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The aim of the article is to present the research hypothesis featured in theheadline. In view of the convictions declared by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński –admittedly, vague and not entirely clear, nevertheless, allowing to claim that heregarded himself as "a religious man" – the author of the study suggests callingthe writer more adequately, as it appears, a man of the language of "religious". At the core of the assumption that it is possible to define Gustaw Herling-Grudziński with the modified category of homo religiosus (a religious man) liesthe category which was constructed for the purpose of the study of the languageof religious experience. It is the category of the language of "religious", as thelanguage of what relates to religion, what concerns religion and whatis connected with it. The considerable output of the writer abounds in argumentssupporting the rightness and correctness of the title term (i.e. a man of thelanguage of "religious").
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The Mater Dolorosa topic in the Dominican Meditations, an extensive old-Polish apocryphal work dealing with the Passion, written around the year 1532 at the Dominican Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Kraków, is discussed. The article examines the amplifications by the anonymous author of that work in relation to the extremely brief reference in the Gospels to the Holy Mother’s participation in Jesus’ Passion: the only part of the New Testament to make any mention of the Holy Virgin Mary’s presence at Christ’s death is the Gospel according to St. John 19: 25-27. A further objective of the article was to identify the main rhetorical strategies applied in the adaptations of the Biblical text: the apotheosis of Mary’s motherhood and the glorification of the spiritual links joining Mary and Jesus.
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A vast collection of Tomasz Młodzianowski`s sermons is an excellent example of coexistence of both doctrinal considerations and ars predicandi rules. A great amount of analyzed theological and moral issues is connected with baroque fundamental problems and concerns. The aim of the thesis is to interpret the figures of suffering Christ, which was frequently used by the baroque preacher.In his sermons Młodzianowski primarily focuses on the suffering of God’s Son. The images of physical pain, with their persuasive function, are characterized by passion piety and dolorism so characteristic of the baroque vision of experiencing and understanding the mysteries of Christian faith. Moreover, the image of “man of sorrows” is set in a medieval cult of Jesus`s humanity and above all his torment. According to what the Jesuit says, Jesus Christ is perceptible through his suffering body – the visible sign of invisible grace.
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This article discusses the topic of the way texts function in the sects of the Catholic Church. An anthropological and linguistic analysis referring to the contemporary times has been presented. Sects produce and employ a quasi-religious language and also establish strong intragroup ties. Moreover, they are able to change their identity and have a strong background both in the tradition of the Church's history and new age cultural air. Depending on the functions they perform, I distinguish 1. authenticating and founding texts/statutes, 2. texts marking a stark and rigorous contrast: familiar: stranger 3. texts determining the intragroup role division. The analyses have been made on the basis of materials obtained from Dominikańskie Centrum Informacji o Nowych Ruchach Religijnych i Sektach [the Dominican Center of Information on New Religious Movements and Sects], as well as on numerous publications (including Internet sources), leaflets, brochures and interviews with informants who wanted to preserve their anonymity.
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The 2022 Polish critical edition of Józef Wittlin’s World War One novel, Salt of the Earth, features a footnote where the editor unequivocally identifies the main protagonist’s military unit as the Austro-Hungarian 55th Infantry Regiment, based on the initial letter of the unit’s Colonel-in-chief ’s name mentioned by the author. This aligns with the 1991 edition, which previously identified him as Nicholas I of Montenegro. With publications on the Austro- -Hungarian army now more widely accessible, the new editor enumerates the regiment’s characteristics and briefly outlines its history. However, other pertinent details scattered throughout the novel, such as the unit’s recruiting district (Śniatyn in Eastern Galicia), its garrison town (Stanisławów), and facing colour (orange), are completely disregarded.This article aims to demonstrate that, when considered collectively, these clues lead to the conclusion that Wittlin’s portrayal of the unit is entirely fictitious. The writer not only fails to mention the regiment’s number (replacing it with “X”) but also presents its mutually exclusive formal characteristics. It can be inferred that the author either could not present the unit consistently or, more likely, intentionally did so to prevent readers from associating it with any actual place and people. This conclusion is drawn from scrutiny of official printed sources in German, along with fundamental Austrian and Polish publications.
