The Ossuary of Memory. Spaces-Time

The Ossuary of Memory. Spaces-Time

Author(s): Florica-Daniela Moisuc / Language(s): / Issue: 19/2015

Keywords: Kantor; memory; space; postdramatic; childhood

Hans-Thies Lehmann says that one of the characteristics of postdramatic theatre is anchored in the production of environments. We need to emphasize an example Lehmann reveals in his work: the space Pina Bausch proposes as a support to the dancers, that impressive image of a fully flowered field which becomes a real partner of the dancing bodies. Thus, we reach the formula of construction of space in the performance Dead Class, directed by Tadeusz Kantor. We believe the performance approaches that singular and unrepeatable moment which is the elementary school, a biographic instant all of us have known, to which we relate, throughout our lives, a bundle of surprising memories.

La Țigănci by Mircea Eliade, a Different Theatrical Adaptation - Conversation with Andrei and Andreea Grosu, Theatre Directors

La Țigănci by Mircea Eliade, a Different Theatrical Adaptation - Conversation with Andrei and Andreea Grosu, Theatre Directors

Author(s): Cristina Scarlat / Language(s): / Issue: 19/2015

Keywords: La Țigănci; Mircea Eliade; literary text; theatrical adaptation

As a director, doing theatre requires certain skills: above all, you need to impersonate characters that will be played on stage as well as actors do; to be one step ahead of the actors,deciphering the characters and being the game master; to become familiar with them before you set them free to act on stage as if they had your own soul. As a director, you need to be able to lead characters in/through actors, beyond the freedom that the actors themselves take in challenging the characters that they will play; your role is that of a surgeon who performs surgery on a wound and may either cure or deepen it. Andrei and Andreea Grosu managed to do theatre and, in an interview, they told us how they staged Mircea Eliade’s La Țigănci in an original play with seven actors and managed to avoid clichés.

A Book for a Generation

A Book for a Generation

Author(s): Ioana Petcu / Language(s): / Issue: 19/2015

Keywords: Radu Penciulescu; drama pedagogy; Romanian stage directing

Eikon Publishing House in Cluj had the initiative to release on the book market The Minor Prince, an opus under the signature of Gelu Badea, a director who, with this occasion, shows himself to us as an author. If the book’s title is supported by metaphor, the subheading is probative – Radu Penciulescu – Pedagogy and Creation.

“Theatre is not a package, theatre is like a need of man”. Interview with Radu Penciulescu

“Theatre is not a package, theatre is like a need of man”. Interview with Radu Penciulescu

Author(s): Gelu Badea / Language(s): / Issue: 19/2015

Keywords: Radu Penciulescu; directing for the theatre; via negrativa

The dialogue between Radu Penciulescu and Gelu Badea is an exchange of ideas focused around the triad theatre-directing-public. Starting from the concept of via negativa, the two “actors” of the interview show a feat of strenght, a beautiful intelectual game on the fundamental principles of the stage.

Film shelf of the season 2013–2014

Półka filmowa 2013–2014

Author(s): Agieszka Tambor / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: contemporary Polish cinema; Polish film; Belarus; football; movies for children; Lech Wałęsa; Jan Mela; Przemek Chrzanowski

The article presents the summary of the season 2013/2014 in Polish film-making. All movies described in the article are presented from the perspective of what would be interesting for a foreigner or a person who studies Polish as a foreign language. The following films are decribed here: "Być jak Kazimierz Deyna", "Chce się żyć", "Dziewczyna z szafy", "Felix, Net i Nika oraz teoretycznie możliwa katastrofa", "Ida", "Mój biegun", "Układ zamknięty", "W imię…", "W ukryciu", "Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei", "Żywie Biełaruś".

Report: Obituary for Professor Władysław Lubaś

Sprawozdanie: Profesor Władysław Lubaś. Garstka wspomnień i dzieje starej fotografii

Author(s): Petar Bunjak / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Review: Polish Institute of Arts and Science of America rediscovered. Review of the book "Nowojorski pasjans. Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce..."

Recenzja: Polski Instytut Naukowy na nowo odkrywany. Recenzja książki Beaty Dorosz: "Nowojorski pasjans. Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce – Jan..."

Author(s): Barbara Czarnecka / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Literary shelf of the year 2013

Półka literacka 2013

Author(s): Agnieszka Nęcka / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Polish prose and poetry after 1989; readers’ preferences; publishing market; identity; past

The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2013. Last year was marked by a dominance of well known authors (such as Justyna Bargielska, Jacek Dehnel, Julia Hartwig, Ignacy Karpowicz, Wiesław Myśliwski, Jerzy Pilch, Eustacy Rylski or Marcin Świetlicki) and proved that books that consider identity problems and facing the demons of the past can gain positive readers’ response.

