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Musical impulse in corporeal-performative acting

Impuls muzyczny w aktorstwie cielesno-performatywnym

Author(s): Artur Duda / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

This article is devoted to the newest convention of role playing in the postdramatic theatre (das performancenahe Theater, performative theatre or theatre of reality) called corporeal-performative acting. This corporeal-perfomative acting is presented here as a kind of aesthetic objection or re-creating of traditional realistic acting, which normally subjects to the rules of representation, psychological probability and draws its patterns from everyday life. On the contrary, in the corporeal-performative acting are in force completely different rules of exposing corporeality and performativity by using conventions of multiple spectacle types: opera, operetta, musical, different rock music styles, circus, burlesque, cinema genres, television formats, etc. The author of Musical impulse in corporeal-performative acting is focused first of all on musical impact in modern Polish and European theatre, which creates different types of corporeal-performative acting by using different musical elements: introducing rock groups, instrumental or vocal solos into the theatre performance structure, recreating acting styles by constructing sensual impact on actor’s motoric and energetic body (according to well-known Erika Fischer-Lichte’s terms). The article shows possibly widest panorama of artistic attempts of using musical impulse to create new forms of acting – from Polish masters of postwar period (Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski) to the newest theatre after 1989 (Piotr Cieplak, Paweł Wodziński, Maja Kleczewska, Jan Klata), not forgetting some absolutely original concepts of acting in German and Lithuanian theatre (Frank Castorf and Eimuntas Nekrošius.

Cities-Worlds

Miasta-światy

Author(s): Monika Rawska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: utopia;utopia and dystopia;utopia and heterotopia;dystopian film;dystopian city;topography;urban space;urban space and place;

Monika Rawska’s chapter focuses on two modern movies "Equilibrium" (dir. Kurt Wimmer, USA 2002) and "Inception" (dir. Christopher Nolan, USA—Great Britain 2010) with an analysis of the city spaces depicted in these films. Progress is the basis of the analysis. Progress is the impulse pervasive in utopias and it is an important motivator for human actions presently perceived as negative—imperialism, colonialism, racism. Margaret Mead’s notion that Utopia should be seen as a historical category while revealing an essential ambivalence is well summarized in her work, “One man’s dream is another man’s nightmare”. This is also represented in select films depicting a new society with a visual representation of order. For example, in Libria and architect’s city both of which were created with a positive and beneficial premise, though over time they became a burden for the characters. Change in perception of reality is one of the significant elements in dystopian narratives, that are also present in film adaptations, in what Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim calls a „utopiacrime”. Libria is depicted as the only city in the world in the film, "Equilibrium". Libria is a dystopian cityfortress contrasted with the surrounding Nether and an appropriated enclave space of Offenders. It functions as a simulacrum of the past at a time before the war. The film vision of the future is an intertextual collage of conventional representations of the totalitarian organization of both space and society. Dream city is the creation of an architect couple in the film, "Inception". It is a very different space, imagined and fictional and it perfectly captures the impossibility of utopia as revealed by its very name that means non-space. Reality, which the couple created for themselves, demonstrates an interesting tension between the architectural utopia and the solitary eutopia as well as a conflict of planner vs. wanderer (as described by Michel de Certeau). In both movies the city space becomes a threat in spite of its projected function as a safe and/or familiar space. In "Equilibrium", it imposes on and disciplines its inhabitants as tools of the state. In Inception, the city is the accumulation of the protagonists’ entire world and it turns unto its own ruin, a memory maze swallowed by the sea.

The Metalinguistic Sources in Studies of Verbalised Awareness of Linguistic Past Eras

O źródłach metajęzykowych w badaniach nad zwerbalizowaną świadomością językową minionych epok

Author(s): Krzysztof Maćkowiak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: linguistic awareness; metalanguage; language sources; metalinguistic sources

The article characterizes documents that are useful in the reconstruction of the old language of thought. One can distinguish among them the source material (this is a legacy of the author or period, the status of linguistic awareness is extracted from it on the basis of the analysis of the specific forms of written documents) and metalanguage sources (these are texts expressing a direct attitude to the language). The body of the article fills the description of the latter sources. The author deals with two issues. Firstly, he presents a typology of metalanguage sources. Secondly, he discusses specific variables interpretation useful in the process of explication.

