tekstów o twórczości Marcina Świetlickiego. Redaktorki książki: Joanna Roszak i Emilia Kledzik stworzyły tematyczny wielogłos krytyków, badaczy i artystów, składający się na monografię poświęconą jednemu z najbardziej charyzmatycznych twórców polskich czasów poprzełomowych. Założeniem tomu jest polifonia i poligatunkowość: zaproszeni do tomu autorzy mieli prawo wyboru formy, w jakiej nawiązali do postaci bądź działalności artystycznej krakowskiego poety. W książce znalazło się więc miejsce zarówno na klasyczne rozprawy krytycznoliterackie, wywiad, jak i wiersze oraz fragmenty prozatorskie.Wśród autorów zawartych w książce tekstów są: Krzysztof Gajda, Jacek Gutorow, Jerzy Jarzębski, Anita Jarzyna, Izolda Kiec, Emilia Kledzik, Wiktoria Klera, Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany, Karol Maliszewski, Joanna Orska, Joanna Roszak, Marcin Sendecki, Andrzej Niewiadomski, Błażej Warkocki, Wojciech Wencel, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Elżbieta Winiecka, Piotr Łuszczykiewicz, Artur Szlosarek, Wojciech Bonowicz, Jerzy Borowczyk, Paweł Próchniak, Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało.

Słownik etymologiczny nazw geograficznych Śląska, tom 17. Suplement A-Ż

Author(s): Stanisława Sochacka,Monika Choroś,Łucja Jarczak,Paweł Swoboda / Language(s): Polish

"Glossary of Silesian Dialects" is the result of many years of scientific work of several generations of linguists from the Silesian Institute in Opole, Poland.

Mowa pogranicza. Studium o językach i tożsamościach w regionie lubuskim

Author(s): Anna Zielińska / Language(s): Polish,Ukrainian,German

“The work is novel, original and pioneering not only in terms of its narrowly understood subject matter (a study of languages and identities in the Lubusz region) but likewise in wider terms as a sincere, aeideological look at so-called new mixed dialects in so-called Western and Northern Territories” (Professor Bogdan Walczak). “In her studies on language contact in the borderlands, Anna Zielińska has developed her own original methodology, combining elements of sociolinguistics, dialectology and cultural studies. In the monograph she present a comprehensive description of ways of communication actually at play in multilingual territories with diverse immigrant populations and a multifaceted hierarchy of languages and their varieties. Approach of this kind has hitherto not been applied to the Lubusz region, with existing studies usually attempting to model an ideal state of integrated Polish” (Professor Ewa Wolnicz-Pawłowska). “Anna Zielińska’s book deconstructs the stereotypes which have accrued in Poland about the so-called Recovered Territories due to the political and ideological conditions of the last half century. This study, brilliantly underpinned in terms of material and theory, is a pioneering combination of classic sociolinguistic approach with an anthropological perspective which inspires deliberations about the nationalistic mechanisms in Polish scholarly discourse concerning this area” (Professor Anna Engelking).

Rzeczywistość i zmyślenie. Światy przedstawione w literaturze i kulturze XIX–XXI wieku

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

In 2015 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego published two related collections of essays devoted to the presented worlds in literature and culture. The first one discussed “the familiar and the remote world in Old Polish areas”, and the second one “the enlightened and Romantic worlds” (a paraphrase of the titles of both volumes). The collection which we present to the reader, by continuing the research in the reality and the fiction which is presented, covers a broad temporal spectrum from the 19th to the 21st century. It is obvious that such a wide range must be associated with the great variety of the object of research. The authors analyse works which represent various genres (a literary document, various kinds of novels, autobiographical narratives, fantasy, children’s prose, epistolography), which engage various subjects, intended for various recipients. The thing which the essays represented in this collections share is the reflection about the manner of the existence of the real world in narrative prose. All of these essays touch upon the universal problem of the relation between truth and fiction and they attempt to answer the question about the manner in which the real world is expressed in language (especially in artistic language). The book is intended for secondary school pupils, students and academic teachers.

Literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży. T. 5

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

Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people includes a discussion of the contemporary phenomena which represent the sphere of the culture of books for children and young people, whose presence may be observed with varying intensity in the period 1989-2015. The book is divided into four parts. The first one discusses the following: the construction of reading lists intended for young readers, the subject associated with the Second World War in books for young people, upsetting subject matter i.e. death. There is also reflection about texts which are associated with the book and the themes which initiate the reader into the so-called gender. The following problems are discussed: the relations of the novels intended for girls and women, the ways of the construction of fantasy characters in contemporary fairy tales. The authors manifested an interest in the following fields: the realisation of the genre-related premises of horror in the literature intended for young readers; texts which engage themes associated with adventures and travel; religious books. The first part of the book is concluded by remarks devoted to the functioning of the book and its reception in the most familiar milieu – at home and subsequently at school, during the process of education.A similar complex of problems is devoted to publishing, the ways of the existence of new forms of expression intended for young readers, which include inter alia the possibilities of new media, including the Internet. There is a discussion of the problems associated with the functioning of series, comic books by Polish authors and the so-called convergence books on the publishing market. The transformations which were experienced by periodicals intended for young readers were also discussed.The third part of Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people contains a treatment of the translations into Polish of texts of foreign writers who write for children and young people. There is also a presentation of the current state of research in the literature for non-adult readers, and, finally, the problems of non-professional criticism, whose frequent manifestations include superficial reviews of books for children and young people.The final part of the volume is constituted by articles devoted to the form of work with a non-adult reader. There is a discussion of the functioning of modern libraries, transformed into mediatheques; the activities whose purpose is to popularise readership, but also in the extra-library context. There is also a focus on bibliotherapeutical problems. Thus the means of utilising literary texts which enable children to come to terms with their fears, i.e. the fear experienced during the process of falling asleep.Due to the wide range of problems which are engaged, Vol. 5 Literatures for children and young people is intended, similarly as in the case of the previous volumes in the series, to everyone – students, employees of the academia, librarians, the employees of other cultural institutions – who are interested in books for children and young people, the market of such publications, and the institutions which popularise such publications.

SlovoSlavia. Studia z etnolingwistyki słowiańskiej

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

The book consists of three parts: on lexicology, contrastive phraseology and scientific research. The author presents an ethnographic approach to the linguistics and refers to the concept of Jerzy Bartminski’s cognitive ethnolinguistics.

Wzniosłość i makabra w literackich obrazach śmierci

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

Korespondencja i literatura okolicznościowa w kręgu magnaterii Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego

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

In the present publication the author engages the problems associated with the correspondence and the occasional literature of the first half of the 17th century which have to do mainly with the families of Lithuanian magnates. The first part of the work presents the problems of the publishing of Old Polish epistolography and the readerly circulation of early letters. On the basis of the correspondence of the Radziwiłł, Sapieha families and of Krzysztof Dorohostajski Monwid (1562–1615) one described the familyrelated subject matter engaged in the letters, focusing on such important events as: birth, baptism, marriage, married life, as well as death and funerals. Gratulatory letters and letters of condolence were usually similar, which was a result of the application of conventional expressions, whereas the correspondence which accompanied wooing and the contraction of marriages manifested specific, untypical solutions and an individual approach of the senders. The chapter which presents the exchange of letters between brothers-inlaw who were in a feud is focused on the writings of Krzysztof Radziwiłł (1585–1640) and Lew Sapieha (1557–1633), who commented upon the decision of the king associate with the appointment of the function of the grand hetman of Lithuania. By making accusations, the correspondents rejoined and discussed their family relations. The claims which were laid in reference to the question of the inheritance of the brother of his second wife Zofia were featured immediately in Krzysztof Dorohostajski’s letters to Janusz (1579–1620) and to Krzysztof Radziwiłł. A different nature is manifested by carefully composed Latin letters of Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655) and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, which presented the relations between the Calvinist and the Jesuit. Piotr Kochlewski’s correspondence (d. 1646), a representative of Krzysztof Radziwiłł in Kiejdany, features detailed information about various aspects of the life of the city. The second part of the work discusses occasional works devoted to Lithuanian magnates. The considerations, which are preceded by remarks about the editorship of occasional literature, focus on the verse commentaries devoted to the candidates to the Polish throne during the period of the third interregnum. To mark this occasion, an oration was written by Krzysztof Radziwiłł Piorun (1547–1603), and the verse “Lament…” was written by Krzysztof Dorohostajski. Monwid was described as a valiant soldier, who made his name in the assault on Smoleńsk in 1611. Many occasional texts were written in connection to births, marriage ceremonies and the funerals of magnates; they feature the genological form of a lament, a bucolic, a genethliacon, an epithalamium, an epitaph etc. The poems which were written after Krzysztof Radziwiłł’s death and which heretofore remained unknown were found in the manuscripts which are currently located in Lwów (Bavorovianum) and in the Central Library in Rotterdam. The Lithuanian magnates were also presented in a negative light. It mainly the Radziwiłł who were lampooned – Krzysztof, as the alleged instigator of the Wilno riot in 1639, and his son Janusz, as a traitor during the Swedish deluge and the Moscow raid.

