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Narracje fantastyczne

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

Książka Narracje fantastyczne pod wspólną redakcją Kseni Olkusz i Krzysztofa M. Maja jest piątym tomem serii „Perspektywy Ponowoczesności”, zbierającym na blisko siedmiuset stronach trzydzieści tekstów naukowych rozpatrujących szeroko pojętą fantastykę z perspektywy ponowoczesnej, transdyscyplinarnej i światocentrycznej zarazem. Z recenzji prof. dr hab. Anny Łebkowskiej (Uniwersytet Jagielloński): Tom „Narracje fantastyczne” to zbiór studiów poświęconych ważnym współczesnym zjawiskom obecnym w literaturze, filmie, grach komputerowych i szeroko rozumianym świecie kultury. Wśród jego wielu zalet wymienić należy na pierwszym miejscu opracowanie mocnych podstaw teoretycznych. Autorzy podważają paradygmat tekstocentryczny i opisują zjawisko zwrotu światocentrycznego, przekonująco je udokumentowując. Przedstawione w tomie studia pozwalają nie tylko usytuować współczesne narracje fantastyczne na tle przemian światopoglądowych, teorii filozoficznych i kulturowych, ale zarazem ukazać ich wyraźne powiązania z namysłem nad ponowoczesnością. Książka zaleca się także – między innymi – ważnymi głosami na temat sporów wokół współczesnego kanonu fantastyki, rozważaniami poświęconymi figurze cyborga w świetle teorii posthumanistycznych czy zagadnieniu transfikcjonalności. Zgodnie z przyjętą ramą światocentryczną w osobnej części tomu znajdziemy studia na temat przestrzeni: głównie miasta i społeczeństwa, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem problemu utopii, a także rozprawy, których autorzy skoncentrowali się na kwestiach temporalnych (tu m.in. historie alternatywne). Rozległe spektrum badanych problemów dopełnione zostało przez – poparte gruntownymi analizami – interpretacje zjawisk obecnych w wielu mediach. Należy z całym przekonaniem stwierdzić, że tom oddawany do rąk czytelnika stanowi cenną inicjatywę badawczą.

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Dłonie czasu

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

The book belongs to the essayistic part of Andrzej Gronczewski’s work. It combines two perspectives: the essayistic outlook with a melancholy reflection on human existence and the history of culture, and most importantly on the form which both acquire through the passing of time. It is an original artistic work, a sort of an intellectual diary, a monologue of a literature scholar and an art Connoisseur.

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Orientalisme, colonialisme, interculturalité – l’œuvre d’Aline Réveillaud de Lens

Author(s): Małgorzata Sokołowicz / Language(s): French

The book rediscovers the works of Aline Réveillaud de Lens (1881-1925), a French writer and painter who, since 1911, lived and worked in Tunisia and Morocco. In her works she portraited Maghreb and North African women. Three categories – orientalism, colonialism and interculturality – have been used to show the dynamics and uniqueness of her texts and paintings.

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SPAŢII INTERMEDIARE / SPACES IN BETWEEN

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

This bilingual volume includes literary, linguistic, and translation studies revealing the different forms of intermediation, the various aspects and expressions of being between two or more spaces, realities, be it real or imaginary. The present volume contains selected and peer-reviewed papers and presentations held at the conference with the same title, organized by the Department of Human Sciences, Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Science and Engineering in Miercurea Ciuc in collaboration with the Intercultural Confluences Research Centre.

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Zachowania komunikacyjne dzieci z autyzmem. Wpływ deficytów kompetencji komunikacyjnej na sposób porozumiewania się dzieci z autyzmem

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

The books contains descriptions and analyses of communicative behaviours of autistic children; it also shows the influence of deficiency in communicative competence on the communicative function of the utterance.

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My i Inni – ewolucja wyobrażeń. Polski dyskurs prasowy w świetle imagologii i pamięci zbiorowej

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

The book discusses issues from the area of imagology – interdisciplinary studies on the perceptions of nations and countries, documented both in texts and in the structures of languages, and of humanistic memorology – a field that describes processes of collective memorizing, forgetting, and recollecting facts of the past events that might have influenced the shaping of collective memory by means of methods available to humanists (philologists, linguists, and predominantly ethnolinguists and discourse researchers). The article’s primary aim is to depict the evolution of – characteristic of the 20thand 21st-century Polish linguistic culture – images of nations and countries, to present the ways they have been shaped by means of measures available in press discourse, as well as to capture a special role of historical data predestined by those who govern the discourse to remember or to forget. This is connected with perceptions of proper construction of canon of values and memory topoi of the Polish culture. (part of the summary)

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Język Artystyczny. T. 17: Obrzeża, marginesy, rudymenty…

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

There are a few topics considered in the monograph. One can distinguish among others: question of perimeters in artistic oeuvres, cultural phenomena of margin character and their manifestations in literature, main streams versus niche, different understanding of non/normativeness, interfusion, collages, nebulosity of genres, styles, discourses, changes of subject category (e.g. posthumanism, transhumanism). All of them could be treated as detrituses, remains, scraps as a new perspective of world description, expression of many system metamorphosis of artistic language, style and discourse.

