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The article discusses artistic relations and “common places” in the works of Zofia Nałkowska and Henrik Ibsen. The basic concept for the analysis of their plays is the gaze that synthesizes events and allows us to capture changes. Nałkowska started writing plays in the third phase of her creative work (Ludwik Fryde) and considered them “little laboratories”. Like Ibsen, the Polish writer was interested in the “naked truth” about man; she wanted to understand his life choices and introduce him to the world of meanings.
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The article is devoted to the play The House of Women, written by Zofia Nałkowska in 1930. I focus on the previous interpretations of the text, in which researchers asked questions about human relations, the possibility of knowing other people and women’s identity, but also about fate and destiny. Moreover, they referred to the biographical context and undertook comparative analyses regarding the dramaturgy and poetics of the text. I further describe Krzysztof Nielewicz – the deceased husband of one of the protagonists – as a figure of male violence against women.
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A comprehensive review of the literary and theater criticism concerning Zofia Nałkowska’s second play reveals a great discrepancy in the reviewers’ opinions (Karol Irzykowski, Antoni Słonimski, Jan Lorentowicz, Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki). It is an exceptionally peculiar testimony of reception, perhaps also revealing to some extent the reasons for the gradual turning away of the author of The House of Women from playwriting. The most important aim of the study is to show the text of the play itself ensnared by overpowering critical commentary and to reflect on Nałkowska’s precursory intentions, which were ridiculed by her harsh critics who did not recognize their potential.
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The paper discusses the play by Zofia Nałkowska entitled Renata Słuczańska. The author analyzes and interprets the male viewpoints on two protagonists: Renata Słuczańska and Agnieszka Blizbor. In the story about an affair, the affair itself is somehow not crucial – more interesting are the men’s expectations and ideas about women (as sexual objects, as mothers or wives, as guardians of the hearth and home), which influence how they are portrayed. The play proves that not only Nałkowska’s characters are distinct but that her playwriting itself is also different from the known Polish plays from this period.
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The text presents the Croatian reception of Zofia Nałkowska’s works (mainly plays) and the Polish writer’s “Zagreb episode” in the 1930s, when her two plays, "The House of Women" and "The Day of His Return", were staged in that city. The author also focuses on the translators of Nałkowska’s works: Julije Benešić and Zdenka Marković.
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The article showcases preliminary remarks and questions about the relation between scientific and religious worldview in Leopold Staff ’s poetry on the example of the astral symbolics appearing in it. It presents the question of the evolution of this author’s scientific language in connection with the transformation of the Interwar poets’ imagination under the influence of astrophysical knowledge gained as a result of important discoveries and cosmic observations. This attempt is an invitation to take a look at the history of the Polish poetry in the 20th century from the perspective of its transformations in connection to scientific, and especially, astrophysical progress. Staff ’s poetry dating from the Young Poland period to the post-World War II time seems to be a good lens, through which such transformations can be observed.
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The article analyses the various ways of depicting the dead body and its functions in the literary works of Eliza Orzeszkowa. Due to the ambiguity of the very concept of a dead body (corpse, cadaver) and the special approach to this issue in Polish positivism (with all its dimensions and complexity), many of the author’s works contain interesting perspectives and opportunities to interpret the problem. The analysis of individual cases (the corpses of a young man, a young woman, an old woman, an insurgent, and an animal), using the tools of anthropology and ecocriticism, offers new conclusions about the issue of the dead body and death in Orzeszkowa’s "On the Niemen".
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Władysław Sebyła’s Second "Nocturne" is a major chord in this partly literary, partly musical series of poems. The author of the article tries to unravel the mystery of the dark tones and black color that dominate the tenor and landscapes of this text. The “aporias and ambivalences” mentioned in the title are the key to the semantics of this represented world. The analysis of individual lines shows their compositional dominant and great carrying power of meanings. Aporia, which is a semantic vortex, and ambivalence, which always sees the two opposing banks of this metaphorical river, illustrate well the literary intention of Sebyła and the interpretative intent of the author of the article.
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The article discusses recently published Polish translations of important historical works of the Norse and Danish Middle Ages. It considers the original and peculiar features of medieval Scandinavian historiography, as well as the difficulties that authors of translations from the Norn language may face. Mistakes with regard to discussing the early modern realities of the functioning of medieval works are pointed out.
