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(Dy)fuzje. Związki literatury i sztuki w Polsce po 1945 roku

Author(s): Tomasz Bocheński,Magdalena Lachman,Paweł Polit,Michalina Kmiecik,Daniel Muzyczuk,Andrzej Niewiadomski,Dariusz Pachocki,Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska,Paweł Stangret,Justyna Staroń,Anna Śliwa,Beata Śniecikowska,Aleksander Wójtowicz,Tomasz Załuski / Language(s): Polish

The publication is the result of a project implemented at the Łódź Museum of Art in cooperation with the University of Łódź Department of the 20th- and 21st-Century Literature. The case-study research focused on the phenomena that indicated artists' attachment to different variants of the avant-⁠garde principle of the integration of arts. They also emphasized the convergence of artists' aspirations in Poland after 1945 in various sociopolitical, institutional and even social contexts.The book deals with alliances and analogies within visual arts and literature – both beyond their traditionally obeyed formulas, and within conventionally respected and honoured limits. The authors of the collected texts try to capture the reciprocity of artistic stimulation in the dissemination of specific ideas, and at the same time they are interested in positional and paradigmatic shifts in the perception of seemingly well-known issues; in other words, in everything that lies in the semantic potential of the title “(dif)fusion”.“This volume has a distinct innovative trait – both at the level of discovering and revealing new ideas (where phenomena subjected to little or no research are examined) and in the area of repetition (where discussion covers decently researched topics). [...] There is also, so to speak, a cognitive section in it. On the one hand, there are contributions to the work of very famous and well-known artists (Białoszewski, Brzozowski, Buczkowski, Czycz, Haupt, Kantor, Peiper, Strzemiński, Themerson), while on the other we receive competent texts devoted to artists and phenomena that are less popular or virtually unknown (Bruszewski, Dłużniewski, Kryszkowski, Partum or underground art magazines – artzines). Inevitably, these first contributions require engaging in a kind of agon with antecedent research, while the latter constitute an intellectual novelty somewhat in and of itself. This combination seems very refreshing for the message of the entire publication.” From the review by dr hab. Piotr Łuszczykiewicz, prof. UAM

(Trans)pozycje idei w postjugosłowiańskim dramatopisarstwie oraz teatrze (1990–2020). Perspektywa transkulturowa

Author(s): Gabriela Abrasowicz / Language(s): Polish

The Post-Yugoslav playwriting and theatre production constitutes a space which facilitates observation of the transposition of artistic, socio-political and philosophical ideas. Those phenomenon stems from cultural mobility, the integration of multiple components coming from different cultural backgrounds and involves the creation of new qualities. The fundamental research principles in this case are the perception of culture as a process of exchange and the implementation of the open connection networks model. The discussed artistic projects of playwrights and theatre directors active in the countries of the former Yugoslavia confirm that this phenomenon is still in the nascent stage. Its dynamic formula is a good starting point for reflection on the flows and ideological and aesthetic links that are becoming apparent in the drama and theatre of many European countries.

A comparison between the concept of Newspeak in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel and the way of thinking about language in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength

Author(s): Andrzej Wicher / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The aim of the article is to investigate some of the possible sources of inspiration for Orwell’s concept of the artificial language called Newspeak, which, in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is shown as an effective tool of enslavement and thought control in the hands of a totalitarian state. The author discusses, in this context, the putative links between Newspeak and really existing artificial languages, first of all Esperanto, and also between Orwell’s notion of “doublethink”, which is an important feature of the totalitarian mentality, and Czesław Miłosz’s notion of “ketman”, developed in his book The Captive Mind. But the main emphasis is on the connection between Orwell’s book and the slightly earlier novel by C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength. It is well known that Orwell knew Lewis’s book and expressed his mixed feelings about it. There are many specific, though far from obvious, similarities between the two books, but what seems to have been particularly inspiring for Orwell was Lewis’s vision of a thoroughly degenerate language that is used for political manipulation rather than for communication.

Aleksander Wat: forma życia. Studium o pisaniu, doświadczeniu, obecności

Author(s): Paweł Paszek / Language(s): Polish

The book "Aleksander Wat: A Form of Life. A Study on Writing, Experience, Presence" concentrates on the issues of special creative writing experience founded on the union and consonance of existential and textual structures. Literature is understood as a formation and a form of life. The first chapter is an attempt to describe a modern literature experience. The primary perspectives concern the writing experience and its influence on the shape and presence of subjectivity. The considerations included in the next two parts are based on a very meticulous reading and interpretation of the two most important works of Aleksander Wat ("JA z jednej strony i JA z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka" and "Pieśni wędrowca"). The last part summarizes the author’s main reflections.

