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Activist Usage of (New) Media: On Selected Activities within Polish Feminist Movement

Aktywistyczne użycia (nowych) mediów: wybrane działania w polskim ruchu feministycznym

Author(s): Dagmara Rode / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Polish feminist movement;, new media

In her article Dagmara Rode describes feminist (new) media in Poland. She analyses several examples (such as websites, forums, newsletters, fan pages, blogs, virtual museums and on-line library projects) of different activities of both non-governmental organisations and informal groups in order to show how Polish feminist activists use (new) media to provide alternative sources of information, create and disseminate knowledge, offer space for debate and exchange of ideas, to mobilise people through media and write history of the Polish women's movement.

Knife in Poetry. Marcin and Gustaw

Nóż w poezji. Marcin i Gustaw.

Author(s): Jerzy Borowczyk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

In Search of Completeness. Czesław Miłosz’s Encounters with Anglo-American Poetry

W poszukiwaniu pełni. Czesława Miłosza spotkania z poezją anglo‑amerykańską

Author(s): Justyna Hanna Budzik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

This literary sketch is devoted to Czesław Miłosz’s translations of Anglo-American poetry,which the poet incorporated into Nieobjęta ziemia [Unattainable Earth] — one of silvic poems in his literary oeuvre. Against the background of the whole collection, two quoted here translations of poetry by David Henry Lawrence and Walt Whitman mark themselves as especially interesting. The article is an attempt to decipher the author of Trzy zimy [Three Winters’] intention as well as to answer the question of what determined the choice of these particular poems from amongst the realm of Anglo-American lyrical poetry. The authoress tries to discern whether, and if yes, in what sense, Miłosz identifies with Whitman’s and Lawrence’s ruminations or even certain philosophy that can be construed based on their poems.

Polish American Ethnic Culture and Culinary Nostalgia in the Works of American Authors of Polish Origin. The Voice of the Third Generation: Leslie Pietrzyk’s and Anthony Bukoski’s Prose

Kultura etniczna Polonii amerykańskiej i kulinarna nostalgia w twórczości amerykańskich autorów polskiego pochodzenia. Głos trzeciego pokolenia: proza Leslie Pietrzyk i Anthony’ego Bukoskiego

Author(s): Sonia Caputa / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

In American ethnic literature, food — apart from fulfilling a biological function — also hasa cultural role. Cookery, which includes all activities related to preparing a meal, serving or consuming it, but also simply treating food as nourishment, is an expression of cultural belonging and attachment to a particular ethnic group. A kind of culinary nostalgia is also observable in the prose of Leslie Pietrzyk and Anthony Bukoski, contemporary American writers with Polish roots. The foods shown in the debut novel by Pietrzyk and selected stories by Bukoski serve as indicators of ethnicity, specific emotional bridges, thanks to which the characters can be transported to the times of their childhood, thus being defined anew and achieving a sense of rootedness in a strange for them American land.

Translation of religious text – transmission of spiritual experience. The translation work of saints Paisius Velichkovsky and Nil Sorsky

Translacja tekstu religijnego – przekaz doświadczenia duchowego. Twórczość przekładowa świętych Niła Sorskiego i Paisjusza Wieliczkowskiego

Author(s): Józef Kuffel / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Basic issues1. The meaning of the writer’s function in the culture of Old Rus’2. Kirillo‑Belozersky Monastery as one of the main writing centers of the 15th century3. St. Nil Sorsky’s translation of Sinodik or prayer for the dead of St. Cyril of Jerusalem4. The rules concerning editing and correction of old translations of saints’ lives of the first millennium of Eastern Christianity – in St. Nil Sorsky’s Sobornik5. St. Maximus the Greek’s programme of renewal of the community of Orthodox Greeks and Slavs based on the patristic heritage6. Translation work of St. Paisius Velychkovsky and the revival of Orthodoxy in the second half of the 18th century7. The new translation of The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian by St. Paisius Velichkovsky.

The social consequences of the great economic crisis in Upper Silesia in the light of “Gość Niedzielny”

Społeczne skutki wielkiego kryzysu gospodarczego na Górnym Śląsku w świetle „Gościa Niedzielnego”

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

About Loneliness and Love in Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill

O samotności i miłości… w Pożądaniu w cieniu wiązów Eugene’a O’Neilla

Author(s): Agnieszka Woźniakowska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Eugene O’Neill; Erich Fromm; American drama; Desire Under the Elms; love

The authoress of this article has attempted to read the play by an Americanplaywright Eugene O’Neill in the light of the concept of love as proposed by Erich Frommin 1956. This German philosopher argued that the only way to escape loneliness, a feelingto which everybody is doomed, is to unite oneself with another person in love.In a popular publication, titled The Art of Loving, Fromm describes various forms of love;Desire Under the Elms – a play written more than three decades before Fromm’s publication– seems to illustrate these philosophical considerations. Such a view on O’Neill’s workallows to notice its human dimension, and perceive its protagonists as an embodimentof the universal human condition.

