Tom Literatura i granice. Szkice o literaturze XX i XX wieku składa się z 12 artykułów poświęconych w większości granicom przedstawionym w literaturze, a jeśli wychodzą poza świat tekstu, to przede wszystkim poruszają zagadnienia podmiotowości i relacji autora do dzieła oraz jego samoświadomości. Zbiór stanowi więc klasyczną pozycję literaturoznawczą, z wyraźnym profilem historycznoliterackim i obejmuje analizy i interpretacje różnorodnych formalnie tekstów tak odmiennych autorów, jak m.in. Czechowicz, Witkacy, Dąbrowska Mrożek, Pustkowiak, Ligocka czy Iwasiów. Każdy interesujący się literaturą, antropologią czy historią czytelnik znajdzie tutaj próby udzielenia odpowiedzi na pytanie o granice literackości i tożsamości, rozmaitych (obyczajowych, językowych, emocjonalnych, narodowych) norm i ich przekroczeń. Wszystkie zaś ukazują ważną prawidłowość: że istnienie lub wyznaczenie jednej granicy nieuchronnie pociąga za sobą tworzenie się, narastanie, przeplatanie innych granic. I odwrotnie – przekroczenie jednej z niech całą mocą uwydatnia istnienie kolejnych, których konfiguracja się zmienia, ale które istnieć nigdy nie przestają.
More...Issues of health and disease have long ago crossed the boundaries of medicine and become the object of pedagogical, psychological, sociological and anthropological analyses. The following monograph, a multi-authored work with interdisciplinary implications, adopts primarily a pedagogical perspective and is divided into two essential parts. Part one relates to the psycho-social contexts of health and disease, presenting them from a subjective perspective and focusing on the individual. Part two contains references to a slightly more objectified aspect of health and disease and their cultural and structural contexts. The matters discussed in all of the articles are mutually complementary and show a complicated mosaic of issues concerning health and disease from many different, often multi-aspectual, points of view. Therefore, this publication is aimed at a wide audience of educationalists, teachers, sociologists, doctors and students of these disciplines.
More...W niniejszym tomie zawarto opracowania odnoszące się do kilku kluczowych kwestii problemowych związanych z rywalizacją wyborczą w Polsce: uwarunkowań formalno-prawnych i finansowych kampanii wyborczych, jakości oferty wyborczej w kampaniach oraz znaczenia zewnętrznych, międzynarodowych czynników determinujących przebieg kampanii wyborczych lat 2014–2015. Fundamentalne znaczenie dla oceny przebiegu rywalizacji w cyklu wyborczym 2014–2015 powinno mieć rozstrzygnięcie, czy w danym układzie czynników determinujących (niewątpliwe sprzyjających wzrostowi zainteresowania społecznego toczącą się rywalizacją polityczną) partie polityczne (zarówno rynkowe, jak i pozarynkowe) / komitety wyborcze były w stanie przygotować ofertę polityczną odnoszącą się do kluczowych problemów społecznych i politycznych (w tym także do dylematów międzynarodowych), czy też ograniczyły się do (niezwykle sprawnego) wykorzystania kluczowych kwestii dla sformatowania kontekstowego, efektywnego marketingowo przekazu kampanijnego. Książka jest adresowana dla badaczy (politologów, socjologów) obszaru rywalizacji politycznej w Polsce.
More...Keywords: discourse analysis; urban discourse; city; the anthropology of the city
The subject matter of the monograph The city in the world of discourses focuses on the category of the city as well as the related issues which are located and considered within the framework of the text methodology and discourse linguistics, cultural linguistics, sociology and transdisciplinary paradigms: Critical Discourse Analysis and Urban Cultural Studies. The publication is a proposal for characterizing and outlining the framework of the discourse the scope of which would cover all the discourses whose reference subject is the city as an extremely complex and heterogeneous category. What has been subjected to scrutiny is the practice of metropolitan experience, perception issues and cultural intermediacy within the relation of man with this type of space. The analyses, which were connected to the reading of textual representations of contemporary Polish metropolises, brought about the formulation of the principles, norms and conventions of the urban discourse.