Allegories of the Campus in Polish Academic Narratives

Author(s): Marzena Kraszewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 34 (39)/2018

In the paper, two Polish academic narratives Krzysztof Zanussi’s movie “Camouflage” (“Barwy Ochronne”) of 1976, and Wit Szostak’s novel “A Hundred Days Without Sunshine” (“Sto dni bez słońca”) of 2014 are discussed from the perspective of the use of the campus space as an image of the state. Drawing from the tradition of the British and American campus novel – a literary genre that developed in the 1950s and reached the peak of its popularity in the 1990s, the two narratives, created in two different political realities, make use of the absence of academic campuses in Poland and offer the campus as a miniature of the social space of the state in which conflicting ideas and ideologies clash, revealing the mechanisms of meritocratic privileging and hierarchization of positions. Such elements as imagery, the presentation of characters, forms of narration, literary / film techniques, use of language are analysed in order to show that they are used by the authors to stress an allegorical meaning in the analysed narratives.

Alternatywa czy wariant funkcjonującego wzorca? „Kobiecy świat” w Autobiografii mistycznej matki Teresy od Jezusa Marchockiej

Author(s): Elżbieta Elena Wróbel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2021

The article analyses the Mystical Autobiography by Marianna Marchocka, showing the significance of her work for the research into the history of the female mentality in the Old Polish era. The main issue was to relate monastic life to the basic ideal of a woman as a wife and mother.

Amatorskie realizacje teatralne dramatów Karola Wojtyły

Author(s): Mariusz Lach / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1S/2020

Amateur theatre circles play an important role in promoting the ideas contained in Karol Wojtyła’s dramas. Our God’s Brother and In front of the Jeweller’s Shop, as well as various poetic works based on Wojtyła’s poetry, have permanently entered the repertoire of smaller theatre groups. Some of these, such as “Droga” from Poznań, “Teatr Karola” from Gliwice or “Hagiograf” from Cracow, subordinate their existence and actions to the goal of promoting the thoughts and works of the Polish Ppope. The variety of forms, from rhapsodic performances to musicals, means that the ideas that John Paul II left in his writings can still find new recipients today.

Analityzmy leksykalne i ich syntetyczne odpowiedniki w prasie

Author(s): Katarzyna Burska / Language(s): Polish

W książce przedstawiono obecne we współczesnej prasie analityczne konstrukcje leksykalne, które mają syntetyczne odpowiedniki. Praca ma charakter analityczno-materiałowy, zbiera dotychczasową wiedzę na temat tytułowego zjawiska. Autorka poddała obserwacji materiał pochodzący z wybranych periodyków polskich o zróżnicowanej tematyce i przeznaczonych dla różnego kręgu odbiorców. Treści teoretyczne łączą się z analizą zgromadzonych przykładów pod względem strukturalnym, semantycznym i pragmatycznym. Publikacja przynosi odpowiedź na pytania, z jakich komponentów zbudowane są analityzmy leksykalne mające jednoelementowe odpowiedniki, jakie relacje znaczeniowe zachodzą między omawianymi jednostkami, jakie kompetencje nadawczo-odbiorcze są wymagane do właściwego odczytywania peryfraz i ich ekwiwalentów oraz jakie funkcje przypisywane są konstrukcjom analitycznym i syntetycznym we współczesnych periodykach.

Analiza materii fonicznej wybranych słuchowisk Andrzeja Waligórskiego

Author(s): Joanna Kołodziejska / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 14/2019

The study of radio art, whose most representative genres include radio drama , is undoubtedly of interest not only to media scholars. Works of art created for the radio, as sound art pieces per se, are also becoming an engaging research ground for such disciplines as theory of music or musicology. Some of the most fascinating examples of radio dramas that may be found in the archives of Radio Wrocław are those created by Andrzej Waligórski – a distinctive artist whose activity fell on the “golden days” of Polish radio drama art, commonly dated back to the 1960s and 1970s. His works constitute a perfect example of a diverse approach to the phonic material of radio drama employed in order to enhance the presentation of the world depicted in the piece. Words and sounds, including music, become carriers of multiple meanings, which the author of the present article attempts to explore.

Analiza retoryczna Wywiadu z historią Oriany Fallaci

Author(s): Kaja Rostkowska-Biszczanik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2020

The paper deals with rhetoric of journalism in a political interview. Scientific objective: To indicate rhetorical devices used by Oriana Fallaci in Interview with History. Research method: The paper is an attempt at rhetorical analysis, and it discusses rhetorical elements appearing in the preface, in the biographical notes of the interviewees, and in the main text. Fallaci’s interviews are arranged on the pillars of complementary modes of persuading — logos, ethos, and pathos. The material is structured according to this key, which allows for discussion of selected rhetorical ways of referring to reason, will, and emotion. Results and conclusions: In relation to the preface, the paper identifies the topos of introduction (novelty, brevity, modesty, and humor), references to the recipient, the author herself, and the topic as a common matter. The biographical notes and main text of interviews demonstrate the function of instruction assigned to rational argumentation and proving. Among the journalist’s techniques belonging to the ethos sphere, axiological argumentation and the use of thought figures (antithesis, discrediting) were pointed out. The pathos sphere was characterized, among others, by discussing the imagery. Cognitive value: The paper fills a gap in research on the Oriana Fallaci’s method — no rhetorical analysis of her conversations has been undertaken so far. The techniques described are not only theoretical but also practical, they can be adapted and developed in media practice.