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Märchen und Spiel

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

The volume is a collection of 18 papers that examine the relationships between fairy tales and games/play from a variety of perspectives, taking on a broad range of research problems, methodological approaches and source materials. The contributors seek not only to elucidate the treatment of the game/play motif in fairy tales, but also to uncover the mechanics of intertextual and inter-medial play with the fairy tale tradition in American, British, Georgian, Icelandic, Austrian, Swiss and Polish culture. As such, the book showcases the richness and multi-layered quality of the “fairy tale and game/play” thematic complex, serving as inspiration and encouragement for continued research.

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Gramatyka języka koreańskiego z ćwiczeniami. Część 1, tom I

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

An academic Korean language handbook with practical exercises, commentaries and glossaries for Korean language students or those learning Korean at a university level. The language material used to explain Korean language system illustrates grammar rules, phrases, grammatical categories and syntax patterns. The book is the third volume in the „Coreana Varsoviensia” series.

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Przekład jako aneksja kulturowa dzieła

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

The book contains dissertations on translating foreign works into Polish and the Polish ones into Italian and German. What constitutes translatology is the transfer of a text into new culture and the strategies used to assimilate it. They are discussed in reference to selected works from the 16th to the 20th century. The authors are Polish and foreign scholars who are both researchers and translators of Polish literature.

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Sens życia, sens wiersza. Szkice o twórczości Stanisława Barańczaka

Author(s): Joanna Dembińska-Pawelec / Language(s): Polish

The work of Stanisław Barańczak – a poet, translator, essayist, literary critic – has for many years prompted studies, commentaries and interpretations. New editions of his legacy – correspondence with Wisława Szymborska, librettos of Mozart's operas, translations of the poetry of St. John of the Cross – open up a possibility for further research. The book "The Meaning of Life, the Meaning of a Poem. Sketches on the Work of Stanisław Barańczak" deals with unresearched problems of poetic, translation, epistolary and essayistic nature in the writer's oeuvre. In the author's interpretations, the axiological perspective is focal, unveiling the issue of the meaning of both human existence and his own literary work, which are inscribed in Barańczak's texts.

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Daleko i blisko. Szkice o prozie XX wieku

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

"Far away and yet so near" is a metaphoric title that somehow defines all the collected texts. It embraces what is here and now as well as what seems distinctive, imperishable and… essential? Even if not – still important and inseparable. All of the discussed writers – Konwicki, Kuncewiczowa, Stojowski, Vincenz, Hemar, Wierzyński, Filipowicz, Pavel – are without a doubt virtuosos, who undertook a breakneck task of engraving their pivotal, fundamental experiences in literature. The collection includes essays sharing a clearly determined theme – autobiographic works of writers, who experienced war, occupation, Eastern Polish and Galician myths, as well as post-war political turmoil – including Stalinism, social realism and the Polish thaw. The inclusion of the trope of angling, present in the writings of Kornel Filipowicz and Ota Pavel, an exceptional author from the Czech Republic, may come as a surprise. It is easy to underestimate its importance, but the theme is by no means trivial. The moments of solitude in the wild, with a fishing rod as a sole companion, were cherished times of escape from the war trauma.

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Adaptacje biografii i twórczości Josepha Conrada w kulturze współczesnej

