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Rachela Auerbach laments the traces, remnants, spectres and breaches

Rachela Auerbach opłakuje ślady,resztki, widma, wyrwy z ziemi

Author(s): Aleksandra Ubertowska / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Rachela Auerbach

The article attempts at a multidimensional analysis of the Holocaust works of Rachela Auerbach, the Polish-Jewish writer. The basic assumption is that Auerbach’s writings from the period 1942-47 are concentrated on three major themes: the “experience of the survivor from the Sonderkommando”, reflection on things (dispersed in the emptied Warsaw ghetto) and the nature of the historical agent. The author focuses on two particular essays: “Lamentation of things dead” and “Lacrimea rerum”, as well as on “On the fields of Treblinka” and “Werterfassung”.

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The Temptations of the Times of Siege: Parodies of Religious Literature in Polish Political Writings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Pokusy czasu oblężenia. O trawestacjach literatury religijnej w staropolskim piśmiennictwie politycznym

Author(s): Maciej Pieczyński / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: political poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth century; Bible parodies; political catechisms; providentialism; Poland; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; psychoanalysis

This article examines seventeenth and eighteenth-century political works that parody religious texts, above all the Lord’s Prayer. While most interpreters have situated this type of creativity within the carnivalesque peripheries of the civic and political literature of the time, Pieczyński argues that they are inexorably linked to key aspects of contemporary notions of the Polish Republic’s political system, above all to providentialism. Drawing on the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis, Pieczyński is also able to read those parodies as an expression of an unconscious temptation to liberate oneself from the power of the phantasmal Father, i.e. the sacralised authority that guarantees the political order of the Polish Republic.

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Genealogy – The Iconography and Rhetoric of a Certain Epistemological Figure

Genealogia – ikonografia i retoryka pewnej figury epistemologicznej

Author(s): Sigrid Weigel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: genealogy; history of knowledge; family tree; encyklopaedia

This text portrays the history of genealogy as a history of the concept on the one hand and as the history of a certain scholarly discipline on the other hand. Given the tight relationship between the methods of genealogy and its subject of interest, Weigel leads the reader through the history of European culture, pointing out key moments when the methods of genealogy or the forms of its representation underwent transformation – moments that correspond to historical, social and cultural changes in Europe. The analysis and interpretation of a very popular form of genealogical representation – the family tree – plays an important role in this study.

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Spelling out the Gaps of the Everyday: The Contexts of Narratives on Aphasia

Literowanie luk codzienności. Konteksty narracji o afazji

Author(s): Klaudia Muca / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2016

Keywords: aphasia; narrative; spelling; language; identity; communication; experience; therapy; stroke

Individuals who have experienced aphasia often create narratives about beginnings – about relearning language and cultural codes, about finding one’s bearings in space, about expressing experiences. Many of these narratives form an idiom of personal experience, an account of regaining oneself through language. In this article Muca describes and analyses the work of Karolina Wiktor. Wiktor portrays her episode of aphasia as an experience of a deficiency, loss and renewed creation, through the smallest particles of words, that is to say letters, coming together as a narrative about ‘an explosion of the brain’. For an aphasiac, the creation of a narrative is a sort of (self-)therapy. Analysing such accounts allows us to tackle fundamental questions about cognition, such as the relationship between language and the creation of identity.

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Is it worth more to explore Polish-Latin language contacts? Historical review and evaluation of the studies Polish-Latin language contacts

Czy warto jeszcze badać polsko - łacińskie kontakty językowe? Historyczny przegląd i ocena badań polsko-łacińskich kontaktów językowych

Author(s): Anna Lenartowicz-Zagrodna / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 48/2014

Keywords: Polish-Latin language contacts; state of research on the influence of Latin to Polish language;

Is it worth more to explore Polish-Latin language contacts? Historical review and evaluation of the studies Polish-Latin language contacts The subject of observation was the state of research on Polish-Latin language contacts. The analysis was conducted from the chronological and thematic perspective. Primary objective was to identify thematic areas that require further investigation.