Repotr: Experiencing and experiences of America. Conference: "Polish literature in the two Americas"

Sprawozdanie: Doświadczanie i doświadczenie Ameryki. Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa "Literatura polska obu Ameryk" 7–9 listopada 2012 r., Cieszyn

Author(s): Ewa Bartos / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Consequences of media socialization. TV-inspired phrasems in children’s statements

Echa socjalizacji medialnej. Frazemy telepochodne w wypowiedziach dzieci

Author(s): Emilia Bańczyk (Kałuzińska) / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: socialization; media; child; phrasems

In many children’s statements there are expressions that are uncharacteristic for the age of the speakers. Such expressions often turn out to be inspired by television. The aim of the article is to select such expressions, that have been described here as „TV-inspired phrasems”. They are then analysed using the tools created by Wojciech Chlebda. These analysed expressions have been found in linguistic publications, on TV and radio programs. They are analysed in relation to their sociological context (media socialization, concept of homo videns by Sartori).

Strategies of using literary texts as means of seduction. On reading literary text while teaching Polish as a mother tongue and as a foreign language

Strategie uwodzenia tekstem. O odpowiedzialnej lekturze literatury podczas zajęć na przykładzie języka polskiego jako rodzimego oraz jako języka...

Author(s): Tamara Czerkies / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: literary texts in teaching; reading process; types of reading; responsible reading; glottodidactics; third place culture

The article discusses problems for native speakers and foreigners when reading literary texts during Polish language classes. Two important books are presented here (K. Koziołek, 2006; A. Janus-Sitarz, 2009). It also refers to publications about the importance of literature in teaching and the role of the teacher (J. Kowalikowa 2004, B. Chrząstowska 1979, 2009). The author of the article also compares the theory of A. Janus-Sitarz (designed for teaching Polish as a mother tongue) with J. Spiro’s concept of 6 reading types (concerning the function of literary texts in teaching Polish as a foreign language). The author concentrates on the problem of responsible reading (as described by M.P. Markowski, 2000) and on teaching being understood as an invitation to a dialogue with text. K. Koziołek, A. Janus-Sitarz and C. Kramsch in glottodidactics recommend this kind of dialogic approach.

Extensive reading – text in glottodidactic perspective

Czytanie ekstensywne – tekst w perspektywie glottodydaktycznej

Author(s): Anna Seretny / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: extensive reading; original text; adapted text; adaptation in glottodidactics; frequently used words; simplification

Graded readers are designed for students whose level of language proficiency is not sufficient to enable them to read authentic texts. Such materials are either written especially for glottodidactic purposes or they are created by simplifying works of literature. Such simplifying can take three different forms. The first one is called adaptation, the second can be described as simplification, that is made within the text, the last one combines adaptation and simplification. The aim of the article is to present the rules of preparing graded reader materials and to discuss the three types of simplification. It explains also the advantages for readers that result from reading texts which actually meet the level of their language proficiency.

Report: Obituary for Professor Władysław Lubaś

Sprawozdanie: Profesor Władysław Lubaś i serbska slawistyka

Author(s): Predrag Piper / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Andrzej Stasiuk’s experience of spacial Nothingness. Notes from a trip to Mongolia

Andrzeja Stasiuka przestrzenne doświadczenie Nicości. Zapiski z wyprawy mongolskiej

Author(s): Marek Bernacki / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: travel; Andrzej Stasiuk; nothingness; death; mystic experience of God; history of Mongolia

The topic of this article is a description of the experience of spacial Nothingness that occurred during Andrzej Stasiuk’s trip to Mongolia in summer 2010. He presented this experience to his readers in two reports published in „Tygodnik Powszechny” in February and March 2011. The author of this article distinguishes between Stasiuk’s different interpretations of Nothingness. He examines Stasiuk’s reports on his Asian trip against the criteria of so-called ‘modern travelling’ (MacCannel, Wieczorkiewicz). The author of the article concludes that the types of Nothingness described by Stasiuk lead to a mystic experience of the kind that was described by Jacek Bolewski as an apophatic one („Nic jak Bóg”).