Slovenian identity problems in essays by Drago Jančar

Problem tożsamości Słoweńców w esejach Draga Jančara

Author(s): Silvija Borovnik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Drago Jančar’s essay writing; Terra incognita; Slovenian identity; the role of the Slovenian language

Drago Jančar is one of the most prolific and frequently translated contemporary Slovenian writers. He is a prosaist, an author of short stories and novels, a playwright and a multiple award-winning essayist. As an essayist, he always responded to the current questionsabout the historical role of Slovenians in former Yugoslavia, in the context of Central Europe,in the times of Slovenian independence and those of entering the European Union. Jančar’s word always drew a lot of attention and initiated polemical responses. This paper discusses his essay-writing in relation to the forementioned problems.

"Bread instead of games". On urban subversions during Euro 2012

„Chleba zamiast igrzysk”. O subwersjach miejskich podczas Euro 2012

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

Rock musician (as a performer) – influence of “design world” on artist’s creation

Muzyk rockowy (jako performer) – wpływ „świata dizajnu” na kreację artysty

Author(s): Alicja Głutkowska-Polniak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Performance as a tool – model shows us how an individual and societies, embody symbolic structures by their attitudes, how important is a function of decoration, role-play, rituals. The actions which rock musicians as performers take, not only lead to defined aims, but also their forms include culture codes thanks to which these actions take on new additional meanings, often not associated with their primary function. On the other hand design is a powerful machine which involves in its modes almost all human reality, so some culture researchers think that today “design culture” defines us (G. Julier). Performance and design have a lot common qualities. An artist who appears on a stage and gives a concert plays a role making of themselves an individualistic creation resulting from different typesof design – ‘design world’ ranging from fashion designers, graphic designers who create record jackets and concert posters to designers who make a visual identification and create an artist as a ‘brand’.

Iulia Caesaris in the eyes of her contemporaries and posterity

Iulia Caesaris w oczach jej współczesnych oraz potomnych

Author(s): Agnieszka Bartnik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Due to her origin, Iulia, the daughter of Iulius Caesar and the wife of Pompey the Great was one of the most important women of Republican Rome. Mentions about Iulia preserved in written records of ancient writers, including Cicero, clearly show that she did not stand out of women of her era. She was seen as an obedient daughter, a faithful devoted wife who did not engage herself in issues not fitting for Roman aristocrat. Although the feeling that Pompey had for his very young wife was emphasized, it did not seem to affect his decisions in a broader perspective. In later times, her image was depicted freely, among others because she did not play much of a role in the history of Rome. However, even as a fictional character, she did not play the main role, remaining rather a secondary character.

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline in Polish Puppet Theatres Performances

"Koralina" Neila Gaimana w realizacjach teatru lalek w Polsce

Author(s): Maria Janus / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: horro fiction;young adult horror;Neil Gaiman;Coraline;puppet theatre;

Maria Janus focuses on theatrical adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s "Coraline" in Polish puppet theatre. The analysed performances were directed by Włodzimierz Fełenczak in Teatr Miniatura in Gdańsk with a stage design by Mikołaj Malesza (opening 2009) and in the Białostocki Teatr Lalek with a stage design by Joanna Braun (opening 2011) and directed by Karolina Maciejaszek in Teatr Pinokio in Łódź with a stage design by Anna Chadaj (opening 2013). In addition, the Author discusses the performance of Rozalinda, written and directed by Krystyna Jakóbczyk in the Teatr Dzieci Zagłębia in Będzin (opening 2012), which was inspired by Gaiman’s novel. Janus presents this performance in the context of copyrights and difficulties of obtaining licenses for use of texts written by popular authors (especially from the Anglo-Saxon region). The author compares the adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s novel written by Fełenczak, Maciejaszek and the translation of the novel’s narration by Jakóbczyk (theatrical situations and visual narration vs. the narration performed live on-stage). Maria Janus also highlights theatrical references from the novel considering meta-theatrical elements that enhance the performance. Janus compares theatrical media used in performances from Gdańsk, Białystok and Łódź with special consideration to the stage design and puppetry techniques. In the second part, the author focuses on the popularity of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline among theatrical directors despite little interest in horror fiction. Puppet theatres in Poland do not produce performances based on modern epic literature, especially those nbased on fantasy. Classical fairy-tales and modern dramaturgy containing fairy-tale motives are still more popular. Furthermore, Janus reflects on the possibility of a change of the herein discussed situation. She further refers to the arguments of Bruno Bettelheim, Stanisław Grzelecki and Katarzyna Slany considering young spectator benefits from the contact with theatrical representation of youth horror literature.