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A Climate of Annihilation (in Novels by Paweł Huelle, Tadeusz Konwicki, Andrzej Kuśniewicz and Piotr Szewc)

Klimat Zagłady (w perspektywie powieści Pawła Huellego, Tadeusza Konwickiego, Andrzeja Kuśniewicza i Piotra Szewca)

Author(s): Marta Tomczok / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: Holocaust; climate; natural disaster; metonymy; novel;

This article suggests possibilities of reading novels by Tadeusz Konwicki, Andrzej Kuśniewicz, Piotr Szewc and Paweł Huelle through the prism of environment-oriented studies on the Shoah. Where Polish narratives of the Holocaust are concerned, Tomczok proposes, the years 1986 and 1987 saw not only a breakthrough in terms of politics and worldview, but also a shift in writers’ perception of climate change and the rapid degradation of the environment. Building on studies by Eelco Runia and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Tomczok reads natural disasters as metonymies of the Shoah – metonymies that point to the extermination of the Jews while also reflecting on contemporary threats to the natural environment. Tomczok’s proposition to relate these two perspectives draws on Harald Welzer’s Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century. The article also contextualizes selected novels by the above-mentioned writers with Polish climate research conducted in the 1980s at the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute.

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InterCorp Parallel Corpus in Translation Lexicography – Opportunities and Limitations

Korpus równoległy InterCorp w leksykografii przekładowej – możliwości i ograniczenia

Author(s): Andrzej Charciarek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 7/2019

Keywords: translation lexicography; Intercorp parallel corpus; translation equivalence; phrasemes; Czech; Polish

The article is devoted to theoretical considerations related to the use of InterCorp parallel corpus in the translation lexicography. It provides a description of text resources and specificity of particular linguistic models of paralel corpora: Polish, Czech and Russian. As well as this, advantages and disadvantages of bilingual paralel corpora (Polish-Czech, Polish-Russian and Russian-Czech) are discussed. Theoretical issues focus mainly on translation equivalence and its criteria in reference to the corpus resources including mostly translations. The study proves increasing usability of the InterCorp parallel corpus in translation lexicography.

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Zofia Dembińska – A Forgotten “Woman Architect of the Polish People’s Republic”: A Critical Contribution to Feminist Biographical Theory and Practice in Poland

Zofia Dembińska – zapomniana „architektka PRL-u”. Krytyczny przyczynek do feministycznej teorii i praktyki biograficznej w Polsce

Author(s): Agnieszka Mrozik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: herstory; women communists; transnational turn; feminism; national paradigm

Zofia Dembińska (1905-1989) co-founded the Czytelnik Publishing House, was deputy minister of education and member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. These achievements inspire Mrozik to call her a “woman architect of the Polish People’s Republic”. Examining Dembińska’s life and work, Mrozik not only rescues her from oblivion, but above all she examines the current state of feminist biographical theory and practice in Poland. The fact that women communists tend to be passed over in silence, she suggests, confirms the dominant national paradigm. Drawing on the work of Levke Harders and Antoinette Burton – theorists of biography and historians of the women’s movement – Mrozik argues that we need to rethink the subject of feminist scholarship. Calling for a more critical and contextualised and historicised perspective on the questions we ask and our own descriptive categories, she also indicates the challenges and opportunities that a transnational turn would present to scholars of history and biography.

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“Thank You that Poland Exists”: Children Write to Insurgents of the Warsaw Uprising

„Dziękujemy, że Polska istnieje”. Dzieci piszą do powstańców warszawskich

Author(s): Sara Herczyńska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2020

Keywords: Warsaw Rising Museum; BohaterON; pocztówki; historical museum; nikiforms;

The campaign “BohaterON” co-organised by the Warsaw Rising Museum hinges on sending postcards to insurgents of the Warsaw Uprising. Herczyńska examines the assumptions of this project, its promotion and realisation, as well as a collection of 187 postcards written as part of the campaign, in the context of the Museum’s work. She draws on the concepts of the nikiform and scriptive thing.

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The War of the Helpless: A Never-Ending History

Wojna bezsilnych. Niekończąca się historia

Author(s): Agnieszka Dauksza / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2020

Keywords: witness; victims; passivity; helpless people; weakness;

This article is about helpless people during World War II: victims, civilians, people who are marginalised, ill, injured, old, imprisoned, etc. Dauksza also reconstructs the mechanisms of dealing with helpless people in the postwar era – their renewed stigmatisation. She demonstrates that for many decades political and social practices as well as research on the war and the Shoah have focused on heroic history – heroes, victories, military superiority, the perpetrators and their devastating activities as well as active witnesses who testify. Dauksza calls for a turn towards different individuals – those who are helpless, inactive, weak, unheroic and subject to other people’s decisions. A narrative about them would show different aspects of World War II and suggest a reinterpretation of historical politics in Europe, even today.

