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The paper suggests the advent of a new type of character in a populargenre of American high school films, namely a precocious and sexuallyassertive young woman. Such characters are usually highly intelligent andmanipulative women who seduce unsuspecting male partners, often theirteachers, for emotional or practical gain. Although their actions may appearmorally wrong, they are often depicted in a positive light. The analysis is basedon a selection of films considered to be symptomatic of the larger tendencies.The first film under scrutiny is Election (1999), treated as a trailblazer for themore recent pictures such as Breathe In (2013) and Blame (2017). The articlesuggests that the selected films should be read as celebrations of female agencyas well as symbolic expressions of male angst in the face of the growing socialimportance of women. The authors also attempt to explore the contemporaryschool film as a reflection of the evolving understanding of education and therole of a teacher. The paper concludes with an observation that the figure of amanipulative and assertive young woman will continue re-emerging in variousincarnations in the audio-visual productions about school in the coming years.
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Inspired by the semantically equivalent series E talk one’s head/armoff – G sich ein Loch in den Bauch [= belly] reden – S hablar por los codos [=elbows] – R a i se duce gura [=mouth] la urechi [=ears; peripheralconstituent] – I fare una testa [= head] di qualcuno cosi, the approach at handis intended to complement the prevailingly language-based one and take theanalysis to the more complex, languacultural level, with the aim of bringingidiosyncratic patterns of forma mentis in individual languacultures to bear onsemantic selection of core constituents in interlingually synonymous idioms,and, while allowing for such factors as sheer frequency, contextual pragmaticclues, salient cultural practices or perceived gaps, also attempt to explore andaccount for similarities and contrasts both intra-languaculturally (i.e. withinlanguage families) and inter-languaculturally (i.e. across language families).The major focus of the present contribution – which merely broaches the topicat issue in this first research phase – is on ear and its interlingual synonyms asfeatured by idioms of English, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanishextraction.
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The goal of this paper is to emphasize the importance of employability skills within a two-year ESP course. It is not only about getting, doing, performing, or keeping a job but about developing within that job. The perfect way to achieve, foster, and boost these employability skills is through ESP, namely English for Specific Purposes. Moreover, the interdisciplinary dialogue between Theology and ESP is not going to question concepts such as knowledge through scientific reasoning, or knowledge through religious faith. Rather than being inward-looking and churchy, these skills could be applied to or work for a broad community in mind. When designing and adjusting your ESP course to our learners’ needs, we developed topic-specific activities based on authentic texts that would sharpen their analytical, communicative, creative, and critical thinking skills. Therefore, the teaching and learning proposals provided within this paper are meant to encourage an introspective, deliberate approach to the use of each skill within your ESP context. Apart from the fact that Theology attaches greater importance to emotions and feelings, affective commitment and faithfulness, and subjectivity, whereas ESP is still realist, impartial, and unbiased, using these skills is entirely your choice as an English language teacher because you will have to minutely assess and sort out those skills that best satisfy the demands of your program’s particular objectives and learning outcomes, and those that foremost fulfill the interests and needs of your ESP students.
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The author of the article draws a literary portrait of Jan Grotkowski (a forgotten poetof the Baroque period) based on four poetic works of Jan Andrzej Morsztyn. In thisway, an interesting figure of a writer, diplomat, and influential participant in internationalpolitics emerges from the darkness of oblivion. He is connected with the figureof Queen Bona only by a mysterious death. Thus, he is included in the list of peoplewho, as Kantecki says “fell victims of the matter on which the curse of Queen Bonalies”. Trying to solve the issue of “Neapolitan sums”, Grotkowski, like Reszka, Mąkowskiand others, died in unexplained circumstances.
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The article focuses on the first Polish film in which the figure of Bona Sforza appeared,namely Barbara Radziwiłłówna, created by Józef Lejtes, a well-known director, in 1936.Moreover, it discusses the circumstances in which the film was made, and the image ofthe queen presented therein. Numerous comments which appeared in the press, bothcontemporary and of a later period, have been recalled.
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The study attempts to identify the “interliterary network” of the post-Romantic period from the perspective of “small national literatures” through an analysis of two Central European texts: Faustiáda (1864) by the Slovak writer Jonáš Záborský and Doktor Faust (1844) by the Czech writer Šebestián Hněvkovský. Although in the history of their respective literatures, both texts rank among the classics, they have been seen as “antiquary relicts” because of their genre hybridization, literary-orientational interference, and parallel coexistence of two different poetics within individual texts. The works belong to the genre of “Faustiads” whose purpose is to demythicize and desacralize the Faustian theme. The parodical-humorous form or didactically patriotic presentation enables them to cope with the historical philosophy of their nations. The interliterary interpretation of these works results in the transformation of fixed negative reflections in the literary discourse and in the confirmation of the diversity of the Central European post-Romantic tradition.
