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El Popol Vuh : interpretaciones de investigadores serbios

Author(s): Vesna Dickov / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2019

Resumen: El presente trabajo está dedicado a las interpretaciones del Popol Vuh,una de las obras literarias más conocidas de los antiguos mayas, hechas por investigadores serbios a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y durante las primeras dos décadas del siglo XXI. Con este objetivo,se presentan críticamente, respetando el criterio cronológico de su aparición, los textos sobre el Popol Vuh (estudios, ensayos,prefacios, postfacios, artículos), escritos por autores serbios y publicados, tanto en libros como en revistas literarias, en el idioma serbio. El marco metodológico que ha resultado más apropiado para comprender el proceso comunicativo en cuestión, así como su papel en la modificación del horizonte de expectativas de los lectores serbios, se apoya en el análisis y comparación de todos los elementos relevantes que forman parte de la recepción interpretativa en Serbia de la obra. Abstract: The present work is dedicated to the interpretations of the Popol Vuh,one of the best-known literary works of the ancient Mayans, which were made by Serbian researchers throughout the second half of the 20th century and during the first two decades of the 21st century. With this objective, the texts on the Popol Vuh (studies,essays, prefaces, postfaces, articles) written by Serbian authors and published both in books and in literary magazines in Serbian language, are presented critically, respecting the chronological criterion of their appearance. The methodological framework that has been most appropriate to be applied in order to understand the communicative process in question as well as its role in changing the horizon of expectations of Serbian readers, is based on the analysis and comparison of all the relevant elements that form part of this aspect of the interpretive reception in Serbia.

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Innovación educativa: didáctica de la literatura infantil desde la perspectiva de género. Propuestas de intervención

Author(s): Blanca Hernández Quintana / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2019

Resumen: La educación literaria, como agente de transmisión cultural y social, tiene la responsabilidad de formar a lectores/as que sean capaces de desarrollar el espíritu crítico y cuestionar aquellos aspectos de la sociedad que deben mejorar. Además de su valor estético y artístico, la didáctica de la educación literaria debe contemplar también la visión social, las interpretaciones y los valores que subyacen tras su discurso. Muchos textos disfrazan de normalidad contenidos sexistas que perpetúan conductas discriminatorias hacia las mujeres. La lectura y el análisis de los textos desde la perspectiva de género implican trabajar por y desde la igualdad para ofrecer modelos de identificación que rompan con los estereotipos sexistas. Nuestras propuestas didácticas pasanpor ampliar el canon que se trabaja en las aulas para visibilizar a las autoras y también apostar por contenidos que desmonten los imperativos de género y lo normativo, conla intención de integrar la diversidad sexual a través de la literatura. Los resultados avalan la necesidad de implantar la coeducación en las aulas para construir un mundo más justo e igualitario. Abstract: Literary education, as an agent of cultural and social transmission, has the responsibility of training readers who are capable of developing their critical spirit and questioning those aspects of society that should be improved. In addition to its aesthetic and artistic value, the didactics of literary education must also contemplate the social vision, interpretations and values that underlie its discourse. Many texts disguise sexist contents that perpetuate discriminatory behaviors towards women. Reading and analyzing texts from a gender perspective implies working for and from equality in order to offer identification models that break with sexist stereotypes. Our didactic proposals go through to extend the canon that can be observed in the classrooms to make women authors visible and also to bet on contents that dismantle the gender and normative imperatives, with the intention of integrating sexual diversity through literature. The results support the need to implement coeducation in the classroom to build a fairer and more equal world.

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„Broniłem i bronię polskości innej”

Author(s): Andrzej Franaszek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Franaszek draws a biographical map of the relationship between Józef Czapski andCzesław Miłosz, analysing the divergent personality traits of these two outstanding artists who shaped the landscape of Polish culture in the second half of the twentiethcentury. The focus is on exploring the debates and altercations in their articles and private correspondence – especially those that touched on Polish patriotism or nationalism (which goes hand in hand with xenophobia and anti-Semitism), and even Polishness assuch, with its underlying intellectual and spiritual formations. Franaszek also highlights the fundamental differences as well as numerous overlaps in their evaluation, as well astheir shared dream of a “different Polishness” marked by complex identities and multidimensionality.