PISARZE Z NRD WOBEC PRZEŁOMOWYCH WYDARZEŃ W EUROPIE ŚRODKOWO-WSCHODNIEJ

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

Autorka w kompetentny sposób i w szerokim ujęciu relacjonuje najważniejsze aspekty reakcji wschodnioniemieckich twórców na przełomowe w bloku wschodnim wydarzenia społeczno-polityczne. (…)Ciekawe rozważania Magdaleny Latkowskiej dotyczą wydarzeń 1956 roku. Poznański Czerwiec i polski Październik stały się już wcześniej przedmiotem zainteresowania polskich i niemieckich badaczy. Autorka wprowadza do dyskursu nowe informacje i poszerza go o wcześniej nieuwzględnioną (lub wykorzystywaną w ograniczonym stopniu) bazę źródłową. Bardzo ważnym elementem publikacji jest zwrócenie uwagi na XX Zjazd KPZR w Moskwie. W połączeniu z analizą recepcji wydarzeń na Węgrzech otrzymujemy kompleksowy obraz reakcji wschodnioniemieckich pisarzy na niepokoje roku 1956 w obozie socjalistycznym.Jeszcze większe zainteresowanie badaczy wywołały wschodnioniemieckie reakcje na rozwój sytuacji w Polsce w okresie Solidarności. Badając postawy literatów, autorka uwzględniła w tym kontekście dodatkowo pisarzy pochodzących z NRD, którzy wyemigrowali do drugiego państwa niemieckiego, np. Ericha Loesta, Wolfa Biermanna, Jürgena Fuchsa, Ulricha Schachta.Najważniejszymi i najlepiej ukazanymi spośród przedstawionych wydarzeń są niepokoje towarzyszące Praskiej Wiośnie 1968 roku. Pionierskie – w kontekście polskich badań – opracowanie w pełni ukazuje skalę różnorodnych reakcji związanych z publiczną działalnością literatów, sygnalizując przy tym ewolucję postaw skorelowaną z rozwojem sytuacji politycznej.Z recenzji wydawniczej dr. hab. Dariusza WojtaszynaMagdalena Latkowska, doktor habilitowana nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, germanistka, adiunkt na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Studiowała w Warszawie, Tybindze i Berlinie. Opublikowała m.in.: Günter Grass i polityka (2008), „Pedagodzy socjalizmu” czy „wrogowie klasowi?” Pisarze z NRD wobec powstania czerwcowego 1953 oraz budowy i upadku muru berlińskiego 1961–1989 (2016, wydanie niemieckie w druku). Główne zainteresowania badawcze: literatura i historia niemiecka XX i XXI wieku, związki między literaturą a polityką w RFN i NRD, kultura pamięci.

O polskiej literaturze fantastycznonaukowej lat 1990-2004

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

There is a reason why this review of the latest science fiction works should start in 1990 as opposed to 1989. This date should be treated rather symbolically, not as marking the actual beginning of new trends in science fiction. At the same time, however, it is the year of publishing Marek Oramus' One Day’s Journey to Meoria (the original title: Dzień drogi do Meorii) – a novel that summarizes the previous formula of sociological fantasy, dominant since the end of the 1970s. [...] The end date is determined by the time of publication of the sketches collected here and the awareness of establishing new tendencies in science fiction in the first half of the present decade. Moreover, it should be remembered that the specificity of the historical and literary process is continuity, so all divisions must (due to this aspect) bear the hallmarks of artificiality. Since although it is possible to distinguish features typical for a given period and outline its boundaries on their basis, the absolute use of historical periodization must lead to misunderstandings. After all, specific dates are only approximate or even often conventional boundaries of cultural epochs.

Literatura polska w świecie. T. 7: Reportaż w świecie światowość reportażu

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

Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi). Cz. 1

Author(s): Aleksander Kiklewicz,Małgorzata Korytkowska,Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska,Agnieszka Zatorska / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian,Polish

“Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi)” (An integrated semantic and syntactic description of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: Verba cogitandi and verba sentiendi) includes an extensive monographic study of two classes of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: verbs of thinking (verba cogitandi) and verbs of feeling (verba sentiendi), as well as two dictionaries featuring their semantic and syntactic descriptions. The study aims to investigate relations between the syntactic and semantic layer, which are greatly determined by features of the verbs that build sentence structures. The authors analyse semantic-syntactic processes in sentence structures identified in the study material – most of which involve condensation – and formal manifestations of basic sentence categories that have an impact on the features of syntactic structures. The study also involves important lexicographic questions, concerning not only the form and content of dictionary entries but also their delimitation, that is, drawing a line beyond which items under consideration display different features and thus should make up separate entries. Since the volume concerns three Slavic languages, it also includes some observations and conclusions on their contrastive features.

Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi)

Author(s): Aleksander Kiklewicz,Małgorzata Korytkowska,Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska,Agnieszka Zatorska / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian,Polish

“Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi)” (An integrated semantic and syntactic description of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: Verba cogitandi and verba sentiendi) includes an extensive monographic study of two classes of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: verbs of thinking (verba cogitandi) and verbs of feeling (verba sentiendi), as well as two dictionaries featuring their semantic and syntactic descriptions. The study aims to investigate relations between the syntactic and semantic layer, which are greatly determined by features of the verbs that build sentence structures. The authors analyse semantic-syntactic processes in sentence structures identified in the study material – most of which involve condensation – and formal manifestations of basic sentence categories that have an impact on the features of syntactic structures. The study also involves important lexicographic questions, concerning not only the form and content of dictionary entries but also their delimitation, that is, drawing a line beyond which items under consideration display different features and thus should make up separate entries. Since the volume concerns three Slavic languages, it also includes some observations and conclusions on their contrastive features.

Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi)

Author(s): Aleksander Kiklewicz,Małgorzata Korytkowska,Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska,Agnieszka Zatorska / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian,Polish

“Zintegrowany opis semantyczno-syntaktyczny czasowników bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich (verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi)” (An integrated semantic and syntactic description of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: Verba cogitandi and verba sentiendi) includes an extensive monographic study of two classes of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian verbs: verbs of thinking (verba cogitandi) and verbs of feeling (verba sentiendi), as well as two dictionaries featuring their semantic and syntactic descriptions. The study aims to investigate relations between the syntactic and semantic layer, which are greatly determined by features of the verbs that build sentence structures. The authors analyse semantic-syntactic processes in sentence structures identified in the study material – most of which involve condensation – and formal manifestations of basic sentence categories that have an impact on the features of syntactic structures. The study also involves important lexicographic questions, concerning not only the form and content of dictionary entries but also their delimitation, that is, drawing a line beyond which items under consideration display different features and thus should make up separate entries. Since the volume concerns three Slavic languages, it also includes some observations and conclusions on their contrastive features.

Życie na wyspach. Chorwacka współczesna proza insularna

Author(s): Anna Boguska / Language(s): Croatian,Polish

This book is devoted to the study of meanings and functions of the island in contemporary Croatian insular fiction. It is also an attempt to encourage the rejection of simplistic, trivial, strictly tourist representation of the country. The study focuses on eight contemporary works of fiction (seven novels and one collection of short stories written between the 1950s and 2000s) set on the islands off the eastern coast of the Adriatic. They are analysed applying Paul Ricoeur’s method of exploring the symbol, as proposed in “The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought”, the concluding chapter of his volume The Symbolism of Evil. Following his idea, the author of this study indicates four symbols: the desert, the prison, the theatrum mundi and the garden, by means of which she tries to approach the main symbol: the island. She elaborates on each of them on the basis of two different books, proposing two diverse interpretations of the notion in focus and uncovering attendant human experience they convey.

Ramy semantyczne w tekstach umów najmu – analiza konfrontatywna polsko-angielsko-niemiecka

Author(s): Agnieszka Pluwak / Language(s): English,Polish,German

"Ramy semantyczne w tekstach umów najmu" [Semantic Frames in Lease Agreements] is a contrastive lexical analysis of texts in Polish, English and German (30 texts in each language), conducted using frame semantics and FrameNet, and extended with examples from the National Corpus of the Polish Language. The author develops a set of 33 frames which correspond to the data and concepts extracted by lease agreement analysts, such as AGREEMENT, OBLIGATION, MAKING AGREEMENT and DUTY. The study presents the domain-oriented approach to frame semantics, verifies the classification of contrastive differences, and investigates differences and similarities between the use of English-based frames and translated texts versus Polish-based frames and a corpus of parallel texts. The analysis expands on existing research in the field by applying frame semantics as a new approach in the study of this area of Polish lexis. The domain knowledge representation developed in this study lays the groundwork for a potential automated data retrieval solution designed to extract data from Polish, English and German lease agreements, with semantic frames as a tertium comparationis.

Proza polska XX wieku. Przeglądy i interpretacje. Tom 1

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

Grażyna Maroszczuk, assistant professor at the Department of Contemporary Literature of the Ireneusz Opacki Institute of Polish Literature of the University of Silesia. Literary historian. // The area of the author's research interests is determined by the autobiographical issues of contemporary prose and paraliterary texts. A researcher of the 20th and 21st century prose, in her studies she asks about the existential dimension of literature, the experience of fear recorded in prose, and the prose testimonies of persistence in the face of the violence of History, in the face of death. // She published the books Discourse and stories. About novels by Andrzej Szczypiorski (Katowice 2004) and Testimonies - talks - creations. In the circle of interlocutionary texts (Katowice 2012). Co-editor of the lexicon Pisma Kultury w Polsce after 1989 (Katowice 2010), author of articles and dissertations in collective works. [04.2017]