
Tadeusz Kantor's Three Texts
Trzy teksty Tadeusza Kantora
This article aims to interprete Tadeusz Kantor's verses, printed in this issue.
More...This article aims to interprete Tadeusz Kantor's verses, printed in this issue.
More...The article discusses issues involving relations of scope of vocabulary included on the one hand in the national language lexicons, and on the other hand in the texts of outstanding prolific writers. Results of research on writer’s lexicon following the novel concept of topical lexicon dictionary of the rich and prolific creative work of Stefan Żeromski. So far, six volumes of the monumental work „Słownictwo pism Stefana Żeromskiego” have been published: „Przestrzeń” (The Space) (by Katarzyna Sobolewska), „Dom” (The House) (by Elżbieta Sękowska), „Świat dźwięków” (Domain of sound) (by Barbara Bartnicka), „Świat barw” (Domain of colour) (by Kwiryna Handke), „Walka, wojna, wojskowość” (Domain of fighting, war and the military) (by Ryszard Handke), „Myśl i mowa” (Domain of thought and speech) (by Henryka Sędziakowa). There are more volumes to come: „Świat doznań zmysłowych” (Domain of sensual sensations) (by Barbara Bartnicka), „Słownictwo astronomiczne i meteorologiczne” (Domain of astronomical and metheorological words) (by Maria Olszewska), „Słownictwo topograficzne” (Domain of topographic lexicon) (by Magdalena Czachorowska), „Świat roślin” (Domain of biological lexicon) (by Stanisław Cygan), „Niebo i piekło” (Domain of heaven and hell) (by Monika Gabryś), „Miasto i wieś” (Domain of town and village) (by Katarzyna Sobolewska), „Świat kobiet” (Women) (by Kwiryna Handke), „Świat mężczyzn” (Men) (by Ryszard Handke), „Podróże” (Travels) (by Katarzyna Szostak).
More...Keywords: interpretation; neopragmatism; hermeneutics; intention of the text; intention of the reader
The author reviews the book by Andrzej Szahaj, On interpretation. He points out that the ideas Shahaj proposed in the 1990s anticipated Polish reception of the ethical, political and cultural turn. Moreover, he argues that Szahaj’s neopragmatic approach can also be considered hermeneutical in the broad sense, opposed to the formal-structural-semiotic paradigm of modern literary criticism. From this point of view, the author undertakes criticism of Szahaj’s criticism of hermeneutics, in an attempt to prove that “in the text there exists something rather than nothing,” noting the variety of Szahaj’s cultural prejudices that affected his view of not only hermeneutics, but also, for example, of deconstruction. The essay is, however, intended as benevolent polemic or, in other words, “a family dispute.”
More...Keywords: freedom of speech/expression; censorship; obscenity; bitniks; beat generation
Freedom of speech is guaranteed to every person by international agreements concerning the protection of human rights and by national constitutions. Freedom of expression is regarded as one of the pillars of democracy, the determinant of a wide sphere of human freedom. But should every statement, even the most controversial, be the subject of protection? Does obscene speech deserve such protection? The answer to these questions seems to be justified especially in the age of Internet – the instrument offering the possibility of unrestricted flow of information.
More...Keywords: Polish language course for beginners;
W modelu kształcenia na odległość treść (inaczej tekst) jest terminem niezwykle pojemnym, a przez to także sprawiającym nieco trudności. Za treść uznajemy każdy zapis w formie elektronicznej, tj. e-book, dokument tekstowy, instrukcję, a także zapis w formacie PowerPoint, zestawienia liczbowe i tekstowe, nagrania i filmy, wiadomości z forów internetowych oraz informacje wymieniane w czasie czatów edukacyjnych, wideokonferencje i konferencje internetowe, jak również innego typu elementy multimedialne (gry interaktywne, teksty, prace zespołowe wykonywane online) (Orczykowska 2006). Tekstem zatem jest każdy rodzaj prezentowanej treści nauczania – w formie graficznej (słownej czy ikonicznej), jak również dźwiękowej, wizualnej statycznej (fotografia, ilustracja) lub ruchomej (film).