Antycelebrycki wariant współczesnego podróżopisarstwa Reporterska pikareska z „dzikiego wschodu

Author(s): Izabela Adamczewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 02/2019

The subject of the article is the Pikarean version of travel literature. The author puts the traveling ‘I’ in the foreground in the text, but creating an ostentatiously anti-media image. The strategy of self-compromise, which the author presents on the example of the travellers of Ted Conover, Sylvain Tesson, Jacek Hugo-Bader, Ziemowit Szczerek, Michał Księga and Juliusz Strachota, serves to emphasize / create the sincerity of the narrative situation. The adventurous “JA” in participatory reportage and other types of travel writing resembles an antihero whose roots are in pikaresce.

Apokryficzność i ekfrastyczność jako komplementarne poetyki intertekstualne

Author(s): Julia Dynkowska / Language(s): Polish

The thesis The Apocryphal and the Ekphrastic as a Complementary Intertextual Poetics discusses the relation of the ekphrastic and apocryphal components in various ekphrastic texts based on the visual works of art. The dissertation is divided into 4 analytical chapters preceded by the theoretical introduction in which the categories of apocryphon and ekphrasis are presented. Furthermore, in this section two types of apocryphal and ekphrastic complementarities are proposed (apocryphal ekphrases/apocryphal ekphrastic texts and ekphrastic apocrypha). Examples of those complementarities are presented, analyzed and interpreted in the following sections. The intention behind the analysis in aforementioned sections is to prove the usefulness of category of an apocryphon in the ekphrastic studies. ‘The apocryphal’ provides suggestive conceptualization of animations and narrative augmentations of paintings and photographs inscribed in the ekphrases. What is more, there is an essential feature which connects all of the texts presented in this paper – each of them concerns the loss of ‘innocent look’ at the visual pre-texts, ways of thinking produced by them, canonical interpretations and idealizations of works of art, their authors and captured scenes or figures. Apocryphal-ekphrastic rewriting enables canonical artworks to be seen not only as aesthetical, but also (perhaps above all) ethical objects.

Audiosfera jako kategoria literaturoznawcza. Próba przybliżenia zagadnienia

Author(s): Łukasz Piaskowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2020

The audiosphere is a capacious, ambiguous category, often freely used in contextual research. It is a term that has long been present in literary studies, but is used quite freely. The aim of this article will be an in-depth look at the ways of using the word 'audiosphere' and, finally, an attempt to specify research meanings useful in the context of literary studies. The terminology that organizes the sound order of a language exists in the study of literature in two modes. Each mode represents a different path in the development of the field of meanings of the audiosphere category. The first of them was developed by literary researchers as early as the 1980s, where the audiosphere was identified with the audial medium of presenting a literary text, i.e. with singing, recitation or speech. The second mode was subordinated to contemporary influences of cultural anthropology. The creation of sound studies and the so-called sound anthropology resulted in a flood of new meanings of the word 'sound', as well as the need to develop cognitively useful descriptive categories. In this context, the audiosphere is a very Polish term. It is mainly used by Polish researchers, strictly distinguishing it from the soundscape category, which is more common in Western studies. In the article, the two models outlined above will be confronted with each other, and the purpose of this juxtaposition will be to cause shifts in terms of meanings. On the basis of a relatively outlined definition, the basic features of the audiosphere within literary research will be listed. This will make it possible to clarify which specific features of this category are useful in the context of literary studies and which should be rejected. Ultimately, it is about working out the possibility of creating a model of audial interpretation of a poetic text.

Awangardowy „Słoń trąbalski”. O nowatorstwie wierszy Juliana Tuwima

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Author(s): Monika Woźniak / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 75/2020

The connection between the avant-garde and Polish children’s literature may seem somewhat tenuous, since the former was generally considered, not without a reason, secondary and peripheral to mainstream literature. For a long time, Polish children’s literature, whose main aim was to serve educational and patriotic purposes, was perceived in such a way, which makes Julian Tuwim’s works even more exceptional. Tuwim revolutionized the traditional approach to poetry for children and created a literary style that was by no means inferior to experimental literature for adults. This article analyses two aspects of the innovativeness of Tuwim’s poetry: a) a radical departure from the former literary patterns and conventions that were typical of works for children and b) a creative development of the experiments first introduced by representatives of such avant-garde movements as Futurism and Surrealism.