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This article aims to draw attention to the importance of the spatial point of view for the literary studies introduced by the Slovak comparatist Dionýz Ďurišin in the 1980s. The starting point of his systematics of world literature was the concept of the interliterary process, derived from his study of various ways of connecting literatures in the world. The spatial concept of the changes in literatures enabled him to highlight the relevance of otherness and its function in the reception of foreign literatures. The study of interliterary communities permitted him to discover various forms of connecting, interfering, permeating or merging different literatures and their works across the borders of languages and cultures, i.e. transliterary studies. In addition, he identified some historical forms of interliterary communities in world literature (such as Common wealth, Iberian and Latin American, and Slavic/Russian). Spatial representations of literary phenomena, similar to those of Franco Moretti, also helped him to graphically represent the crossing movement of literatures in the world. A reliable source for learning about the changes in reflecting the spatial moment in world literature studies and about Ďurišin’s systematics are the works of César Domínguez. The terms and expressions Ďurišin created are now coming to be used in a larger sense. This has also been reflected in the discussions on the concept of world literature, which is currently undergoing various changes (Damrosch, Spivak, Moretti, Apter, Aseginolaza, Saussy, Tally, etc.).
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The article is a review to Andrea Colelli (ed.), C. Carmignano: Viaggio della Serenissima S. Bona Regina in Polonia, con nota introduttiva di Luigi Marinelli. Roma, 2018. In discussing the edition, proposals are put forward for what the intertextual dimension of the poem is concerned, drawing attention on the similarities between the first ‘capitulo’ of the poem and Joannes Secundus’ elegy I 8, both texts being denied epithalamia.
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This article is a critique of the phenomenon of Holocaust literature for children and young people from the perspective of ‘new sensitivity’. It is a category which sets the direction of thinking in anthropological-cultural studies inspired by the new humanities. Its essence is letting previously marginalized subjects (children, animals, plants, inanimate objects, that is ‘other’ subjects) speak and restoring their agency. Analyzing two examples of contemporary literature on the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Joanna Fabicka’s Rutka, and Maciej Świerkocki and Mariusz Sołtysik’s Naród zatracenia [nation of doom]), the author proves that despite turning inanimate objects or animals into literary characters this literature has proved unable to face the Holocaust experience and that the forms of narration it generates do not fully capture the complex history of thousands of Jewish children. Many of them involve abuses in the formal sense (‘imitations’ of personal document literature) and, in the emotional sense, preying upon the vulnerable figure of the child (that is prone to being hurt again) and the historical atrocities it suffered. An important part of the article is an analysis of selected examples of the Holocaust kitsch connected with the subject matter of the child and the Holocaust, including interpretations of the depictions of the great blockade (Ger. – Sperre, Pol. – szpera) (in novels by Leslie Epstein, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Fabicka, Świerkocki, and Sołtysik), which are of key importance in maintaining appropriateness by works about the Holocaust addressed to the young reader. Basing on the conclusions made by Barbara Engelking, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Jacek Leociak, and Boris Cyrulnik, the author concludes that postmemory proves particularly harmful in generation of narrations of this type.
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Inspired by the Shia movement that defended the rights of the Ahl-al Beyt, Alevism had a political opposition identity as of its birth. Alevism has been seen as “fifth column”, “heterodox”, “heretic”, a “separatist “ religion sect and a “deviation” from the dominant religious understanding and practice by the Ahl-al Sunnah. The trauma created by these policies of marginalization, oppression and cruelty from history to the present day has nurtured a culture of introverted closure and hiding, an outward-looking resistence and opposition. The opposing identity formed was expressed in the folk songs, poems and phrases that are the reflection of the Alevis anthropological, sociological and culturel life styles. This article aims to reveal the formation of social and political opposition in Alevi political culture by analyzing the opposing language and discourse elements in Alevi poetry, phrases and folk songs. Literature review and discourse analysis methods are used in the article. With the literature review, oppositon of the Alevism belief and the Bektashi cult have been researched in a historical context. With the dicourse analysis the phrases of the poets who reveal the anthropological and sociological character of Alevism and comes from the “abdal tradition” such as Pir Sultan Abdal, Kaygusuz Abdal, Nesimi, Virani, Harabi, Yunus Emre etc. are examined, and the religious and political oppositon elements of rebellion in these saying were revealed.
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The article encourages reflection on the role of Polish language education in the face of contemporary challenges. One of them is the expansion of populism (e.g. in politics, in the media, in the way of thinking about education) and the accompanying disinformation campaigns, propaganda or replacing information analysis with emotional opinions. We are also in Poland witnessing this disturbing process, which threatens the foundations of democracy. That is why teaching a critical attitude towards theses expressed in public discourse is so important. The article shows how access to reliable information can contribute to forming such an attitude. The author also suggests that the interpretation of modern children’s literature may be used to expose populist lies, harmful simplifications, and manipulation of facts; it can also successfully support the development of mature civic awareness even among very young students. The point of reference in this case is the problem of attitude towards refugees.
