Klucz Dawidowy usta mi otworzył... (nad jednym z wersetów Mojej ojczyzny Cypriana Norwida)

Author(s): Józef F. Fert / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

In its composition and message the paper uses the form of the diptych. Part One is a philological and cultural exegesis of one verse of My Homeland by Cyprian Norwid that is focused on the interpretation of the poetic expression “David's key has opened my mouth”. Part Two contains a memory of the author's personal meetings with Professor Marian Maciejewski held on the ground of Polish studies. The whole is crowned by fascination with the phenomenon of Norwid that is common for the whole circle of the Catholic University of Lublin.

Czytanie Maciejewskiego. Próba kerygmatycznej interpretacji Lalki Bolesława Prusa. (Re)konstrukcja

Author(s): Jakub A. Malik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The article is an attempt to answer the question: What would arouse Prof. Marian Maciejewski's interest in the novel by Bolesław Prus "The Doll". An attempt at a hypothetical construction of such a reading test leads to the answer that such issues would be: the problem of faith − its rise, development and fruit it gives, as well as the process of the dying of an old man in Stanisław Wokulski − the novel's protagonist. The author uses four episodes during which the character hears the Voice, which is a clear sign of its contact with the transcendence and is treated as God's intervention in the history of man. Applying the methodology of kerygmatic hermeneutics to the text of “The Doll” makes it considerably easier to interpret those parts of the novel that up till now have presented some difficulties. It reveals the splendor of the truth in the text and to a large degree complements the universe of the realistic novel.

Analiza kerygmatyczna wobec aksjologii współczesnego literaturoznawstwa

Author(s): Wojciech Kaczmarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The article attempts to compare the kerygmatic analysis as it was used by Marian Maciejewski, with the studies of the relation between religion and literature that had been used in studies of literature earlier. The school developed at the Catholic University of Lublin, to which the Professor referred, represented by scholars of such a caliber as Czesław Zgorzelski, Irena Sławińska, Maria Jasińska-Wojtkowska or Stefan Sawicki, made a very important contribution to developing a methodology of research on the sacrum in literature. Against this background Maciejewski's suggestion goes further; it not only probes into the structure of the text, in which the studied religious element is present, but tries to interpret it as confronted with the apostolic kerygma, in order to reveal its important Christian, or non-Christian features (e.g. natural religiousness). The kerygmatic analysis, called here “Maciejewski's method”, consists in diligent reflection on all the aspects of a literary work and on the anthropological conception inscribed in it, especially on the “spiritual condition” of the man who is the subject of the work.

Marian Maciejewski czyli w trosce o kształt polskich badań nad literaturą

Author(s): Bernadetta Kuczera-Chachulska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The sketch presents the character of Marian Maciejewski's academic achievement, including the modern historico-literary background; it also points to his work connected with research on Romantic authors, on the evolution of their literary output and genology. Separate space in the article is taken up by a description of the workshop of the poetry commentator. The most space is devoted to the Scholar as a researcher into lyric poetry.

Ukraina Mariana Maciejewskiego

Author(s): Agnieszka Czajkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The image of Ukraine that is present in Marian Maciejewski's works consists of his research experiences gathered in the course of his academic career, as well as of his work in the Neocatechumenate. His academic work from the beginning was connected with intensive reflection on the literature of Polish Romanticism, whose cradle was, among others, Ukraine. His studies of works by Karol Brzozowski, and then by Antoni Malczewski and Juliusz Słowacki made Ukrainian landscapes gain profound historico-literary and structural justification; and in further works they became the subject of hermeneutic and kerygmatic interpretations. Ukraine accompanied the scholar when he was searching for his academic and didactic way, whose aim was to conduct interpretative actions till the end, and ultimately − going beyond the text, finding the existential truth about the man in it. Studying poetic landscapes lead to grasping features of the “sunny Jerusalem” in them, and so to a complete integration of Maciejewski's subject of literary research with the man being in full unity with God.

Marian Maciejewski a krytyka (także literacka)

Author(s): Małgorzata Łukaszuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The author characterizes Prof. M. Maciejewski's research attitude as one taken by a historian of literature and an academic teacher. Kerygmatic criticism is presented as a hermeneutic research attitude (and not as methodology), whose goal is to discover a Christian dimension of the studied work. The article proves that owing to an interpretation that will be maximally complete (in the aspect of historical poetics) and to an involved attitude of the reader of the work (in the aspect of axiology) the art reveals its personal, identical, original context.