Badania nad historią kobiet w Polsce XVI–XVIII wieku w latach 2011–2020. Niezmienna atrakcyjność, ale czy nowe pytania?

Author(s): Cezary Kuklo / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 107/2020

Research into the place of women in history, feminism and gender is conducted in many countries of the world, now has a wide reach and is already characterized by an avalanche of literature. The article discusses the achievements of research on the history of women on Polish lands in the early modern period, in the second decade of the 21st century. It reviews several groups of source publications devoted to women in the 16th–18th century (memoirs, diaries and travel journals, correspondence, wills), which always affect the intensity of historical research. The review of monographic achievements of women’s historiography of the last decade is presented in three conventional, extensive theme blocks: women in the family and beyond it (body, sexuality, love and emotions as well as intra-family relations); their education and knowledge, work in towns and in the country, as well as conflicts with law; and the third: women’s participation in politics, culture and religion. The work suggests the further development of women studies in terms of the number of studies and the research problems. It also draws attention to the need for new research methods in the historian’s workshop, such as social network analysis (SNA), proposed by sociologists, and successfully applied already in Western historical science. The author signalizes certain gaps in research in the history of women in the old-Polish period, which are also quite numerous for the next two centuries, and suggests an urgent need for writing a research-based synthesis of the history of women in Polish lands.

Bez sensu as an act of communication

Author(s): Wiesław Czechowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The article presents a communication-based analysis of the function of the ‘bez sensu’ [meaningless/ pointless/makes no sense etc.] phraseme. The author discusses the conversational and discursive opportunities for using it. He applies the methodology of communicational grammar, which enables the analysis of communications at the ideational and interactive levels. Within the semantic level, ‘bez sensu’ removes the value of the trivialised semantic standard. In conversations, it is the reaction to scripts which contradict natural logic and the common-sensical cause-and-effect course of things. An important function is the bringing forward of scripts of failure, wastefulness, redundancy, and lack of benefit or expected or actual harm. At the interactive level, the ‘bez sensu’ expression fulfils the function of support for the argumentative power of a communication; it is also a measure of undermining an argumentation – it emphasises the frailty of its premises. In axiological strategies, ‘bez sensu’ is a major component of emotive acts and the building block of the emotional tension between interlocutors. In this instance, it is mostly used to bring forward the experience of a negative emotion. One negative outcome of using the ‘bez sensu’ expression is the introduction distance to interpersonal contact, and in some cases the sense of intellectually debasing the sender of a communication. The article includes several examples of media-based political statements with the ‘bez sensu’ expression, which are used for discrediting political opponents.

Bibliografia prac Profesor Barbary Bogołębskiej

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

Bibliography of the Works of Rev. Dr. Hab. Andrzej Bruździński, Professor of PUJPII

Author(s): Bartłomiej Michał Wołyniec / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Bibliography of the Works of Rev. Dr. Hab. Andrzej Bruździński, Professor of PUJPII (1990-2020)

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie 1817-2017. Miscellanea

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The jubilee publication contains the papers describing the University of Warsaw Library at the beginning of its existence (1817–1831) and nowadays (1993–2013). They are accompanied by: the critical study of Joachim Lelewel’s autographs Projekt utrzymania i urządzenia biblioteki [A Project of Maintaining, Classification and Organization of the Library Collection] and Urządzenie Biblioteki [A Scheme of Classification and Organization of the Library Collection], presentation of the sources for the history of the University of Warsaw Library in the archives of Saint Petersburg, as well as the historical timeline of the University of Warsaw Library in the years 1817–2017, and the appendix with biographical notes of all the directors of the library.

Brickwork and the wall as metaphors in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s fiction

Author(s): Joanna Janusz / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The article analyses the topical motifs of the brickwork, the wall, and the house in the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda, one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century. These motifs were part of the writer’s broader writing project, the aim of which was to depict and catalogue the entire material reality. These elements appear as parts of a bigger whole: a safe house and a private impenetrable space, but also as a symbol of limitations, petite bourgeois conventions, and a place of suffering and sacrifice. In utilising architectural elements, Gadda indicated the minutest of details and functions that constitute the whole. By utilising architectural references such as a brickwork or a wall, Gadda made them part of a complex system of metaphorical relations through which he attempted to bridle the chaotic reality. The brickwork and walls of villas, condos, labourers’ flats, rural manors, and towering stone fencings often possessed dual meanings and roles: they separate one from the world and protect them against the chaos of the world, or are the products of the burgher culture – despised by the writer – as well as the marks of its undoubted richness and bad taste. This was why they became the focus of his criticism. In some of his works, they become a symbol of a character’s desire to isolate themselves from the world. At the level of the narrative structure, the motifs of the brickwork and the wall become a pretext for a digressive expanding or a developed pause, which, in turn, produces an effect of a breaking-up of a diegesis, which remains unfinished and fragmented.