More...Keywords: texts; contexts; listening skills;
Język polski cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem wśród obcokrajowców. System certyfikacji naszego języka stanowi jeden z istotniejszych punktów promocji Polski i polszczyzny w świecie, a w związku z tym ważne jest, by przebiegał prawidłowo i nie budził zastrzeżeń zdających egzaminy certyfikatowe cudzoziemców.
More...Keywords: Michał Leon Obuchowicz; slavery; lamentation; 17th c. manuscripts; diaries
A diary and a few letters and poems have been preserved from the time when Michał Leon Obuchowicz (circa 1630–1669) was in Moscow slavery (1660–1662). These various texts, which illuminate one another, express the difficult experience in ways characteristic of their genres. The diary was published twice (1859 and 2003) and the contemporary edition was enriched with official and private correspondence. The basis of the last edition of the diary is an eighteenth-century copy of Obuchowiczes’ silva rerum book (MS BK 358). The book contains also unpublished poems related to slavery, which can be attributed to Obuchowicz. The most interesting of them is „Lament więźnia” (see Annex). It is, similarly to Zbigniew Morsztyn’s „Duma niewolnicza”, an example of autobiographical lyric created by a soldier. Genologically, it forms a variation of the lamentation on Fortuna‘s instability.
More...Keywords: legal interpretation; Bible; interpretation of the Bible; dynamic interpretation
This paper concerns similarity of interpretation of law and interpretation of the Bible. It focuses on the same mechanisms grounding both the principles of interpretation of law and interpretation of the Bible. First, similar textual principles of interpretation are briefly described. Second, extra-textual principles of interpretation are given. In the second part some shortcomings of legal extra-textual principles of interpretation are also indicated. At the end of the text, a theory that allows to disregard these shortcomings is proposed.
More...Keywords: Bulgarian Theatre (20th Century); Radko Radkov; Theophano; Byzantine Commonwealth; historical memory; Anniversary 1300 years Bulgarian state (1981);
The article is dedicated to the problems of historical drama, one of the ways of interpreting the past. The study is placed in the context of the sociology of culture and the historical memory of society, with a focus on the transposition and the symbolical representation of the history of Byzantium and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (1181–1396) in literature. The subject of the analysis are the works of the Bulgarian poet and playwright Radko Radkov (1940–2009), above all his play Theophano, written in the convention of classical drama in verse and the so-called ritual drama, according to the title of the author, a synthesis of text borrowed from Old Bulgarian Literature, and Byzantine hymnography, inspired visually by the images of the Middle Age Miniatures included in Manassij’s Chronicle (Codex Vaticanus Slav II) – Praise of Turnovgrad and In Praise of the Word. The historical theme in the work of Radko Radkov is substantially different from the interpretation of the Bulgarian history of other Bulgarian writers of the second half of the 20th Century, by which the author is opposing the ideological constructs of the official authorities during this period. Within the discourse of the relations between creator and authorities, attention is paid to some events surrounding the 1300 anniversary of the creation of the Bulgarian state (celebrated in 1981), when, thanks to the benevolence of Lyudmila Zhivkova and the open culture policy that she, as Chairperson of the Committee of Arts and Culture, had introduced, the plays of Radko Radkov were allowed to be staged in the theatres. The playwright has found semiotic and stylistic devices that recreate the classical past of the people, the orthodox Christianity and culture in the universal perspective of the Byzantine Commonwealth, and artistically voice his historiosophic views concerning Bulgarian national history and the Byzantine-Bulgarian cultural community. The paper analyses the tribulations of the performance of Theophano, staged in Bulgaria by the French Director Pierre Della Torre, who sees in the poetic world of Radko Radkov “the monumental force of the masters of French theatre, Racine and Corneille”.
More...Keywords: J 1; 1; Prov 8; 22–23; Syr 24; iterary allusion; creation theology; ἐν ἀρχῇ
The first words of the Prologue to St. John’s Gospel – “In the beginning” – are a literary allusion to the first words of Genesis. The Evangelist continues in this manner a long tradition of wisdom literature, which interpreted and developed creation theology, in particular in the texts where Wisdom was personified (Prov 8,22–23 and Sir 24). In fact, the first word of the Prologue (ἐν ἀρχῇ) refers its readers not just to the creation narrative, but to biblical wisdom literature and indeed to the whole corpus of Scripture, i.e. Old Testament, as the interpretative key to the Fourth Gospel.