„Bogurodzica” on the contemporary music scene. A few words on critical reception

„Bogurodzica” na współczesnej polskiej scenie muzycznej. Kilka słów o recepcji

Author(s): Adam Regiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: “Bogurodzica”; musicality; medievalism; intermediality

“Bogurodzica” has for centuries constituted one of the pillars of Polish culture. As the oldest religious song written in Polish, it designates avenues of interpretation of the medieval aesthetics both in literature and musicology. Moreover, its influence on society and the emergence of national identity cannot be overstated. Due to this monumental, sacrosanct nature, „Bogurodzica” has become an exhibit in the museum of medieval imagery. However, a song, even one which remains a symbol of the past, is always subject to revision during its performance. Thanks to its musical interpretation and reinterpretation, „Bogurodzica” can be read anew and made relevant, while those interpretations reveal hidden discourses. The following article aims at analyzing selected contemporary performances of the literary and musical relic, ruminating on its role in contemporary popular culture and the perception of the Middle Ages suggested by those performances.

Humour in Translation. An Opportunity to Show off and Have Fun?

Humor1 w przekładzie. Pole do popisu i zabawy?

Author(s): Iwona Wowro / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The main aim of the article is to discuss selected aspects of translation, taking as an example the difficulties connected with translating expressive texts. An analysis of translation errors made while translating humorous texts into German serves as empirical verification. It provides a starting point to find and classify the most frequent errors and inaccuracies. Attention is also paid to creative aspects of translations done.

Saint Wojciech's fingerprints. Legal and canonical collection of the Heiligenkreuz Code 217 in pastoral practice of the Prague Bishop at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries

Odciski palców świętego Wojciecha. Kolekcja prawno-kanoniczna z kodeksu Heiligenkreuz 217 w praktyce duszpasterskiej biskupa praskiego na przełomie X i XI w.

Author(s): Marcin Rafał Pauk / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Roman Michałowski; medieval history; Church history; Christianity in the early Middle Ages; Pope Gregory VII; Dictatus pape

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Practices of a “Minor” History of Literature in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Żmut

Praktyki „mniejszościowej” historii literatury w Żmucie Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza

Author(s): Zbigniew Jazienicki / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz; Adam Mickiewicz; skein; minor literature; herstory

The article is an attempt at applying the concept of minor literature, borrowed from thejoint works of Deleuze and Guattari, to read Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Żmut. The starting point is the question of whether speaking up by the essayist for a repressed history of Polish romanticism and the over looked actresses of the biography of Mickiewicz qualifies as an attempt to write a “minor” history. However, the purpose of the article is a reflection on the analytical utility of the notion of “minor literature” and the risks (alsopolitical ones) inherent in philological practice based on this notion.

Respect and trust

Autorytet i zaufanie

Author(s): Andrzej Kojder / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: sociology of law; law in social life; legal sociology authors; world sociological and legal writings

The first world encyclopaedic guidebook to the most important problems of the sociology of law. It contains nearly one hundred and fifty entries written by eminent Polish and foreign scholars. It is an excellent source of knowledge of the role and importance of law in social life. It sketches portraits of the most distinguished authors of legal sociology and presents their scientific achievements. It also discusses law subcultures, punitive justice, anthropology and atrophy of law, the destruction of norms, the iuridisation of social life, law nihilism, praxeology and feminist sociology of law.

Alexander Koshetz and His Diary “With a Song around the World”

Ołeksandr Koszyc i jego dziennik "Z pieśnią przez świat"

Author(s): Ołeksandr Koszyc / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Koshetz; conductor; Ukrainian Republic Capella; diaries; memoirs

The first Polish language edition of selected fragments of the diary by Alexander Koshetz – world-famous Ukrainian musician, for a long time forbidden in his native country, where he was not allowed to return since he and his ensemble toured Europe and the Americas.

Miłobędzka’s Absence

Nieobecność Miłobędzkiej

Author(s): Joanna Orska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: neo avant-garde; feminist criticism; phenomenology of the literary work of art; late avant-garde poetical manifestos;literary criticism;

This article considers the critical reception of Krystyna Miłobędzka’s poetry and the way it was performed until the beginning of the nineties. The literary criticism in Poland was largely determined by the discourse of the academic literary studies. Furthermore, Tymoteusz Karpowicz – the most prominent voice in the poetical and critical dialogue with Miłobędzka and the neo avant-garde poet himself – carried out the interpretation based on his philosophical reading of Heideggerian phenomenology. Certain patterns of understanding Miłobędzka’s work, created at large by Karpowicz’s Metafora otwarta [An Open Metaphor], seem to be neglecting theses posited by Miłobędzka herself, an author of many meta-poetical statements that could be read in terms of the late avant-garde manifestos of her own.