More...Keywords: Literature; criticism; history of literature; science fiction;post-secularism;
Criticism After Literature constitutes the next stage of the critical project undertaken by Krzysztof Uniłowski over the decades. Criticism is understood here not only as a certain way of thinking, but also as a culturally creative practice. As such, it takes various discourses, including non-literary ones, and even itself, as its object of interest. In some chapters, the monograph undertakes theoretical considerations, while others are devoted to the interpretation of literary works.The monograph discusses the role of criticism at the beginning of the 21st century, where it finds itself in a new reality for literary communication (in the chapter “Criticism After Literature”). However, the considerations also tend towards metacritical reflection (“Hospitality of Criticism”), theoretical and literary reflection (“Textualism, Materialism, Immersion, Interpretation”) or post-secular reflection (“Don’t Touch Me…” and “The Defenders of Literature and Their (Cryptotheological) Fantasies”). Moreover, the author considers critical practices and their conditions (“The Avant-garde in the Television Era”).Part of the monograph is devoted to the interpretation of literary works. In the chapter “Hope from the Stars,” the author looks at the gnostic conditions of dystopia; in “History as Parody,” he touches upon the story of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski; and in the chapter “Zły Zagłoba,” he delves into the relationship between Sienkiewicz’s character and Anna Brzezińska’s Mr. Krzeszcz.
More...Keywords: complex settlement system; traditional economic region; socio-cultural space; Katowice conurbation; Silesian Voivodship
The first goal of the study is to outline the current state of knowledge of functional-spatial and socio-cultural transformations of complex settlement systems, especially the ones in traditional socio-economic regions. The second one is to propose several complementary model approaches (circular models of economic transformations and urbanization). The author's starting point is an attempt to model the origin and evolution of the economic base as a crucial element of the remaining changes in the socio-economic space. A model of economic change, like urbanization, is complementary to one another, reflecting both the centripetal and centrifugal forces conditioning transformation of the entire settlement system.
More...The book constitutes the first Polish monograph concerning the issues of coexistence with people with “dark” personality traits in the workplace. The present monograph considers three types of socially harmful personality traits which form the so-called dark triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. The “dark” personality traits constitute the core of the inquiry and they are analyzed with regard to the attitudes towards work (i.e. job satisfaction and brand loyalty), civic and counter-productive activities in the workplace, as well as (according to the interactive approach) selected characteristics of the workplace.The monograph consists of four chapters. Chapter one presents the two basic approaches to describing personality in the workplace: the trait approach and the interactive approach. In the beginning, the chapter underscores the importance of distinguishing between the “light” and “dark” personality traits in the workplace. Next, the chapter discusses the most important conceptions within the interactive approach to the study of personality in the organizational context, including the theory of personality trait activation in the workplace.Chapter two introduces the taxonomy of the dark triad, which includes three discrete “dark” personality traits, analyzed at the sub-clinical level: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. It presents two approaches to the study of the dark triad: the unification approach and the discrimination approach, and situates the dark triad against the other personality models, in addition to enumerating the most important behavioral correlations between Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. Moreover, it discusses the issue of the functioning of people who possess some of the traits of the dark triad in the workplace, underlining the significance of the potential benefits and costs connected with the presence of people who exhibit high levels of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy in the business.Chapter three discusses two attitudes towards work, analyzed in the monograph in relation to the traits exhibited by the dark triad: job satisfaction and brand loyalty. The chapter defines both concepts, presents the main categories of their personality and situational conditions, and examines the character of the links between