„Margines, ale…” Literatura współczesna w pracach Mariana Maciejewskiego

Author(s): Jakub Kozaczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

In the article a review is done of references to modern literature in academic works by Marian Maciejewski. Two kinds of references are indicated. In publications concerning Romanticism many indications have been noticed to a continuation of this tradition in modern literature, especially of the Lausanne lyric (among others, works by Cz. Miłosz, T. Różewicz, E. Bryll) and of the gentleman's tale (M. Wańkowicz, K. Brandys, A. Kijowski, M. Białoszewski and others). On the other hand, in works devoted to the “kerygmatic interpretation” proposed by Maciejewski the reader's attention is drawn to a greater frequency of modern texts, especially poetical ones.More space is devoted to the only article published by the researcher, that is solely concerned with literature of the 20th century, namely, “Kerygmatic interpretation of Mr Cogito's Message”.

Idee genologiczne Mariana Maciejewskiego

Author(s): Dariusz Seweryn / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The sketch is concerned with selected aspects of Marian Maciejewski's thought about theory of literature. Although the scholar was first of all a historian of literature, it is not hard to notice some inclination towards creative exploration of issues connected with theory of literature in his academic writings, at least to the degree needed to solve the historico-literary problems that appeared in the course of his research.Especially genological problems aroused Maciejewski's interest − some noteworthy propositions that he presented with respect to them, even if they do not form a universal theoretical conceptualization, still they do deserve to be approached in the categories of “genological ideas”. Ideas understood in this way include the way Maciejewski uses the category of image, in the meaning that is by no means limited to “poetical imagery”. Applied to Mickiewicz's Crimean Sonnets, as well as to his Lausanne lyrics, the image becomes a synonym of more broadly understood poetical vision, that, in turn − supported either by Władysław Strzemiński's “theory of vision” (in the case of the Crimean series), or by traditions of mystical theology (in the case of the Lausanne poems) − gains operational utility, as a key analytical-interpretative category, at the same time forming often unexpectedly complex frames of reference.In the notional field of so understood image as a technical term both the “image of the author” and the genological issue are contained - both these aspects are joined in Maciejewski's discourse about the poetical novel and the Romantic tale. This is because in the scholar's approach not only a literary text, understood as activation and actualization of a defined system of rules may be the carrier of the image (in the individual-existential dimension as well as in the dimension of program ideas of a literary current): also the very literary genre may be the carrier. In other words, the semantics of the structure occurs not only on the side of the parole, but also on the side of the langue. The consequence of such an approach is the ssumption, made and applied especially in Maciejewski's studies of the tale, that in certain particular cases an individual work may realize genre norms in such a way that its meaning structure can be explained in the categories of a meta-genre discourse. It is exactly this assumption that is suggested by the very title of the treatise A Tale About the Tale”. This tale about the tale is an introduction to an anthology, which is obvious; however, also Rzewuski's A Confererate Sermon appears to Maciejewski as a tale about the tale. Analogical premises have allowed the scholar to decide the question of the historico-literary status of Malczewski's Maria as of a text completely belonging to the Romantic epoch.

Błogosławiona święta Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego w świetle kerygmatu. Interpretacyjna glosa

Author(s): Krzysztof Czajkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The mariological subject, which is an integral part of the story of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and the proper center of its previous interpretations, doesn't exhaust the complex semantics of the text, which manifestly - given the context of Rozmowy w Dragonei - breaks away from belonging to religious literature. Only the tools at its disposal kerygmatic method ,initiated in literary studies by Marian Maciejewski, let to reach deep hidden meanings in the structure of the story, which - once again - prove the rule, “That in the case of works of the writer poetics formulated does not necessarily coincide with the poetics of the immanent and the intention of its implementation”.

Zbigniew Herbert i „nabożność” wobec rzeczy

Author(s): Wojciech Kudyba / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

The poem Elegy for the Departure of the Pen the Ink the Lamp has received not only numerous glosses and various small commentaries, but also three long articles. However, a more narrow perspective of looking at the Elegy as an element of the evolution of Herbert's ways of approaching things, absent from reviews of the poem as yet, seems also tempting.The attitude of the protagonist of the poem towards things is defined in the poem not so much through claims of ontology or epistemology, as rather through social customs, the practices of memory and psychological needs. Similar ways of communing with things appear even earlier in Herbert's works, however, it seems that gradually they become more and more conspicuous and in the poet's works written at a senile age they already have a dominating position. The basic frame of reference that makes it possible to understand the relations of the subject and the object that appear there, is no longer philosophy, but anthropology. Interesting tools for observation are especially supplied by the so called anthropology of things.Although it would be difficult to place the poem in the Dasein ontology, it is worth stressing that Heidegger's care gains its own original expression in Herbert's work. It is exactly owing to this that Herbert's poem is not only about the departure of things, but also about their constant, sudden returns, about their absent presence that arouses our “piousness” towards them.

Eine unbekannte Ausgabe der Imagines diaetae Zamoscianae und ihr Herausgeber. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der europäischen Rezeption von Szymon Szymonowic

Author(s): Wiesław Pawlak / Language(s): German Issue: 01/2015

The article presents an edition of Imagines diaetae Zamoscianae by Szymon Szymonowic that has been unknown up till now. The edition appeared in Augsburg in 1665, the editor being Johann Georg Styrzel (1591-1668), a Bavarian humanist and forgotten admirer of the Latin works by the Polish poet.