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Rezensionen 87 Dejan Djokić: A Concise History of Serbia 88 Christopher Nehring / Hendrik Sittig (Hg.): Blurring The Truth – Disinformation in Southeast Europe 89 Christian Voß / Sabina Ferhadbegović / Kateřina Králová (eds.): Memory Cultures in Southeast Europe since 1945 91 Florian Bieber: Pulverfass Balkan – Wie Diktatoren Einfluss in Europa nehmen 92 Hasan Hasanović: Srebrenica überleben 93 Enver Robelli: Ratko Mladići dhe banaliteti i së keqes – Një kronikë mbi luftën e Bosnjës dhe karrierën e një krimineli (Ratko Mladić und die Banalität des Bösen – Eine Chronik zum Bosnienkrieg und die Karriere eines Kriminellen) 95 Agilolf Keßelring: Die Bundeswehr auf dem Balkan – Zwischen Krieg und Friedenseinsatz 96 Stefan Troebst: Gewaltmigration, Globalisierung und Geschichtsregion(en) in europäischer Perspektive 97 Reiner Hoffmann / Peter Seideneck (Hg.): Der lange Weg zur Demokratie – Von Berlin über Budapest nach Prag und Danzig 99 Andrej Blatnik: Platz der Befreiung 100 Zoltán Szalai / Balázs Orbán (Hg.): Der ungarische Staat – Ein interdisziplinärer Überblick 101 Wilhelm Andreas Baumgärtner: Der gescheiterte Kaiser – Siebenbürgen unter Joseph II.
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The thesis of this paper is connected to those poems that activate a semantic renewal of a different kind of “real” and explore the poetic imaginary of the coronavirus, focusing on how Rodica Braga translates the fear, chaos, shock and bewilderment caused by the pandemic into her poetry. In a close reading analysis we will investigate how the pandemic, with all its effects, has reconstructed reality through a “new normality”, identifying, also, the paradigm shifts that this concept has encountered . We will also focus on how the confinement led to a different kind of reflection of reality and life in writing. Also, in the subsequent interpretative exercise, we will analyse the presence of the author, at a figurative level, in the semantics of autofi ctional lyrical discourse and observe with the help of relevant examples from Rodica Braga's poems how a broad interpretation of this concept can be useful for understanding the acting roles and avatars adopted by the “I” in the author's works.
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Our work sets out to exploit the way in which Greek mythology is reinterpreted and presented in a less discussed segment of literature – children’s literature. Based on Rick Riordan’s book Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods (a real publishing success in 2014), our purpose is to analyse the means used by the author to retell the stories of the Gods of mythology, while trying to meet the expectancy of and satisfy the taste of young readers of the 21st century. Language and humour are the main aspects taken into consideration in this work, as Riordan adopts an informal style, seen as almost unliterary, and creates unexpected associations between Greek mythology and the contemporary period for comic effect. In addition, the ancient tragedy is sacrificed in favour of modern comedy, while the characters, mythical figures, are portrayed in a post-modern way, being strongly endowed with human traits. In short, our interest is divided between the post-modern vision of Greek mythology that Riordan shares with his readers and the literary instruments he employs to give it a setting that is both attractive and literary in value.
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Human life as represented in literature is intricately connected with time and space. In Bakhtin’s words, this is equal to saying that the human perception and construction of experience have an essential chronotopic pattern. This is one of the basic structural principles adopted by a modernist writer as Virginia Woolf in her novels. Caught between past, present and future, between objective time and the subjective time of Bergsonian duration, Woolf’s protagonists enact metaphorical plunges into their inner infernos through flashbacks triggered by the spatio-temporal coordinates that define their diegetic positions. This paper aims to explore Woolf’s revisionary mode which projects the characters’ struggles on a background saturated with mythological allusions that provide a frame from within which restrictive traditional models and social conventions are subtly contested.