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“Looking at What Was Happening Here”: “Folk Art” and the Dynamics of Polish Memory of the Holocaust

Patrząc na to, co się tutaj działo (sztuka „ludowa” i dynamika polskiej pamięci o Zagładzie)

Author(s): Roma Sendyka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2020

Keywords: Holocaust; folk art; vernacular art; bystander; testimony;

Sendyka presents the results of her research on Holocaust-related postwar Polish “folk art” as presented in the exhibition Widok zza bliska: Inne obrazy Zagłady [View From Behind the Scenes: Other Images of the Shoah] in 2018-19. Sendyka treats this material as a source of testimonies that suggest how memory of war was (trans)formed beyond high culture. Works by Sławomir Kosiniak, Zygmunt Skrętowicz and Jan Kowalczyk use the documentary, metaphor and metonymy as strategies of referring to a difficult past. The application of metaphor and metonymy in particular involves the use of socially acceptable and widely available images rather than material more deeply rooted in personal experience. The practices identifiable in the works of “folk” artists shed light on ways of working with a difficult heritage and reactions to external norms in the visual discourse on the Shoah.

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Literature and Memory Work: Włodzimierz Odojewski’s Oksana

Literatura wobec pracy pamięci na przykładzie Oksany Włodzimierza Odojewskiego

Author(s): Angelika Kowalik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2020

Keywords: Volhynia; memory; post-memory; identity; otherness;

This article explores the problem of postmemory in Włodzimierz Odojewski’s novel Oksana, embodied in the main female character. Kowalik begins by discussing the psychological notion of memory work related to a traumatic experience (theVolhynian massacre) as an enduring problem in Odojewski’s work on Ukrainian themes. She introduces the concept of dialogic memory as well as otherness, which are treated as essential indicators of the therapeutic process. Her main thesis is that Odojewski’s writing on Ukraine evolves, with Oksana representing the final stage of his memory work concerning the events in Poland’s Eastern Borderlands during World War II. To allow the Other affected by post-memory an equal voice in the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue proves to be an important element in the therapeutic process in the national context.

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Humans in Flames: Arthur Pałyga’s Mythical Imagination

Człowiek w płomieniach. Mityczna wyobraźnia Artura Pałygi

Author(s): Jacek Kopciński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2020

Keywords: drama; myth; imagination; sacred; profane; symbol; fire; Mircea Eliade

Kopciński discusses the work of Polish playwright Artur Pałyga (b. 1971), especially Powrótbogów [The Return of the Gods, 2017], a collection of plays that draw on different poetics(oratorium, dramatic poem, mysterium, poetic monodrama). For Pałyga, the source of the gods’ return is not tradition or history but the human need to encounter the non-human– the archaic myth reactivated in the characters’ liminal situations (death, disease, selfsacrifice,spiritual loneliness), as well as the playwright’s experience of trying to identifywith the speaker of a dramatic text. Kopciński suggests that Pałyga’s characters strive towards a form of absolute being that recalls the notion of the sacred proposed byhistorian of religion Mircea Eliade (1907–1986). The archaic symbol connecting the characters’ experience is fire (flame, spark, solar heat, lethal radiation). Kopciński’s analysis of Pałyga’s mythical imagination focuses on the transformations of this symbol.

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“This Poor Itek! So blasé! He’s Posing!”: Gombrowicz as a Poser

„Ten biedny Itek! Taki zblazowany! Pozuje!” Gombrowicz jako pozer

Author(s): Ewa Kobyłecka-Piwońska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2020

Keywords: Witold Gombrowicz; Argentina; pose; César Aira; exotism; nationality

Kobyłecka-Piwońska discusses Argentinian interpretations of Gombrowicz’s work that refer to notions of posing. She begins by outlining the history of simulation as an illness and as a strategy of assimilation applied by immigrants in Argentina. Next she analyses passages in the Diary, using the notion of the pose as an attitude to life and as a narrative strategy. The article concludes with an analysis of Gombrowicz’s Wędrówki po Argentynie[Travels in Argentina], where both Polish and Argentine nationality, presented throughthe lens of exotism, appear as a pose.

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The Patient’s Meeting with the Doctor and Anamnesis as the Clou of Narrative Medicine in Andrzej Szczeklik’s Essays

Spotkanie pacjenta z lekarzem oraz anamneza jako clou medycyny narracyjnej w eseistyce Andrzeja Szczeklika

Author(s): Dorota Samborska-Kukuć / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: Andrzej Szczeklik; narrative medicine; anamnesis interview

The patient’s meeting with the doctor and the anamnesis interview are the key questions of narrative medicine elaborated by Rita Charon and practiced in the West since the1990s. In Andrzej Szczeklik’s essays, which draw on Charon’s research as well as Hans G.Gadamer’s philosophical work, they are essential postulates in the process of diagnosis. Szczeklik highlights the role of the understanding between patient and practicioner and the emotional comfort provided by communucation, whereby dialogue and the phenomenological interpretation of anamnesis – the patien’t maladic narrative– represent the fundamental stage, the basis of objective examination and further diagnositc activities as well as the course of the therapy. Szczeklik exalts the profession of the doctor, emphasising its mission in the era of medicalisation and bureaucracy andrestoring the significance of a calling and of mindfulness. His Nieśmiertelność invites us to reflect on the need to include training in communication skills in medical studies, asthese are essential, for instance in times of a pandemic.