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Author presents the crip theory and its possibility for interpretation of Polish children’s and youth literature. She is focused on the presentation this theory and its compatibility to Polish culture. In the next part of the paper, author analyses poem To my students (Do moich uczniów) by Jan Twardowski and the novel Pupa (Poczwarka) by Dorota Terakowska, using the crip category.
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The article discusses The Flax, a fantasy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In my reading, I focus on details of the tale’s text. I point out various contexts that expand and diversify the reading of the tale, such as: cultural, religious, biblical, artistic, literary and cinematic ones.
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In certain way, “displacement” refers to the change. It is the action of a body that moves from a certain space to another. In addition to its obvious physical implications, in the case of human displacement, there are also great subjective implications. In this way, displacement can be of other orders, as symbolic, metaphysical and mental, we can also consider even maturation as the displacement from one psychic state to another. In this case, the present work aims to analyze the different figurations of the concept of displacement present in the work: Displacement — A travelogue by Lucy Knisley, as well as the affiliation of the work to a narrative tradition perpetrated by authors who take the daily genre and the trip report as a means of subjective construction of reality, both in literature and in comics. In order to do so, will be used authors who studied the writing of female authors, having the travel narrative as a research horizon, such as Sonia Serrano and Miriam Adelman; as well as authors who focus on the specificities of the comic language that, under the aegis of “graphic novel”, engender an aesthetic construction that privileges the autobiographical narrative (Santiago Garcia and Hilarry Chute). We intend to highlight the richness that the comics bring to the symbolic construction of the genre “travel diary/narrative” through its peculiarities of self-representation.
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The paper includes the analyses of three books of poems by Paweł Beręsewicz: Lalki Dorotki [Dorotka’s dolls] (2004), Czy pisarzom burczy w brzuchu? [Do writers’ stomachs grumble?] (2009) oraz Złota jedenastka… [The golden eleven…] (2018). The author studies language, composition, the voice and characters creation, as well as the main idea of the three books, also paying attention to illustrations. She reconstructs the status of a speaker and a recipient, and their relationship (i.e. an adult–child relationship). It is also an attempt to place Beręsewicz’s books of poems in the context of his stories and novels.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of Paweł Beręsewicz’s works submitted, awarded with a prize or distinction at the Kornel Makuszyński All‑Poland National Literary Award. The following books by Beręsewicz were analyzed: Jak zakochałem Kaśkę Kwiatek (2005), Ciumkowe historie, w tym jedna smutna (2007), Tajemnica człowieka z blizną (2010), Ściśle tajne (2018). The reading method draws upon the childhood face topic, which was suggested by Grzegorz Leszczyński.
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This text’s main objective is to introduce the assumptions of the Jungian depth psychology to the bibliotherapeutic process. Bibliotherapy as an interdisciplinary method using psychology and literary studies enriched with the theory of integral psychology formulates a new theoretical perspective and constitutes a proposition of holistic view of bibliotherapy. The extension of the theoretical basis of bibliotherapy will help to augment the therapeutic effect, activate the unconscious (the sphere neglected in school education), and strengthen psyche. Integral bibliotherapy shall create conditions to expand the dialogue between the rational side and unconscious one, and it will contribute to a positive stimulation of the integration processes. Providing archetypal patterns reflecting the rules of life in culture, and drawing attention to the regulatory role of literary works, will enrich both the intellectual and spiritual side of the development of the participant of the bibliotherapeutic process. Archetypal content present in literary texts studied by the participant according to the bibliotherapeutic procedure will achieve an integral orientation focused on the humanistic dimension of existence.
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The famous Bosniak scholar Ali-dede Bosniak used various literary, historical and scientific references in his work Muḥāḍara al-ʼawāʼil wa musāmara al- ʼawāḫir (Lectures on the first and last events). In this paper we present the list of such references and its number exceeds fifty units. We have to mention it is not a complete list and does not represent the entire referential framework of this author. A very significant feature of Ali-dede’s intertextual connection with other works is the diversity of areas and topics dealing with the literature to which Ali-dede refers. We have realized that this author refers not only to traditional and well-known Islamic scholars such as al-Suyūṭī and al-Ġazālī, for example, but also to many great Sufi authors, such as ʼIbn ʻArabī and al-Qūnawī, which reflects Ali-dede’s openness to diverse opinions and considerations of both Islam and the history of Islam.
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Gazi Husrev-beg’s library possesses a very valuable authorial and transcription manuscript of the Muhamed Enveri Kadić, which came to the library together with his library. In this paper, we will present the contents of one of his authorial Mejmua of various contents, which is kept in the Gazi Husrev-beg library. All of the above-mentioned Kadić manuscripts, along with all other preserved manuscripts, represent a significant source for further studies of the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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