Methodological critique as a practice of knowledge creation (problem areas – an attempt of reconstruction)

Krytyka metodologiczna jako praktyka tworzenia wiedzy (dziedziny problemowe – próba rekonstrukcji)

Author(s): Jacek Piekarski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: methodology;critique;methodological critique;practice;patterns of practicing scientific critique

The aim of the study is to reconstruct various ways of understanding methodological critique as a practice of knowledge creation and to indicate, revealed in connection with the reconstruction, the possibility of identifying cognitive obstacles that arise in this practice. Methodological critique is understood as a kind of practice – the field of thinking and acting – related to the experience and rationalization of the gap between the obviousness (faith) and the uncertainty of beliefs about reality. Various ways of formulating critique, related to the treatment of critique as the value underlying the ideal of rationality of science as well as a communication strategy, are discussed. Different ways of understanding critique legitimated under the distinguished concepts of methodology (as the theory of the application of laws of logic in various areas of research and a specialized discipline concerning the place of science in the system of human knowledge), are also discussed. On this basis, the possibilities of practicing a "critical methodology", designed as a study of methods for criticizing scientific practice in the changing cultural framework, are considered. In connection with the identified processes of their change (institutionalization of science, corporatization and networking of research), patterns of practicing critique justified by methodological premises (dogmatism, conventionalism and tactical discretion) were reconstructed and confronted with the cultural patterns of critique formed on their basis (inhibition, tolerantism and presentism).

Passing judgment on language and cultural texts – educational contexts

Wartościowanie języka i tekstów kultury. Konteksty edukacyjne

Author(s): Małgorzata Bortliczek,Izabela Łuc / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: passing judgment; cultural text; education

The paper focuses on stylistic features of advertising texts. The analysis includes advertisements that in their iconic and/or verbal sphere refer to the broadly defined culture, and especially to its European heritage. Colloquial language (and/or socio‑dialects) is the source of the expressive lexis. In turn, artistic masterpieces (above all, the paintings of the popular masters) are the source of the iconic inspiration. Both types of sources are rooted deeply in audience’s consciousness, and they both form a derivative ground for the persuasive purposes, which are paramount in the language of advertisements. In our opinion, a young consumer should be prepared and trained in the interpretation of advertisements during school education, so that he or she can decide responsibly about shopping in adulthood.

STRIVING FOR TRUTH OR PRESERVING MYTHS? REPORTAGE ON SWEDEN FROM NEAR AND FAR

DĄŻENIE DO PRAWDY CZY UTRWALANIE MITÓW? O SZWECJI Z BLISKA I Z DALEKA

Author(s): Małgorzata Anna Packalén Parkman / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: reportage; cultural sphere; universal truths; dual perspective; immigrant reporter

One significant role of reportage on different cultures over the centuries is clear: not so long ago a reportage, for many recipients, was a window to the world. For better or worse, the so-called reality described by the reporter was often comprised of observations imposed – as if they were objective facts – on the reader as universal truths. In today’s spatial mobility, the reporter’s role has been enriched by some additional dimensions. One of them is the émigré aspect: nowadays, more and more reportages are created on the basis of a dual perspective of seeing, when an immigrant reporter is entangled in a peculiar dialogue between their own culture and a foreign one. Does this double perspective give author-reporters the right to interpret the key to another cultural sphere, even if wellknown? I approach this question by comparing reportage works about Sweden written by Polish writers living there, including Jacek Kubitsky, Maciej Zaremba and Katarzyna Tubylewicz.

Old-style suicide – referring to the act of suicide in the Polish language and in press reports from the World War I period

Samobójstwo w starym stylu – o nazywaniu aktu samobójczego w polszczyźnie i notatkach prasowych z okresu I wojny światowej

Author(s): Ewa Rudnicka / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: suicide; referring to suicide; suicide in the press from the years 1914–1918; linguistic aspects of writing about suicide

The aim of the article is to examine how the social concept of suicide was shaped by the media and what the pragmatic and cultural dimension of press reports on suicide was during the World War I period. Th e analyses start with a review of the ways of referring to the act of taking one’s own life in the Polish language. The main part of the article is comprised of a linguistic analysis of the reports concerned with suicide found in the daily press from the years 1914–1918.

Role of Foreign Language Literature and Media in Forming an Ideal L2 Self in Students

Rola literatury i mediów obcojęzycznych w kształtowaniu językowego Ja idealnego uczniów

Author(s): Dorota Pudo / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: SLA; motivation; ideal L2 self; literature; media;

Zoltán Dörnyei’s theory of the L2 Motivational Self System; inspired by the psychological concept of possible selves; postulates the existence of L2 ideal and ought-to selves; which are visions of the student’s desired self (or the one they think they should become) as a foreign language speaker. If they are sufficiently vivid; detailed; achievable etc.; these visions can be powerful motivating factors. The role of teaching materials in the process of forming these structures seems to be vital. Literature and media are particularly suitable for this task; because they can engage the student’s transportable identity; generate genuine emotions and reflexions; and encourage the students to speak as themselves during the foreign language class. The teachers must make sure to choose the texts or media that will appeal to their students and design the classwork in a way that enhances personal involvement and genuine communication.