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Analytical Knowledge Crowned with Interpretive Faith: Solving the Riddle of Jan Kochanowski’s “Gadki” (Fraszki III 78)

Analityczna wiedza zwieńczona interpretacyjną wiarą. O rozwiązywaniu Gadki Jana Kochanowskiego (Fraszki III 78)

Author(s): Krzysztof Obremski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: Jan Kochanowski; Gadka; analysis; interpretation; methodology

For decades scholars have worked to solve the riddle of Jan Kochanowski’s six-verseepigram “Gadki” (Fraszki III 78) but no consensus has been reached so far. The authors ofthe many interpretations have crowned their scholarly “knowledge” with a “faith” in theirown solution – the belief that it represents the ultimate answer to the riddle and that itmust be recognised as such. It is also crucial, however, in what mode their analyses andinterpretations have been formulated. The fact that so many different possibilities areavailable to us in our attempt to solve the Kochanowski’s riddle is as important as thedifferent answers provided so far.

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Cyberpunk and Media Theory (And Practice)

Cyberpunk a teoria (i praktyka) mediów

Author(s): Mirosław Filiciak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2021

Keywords: cyberpunk; media criticism; design fiction; design

Treating cyberpunk as a cultural formation, Filiciak inscribes it within the frameworksof media criticism and design fiction. This perspective opens up narratives beyond thegenre’s alleged burnout and shows that cyberpunk continues to be an effective tool forsocial debate on the relationship between humans and technology.

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Non-Identical Communities

Nietożsame wspólnoty

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2022

Keywords: community; identity; emancipation; narrative; the political

The article focuses on the modern tendency to create emancipatory communities outside the identity regime, which it presents in three selected areas, namely literature, politics, and psychoanalysis. A mechanism of their formation discussed in narratology is the privileging of contextual accommodations at the expense of coded communicative rules and conventions. On the ground of politics, the practices of building such alliances are illustrated with examples from analyses of women’s social protests, namely the All- Poland Women’s Strike and the #MeToo movement. J.-L. Nancy’s theses on “divided community” and Judith Butler’s reflections on precarity in social protests serve as the main theoretical concepts in the article. Finally, the text reflects on spontaneous bonding in “love narratives” from the field of psychoanalysis.

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Dangers of Class Identifications: My Autobiographical Analysis//Interpretation of the Film Niepamięć (2019)

Niebezpieczeństwa klasowych utożsamień: moja autobiograficzna analiza/interpretacja filmu Niepamięć

Author(s): Krzysztof Obremski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2022

Keywords: Niepamięć; class identity; peasantry; Prześniona Rewolucja;

The starting point for the article was Paweł Brożek’s film Niepamięć (Oblivion; availableonline at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDiVKzl9hTU), and Paweł Bohuszewicz’stext “Niepamięć” o niebezpieczeństwach klasowych utożsamień” (Oblivion on the Dangersof Class Identifications). I critically examine the film through my own biography andscrutinize related texts about the film. Publications devoted to Niepamięć have so farfailed to mention Bronowice, Wyspiański’s Wesele, and chłopomania (a fashion for therural way of life), although the final frames show the dance of the “peasant girl” Barteckaand the “nobleman” Ledóchowski. Niepamięć asks about my class identity, which makesme recognize that I am quadruple.

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“Flame of Hope:” Forty Years of Miłosz’s Honorary Doctorate from the Catholic University of Lublin

„Płomień nadziei”. 40 lat doktoratu honoris causa KUL dla Czesława Miłosza

Author(s): Adam Fitas / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2022

Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; poetry; Solidarity; Catholic University of Lublin;

The article recalls the most important events related to the fortieth anniversary ofawarding Czesław Miłosz with an Honorary Doctorate by the Catholic University of Lublinand his 1981 visit to the country after thirty years of exile. Besides chronicling elements,the article includes excerpts from the most important speeches and meetings, andunknown reactions of polish philologists related to the event. Moreover, Fitas reachesfor archival materials and outlines the attitude of Miłosz’s struggle with his role in thecontext of unusual historical events.

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