More...Niniejszy tom esejów stanowi kontynuację opublikowanego w 2015 r. zbioru Prawo i literatura. Szkice, poświęconego tematyce prawnej w literaturze polskiej XIX w. Tym razem przedmiotem analizy (…) stały się wybrane utwory literackie okresu międzywojennego. Podobnie jak w przypadku poprzedniego tomu staraliśmy się sięgać po różne gatunki (…) i tematykę w różny sposób odnoszącą się do rzeczywistości ówczesnej Polski. Mamy świadomość tego, że ta panorama nie jest kompletna, że brakuje w niej wielu ważnych autorów i ważnych utworów, ale wydaje się, że omówione przykłady dają dostatecznie dużo materiału do ogólniejszych spostrzeżeń dotyczących zarówno oceny prawa i jego roli w świadomości społecznej II Rzeczypospolitej, jak i sposobu traktowania prawa jako tworzywa literackiego, zrozumiałego i atrakcyjnego dla czytelników. Pamiętajmy przy tym, że czasy II Rzeczypospolitej to okres budowy od podstaw, w dramatycznych niekiedy okolicznościach, instytucji polskiej państwowości i ujednolicanego prawa. W dziełach literackich jak w lustrze, a niekiedy jak w krzywym zwierciadle zobaczyć możemy niebezpieczeństwa towarzyszące tym wielkim zadaniom.Ze wstępu Marka WąsowiczaAutorzy omawiają wątki prawne w utworach: Tadeusza Dołęgi-Mostowicza, Witolda Gombrowicza, Juliusza Kadena-Bandrowskiego, Zofii Nałkowskiej, Adama Nasielskiego, Tadeusza Rittnera, Jerzego Szaniawskiego, Juliana Tuwima i Stefana Żeromskiego.W tomie publikują:Joanna Derlikiewicz, Piotr Jakubowski, Karolina Król, Gniewomir Kuchta, Jarosław Kuisz, Kacper Oleksy, Bartosz Soloch, Piotr Szczepański, Aleksander Ujazdowski, Marek Wąsowicz, Maria Ziemka.
More...Keywords: intertekstualność;Zbigniew Herbert;przed-tekst;Aleksander Wat;krytyka genetyczna
This text is devoted to avant-texts and their influence on intertextual relations. The avanttextresearch makes it possible to reveal intertextual relations that significantly complementthe previous interpretations of indicidual works. They also help realize the fact that any textonce printed remains open, uninhibited and unbound – thanks to the research into its avanttexts,reading perspectives are significantly expanded and allow to pose a lot of significantquestions related to the genesis of the text. Intertextual space is not limited only to conscious,teleological references, because it opens to the field of the unconscious.
More...W artykule przedstawiono elementy koncepcji uczenia języka polskiego dzieci w wieku 5–9 lat poza Polską. Koncepcja ta nawiązuje do podejścia holistycznego (Szyszko-Bohusz 1989; Schulz 2018) i koncentruje się na wykorzystaniu książki, tekstu kultury, tekstu literackiego zgodnie z prawidłowościami rozwojowymi dziecka, uwzględnia także specyfikę uczenia się języka polskiego jako odziedziczonego, drugiego, obcego.
More...Keywords: aesthetics; culture of the word; media culture; public disputes
The aim of the article is to discuss the aspects of linguistic aesthetics in public discourse,especially those that are desired by language users who are observe ongoingdebates. Lack of sensitivity to the word, linguistic intuition and tact in language result ina decrease in the level of language culture in interpersonal relations. People who discussthe quality of language are disgusted by pauperization of language canons, violationof linguistic norms and the aesthetic order of thought, as well as brutality and vulgarity in speaking about those fragments of reality that are the subject of public disputes. Whilediscussing the issue of skipping the beauty of language in public discussions, I refer tothe method of axiolinguistic analysis. I refer to the principles of ethics of interpersonalcommunication, linguistic sensitivity and decency in language. I also present the influenceof language aggression on the disappearance of linguistic aesthetics and the ethicsin the public discourse. Public disputes revealed an important element of media culture.They showed that for the language users, the sense of aesthetics, the culture of the wordand the beauty of the language are not without significance.