the traits of the dark triad and the aforementioned attitudes towards work.Chapter four focuses on the analysis of two distinctive categories of voluntary actions in the workplace, i.e. civic actions and counter-productive actions. It indicates the main problems with terminology connected with the description of the aforementioned organizational actions and differentiates between three categories of conditions for organizational actions: attitudes towards work, situational factors, personality factors. The chapter is based on earlier research which focuses on the analysis of the interdependence between the personality traits of the dark triad and civic as well as counter-productive actions in the workplace. The three following chapters form the empirical part of the monograph. The first chapter discusses the methodological basis of own research; the second chapter analyzes the results of the study, and the third chapter presents their interpretation. The conducted study has confirmed the majority of the hypotheses considering the direct links between the personality traits of the dark triad, attitudes towards work and organizational actions. It has been shown that two conditions (power within the organization, understood as a formal position at the firm, and interpersonal conflict in the workplace) fulfilled the role of the moderators in the relation between the traits of the dark triad and attitudes towards work and organizational actions. Singular mediational effects of the attitudes towards work with regard to the links between the traits of the dark triad and organizational actions have also been observed. Taking into account the results of the study, modifications to the research model have been proposed, in order to include the direct correlations between situational factors and attitudes towards work and organizational actions. At the end of the monograph, on the basis of the literature on the subject, the author attempted interpretation of the obtained results, pointing to the limitations of the conducted studies and possible future avenues for empirical research
More...Keywords: Scientistic Worldview
The monograph presents the results of nineteen different studies on the psychological conditions and correlates of contemporary scientistic worldview (scientotheism). This worldview can be characterized by the tendency to justify one’s own beliefs and actions with scientific facts and living according to the theories posed by scientists, connected with the belief that the scientific language is the most perfect and valuable way of articulating the world and the phenomena that exist in it.This monograph has been divided into two parts. The first part, titled, “Connections and Predictors of the Scientific Worldview” comprises four chapters. Chapter one is devoted to the analysis of the connections between scientotheism and personality traits, as well as such aspects of the human existence as the need for cognitive closure, need for cognition, maximalist tendencies and cognitive reflexivity. Chapter two contains information relating to the relationship between the discussed worldview and the image of God, temporal orientations and the convictions regarding human traits and characteristics. Chapter three discusses the connections between the scientistic worldview and the spheres of values and life aspirations, while chapter four presents the connections between scientism and psychological mercantilism, causative and collective orientations, as well as the belief in the fact that life is, in fact, a sum zero game.The second part of the book is entitled “Consequences of the Scientistic Worldview” and consists of five chapters. Chapter five discusses the links between scientotheism and the attitudes towards health and vaccination. Chapter six presents the connections between the discussed worldview and the attitudes towards bioethical norms. Chapter seven focuses on the relationship between the scientistic worldview and aesthetic preferences, while chapter eight contains information regarding the potential role of scientotheism in the process of constructing one’s self-esteem on the basis of issues connected with science. Chapter nine presents the research findings on the connections between the scientistic worldview and the methods of evaluating information of various levels of credibility.The monograph presents a continuation of the issues touched upon by the author in his previous book, titled Science as the Object of Cult. Introduction to Scientotheism (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2015). It is addresses to people interested in the meaning of science in the contemporary world, academics who study contemporary social and cultural trends, as well as people who study the relationship between science and its wider perception.
