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Formy grzecznościowe w konstruowaniu zadań testowych – analiza autorska na przykładzie języka tureckiego

Author(s): Kamila Barbara Stanek / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

One of the elements tested during an exam is the ability to interact in particular communication situations. This skill is not only based on understanding the senders’ message (i.e. words) and the context of the utterance (situation), but on the knowledge of the conventional typical answer. The Turkish language, which, like most oriental languages, has a very extensive system of polite expressions, forces its users to know about 100 standardized formulas.

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“I was on a journey”. John Henry Newman’s Search for the Ultimate Truth

Author(s): Grażyna Bystydzieńska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article analyses John Henry Newman’s autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, which is treated as a conversion narrative, alongside his dream vision, The Dream of Gerontius. On this basis, it examines the evolution of Newman’s religious creed in the context of 19th-century British systems of belief and ecclesiastical affiliation.

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Victorian Anxieties Concerning Old Age in Anthony Trollope’s

Author(s): Ilona Dobosiewicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article examines Victorian anxieties about old age through discussion of Anthony Trollope's novel, The Fixed Period. On the basis of analysis of this satirical dystopian novel, the author concludes that the social problems of old age and how to treat elderly citizens were of crucial importance in late Victorian society.

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Poles and Precursors in 1830s London

Author(s): Emma Harris / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article examines Polish and Irish political co-operation and agendas in 1830s London. It analyses the relationship between the democratic Polish political refugees of the Great Emigration, many of whom supported the Chartist movement, and the London Irish who joined Daniel O’Connell’s Precursor movement, considering the extent of cross-cultural misunderstanding.

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‘Filthy Egyptian Tricks’ in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249”

Author(s): Justyna Jajszczok / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author discusses late 19th-century invasion literature in the context of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249.” This enables the article to examine issues connected with British imperialism and reverse colonisation, since the plots of both texts can be presented as a version of imperial narratives, with ultimate victory over the invading force brought about by means of new, scientific methods.

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Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”

Author(s): Anna Kędra-Kardela / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author applies Manuel Aguirre’s theory of two zones in horror literature separated by thresholds – “the human world” and the “Otherworld” – to the haunted house in one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s rare excursions into the supernatural, “The Old Nurse’s Story.” There is analysis of the concern voiced about the fate of female victims of men and of the undermining of the idea of home as a safe place by its presentation as anti-home.

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The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914

Author(s): Katarzyna Kłosińska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This communiqué relates the history of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from the end of the Victorian period. It places this initiative undertaken by early women graduates within the wider university settlement movement, showing how women adapted to the social work involved in a project designed to encourage the moral and material betterment of slum dwellers.

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The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Author(s): Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author presents a discussion of visual reimaginings in painting and illustrations, comic books, feature films, TV shows and video games, of Joseph Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, concentrating on the 1971 film, Daughters of Darkness, in which the lead was played by Delphine Seyrig. This is accompanied by analysis of the novella’s ground-breaking female (lesbian) vampire and various motifs of the genre.

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The Hunt is On: Inter- and Paratextuality in The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

Author(s): Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This is an interpretation of a 2012 “autobiography” of a purported Jack the Ripper, James Carnac. The article discusses the intertexts and multi-layered paratextual elements of this piece of Ripperature – including the use made of literary works and visual material – that aim to authenticate the account by placing it in historical time.

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A Christmas Carol: A Therapeutic Tale?

Author(s): Ewa Kujawska-Lis / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This analysis of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol uses psychological theory to address the question of what happened to effect a change in Scrooge’s behavioural patterns. It deals with the perception of time and balancing time perspectives, in the context of Philip Zimbardo’s Temporal Theory and Time Perspective Therapy.

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“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature

Author(s): Monika Mazurek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Within the framework of the theme of mid-19th century English anti-Catholicism, this article investigates the rise and fall of the bonfire night tradition of burning Guy Fawkes. It concentrates on analysis of Harrison Ainsworth’s popular 1841 historical novel Guy Fawkes and Selina Bunbury’s 1844 historical novel Coombe Abbey, both of which focus on the Gunpowder Plot.

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Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Author(s): Heather Negrón / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The use in this article of disability theory to analyse Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises questions connected with the social structuring of disability in general. It analyses the production of horror in the novel through exposing the contrast between the dis-abled monster and able-bodied characters.

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Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science

Author(s): Małgorzata Nitka / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article discusses and compares two novels with a mission or social purpose that concentrate on themes connected with, in the case of Charles Reade’s matter-of-fact romance Hard Cash (1863), the treatment of insanity, and in that of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), vivisection. The author concludes that in furthering a didactic purpose, neither novel departs far from the sensation framework.

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Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers

Author(s): Dominika Oramus / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The relationship between late Victorian scientists and speculative writers is reviewed in this article in the context of British popular and fictional approaches to scientific research, including the use of scientific inventions in invasion narratives and war fiction. It shows interactions between novelists like H. G. Wells and the work of British particle physicists, a summary of whose achievements is provided.

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Women in Power and in Love: 19th-Century Portraits of British Queens in Gaetano Donizetti’s Operas

Author(s): Aleksandra Ożarowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article analyses the sources for 19th-century musical stage portrayals of the characters and behaviour of three 16th-century British Queens, Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I. The author concentrates on Gaetano Donizetti’s operas, including detailed interrogation of the lyrics of Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux.

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Adaptations of Roman Plots in John Dennis’s Tragedies

Author(s): Oleg Polyakov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article deals with Augustan literature, discussing adaptations of Roman plots in John Dennis’s neo-classical tragedies. This phenomenon is placed within the framework of general interest in the political and cultural life of Ancient Rome that can be found in 18th-century English literature and criticism.

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The Racialized Body in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Author(s): Magdalena Pypeć / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article seeks to examine Charles Dickens’s approach to the issues of race and colonialism in the context of the views current in Victorian England. It analyses the racialised body and racial hybridity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, against a background of mid-century theories on racial hierarchies and natural inequalities.

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“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Author(s): Agnieszka Setecka / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article dealing with the representation of poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House examines mid-Victorian approaches to the question of poverty in the light of liberal theories of political economy and economic progress. The author concludes that Dickens discerns the roots of the problem in ignorance and moral degradation and wishes to educate the poor into accepting the currently dominant system of values.

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a Dialogue with the Country House Ideal

Author(s): Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study of the culture of the early 19th century scrutinises Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It argues that the novel attempts to contrast the country house ideal with the social and economic reality of the time when it was written.

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Pope’s ‘Solid Pudding,’ Swift’s ‘Proposal,’ and the Poor: Poverty in Scriblerian Texts

Author(s): Przemysław Uściński / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article presents a detailed analysis of approaches to poverty in Scriblerian texts. It discusses their complex attitudes, including the debate on the appropriateness of laughing at the poor in comedy or satire, and traces to the industrial revolution the definitive social and literary locating of the sources of poverty in the ineptitude, laziness and moral turpitude of the poor themselves.

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