More...Keywords: Stanisław Pachołowiecki; Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis; Renaissance cartography; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Muscovy;
This study discusses an important aspect of a political message conveyed by Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s map, published in 1580 by G.B Cavalieri’s printing house in Rome as part of The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk – Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis. The message in question is one of the paratexts, presenting a detailed historical note on Polatsk and the Principality. The main goal of the study is to prove a double hypothesis, first that the note on Polatsk was a key argument legitimising the rule of Stephen Báthory – contested by Tsar Ivan the Terrible – not only over the small territory under dispute but over the whole Great Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and second, that the decision to aim the first Polish-Lithuanian military offensive in the 1577–1582 war at Polatsk was motivated by political rather than military or strategic considerations. In section I, preliminary assumptions, theses and research methods are presented. Then, in section II, the context of the propaganda campaign, as Pachołowiecki’s map ideological framework, is introduced. This is followed by a critical analysis of the historical note, based on Polish and Ruthenian-Lithuanian sources (III.1). The next section (III.2) demonstrates that Polatsk held a central place in the Muscovite political discourse. Having proclaimed himself a heir to the throne of the Great Duchy and to the crown of Poland, Ivan the Terrible seized the land of Polatsk, and the efficient Muscovite diplomacy started to assert the tsar’s alleged dynastic claim to Lithuania and Poland. In this way, the manipulated history of the “recovered Polatsk”, Polotia recepta, argued to be a historical part of Lithuania, can be seen as a reply to the Muscovite discourse of power drawing on dynastic claims to a non-existent duchy, and the key matter is the legitimisation of elective monarchy as opposed to hereditary one. Having discussed the theatrical and iconic form of the Polish triumph over Ivan the Terrible (III.3), the author highlights the long life of the political myth of the Polatsk statehood and its significance for today’s Belarusian identity discourse.
More...Keywords: second homes; economy; labour market; goods and services; estate market; region
Second homes are a social phenomenon that dynamically gains popularity, which exerts influence – both positive and negative – on a variety of regions‘ functioning aspects, including economy. Contrary to “traditional“ tourism, this form of leisure does not make products and services which are consumed on market. It is rather a mode of mobility and settlement which can be placed on a continuum between stable migrations and “traditional” tourism. Simultaneously, second homes owners’ and tenants’ demand for various goods and services can lead to the growth and diversification of income sources, employment, and development of certain region’s economy branches. The aim of this overview paper is to demonstrate second homes phenomenon in relation to its meaning to the region’s economy, linking it with local estate markets, products, services and labour. Additionally, it contains the author’s considerations on the issues that determine second homes phenomenon functioning in the field of economy, such as itinerancy, informal economy, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
More...Keywords: Helena Radlińska; war journalism; Gray Ranks Assault Groups; II World War; generational message
The article presents the main themes of journalistic texts probably written by Helena Radlińska, and published on the pages of the underground magazine ‘Pismo Młodych’ addressed to the Gray Ranks Assault Groups. The selected topics, referring to the main concepts of Radlińska’s social pedagogy, were distinguished as a result of a qualitative content analysis. The synthesis of the content addressed to the fighting youth and their instructors, leads to a conclusion regarding the generational message that Radlińska directed to the younger generation fighting against the invader during World War II. The text reveals a less known part of the journalistic work of the scientist from the war period.
More...Keywords: Diary; notes; Zofia and Ryszard Gansiniec; letter;
Pamiętniki, dzienniki, notatki i relacje mają szczególną wartość przede wszystkim ze względu na fakt, że ich autorami są bezpośredni świadkowie wydarzeń i procesów historycznych. Dzięki temu można w nich natrafić na istotne szczegóły, niedostępne w źródłach normatywnych. W przypadku historii Lwowa w XX w. (zwłaszcza w okresie międzywojennym i w latach II wojny światowej) dysponujemy obecnie wieloma publikacjami o takim charakterze.
More...Keywords: Book review; Albertas Rosinas; morphology;
Review of: ALBERTAS ROSINAS, MIKALOJAUS DAUKSOS TEKSTY [VARDZIU SEMANTINE IR MORFOLOGINE STRUKTUORA. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijy leidybos institutas, 2001, 163 p.
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