More...Keywords: avifauna; Holy Bible
As in previously published volumes (I–IV) of Świat awifauny w czeskich i polskich przekładach Pisma Świętego (The World of Avifauna in Czech and Polish translations of the Holy Bible), the basis for my research are the socalled sixteen basic translations of the Holy Bible into Polish and Czech languages. This means that the following version of the Czech and Polish biblical translations have been excerpted from the presented work.Consequently, the eight fundamental Czech biblical translations have been thoroughly studied, which includes two Old-Bohemian translations, namely the best-known Protestant Bible Kralická bible, in particular its last edition from 1613, and the Catholic Olomoucká bible dated 1417, as well as six contemporary Czech translations of the Bible (representing different canons and Christian denominations and religious communities): Český ekumenický překlad (Czech ecumenical translation), Český studijní překlad (Czech research translation), Bible překlad 21. století (Bible translation of the 21st century), Překlad nového světa (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)), Jeruzalémská bible (The Jerusalem Bible), and Slovo na cestu (Word on the road). Moreover, in the case of the Polish-language editions of the Bible, the author also ensured that the criteria relating to the place and time of publication and similarly belonging to different Christian enominations and religious communities match those of the corresponding Czech-language editions. Eight basic editions were examined, including two Old-Polish editions: Protestant Biblia gdańska from 1632 and the Roman Catholic translation by Jakub Wujek from 1599, in addition to six contemporary translations: Nowa Biblia gdańska, Biblia Tysiąclecia (The Millennium Bible), which is also called Tyniecka; Biblia warszawsko-praska (The Warsaw-Prague Bible), translated by a single person, Fr. Bishop Kazimierz Romaniuk, Biblia warszawska colloquially called Brytyjka (‘the British Bible’), Biblia poznańska, and Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Przekład Nowego Świata (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures).In order to broaden the scope of research, the supplementary material (clearly supporting the knowledge in question) was also a partly selective presentation of ten biblical editions (four Czech and six Polish translations of the Holy Bible – see additionally compiled statements in the main text).From Czech translations I used translations made only by a single person, that is, the three-volume edition of Bible česká translated by Jan Hejčl, from the beginning of the 20th century and Pavlíkův studijní překlad (Pavlík’s research translation) by Miloš Pavlík as the most recent instance of the modern translation of the Holy Bible, which currently broadly available on the Czech publishing market, since2014. The Old-Bohemian Bible drážďanská (The Dresden Bible) from the 14th century (unfortunately extant only in a few fragments) and Old-Bohemian Litoměřicko-Třeboňská Bible (Třeboň Bible) published from the beginning of the 15th century, were also referred to.In addition, I used the Polish-language supplementary translations, such as: the Old-Polish Calvinist edition of Biblia brzeska (The Brest Bible), also called Biblia Radziwiłłowska (The Radziwiłł Bible) after the founder of this translation or Biblia pinczowska (The Pinczów Bible) after the place of its publication, and examples from the Old-Polish edition of Biblia Szymona Budnego (Szymon Budny’s Bible), also known as Biblia nieświeska. The following modern editions were additionally used: Biblia jerozolimska (The Jerusalem Bible), Biblia Paulistów (The Paulist Bible), Biblia ekumeniczna (Ecumenical Bible) and an interlinear translation with grammatical codes and transliteration repared by Anna Kuśmirek titled Hebrajsko-polski Stary Testament. Prorocy (Hebrew-Polish Old Testament of Prophets). In addition to these basic and supplementary editions of the Holy Bible, many other Czechand Polish-language editions of the Bible were used from different historical periods.
More...This book is an attempt at joining film and pedagogy. The discussion is primarily based on categories drawn from George Lucas’s Star Wars space saga. The book presents an analysis of the films, including their reception and psychological impact on the viewer, the two factors being considered as constituents of pop-cultural education. Moreover, the book offers a grounding of cinematic images in personalistic pedagogy. References to the role of the teacher in the process of upbringing consider recognising the teacher’s role in their relation with the student. The roles are divided into an order of focusing on the student and an order of focusing on the curriculum.