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The text analyses parts of Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris and Tarkovsky’s movie based on the same book. The author’s goal is to use this as an experiment for the purposes of a dissertation work on Bulgarian fantastic literature. The comparison between the novel and the movie makes it possible to derive some new specificities that define the mechanisms which are pertinent to creating a fictional world. This is placed in thecontext of both mass and classical literature.
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The article is devoted to the conceptualization of the sense of taste in selected texts by Jerzy Pilch. The way of presenting the sense of taste was prepared according to the methodology of Charles Fillmore’s interpretative framework. Each and every human activity, including sensory cognition and taste, can be included in a network of categories to which the concepts describing a given activity belong. Selected works by Jerzy Pilch present the category of objects of taste perception, i.e. the names of food and drink are most frequently presented. The novel Pod Mocnym Aniołem most often describes drinking alcohol and uses many names for alcohol. The other novels focus on food. Jerzy Pilch very efficiently presents the world of alcoholics and feast life. The descriptions of the food reflect the traditional way of eating in Poland, in which meat products, appetizers and sweet desserts predominate. Vegetables and fruits occupy a small part.
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The reconstruction of the image of the child would have to begin with the ways of establishing the subject of research, namely, the basis of the verbal image of the child. Words and names distinguish and identify concepts and things, carry a certain meaning, and it is the context that sometimes allows to make the meaning more specific. However, in Korczak’s work it is not that easy, because there is no single, consistent definition of the child, there are many different explanations and explications of the concept in question depending on the situation and circumstances it was located by the author. I will try to show the meanings and connotations of the lexeme ‘child’ used in Korczak’s texts. It must be emphasized that the motif of the child is omnipresent in Korczak’s world, it acts as a dominant in each of the texts under analysis Nevertheless, putting these images together into a single, coherent picture seems impossible for several reasons. One of them is the fact that the child is involved in many different linguistic, cultural, social and generational contexts in Korczak’s prose. The other is the repertoire of linguistic means the author used to define the concept of the child and to create an image of the child to model the ways the child is perceived.
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In the article the author reconstructs the critical reception of the Poem about the Municipal Slaughterhouse by Tadeusz Śliwiak (Andrzej Kaliszewski, Konstanty Pieńkosz, Jan Pieszczachowicz, Artur Sandauer, Stanisław Stabro, Piotr Sobolczyk) and interprets the work using posthumanist instruments to prove that it is ecological and pacifist. The main idea of the author is to depict both the animals transported to the Municipal Slaughterhouse in Lviv and the Jews working there. The poetic volume of Śliwiak meets the demand of Éric Baratay, who wrote that the animal could not continue to be a white spot of history. The poet emphasizes that animality is a state devoid of human aggression and desire for domination and assigns a negative value to what is considered human (if there murder among people is impermissible, it is due to fear of spreading violence to human actors). In the Poem about the Municipal Slaughterhouse, the strategy that prevents animals from being brought into the role of raw material is the perspective of a child which sees the death of animals as equal to this of humans. Until now, the reception of the poem has been dominated by analyses of its dominant turpistic and expressionist aesthetics, reducing Śliwiak’s testimony to the role of a “great metaphor of war.” The author proves that the poet emphasizes the stigma of violence (the human victims were forced to work on the handling of the bodies of non-human victims), which invalidates the hierarchy of victims, preventing a comparison of suffering. In addition, the author describes two situations depicted in the poem using the category of excess (by Wolfgang Sofsky), in which human life could be taken away at the whim of the overmen.
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In "The World, a Moment on Trial" (Próba chwili świata) Stanisław Swen Czachorowski reaches back to the pre-war literary tradition, to the formula of a love story, and endeavours to capture the experience of a moment, an impression. The same volume contains "The Scene Brought Unto Us" (Pejzaż doczekany) – a stylized short form in which the author employs well-known means of expression, exaggerating and taking them to extremes. Tracing the changes introduced in successive versions of the text highlights the significance of seemingly minor stylistic decisions that turn out to be crucial for the consistency of its composition. The genetic approach allows for a diligent, close reading of this intricate literary undertaking, dense with symbols and meaning.
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Polish Conradist Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech, the author of a series of scientific publications on various Conradist issues his latest monograph to contemporary adaptations of Joseph Conrad's work and biography in culture.
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Poetry by Anna Piwkowska ("Dla S."; "Dla Kloto, Lachesis i Atropos"; "Odsuń kielich")
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Poetry by Marcin Świetlicki ("Miasteczko"; "Polska 14"; "Plan"; "Napisy końcowe")
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