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The reconstruction of the experience in autobiographical texts supposes a permanent recourse by the author to all the factors which can ensure the cohesion and the authenticity of the story. Time and memory are essential phenomena of the autobiographical process, but both are at the perceptual, therefore subjective, level, which fundamentally influences the mode of organization of the story. Our aim is to study precisely these effects produced by the individual perception of time and by the particular functioning of memory on the narrative construction of Gide's autobiography, Si le grain ne meurt.
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At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Judith Gautier and Florence Ayscough respectively offered French and American audiences a zoo-centric narrative in which Asia is described through the eyes of an animal. This article compares the issues at stake in these two zoo-centric narratives, which renew representations of the Asian continent while exploiting very different writing strategies. In Judith Gautier's Mémoires d'un éléphant blanc, published in France in 1894, the eponymous white elephant travels from his native Laos to India, taking a critical look at the Western presence in Asia through a peaceful, animalistic plea. Judith Gautier's elephant can thus be likened to the narrator of Florence Ayscough's The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog, published in the USA in 1926. Yo Fei, the writer's dog, follows his mistress on her journeys between the Far East and the West and, as a true ethnographer, instinctively compares the two cultural worlds he explores. The aim of this article is to compare these two representations of Asia through the prism of the non-human, inviting Western public not only to move beyond ethnocentrism but also to question his place in the natural harmony.
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This paper attempts to familiarize the readers with the darker side of striving for beauty by discussing the effects of dangerous beauty practices depicted in Louisa Young’s historical novel My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. In order to analyze this fiction, the paper employs knowledge from the fields of gender studies, sociology, and others. The article begins with an introduction dedicated to familiarizing the reader with the novel’s author and its plot, as well as its historical background. Next the theoretical apparatus is discussed: the male gaze, objectification theory, women’s self-surveillance, and beauty-related purposeful pain. Finally, in the last part, I offer an in-depth analysis of Louisa Young’s novel. I argue that this work offers an interesting insight into the strife for beauty and its consequences during the First World War period. In my interpretation, the author conceptualizes the loss of beauty both as a threat to a woman’s social status, but also as a force that has a potential to free a woman from patriarchal norms, in addition to its being a testament of women’s trauma during the war, which has been previously proposed by other scholars.
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The “Lucianic” dialogue (according to the author, an academician from Pavia) elaborates the subject in variations, opening new perspectives for the inventive joy of the speakers in the dialogue, one academician and the other, philosopher. Indeed, what is more entertaining than delving what is obscure in man, this irresistible force of laughter which shakes him? First, ancient psycho-physiological knowledge serves as a framework for a definition that is being sought. Then, the additions of post-Vesalius medicine enrich the research. Then, the erudite developments in Italian flesh out the various species of laughter, jovial, but also loving, disdainful, and even sardonic. Finally, ancient philosophy nourishes the exchange without forgetting the “Ciceronian” dialectical formalization, However, it is physiology that brings about the dazzling conclusion of rejuvenation through laughter thanks to the circulation of vital spirits.
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In the short stories Navidades de Madrid (Madrid, 1663), by Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra, various physical and emotional ailments are mentioned, along with therapeutic remedies, particularly for melancholy caused by romantic problems. Among the remedies, humour plays a fundamental role, in various forms (jokes, poems). I would like to examine these ailments, the methods used to cure them, the narrator’s opinion on these issues, and humour as a therapy.
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I will question the recurrence of the thermal motif in Renaissance short narrative, thus showing how this motif illuminates and confirms the therapeutic place assigned to the short story and the facetious tale.I will bring together some medical writings and testimonies of thermal cures, which comment on the place of relaxatio animi in the thermal protocol, with collections of short stories which situate the storytelling activity in a thermal setting, the thermal cure: Novelle Porretane by Sabadino degli Arienti, Novella by Gentile Sermini, Facetiae by Heinrich Bebel and Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre. Through the cross-reading of fictional texts and testimonies given as authentic (such as the letter from the Baden baths by Poggio Bracciolini), my aim is to shed light on the Sitz im Leben of these collections, their “anchoring in the life of the time” and to show how the practice of storytelling during treatment, before becoming a topos, appears as a lived experience, which informs the writing and sometimes, triggers it.
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