More...Keywords: Andrzej Komoniecki; Żywiec; Chronography; chronicle; customs; nature; disease; law;religion;
The book familiarizes the readers with the content of a chronicle, little known not only to average readers but even to researchers, written by the mayor of Żywiec Andrzej Komoniecki (1659–1729), entitled Chronography or the History of Żywiec. The chronicle illustrates the events that took place in the years 1400–1728, primarily in Żywiec and its vicinity, but also in other regions of Poland, and even beyond its borders. In addition to the concise, one-sentence, one-page notes, we find here extensive descriptions of the historical circumstances. Apart from Polish, the chronicle also contains notes in Latin. The text is written in prose, but there are also poems written by Komoniecki himself. A similar richness is also brought by the thematic layer of the work, on the pages of which both the great men of this world–rulers, bishops, hereditary lords – as well as common citizens and even people from the social margin are immortalized. The text of the Chronicle is not fully original; its first part, from the beginning to the year 1586, was (with small exceptions) rewritten from the Polish Chronicle of Marcin and Joachim Bielski, and in addition, the author also used other sources. The most interesting and original fragments are those that refer to Komoniecki’s times, because they contain many valuable descriptions and observations and subjective emotions.The author showed the everyday life of his ancestors, as well as contemporary people, in many different aspects. The central object of the chronicler’s interest appears to be a man whose fate is determined by four powerful forces: nature, disease (and death), religion and law. Within each of these spheres, the mayor of Żywiec recorded above all spectacular and exceptional events, deviating from the routine of the everyday life and destroying the predictable everyday life. Great History has also left its mark on Komoniecki’s work. However, it is recalled in passing, for the sake of documentary accuracy, and constitutes only a background for the events that the chronicle considers most important. As such, Komoniecki focuses on the local events. Thus, the real “master” in the chronicle is not the king, but the local heir, and the attention of an average inhabitant of Żywiec is focused on pests threatening cabbage crops much more often than on subsequent wars, elections, parliaments or coronations.A similar approach has been used in this book, in which the political subject matter of Chronography is discussed in a very narrow scope and appears only when it has a direct connection with the main aim of the research, which is to reconstruct the reality of life of an inhabitant of a small town (predominantly of Żywiec, but also of the surrounding villages and towns) in the era of the First Republic. The content of the Chronography has been presented in the context of other source texts from the researched period, set against the background of the old Polish chronicle tradition, and confronted with the results of contemporary scientific research.
More...Keywords: history;totalitarianism; axiology;metaphysics;
Despite their belonging to two separate literary generations, namely, those born around 1910 and 1920, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Konstanty A. Jeleński, and Czesław Miłosz represent the very same cultural formation. They were all Polish humanists moulded by the common paradigm of values founded upon the basis of shared reading list.In consecutive parts of her work, the author shows the ways in which Herling-Grudziński, Jeleński, and Miłosz, at subsequent stages of their lives, were entangled in history. Part One describes them as grappling with totalitarianism and the artist’s moral dilemmas, providing historical and political backdrop to the fates of future émigrés and indicating the ramifications of their choice to emigrate for their artistic work. The chapter entitled Wobec historii i polityki [Towards History and Politics] is a particularly close account of Herling-Grudziński’s discussion with the diagnosis contained in The Captive Mind over the course of nearly fifty years.Part Two of the book is devoted to the involvement of the said writers into Europe’s literary life. In the chapter Wobec wspólnoty [Towards Community] the author discusses their relationships with the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She gives the account of Jeleński’s output in both the field of literature and opinion journalism as the editor-in-chief of Parisbased monthly Preuves, as well as Herling-Grudziński’s contributions to a Rome-based magazine Tempo Presente.The book’s final part, entitled Wobec powinności artysty [Towards Artist’s Duty] is devoted to metaphysical and axiological problematics present in writings by Herling-Grudziński, Jeleński, and Miłosz. What was conspicuous in all they put their minds to – the literary art, the commentaries they worded, explanations they addressed to Western public opinion, and finally, in their endeavour to most adequately express their views on metaphysical foundations of art and existence – was their personal stigma and personal involvement. Thereby, the History, along with their histories, gained an individual human dimension.
More...Keywords: teacher; reflection; self-reflection; early school education
The monograph (Auto)Reflection of an Early Childhood Education Teacher. A Practical View showcases theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of early childhood education teacher’s everyday work. The volume concerns a certain reflection and auto-reflection on the part of the teacher, whose duties entail optimal planning and organization, as well as the subsequent realization, control and evaluation not only of their students’ work (in the teaching-learning process), but also their own. Moreover, the volume attempts to approach such reflection and auto-reflection on the part of the teacher in the context of the learning through doing theory proposed by Wojciech Kojs, and to showcase, in the light of this theory, the importance of the research agency of the subject.