Bulgakov or Castaneda of Popular Culture?

Bułhakow czy Castaneda czasów popkultury?

Author(s): Bogusław Olszewski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Mikhail Bulgakov;Russian literature;Contemporary Russian literature;Victor Pelevin

Bogusław Olszewski’s chapter discusses the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov’s works and writing style on the works of the contemporary Russian author, Victor Pelevin. Even though these two authors are frequently featured in comparative studies, seeking universal sources of literary inspiration in the classics, surrealist and postmodernist prose of Pielevin only remotely reminds the oeuvre of the author of Master and Margaret. Apart from the explicit influence of the Buddhist doctrine or shamanistic vision of the world, closely associated with the use of entheogens, the specific nature of the narrative and storyworld encourages the thesis that Pielevin’s fiction is largely pervaded by magical realism, maintained in the spirit of Carlos Castaneda’s.

Gaia, Eden, and Medea. Transformations of Ecotopia in Young Adult Dystopias

Gaja, Eden i Medea. Przetworzenia ekotopii w dystopii młodzieżowej

Author(s): Anna Bugajska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: ecotopia;dystopia;Nature;young adult dystopia;metaphor;posthuman

The chapter contains an analysis of the ecotopian motifs in the narratives of N. Farmer (the Matteo Alacrán novels, 2002; 2013), S. Collins (“The Hunger Games” cycle, 2008-2010) and M. Lu (the “Legend” cycle, 2011-2013), which belong to the contemporary dystopian literature for young adults. The basic device looked into is personification, working along the traditional, intuitive connection between pristine Nature and a small child. The authors depart from the typical anthropocentric picture of children’s literature, and tend to orient themselves towards the posthuman and the extended self, endorsing the inclusive worldview. The classification used in the study—Nature-endorsing and Nature-skeptical narratives—reposes on the landmark publications of Noga Applebaum (2009) and Zoe Jaques (2015), and is supplemented with references to broadly understood ecocriticism. The first part of the chapter discusses the relation between Farmer’s novels—as the closest to Callenbach’s “Ecotopia”—to the Gaia hypothesis. The second part concentrates on the transformation of the Eden motif in Lu’s cycle, and the third part investigates the interplay between the Medean Katniss and the “ecotopian” Prim in Collins’s books. The analysis confirms the destabilization of anthropocentrism in the juvenile fiction and its posthumanist slant, as well as the gradual decline of the romanticized vision of Nature and technophobic narratives. The myth of healing, regenerative Nature is shown as outdated and even harmful. Although most of the personifications discussed in the chapter fall into the Nature-endorsing attitude, which subjects Nature to human beings, the authors lay bare the manipulative aspect of such devices as an element of social engineering, which burdens citizens with the fight for what is already lost. Instead of the classic Eden, the writers construct technological paradise, which sustains ecotopian dreams only in the form of simulations or hybrid forms, connecting human, Nature and machine.

Demonology in „Ukrainian People” by Antoni Marcinkowski

Demonologia w „Ludzie ukraińskim” Antoniego Marcinkowskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Więzik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Dark Romanticism in its Polish variation is associated, above all, with representatives of the so-called Ukrainian school, i.e. Antoni Malczewski and Seweryn Goszczyński. Ukraine with its historical events and the beliefs of the local population was for these artists a source of inspiration. The article deals with some of these stimuli that we can find in the work by Antoni Marcinkowski, another representative of this group, who was at the same time a collector of folklore. Demonology, that is what we are referring to, was one of the themes of Dark Romanticism.

„It seemed to be a day seen through a burial shroud”. The stories by Bruno Schulz and the themes characteristic of Dark Romanticism

„Był to jakby dzień widziany przez kir żałobny”. Opowiadania Brunona Schulza a motywy charakterystyczne dla czarnego romantyzmu

Author(s): Anna Szumiec / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article entitled „It seemed to be a day seen through a burial shroud. The stories by Bruno Schulz and the themes characteristic of Dark Romanticism” discusses a few characteristics typical of the trend called Dark Romanticism in the context of the stories by one of the most outstanding Polish writers — Bruno Schulz. The associations between the prose by this author from Drohobycz and selected Romantic attitudes have been considered, however, what is the core of the essay is the interpretation of Dark Romantic themes, such as a characteristic of labyrinth, wanderer, doppelgänger, and the motif of madness and broadly understood darkness, on the background of selected stories from the volumes of „Sklepy cynamonowe” („The Cinnamon Shops”) and „Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą” („Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass”). The aim of the article is to present Bruno Schulz not as a twentieth-century continuator of Dark Romantic writing, but as an author who drew inspiration from the works of the leading representatives of the trend called Dark Romanticism (Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman), thus creating his own vision of literature with the use of the well-known nineteenth-century motives.

