Pożegnanie z ojcem, Imię Twoje, Krzewuszka
"Pożegnanie z ojcem", "Imię Twoje" and "Krzewuszka" by: Jan Maria Kłoczowski
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"Pożegnanie z ojcem", "Imię Twoje" and "Krzewuszka" by: Jan Maria Kłoczowski
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Na placu Hempla, Rok 1963, Bóstwa chtoniczne, by: Alfred Marek Wierzbicki
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The purpose of this publication is the interpretation of the song of Jacek Kaczmarski titled Jacob wrestling with the angel which shows the specificity of the poet’s view of the biblical theme. In the first part of the article, I discuss the figure of the Patriarch Jacob in the Bible and culture. Then I present the patriarch’s wrestling with an unknown opponent as it is shown in Jewish and Christian commentaries. In the interpretation of Kaczmarski’s song, I draw attention to the differences and similarities with the Scriptures and with Jewish and Christian interpretations. Kaczmarski creatively reinterprets the biblical theme. The song does not follow Jewish interpretations which see the unknown opponent as a guardian angel of Esau, archangel Michael or Satan. Nor does it follow Christian interpretations (psychological, allegorical, spiritual, mystical).
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This article deals with the implications of Alexander Vertinsky stay in Poland in the 1920s. Literary works of this representative of the first wave of Russian emigration enjoyed great popularity in the interwar period in Poland. Hence, he frequently gave concerts to a number of Polish cities and towns. The singer has made numerous acquaintances in all social circles, also in the artistic milieu, which until today eagerly reaches for his repertoire. The artist recorded many of his works and composed several hits in Poland. Vertinsky was not forgotten. His music scores, records, poetry books and memoirs were also published after his death
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This article is composed of three main parts: the first part briefly presents Prof. Jaworski’s professional and creative accomplishments, the second part provides a description of the most important research questions addressed by Prof. Jaworski in his scholarly work, while the last section of the article is devoted to personal recollections by the present writer, highlighting the profiles and roles of Professor Jaworski as a lecturer, scholar, intellectual, editor, science organiser and discourse partner. Stanisław Jaworski was a prominent expert in the Kraków Avantgarde group and the subsequent history of this avant-garde movement in Polish poetry in Poland as well as on changes and literary recurrences in modern Polish and European literature. His literary research techniques include a comparative perspective as an important element, whereas interpretations of poems still play a substantial part. Prof. Jaworski has written a groundbreaking work Piszę, więc jestem? [I write therefore I am?] introducing new ideas and methods in genetic criticism, the approach to the study of literature Prof. Jaworski adopted and developed. The present article identifies common ideas and ways of thinking in research and poetical creative work.
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The article shows how the visual-painting category of afterimage, which derives from Władysław Strzemiński’s concept, functions at the level of literature (in the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian) and literary studies, as an attempt to apply art concepts to the interpretation of verse. The text is experimental in that it suggests using afterimage as a tool of cognitive philosophy that enables the new meanings to be highlighted in reading the poetic works of Leśmian and in establishing the relations between the visual and the word.
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The article addresses the problem of absence of women’s poetry in the linguistic current of 20th-century Polish poetry. It analyses its causes, amongst which the pivotal role is played by the stereotypical vision of women’s poetry, deeply ingrained in general awareness. The vision in question does not admit “difficult” forms and thus places women’s poetic work outside the avant-garde tendencies, linguistic experiment and metareflection. The authoress calls for inclusion of the omitted or forgotten poetesses who play with language in their poems and she articulates the need to redefine our understanding of linguistic poetry.
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"Stary most", "w ogrójcu", "u stóp Honoraty" by: Szymon Nagin
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The subject of this article is Conversation with your own leg by Anna Świrszczyńska. In her one-act play, Świrszczyńska creates a bizarre world, which escapes understanding and ordering. This image openly destroys the logical order of reality, marks an original poetic imagination, sensitivity to the sound qualities of words, overrealism. Świrszczyńska also invites to this world numerous objects, materialized images, forged from words and senses, and suddenly and unexpectedly juxtaposes them with human characters. Somatic perception of the world may be helpful in finding one’s way in a cracked reality, devoid of order, and, finally, in the acceptance of such reality, which allows to read the play in the light of the problem of carnality.
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The author returns to The Salt of the Earth conceived in the mythic-ritual context. She presents characteristic elements of the plot that allow us to interpret the fortunes of the main character through the prism of the initiation ritual. However, what she proposes differs from previous interpretations of the novel. She concludes that by using the poetics of myth and the initiation model the author not only demythologizes war, but also presents a diagnosis of the situation of European civilization on the eve of the cataclysm of World War II. Wittlin also passes judgment on fascination with the primeval myth, as well as on simplistic concepts of the return to a state of unblemished nature, which was supposed to be an antidote to the civilizational threats of the time.
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The aim of the article is to present the individual and intense experience of sensing the world in religious categories, an account of which can be found in the novel The Salt of the Earth. The term “religious experience” comes from William James. The author of the article first mentions the interpretative difficulties connected with structural irony, which calls into question some of the statements verbalized in the novel. Taking into account this complexity, he points out four elements that justify discussion of a religious experience in The Salt of the Earth. First, he points to the title, which evokes a religious perception of the world, and assumes a response to a calling that comes from God. Second, he refers to the Prologue (deprived of structural irony), which introduces the theme of war as blasphemy.
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This article discusses Józef Wittlin’s literary exploration of the idea of modern sainthood. It argues that Wittlin’s search for a new model of saintly life that would respond to the modern age was informed by the ongoing theological debates about the meaning and value of traditional hagiography. The article demonstrates that Wittlin’s reflections were inspired by Paul Sabatier’s influential study Vie de saint François d’Assise (Life of Saint Francis of Assisi), and informed by the immediate socio-political context (the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918–1919 and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe). Ultimately, Wittlin’s writings reinvent Saint Francis as a modern-day saint who shows a radical empathy with the persecuted and the marginalised, above all the Jews.
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Suddenly the Mazowian landscape reared, it swerved askew from its logical angle and absolutely refused to straighten out no matter how much mental effort was put into it doing so. The gray curtain of clouds was perforated. Blue sky, always present here at these altitudes, brushed against the pupils of my eyes. By now a cozy, calm smoothness reigned beneath the wing.
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The article presents an interpretation of two Latin epigrams composed by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, a Polish Baroque poet and Jesuit. His poems include the most important principle invented by Jesuit authors, i.e., applicatio sensuum and constitute an exquisite example of synesthesia.
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On May 22, 2018, Olga Tokarczuk along with translator Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for the English translation of the former’s novel Flights.
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A media content analysis method was used to get an overview of all the Internet available article titles in relevance to literature profile in all forms and setup (full-text, abstract, table of contents, bibliographic description or table of titles). Without any chronological constrains, such things were taken into account as, forgone digital scripture/periodicals featured in Polish digital libraries, the same as, modern periodicals from the beginning of their existence brought into digital version, seen at all sorts of web portals, web sites, or self-made ones (You can spot them “by chance” in the most unexpected location i.e. encyclopedia or private Facebook profile). What’s more, attempts were made to assess communicativeness, usefulness and ease with the user’s access. Needless to say, the lyrical wanted to answer the question: are the most well-known Polish periodicals available online? At the end, a typology attempt of all the given literature in accordance to different criteria was presented.
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Review of: Tomasz Garbol - Joanna Zach, Biologia i teodycea. Homo poeticus Czesława Miłosza, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2017, ss. 289
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