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Centaur w zagrodzie Wenus. Machiavelli i pragnienia męskości

Author(s): Nina Gładziuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

While Machiavelli is usually viewed as the founder of sober political realism, consumedby concerns of acquiring and maintaining power, his thought is also notably masculine,replete with themes concerning male sex and gender. He condemns all manifestations ofeffeminacy and proclaims what could be called a centaurial ideal of masculinity. Gładziukargues, however, that contained in Machiavelli’s concept of the masculinum is a maledesire to be unmanly.

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Krytyka genetyczna jako kulturowa poietyka (nie)pamięci

Author(s): Mateusz Antoniuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Antoniuk begins by proposing that genetic criticism (the study of the process of writing) asa scholarly practice has a potential for effective and valuable collaboration with memory studies. In parts two and three he offers a literary critical and sociological analysis ofZbigniew Herbert’s poem “Wilki,” which enjoys the status of a memory text. Antoniuk begins by examining its publication history, then demonstrates the effectiveness ofgenetic criticism which – by revealing the poem’s manuscript pre-history – deepens our understanding of it as “a medium of memory”. Part four is a methodologial and theoretical extrapolation of the insights gained from the analysis of this unique case.

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„Ten biedny Itek! Taki zblazowany! Pozuje!” Gombrowicz jako pozer

Author(s): Ewa Kobyłecka-Piwońska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Kobyłecka-Piwońska discusses Argentinian interpretations of Gombrowicz’s work that refer to notions of posing. She begins by outlining the history of simulation as an illness and as a strategy of assimilation applied by immigrants in Argentina. Next she analyses passages in the Diary, using the notion of the pose as an attitude to life and as a narrative strategy. The article concludes with an analysis of Gombrowicz’s Wędrówki po Argentynie[Travels in Argentina], where both Polish and Argentine nationality, presented throughthe lens of exotism, appear as a pose.

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„Polnische Bibliothek” Karla Dedeciusa. Literatura między polityką kulturalną a praktyką wydawniczą

Author(s): Paweł Zajas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

The “Polnische Bibliothek” – launched by the Polish Cultural Institute in Darmstadt, cofunded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and published by Suhrkamp Verlag – represents a unique attempt to introduce Polish literature to the German-language book market.Zajas examines the project’s historical, political and institutional context. Drawing on unpublished correspondence between contributors he highlight understudied processes pertaining to the transfer of Polish literature into the German-language cultural field and addresses the need for a conceptualisation of such phenomena. His methodological framework is based on the notion of histoire croisée, adapted in this case to the study of a translation’s production. The point of departure is the work of the many individuals involved, their conflicts and their attempts to solve them.

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Raz jeszcze o Paryżu Wokulskiego (u źródeł polskich rozpoznań własnej peryferyjności)

Author(s): Michał Kuziak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Rereading Bolesław Prus’s novel The Doll, Kuziak explores how the protagonist Wokulski experiences Paris. This perspective sheds light on the emergence of Poland’s marginal position in the nineteenth-century world system, where Paris was a centre of civilisation. Prus’s novel portrays the birth of the Poles’ Great Other in the nineteenth century – the European, notably the French, and it provides an analysis of the reasons of Poland’smarginality.

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Cenzura wobec powojennej twórczości Leopolda Staffa. Przypadek Wikliny

Author(s): Kamila Budrowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

Budrowska describes the attitude of the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic towards the poet Leopold Staff (1878-1957) in the period 1945-57. Discussing the censorship of his works she focuses on his 1954 poetry collection Wiklina [Osiers]. Mostof the archival materials from the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows(GUKPPiW) that inform this article have not yet been examined by literary scholars. Theyindicate the following findings: first, in the years 1952-53 books by Staff were banned from publication; second, the printing of the collection Wiklina (1953) was a turning point in the poet’s life and a harbinger of the thaw; and third, the censors interfered with the structure of the volume removing its cyclical structure and altering the order of the poems.