Symbolika urbanistyczna w Jeruzalem mieście Króla Wielkiego Stefana Kucharskiego

Author(s): Magdalena Burek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

Jerusalem, the City of the Great King is one of the texts by Stefan (in point of fact: Hieronim) Kucharski (1595-1653). The work has been preserved at least in two versions: they are kept in the so called Lublin Cartulary (The Archive of the Polish Province of the Discalced Carmelites, manuscript nr 246, pp. 287-302) and in the collection entitled Various exercises or spiritual lessons and lectures written by the Reverend Father Stefan of St Theresa (The Archive of the Library of Discalced Carmelite Sisters in Krakow, manuscript nr 62, charts 44r-47v).The “lecture” most probably directed to Discalced Carmelite sisters, tackles the issues of a mystical nature and treats about the ways, in which God lives in a man. In Kucharski's text the metaphor is the most important and most often used means of expression. The urban space, characterized by symbols is used by the author as a peculiar allegory expressing his anthropological and theological views.

Anna Marta Dworak, Obrazy Rosjan w pamiętnikach z lat 1828-1835, Lublin: KUL 2015

Author(s): Michał Rozmysł / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

Wartości i antywartości w osiemnastowiecznych przysłowiach

Author(s): Beata Kuryłowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2015

This article is an attempt to linguistically describe the values occurring in the 18th century proverbs excerpted from Nowy dykcjonarz by Michł Abraham Trotz. The author discusses the axiological preferences reflected in the proverbs, shows which categories and how many of them are emphasized in the proverbs, what linguistic and stylistic means are used to express and estimate of the values, and what aspects of the values are present in the proverbs semantic plan.

Język nadwrażliwców – o „Jańciu Wodniku” Jana Jakuba Kolskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Miławska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2015

The aim of this article is to represent an overview of the most important linguistic and stylistic measures used in Jan Jakub Kolski’s “Johnnie Waterman”. The measures that appear both in the short story (which is the predecessor of the movie) and the motion picture are analysed in three categories: folk poeticity, affinity to magic and naivety. The author recalls folk traditions through use of various repetitions, parallelisms and ballads. An atmosphere of magic is achieved by alluding to word rituals (such as curses or namegiving rites), while a feeling of naivety is created by applying common speech to dialogues. It is through the analysis of the aforementioned linguistic means one can prove that the linguistic layer of Jan Jakub Kolski’s works can be included as one of the elements that the director’s auteur style is composed of.

Anna Kozłowska, Od psalmów słowiańskich do rzymskich medytacji. O stylu artystycznym Karola Wojtyły, Warszawa 2013, ss. 358

Author(s): Małgorzata Nowak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2015

Poznańskie jądro ciemności

Author(s): Michał Larek,Jerzy Borowczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2015

Białko

Author(s): Dawid Gostyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2016

This essay analyses the work of Edward Pasewicz, beginning with "Dolna Wilda" (Lower Wilda), and ending with the book "Och, Mitochondria" (Oh, Mitochondria). The author attempts mainly to show the rhizomatic nature of Pasewicz’s work, which hinders literary criticism’s efforts to create a coherent narrative about his poetry. Taking a biocentric and affective perspective, the essay discusses the figure of “protein” as one joining together several threads in Pasewicz’s poetic oeuvre: language, the body, the somatic, the organic, and musicality.

Rękopiśmienny kancjonał z XVIII wieku ks. Walentego Józefa Wcisłowskiego.

Author(s): Katarzyna Janus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

This study is an attempt to describe a manuscript cantional written at the end of the first half of the 18th century by an unknown author — Walenty Józef Wcisłowski. The manuscript had been in the Załuski Brothers' book collection till June 1795, when pursuant to Catherine the Great’s decision the Załuski Library was sent from Warsaw to Saint Petersburg. Presently the cantional is in the National Library of Poland. We know about the author only that he wrote rhymed theology which was published in the 18th century. This article contains the analysis of some hymns from the cantional. Special attention is paid to the explanation of theological contexts of presented verses and to the presentation of Walenty Wcisłowski’s literary skills and biblical erudition. The purpose of my text was to indicate an influence of medieval apocrypha on religious consciousness of the poet and the way he explains the mystery of faith.

Картина життя в польськомовній прозі Лазаря Барановича та письменників його кола

Author(s): Olena Liampreht / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 12/2016

The article deals with a number of motifs and images, typical for baroque literature, which are related to the concept of ideological notions of temporal human life. Particular attention in this connection is drawn to the Polish-polemical works by Lazarus Baranovych and his circle of writers. The characteristics of artistic depiction of the theme of life are clarified and the specific of processing the ideas of futility of human life by Chernihiv writers group are identified.