More...Keywords: Byzantium; Byzantine novel; romance; Theodore Prodromos; Rhodanthe and Dosikles; Byzantine Literature
At the court of Komnenoi, in the twelfth century only four novels (romances) were written. One of these was Rhodanthe and Dosikles by Theodor Prodromos, the first novel since eighth hundred years. The author was the most famous poet of his time and he wrote numerous secular and religious works. Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles consists of nine books in which the author describes, in the realities of ancient Greece, the adventures of two young beloveds. Rhodanthe and Dosikles were captured by pirates, imprisoned and separated, but in the end they meet again. Behind the trivial tale there is a work full of rhetoric art and full of allusion to the twelfth century Byzantium.
More...Keywords: readiness for aggression; aggression; violence; female violent offenders; beliefs
The monograph raises the issue related to the determinants of violent female criminality. The book may be of interest to people who study the phenomena of aggression and violence, including specialists in the field of forensic psychology and students. It presents a review of theoretical approaches focused on the cognitive aspects of violence, the concept of readiness for aggression, the specificity of aggressive behavior of women and the author’s own research in which the relationships between the beliefs of women incarcerated for violent crimes and their readiness for aggression were analyzed. The results can be used in the area of therapeutic, prophylactic and resocialization interactions.
More...Keywords: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski; poetics; scholastics
The topic of the work are scholastic inspirations in the poetics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. The work consists of an introduction, six chapters and conclusion. The intoduction presents the state of research and layout of the work. The first chapter shows, how Sarbiewski uses concepts taken from the scholastics. The second chapter compares the views of Aristotle and Sarbiewski on poetics. The third chapter presents the way Sarbiewski uses the concept of analogy. The fourth chapter presents his view on the problem universals. In the fifth chapter his vision of human being was described. In the sixth chapter Sarbiewski's understanding of creativity was compared with romantic views on it. In final, the conclusions were formulated.
More...Keywords: Catholicism; Upper Silesia; nationalism; church art
The book addresses the much-neglected topic of permeating of nationalist ideas into spaces of Catholic worship and of Catholic-nationalist discourses being monumentalised by means of church art. The field of research is Upper Silesia - an area of competition between supporters of various identity programs. The author shows how from the beginning of the 20th century to modern times the elites of the Church, supported by artists and public authorities, used art to build nations and other imagined communities. Moreover, he analyzes iconographic programs and narratives, associating themes and motifs with myths, symbols and historiosophical constructs. The book gives an image of the dilemmas faced by Catholics in the era of intensive nation-building processes.
More...Keywords: job satisfaction; job performance; happy-productive worker thesis; work and organizational psychology
The publication is a comprehensive study on job satisfaction and job performance. It presents the leading perspectives, theories, and models of the described phenomena, so far analyzed mainly in foreign literature. The presented research attempts to find the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, and the obtained results shed new light on their relation-ship, which turns out to be more complex than previously assumed. This book is for management practitioners, including managers, team leaders, human resource management specialists, and others interested in organizational studies. It is also a valuable source of knowledge for psychology and management students.
More...Keywords: masculinities; gender; neurosis; hysteria; economics; 19th century
The book deals with the figures of masculinity produced by various discourses of the late XIX c.: medical, economic, historical, hygienic. The interpretations relate to literary and paraliterary texts. The figure of the neurasthenic allegorizes masculinities threatened by excessive work, diffuse subjectivity, and perverse sexuality. The Polish idiom of neurosis has its particular manifestation in Without Dogma: Sienkiewicz, contrary to the theorists of neurosis, has designed the protagonist in such a way that his body is the heritage of the vigorous ancestors known from the Trilogy. In the petty bourgeois world of Dulska and Dulski gender has class, economic, socio-cultural determinants.
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