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Listy Witolda Gombrowicza do Leo Lipskiego

Author(s): Piotr Sadzik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2020

The epistolary dialogue between Witold Gombrowicz and Leo Lipski is an overlookedepisode in the history of Polish literature. Their correspondence began with the “Bubercase,” i.e. Gombrowicz’s idea that Lipski should put him in touch with Martin Buber. Thematerial presented here consists of hitherto unknown letters by Gombrowicz to Lipski,archived at the Kultura Literary Institute in the Parisian suburb Maisons-Laffitte, as wellas a note in which Lipski details their relationship. To reconstruct the context of thiscorrespondence Sadzik has also drawn on other previously unexamined materials, suchas Lipski’s correspondence with Jerzy Giedroyc (also at the Kultura archive) as well as thecollection of the Archives of Polish Emigration in Toruń.

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Spotkanie pacjenta z lekarzem oraz anamneza jako clou medycyny narracyjnej w eseistyce Andrzeja Szczeklika

Author(s): Dorota Samborska-Kukuć / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The patient’s meeting with the doctor and the anamnesis interview are the key questions of narrative medicine elaborated by Rita Charon and practiced in the West since the1990s. In Andrzej Szczeklik’s essays, which draw on Charon’s research as well as Hans G.Gadamer’s philosophical work, they are essential postulates in the process of diagnosis. Szczeklik highlights the role of the understanding between patient and practicioner and the emotional comfort provided by communucation, whereby dialogue and the phenomenological interpretation of anamnesis – the patien’t maladic narrative– represent the fundamental stage, the basis of objective examination and further diagnositc activities as well as the course of the therapy. Szczeklik exalts the profession of the doctor, emphasising its mission in the era of medicalisation and bureaucracy andrestoring the significance of a calling and of mindfulness. His Nieśmiertelność invites us to reflect on the need to include training in communication skills in medical studies, asthese are essential, for instance in times of a pandemic.

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Smutek miasta/smutek w mieście. Koncepcja hüzün w prozie Orhana Pamuka

Author(s): Filip Ryba / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Ryba examines the notion of hüzün in Orhan Pamuk’s fiction with a focus on the historical and linguistic context. He draws on theories of affect as well as memory and postcolonial studies. His aim is to highlight the multidimensionality and functionality of the notionof hüzün, and to make its complexity accessible to Polish readers.

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James Machin: Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939

Author(s): Alexander Hay / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Review of: Alexander Hay, James Machin, WEIRD FICTION IN BRITAIN 1880–1939 Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Sean Moreland (ed.): New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature. The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft

Author(s): Niall Gildea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Review of: Niall Gildea, Sean Moreland (ed.), NEW DIRECTIONS IN SUPERNATURAL HORROR LITERATURE: THE CRITICAL INFLUENCE OF H. P. LOVECRAFT Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Chromophilic Annihilation: Posthuman Prisms and New Materialist Refractions of Reality

Author(s): Mashya Boon / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

While the film’s title might suggest otherwise, Annihilation (Garland, 2018) is not about the nullification of existence. Rather, it deals with a refractory re-creation of reality, in which colour plays a pivotal part. The manner in which this film creates a novel kind of being (not only) human presents rich avenues for exploring how colour is deployed in imagining ‘the posthuman.’ Annihilation’s iridescent ‘Shimmer’ envisions a life-altering alien force which seems to devour the world as we know it. This article analyses how Annihilation’s hallucinatory, weird colour-scapes conceptualise a posthuman state of existence which relentlessly refracts each and every aspect of life, calling into question what it means to be human or nonhuman, animate or inanimate, dead or alive. In investigating how Annihilation’s peculiar use of ‘prismatic’ colour functions within David Batchelor’s concepts of ‘chromophobia/-philia,’ while analysing the film’s chromatic alien refraction in light of the new materialist theories of Karen Barad and Donna Haraway, this article fashions a protraction of the notion of chromophilia in which the ontology of colour itself gains a posthuman connotation. In Batchelor’s argument about chromophobia, colour is delineated as dangerously ‘other,’ and even as alien. This rationale is aligned with the ‘enlightened’ humanist discourse which values shape over colour, integrity over chaos. Yet, it is also intimately connected to its counterpart—chromophilia—a discourse that revels in colour’s refractory qualities and can be linked to the ‘digital.’ To illuminate the thus far unexplored topic of‘ posthuman colour,’ the article argues that Annihilation demonstrates how chromophilia can encompass an inherently posthuman and new materialist ‘essence.’