The role of school library in developing reading competencies of deaf students

Rola biblioteki szkolnej w rozwijaniu kompetencji czytelniczych uczniów niesłyszących

Author(s): Marta Deńca / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Shaping and developing reading competencies are among the most important tasks of teachers and educators who work with deaf students. School libraries play a special role in this regard. The intention of the author is to show the level of reading competencies of deaf primary-school and middle-school pupils, and to present measures undertaken by teachers-librarians in order to develop them. Therefore, in March 2014, a questionnaire survey was conducted in libraries at learning centres for deaf children in Poland. Teachers-librarians spoke about deaf students’ skills in the use of libraries, the search and selection of appropriate books, the use of the printed word, remembering content and the practical use of books. In addition, the study included issues related to a wider educational work of a school library, aimed to support the development of reading competencies of students. Based on the research material, conclusions have been drawn regarding the level of deaf students’ reading competencies and measures that should be taken by teachers-librarians in shaping and developing the above-mentioned skills in the specific group of readers, i.e.children with hearing loss.

The Protest of an Apparatchik – Stefan Żółkiewski’s Case

Formy protestu „aparatczyka” – przypadek Stefana Żółkiewskiego

Author(s): Piotr Sidorowicz / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Stefan Żółkiewski; Marxism; theoretical literary studies; protest; conspiracy

The text is a polemic with the stereotypical image of Stefan Żółkiewski as an apparatchik. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the structure of the academic field, the author analyzes Żółkiewski’s theoretical attitude, according to texts and extra-texts from the 1930s and 1940s. The materials from the period of the Nazi occupation in Poland are pivotal, but the remaining sources are used contextually.

Patterns of Piety and the Culture of Reformation

Wzorce przeżywania pobożności a kultura Reformacji

Author(s): Kamila Żukowska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: devotion; devotio moderna; Middle Ages; Reformation; mysticism

The aim of the paper is to analyse the transformations of the forms of late medieval folk piety in Germany and Netherlands. Two types of late medieval religious expression were distinguished: the so-called extraverted piety, being a ritualised form faith, and the devotio moderna movement as instantiated by the mysticism of Meister Eckhart. By using the passages from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, De theologia mistica by Jacobus de Paradiso and Theologia Germanica both types of piety were presented as preparing the ground for the Reformation.

Funerary Pieces in Memory of Queen Elizabeth of Austria – Bibliographical and Historical-Literary Comments

Poetyckie funeralia żegnające królową Elżbietę Habsburżankę – uwagi bibliograficzne i historycznoliterackie

Author(s): Bartłomiej Czarski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Elizabeth of Austria; Sigismund II Augustus; funerary poetry; elegy; epicedium; epitaph

The text discusses the publications in verse issued in connection with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth of Austria, the first wife of Sigismund II Augustus. These works are presented both from the bibliographic and historical-literary point of view. The article takes into account not only the preserved materials, but also those unknown today and considered lost, knowledge about which can currently only be derived from archival sources. The article offers a comparison of individual texts with each other on the one hand, and the assessment of the entirety of the works bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth, published in the Jagiellonian and Habsburg states, on the other. They represent different genres and forms: from the epitaph, through the mourning elegy, to the epicedium. The collected funerary poems are a good illustration of the changes taking place in Polish culture and literature in the mid-16th century. They show the existence of various Renaissance traditions, as well as new elements heralding the growing popularity of mannerism.

Entertainment from Germany

Rozrywka z Niemiec

Author(s): Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: narrative fiction; popular literature; entertainment; translation; Mikołaj Szarfenberger

The paper discusses the question of the origin of four Old Polish prose novels: "Historia wdzięczna o szlachetnej a pięknej Meluzynie", "Historia o Magielonie, królewnie neapolitańskiej", "Historia piękna i krotochwilna o Otonie, cesarzu rzymskim", and "Fortunat" that form a coherent group in the panorama of 16th century Polish prose. They were translated from German into Polish towards the end of the Jagiellonian period, and in literary history they are referred to as the first Polish chivalric romances; moreover, they have acquired the status of longsellers in Polish literature. The question I’m asking concerns the criterion for choosing these texts for translation. Whose idea was it: the translator’s, the printer’s, or perhaps the publisher’s? Why were these four chosen from among the many texts of popular literature published in Europe? The paper analyses earlier decisions of publishers and translators in this field, who introduced the tradition of ancient and medieval narratives to Polish readers, to conclude that the four texts discussed here were surprising in their novelty against the background of previous translations of popular literature. I put forward the thesis that the key to the riddle of the choice of the four must be sought in someone’s individual decision and that it must have been someone with contacts in Germany; the person I indicate is Mikołaj Szarfenberger, the printer-publisher of the Fortunatus and Octavianus stories and collaborator of Marcin Siennik, the translator of the Melusine story.