Author(s): Agnieszka Adamowicz‑Pośpiech / Language(s): Polish

Adaptations seem to be ubiquitous in contemporary culture. The present monograph touches upon the subject of widely understood adaptations in relation to Joseph Conrad’s life and work. Most definitions of adaptation operate on the assumption that it is a literary work which constitutes the seed of an adaptation. The author argues, however, that biographies of writers have also become fully-fledged cultural texts and, similarly to literary texts, may be subject to adaptation. The biography of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski constitutes rich adaptation material, in which sensational plots overlap with adventures, and dramatic events (including love stories) interweave with comedic ones. It comes as no surprise, then, that many artists have drawn on this arsenal of motifs, have tapped into this arsenal of motifs, choosing their favorite episodes and fleshing them out or dramatizing them to transform them in their works. The monograph constitutes an analysis of the transformation of Conrad’s figure (and his works) by contemporary artists within five categories: graphic novels (Heart of Darkness. A Graphic Novel by C. Anyango and D.Z. Mairowitz, Congo by T. Tirabosco and Ch. Perrissin, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness by P. Kuper and Au coeur des ténèbres by S. Miquel and L. Godart), comic books (The Amazing Tales by J. Conrad, Ł. Godlewski and M. Jasiński), literary appropriations (Heart of Darkness by J. Dukaj, Dżozef by J. Małecki, Condition by E. Rylski), theater plays (Conrad by I. Villqist, Wyspiański/Conrad by T. Man), film scripts and radio plays (Victory by H. Pinter). Finally, the volume discusses the presence of the figure of Conrad in the context of contemporary branding, as well as the factors conducive to building a strong “Conrad” brand in contemporary Polish culture. The conducted analyses demonstrate, in turn, that not only the writer’s works, but also his biography understood as a cultural text remains present in contemporary culture, constituting an attractive and abundant source of adaptation.

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Furia i szlachetniejszy rozum. Próby o "Burzy" Williama Szekspira

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

As Stephen Greenblatt claims The Tempest summarizes all major preoccupations of other plays: legitimate power is abolished, civilization is threatened by wilderness, discourse is besieged by the darkness of inarticulate sounds, and theatrical performance looms large as a metaphor of human life. It is the final play of a great master and hence one is tempted to venture a hypothe-sis that, perhaps Shakespeare’s Prospero, like Ulisses in the XI canto of Odysei, speaks to us from the other side, from a dark and mysterious island of the dead, and his theatre is the only way in which we could approach death in the epoch of broken rituals and general disenchantment. Thus, Prospero’s famous line at the end of the play “Our revels now are ended” declares not only the end of the time of performance but refers to a much wider, Kermodian, sense of ending.

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Marvels of Reading. Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher

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

"Marvels of Reading. Essays in Honour of Profesor Andrzej Wicher" jest tomem esejów napisanych w większości w języku angielskim i honorującym sześćdziesięciolecie urodzin profesora Andrzeja Wichra, jednego z czołowych mediewistów i szekspirologów polskich. Tom składa się z jedenastu tekstów autorstwa uznanych polskich badaczy literatury, kultury i filozofii krajów anglojęzycznych, przyjaciół i dawnych uczniów Profesora, a tematyka tekstów obraca się wokół zainteresowań badawczych jubilata: studiów nad literaturą starogermańską, staroangielską, średnioangielską, "Rajem utraconym" J. Miltona, poezją G. M. Hopkinsa, filozofią melancholii, strukturą baśni, a także tłumaczeniem średnioangielskiego romansu rycerskiego.  Tom zawiera w sobie następujące artykuły: “Margery Kempe’s Roman (Purgatorial) Holiday, or on Penance and Pleasure in Medieval Journeys” (Liliana Sikorska); “Magic and Religion in the Prose Merlin” (Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz); “All That is Wrought is not Gold: Locating Wealth in Old English Gnomic Texts” (Rafał Borysławski); “The Character of Iêsu Krist in the Old Saxon Gospel Harmony The Hêliand as a Dramatic Cultural Synthesis Combining Elements of Deep Christian Piety and the Germanic Code of Heroic Honour” (Łukasz Neubauer); “’Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?’: ‘Spring and Fall’ in the Poetic Thoughts of Gerard Manley Hopkins (and Charles Taylor’s Philosophy)” (Ewa Borkowska); “Ethnically Different Mothers-in-law in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale and Its 2003 BBC Adaptation” (Anna Czarnowus); “Jacques and the Politics of Melancholia” (Tadeusz Sławek); “Death and the Hero – Paradise Lost and the Problem of Theomachia” (Maria Błaszkiewicz); “A Fairy Tale in Focus: Ecstatic Focalisations in A Christmas Carol” (Jacek Mydla); „Czytanie cudów w Panu Gawenie i Zielonym Rycerzu i Opowieści Franklina” (Barbara Kowalik); “More Motivated Malignity? The Ominous Agenda of the Green Knight in Andrzej Wicher’s Translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (Piotr Spyra). Praca jest adresowana do filologów angielskich, badaczy literackiej kultury krajów anglosaskich, a także studentów filologii angielskiej.