A Journey „Hand in Paw”. The Intimist Aspect of the Posthuman Discourse

Wędrówka „ręka w łapę”. Intymistyczny wymiar dyskursu posthumanizmu

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

The article concerns the posthuman discourse in its intimist aspect. The conducted analysis has shown that the posthuman discourse in its private incarnation can be characterized chiefly by those characteristics and processes which confirm and implement the posthumanist postulates. The experiences of people living alongside animals contribute to the creation of an interspecies community, help build empathy and mutual understanding. Those aspects are then actualized in the fact of bestowing human qualities on animals and vice versa – the perception of non‑human entities through the lens of their emotions, personal characteristics and the willingness and ability to communicate. It should be noted, however, that the aim of these actions is not to simply and crudely anthropomorphize animals, which would once again betray the anthropocentric nature of the world, but rather to grant equal status to all creatures existing in nature. In the case of the posthumanist discourse in its intimist aspect, it is possible to observe an interdiscursive relationship which is based on simultaneous interference and domination of one of them. It should be noted that the discourse of privacy (distinguished on the basis of a subjective criterion), on the one hand remains dominant, inscribed indirectly and almost incidentally into the ideologically‑motivated posthumanist discourse, but on the other hand, it complements and co‑constitutes it at the same time.

The formation of the specialist kind of language on the example of the lexis from the guidebook by Peter Crescentius

Kształtowanie się specjalistycznej odmiany języka na przykładzie leksyki z poradnika Piotra Krescencjusza

Author(s): Joanna Kamper-Warejko / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: the Polish language of the 16th century; specialist vocabulary; guidebook by Peter Crescentius

The agrotechnical work by Crescentius (1571) includes a wide range of specialist vocabulary – one of the most important elements of the specialist language. The development of science, commenced in the 16th century, became reflected in the slowly created nomenclature. The article attempts to show its evolution. The starting point became the names of plants. The material was compared against the traditional nomenclature of the earlier times, the Polish language of the 16th century and the contemporary nomenclature. The examined group of words evinces the continuity of terms appearing in the early stage of shaping specialist languages. They illustrate the state of knowledge in the discussed period of time, the range and sources of specialist lexis; they even constitute the evidence of changes taking place throughout history.

Archaisms and regionalisms in a found fragment of a Philomaths’ manuscript containing the translation of the Quran into Polish

Cechy archaiczne i regionalne w odnalezionym fragmencie rękopisu filomackiego przekładu Koranu na język polski

Author(s): Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: kitab studies; translation; the Quran; Philomaths; variety of Polish spoken at the borderland with Belarus and Lithuania

So far, research into the literary achievements of Vilnius-based Philomaths and Filarets has been conducted on the basis of various philological sources (particularly correspondence and individual authors’ works); however, it has not taken into account the translation of the Quran into Polish rendered by Fr Dionizy Chlewiński and Ignacy Domeyko. This resulted from the lack of awareness of the existence of such translation and the lack of sources to conduct studies in this respect. The subject of analysis in this paper is a recently found copy of the lost manuscript of the said two Philomaths from Vilnius. The paper attempts at a reconstruction of the unknown history of the translation and contains a preliminary historical and linguistic description of the newly found source text which is invaluable for contemporary Humanities.

Models of verbal communication in 16th-century municipal courts

Projekty wzorcowej komunikacji językowej w sądach miejskich XVI wieku

Author(s): Józef Kość / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: verbal communication; model text; pragmatics; text linguistics; Magdeburg Law

Bartłomiej Groicki and Paweł Szczerbic presented, in Polish, the principles of adapted Magdeburg law, which regulated legal proceedings and communication in the 16th-century municipal judiciary. Their ideas referring to language interaction were broad as they included the participants, space and time as well as text structures. Therefore, the codifiers created an optimal model of institutional communication used in courts which included discursive components and which they firmly introduced into jurisprudence. Codification proposed by Bartłomiej Groicki and Paweł Szczerbic was used during trials in municipal courts between the 16th and 18th centuries. Determining the extent to which that codification was used in courtroom communication is made possible thanks to surviving archived municipal books, compiled in many cities of the First Rzeczpospolita (Republic of Poland). However, the studies recreating the Old Polish language on the basis of these books would have to be aimed at text linguistics and pragmatics, which would include institutional parameters. Such analyses would result in recreating obligatory models of institutional communication used by Polish townspeople, which was influenced by German legislation.