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Looking for Lear in Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep

Author(s): Maciej Wieczorek / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2010, Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep is an attempt to update the well-known story of King Lear to contemporary times. It focuses on Colm, an aging CEO who decides to divide his company evenly between two of his employees at the price of his only son’s share, a decision that results in escalating a bloody conflict that tears apart the business empire. Despite featuring an all-star cast and having the full support of the RSC, The Gods Weep received mixed to wholly negative reviews and was criticized for being chaotic, lengthy and not faithful enough to the masterpiece of the Bard. The present article addresses the problems raised by the critics and attempts to demonstrate that their responses were largely misguided, as most of them failed to recognize the full complexity of what they were dealing with. Thus the paper first shows that Kelly’s play is not merely a response to King Lear but, rather, a bricolage that recycles Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Sarah Kane’s Blasted as well as a number of other works. The article then suggests that The Gods Weep is not an adaptation but an appropriation, as it shifts the political thrust of the hypotext and bears a mark of Kelly’s in-yer-face sensibility. Finally, the contribution argues that, given the range of sources that are being recycled, the play should not be viewed as an appropriation of a single text. Building on the concept of the “work” as formulated in Margaret Jane Kidnie’s Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation, I suggest that The Gods Weep should be viewed in the context of all texts which may be subsumed under what I call the “Lear type.”

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Językowe oraz pozawerbalne wyróżniki XIX-wiecznego savoir-vivre’u i rozmów salonowych w opowiadaniu Stefanii Ulanowskiej Babie lato

Author(s): Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2020

The article discusses linguistic and non-verbal features of 19th-century savoir-ivre. Babie lato [Indian Summer] by Stefania Ulanowska (1839–?), the source text under scrutiny, is a 21-page short story, which has most probably never come out in print. There are four conversation situations in the text: 1) a symmetrical setup (the interlocutors have equal social status and comparable pragmatic rank), 2) a symmetrical setup with asymmetrical features, related to the conversation between a man and a woman, 3) a less distanced asymmetrical setup, where the participants of the conversation are the mother and children, 4) a full asymmetric setup, in which the mistress of the house addresses the maid. The short story moreover features non-verbal etiquette features, such as a man tipping over his hat when he sees a woman and a man kissing a woman’s hand. The characteristics of etiquette observed in Babie lato are a supplement to the deliberations on savoir-vivre in the 19th century and confirm the changes that took place at that time in terms of courtesy in comparison with the old Polish period. They are also a testimony to the old culture of the nobility, transferred to bourgeoisie houses.

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Jokes, aporia and undecidability

Author(s): Alex Segal / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Derrida saw laughter as a version of aporia; and he linked aporia to an undecidability that he ties to fiction. I argue that such undecidability contributes to some jokes. Sometimes this undecidability enables the joke to combine plausibility and delightfulness. More interesting and more aporetic is the way that undecidability contributes to jokes that foreground their textual status (some meta-jokes for instance) and those that have an effect of unfathomability. The jokes considered include one on which Derrida commented and another which was told at his Columbia University memorial service.

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Użycie kursywy w poezji Klary Nowakowskiej

Author(s): Karol Knapiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 17/2020

The article reflects upon the record and its meaning in the poetry of Klara Nowakowska. By analyzing the italicized parts in terms of syntax, lexis, rhythm as well as their position in the text, the author of the article presents their diversity and explains the typographical distinctions. It leads to deeper reflections upon the poem as a graphical text and to the analogy between a poetic utterance and a musical piece.

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Od melologu do melodramatu i dalej, czyli historia wątpliwej tożsamości

Author(s): Iwona Puchalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2020

The term “melologo”, used sporadically in modern language and treated as an Italian synonym for melodrama, was in its genesis associated with the beginnings of melodramma, although it had a distinct genre and stylistic distinctiveness. The aim of the article is to make this term more precise and to discuss examples of related artistic realizations. The confrontation of the notions of melodrama and melolog in a historical and genological perspective, their etymological and linguistic revision, as well as a comparison of artistic works that represent them allow for the specification of the determinants of the eighteenth-century melodrama and for the identification of specific genre features of the melolog, which – under different names – was practiced throughout the nineteenth century and the twentieth century.

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