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Paradoksy paryskiej „Kultury”. Styl i tradycje myślenia politycznego. Wyd. 3. zm. i uzup.

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

The aim of the book is to analyze the political conceptions of the monthly“Kultura” in the period since its creation antil 1980. The magazine, whichstarted coming out in 1947 in Italy, was created by expatriate Poles, who afterthe Yalta Agreements chose to stay in the West. The editorial board soonmoved to France where on the outskirts of Paris in the small town of Maisons-Laffitte the monthly journal has been edited ever since. Thanks to the originalprofile of the magazine and its political philosophy it has managed to grouparound itself numerous outstanding Polish writers and commentators, boththose active in the emigré communities and those living in Poland. AlsoWestern authors as well as writers and commentators from other countries inCentral and Eastern Europe published their texts on the magazine’s pages.In spite of “Kultura’s” illustrious successes and unique accomplishments,earlier research on its history has hot moved beyond its initial stage. Inpublications devoted to the phenomenon of “Kultura” we may encountercontradictory ideological qualifications and opinions on the magazine’spolitical profile. This is a consequence of the fact that there is a painful lackof source materials and books analyzing the accomplishments of “Kultura”from a longterm perspective. This book aims to fill out this gap by analyzinga period of over thirty years in the history of the periodical. An attempt ismade to divide this history into periods on the basis of ideological and politicalcriteria. A further aim is to define the style of political thinking dominant inthe materials published in the periodical and to characterize it against thebackground of earlier political debates in pre-war Poland. The adopteddiachronic perspective and the wide spectrum of analyzed phenomena willprovide the basis for an assessment of which conceptions and ideologicalelements and values were constantly present in the political platform of theeditors and which made only a temporary appearance in connection with thepolitical sympathies of the periodical or the changing circumstances on theworld scene. It should be added that this is the first book on the subject totruly cover the comprehensive research material and to analyze the politicaltrends in “Kultura” from a long-term perspective.The main thesis of the book may be formulated(excerpt from the summary)

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Author(s): Mihaela Michailov,Radu Apostol / Language(s): Romanian

The play launches an important debate about the roles and functions of teachers, about teaching practices and the need to update them to the digital era and its implications, about the integration of children with special education needs, about the increasingly problematic relationships between parents and teachers, about the ever-present bureaucracy, about the system. Education is seen as an ongoing struggle for authority. The play was developed following an elaborate research and documentation process. For several months, playwright Mihaela Michailov and theatre director Radu Apostol, interviewed dozens of teachers, education specialists, school inspectors, representatives from the Ministry of Education and theorists, to understand in depth the complexity of the problems they face and the solutions that can be activated.

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Multimodalność w narracjach o komunikacji

Author(s): Celina Heliasz-Nowosielska / Language(s): Polish

The book is the first scientific publication, which describes how Polish language users relate communication activities and what place in their relations is taken by the definition of their modality, i.e. the voice, looks, mimics, gestures, movement and body postures. The results of the research were obtained through analysis of the corpus data from the experimental corpus devised by the author, which allows for correlating in one database the recordings of communication activities (the interaction scenes from silent and sound documentaries from thearchives of Lodz Film School) and the relations of more than one hundred people who differ in age, gender and education.

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En busca de la imaginería y la atmósfera de la obra original en la traducción

Author(s): Joanna Wilk-Racięska / Language(s): Spanish

The author offers an analysis of such a seemingly elusive thing as the description of the atmosphere of the source text in the target text. This task has led, relatively recently, to the formulation of perfunctory and subjective remarks that had nothing, or very little, to do with scientific inquiry, since there existed no specialized linguistic means to create and reproduce the author’s imagery that creates literary atmosphere. However, this publication has managed to avoid this danger thanks to the proposals of cognitive scientists. The starting point is the belief that writers — having only linguistic signs at their disposal — create images that remain fixed before the readers’ eyes. Part I describes the cognitive poetics tools for analyzing a literary work and its translation. Part II, on the other hand, focuses on the application of these “tools” to translations of experienced translators [into English, French, Polish and Russian] and a critical commentary on the result of their work.

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Prace Bałtystyczne. Tom 8

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Latvian,Polish,Lithuanian

Volume 8 of the series "Works in Baltic Studies. Language – Literature – Culture" features sixteen articles (in Lithuanian, Latvian, English and Polish) devoted to various aspects of the notion of freedom, analysed from the perspectives of Lithuanian and Latvian linguistics, literary studies and cultural studies.

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