‘I am beautiful, what more do I want?’ Dandyish project of Maria Baszkircew

„Jestem ładna, czegoż mi trzeba więcej?”. Dandysowski projekt Marii Baszkircew

Author(s): JUSTYNA POZNAŃSKA / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Maria Baszkircew; dandyism; art; project; diary

This article presents an analysis of Maria Baszkircew’s dandyish project on the basis of her "Diary (1858–1884)". Diagnoses were made mainly in the context of Parnassianism as referred to in Wilde’s idea of life imitating art. The methodological-interpretative substructure is Goffman’s concept of self-presentation and Lacanian psychoanalysis. The purpose of these considerations was to present the essence of Baszkircew’s dandyism, and to prove that her aesthetic life project was closely connected with conditioning, which was dictated by her culture and customs. It concludes that her dandyism was a form of fighting for her own identity, liberty and self-determination.

Vampire and passionate cyborg – psychoanalysis of the two man infatuated by femme fatale

Wampir i namiętny cyborg – z psychoanalizy dwóch przypadków zauroczenia przez femme fatale

Author(s): Jan Zając / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Władysław Stanisław Reymont; Jerzy Sosnowski; men studies; Freudian psychoanalysis; British school of psychoanalysis

Both novels analysed in the article (Władysław Reymont’s "Vampire" written at the beginning of the 20th century and contemporary "Apokryf Agłai" by Jerzy Sosnowski) present the fall of a man seduced by a demonic woman. Daisy (a vampire) and Lilka-Agłaja (a cyborg) are capable, due to their dangerous beauty, of destroying men’s careers, family life, hapiness and sanity. In these texts femininity is traditionally described as something monstrous and dangerous. A psychoanalytical reading (which follows Klein and Freud) leads to a categorization of the sources of such stereotypical images. The mental states of the characters, as described in both novels, are very similar. The regressive symptoms are highlighted – men’s psyches regress to the paranoid and schizoid state, where primary mechanisms of defence seem to dominate. The images of the femme fatale are influenced by the projection of a split, negative object. They aim at preventing an object from final destruction. The author of the article creates a hypothesis that patriarchal culture influences the defence strategies used by the heroes of both novels. Pariarchal culture represses men that show weakness and denies them the right to be called men. However, it accepts weaknesses when they are disguised as misogynistic attitudes. If a man cannot accept weakness, as belonging to him, he must make a woman responsible for it (even on the level of subconscious defence strategies).

Report: Media and social competences in Polonistic education. Reflections on the 2nd Congress of Polish Education

Sprawozdanie: Kompetencje medialne i społeczne a edukacja polonistyczna. Refleksje po II Kongresie Polskiej Edukacji

Author(s): Agnieszka Kulig,Agnieszka Kania / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Margins of literature

Marginalizm w literaturze

Author(s): Irina Titova / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: margin; norm; tradition; outsider; taboo

The author of the article tries to use margin as a category in the history of literature. She concentrates on those writers whose works can be regarded as existing on the margins (Villon, de Sade) or those whose works feature people living „on the margins” of society. Writers often portrayed people who lived on the edge of society (Villon, Hugo, Genet), those who were rejected by society because of their individual features (Simplicyssimus, Guliwer), or those with clear philosophical ideas that were aimed at social norms and tradition (the heroes of de Sade, Rimbaud, Turgieniev). Some of these people decided to leave society to exist on its margins, use alcohol and drugs, feel alienated and unable to find their own place in the world (heroes of de Quincey, Bułhakov, Hesse).

Paris in the literature of Polish Age of Enlightenment (a few remarques)

Paryż w literaturze polskiego oświecenia (kilka uwag)

Author(s): Janusz Ryba / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Paris; Franciszek Bohomolec; Warsaw; Age of Enlightenment

In literature, during the Polish Age of Enlightenment, the word Paris was above all a ‘label’, that symbolised an incredible town that provoked representatives of the Polish establishment to behave foolishly. The capital of France was rarely depicted in a realistic manner by visitors from Poland. Absurd and reprehensible attitudes, inspired by Paris, and described by eighteenth century writers, were numerous. For example, visiting Paris resulted in displays of unusual pride, and those who visited Paris regarded themselves as better and far above those who were not lucky enough to see the capital of France. The Polish elite followed Parisian fashion and adored objects produced there. The capital of France became the most desirable place to visit but Paris was the ruin of many Polish tourists. In Polish literature, between 1764 and 1795, the word Paris was only replaced once by a realistic image of the capital of France: in Krasicki’s novel "Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki" (1776).

Review: Proof of fascination. Review of the book "Śląski socrealizm. Władza – literatura – rzeczywistość" by Magdalena Piekara

Recenzja: Świadectwo fascynacji. Recenzja książki Magdaleny Piekary: "Śląski socrealizm. Władza – literatura – rzeczywistość"

Author(s): Monika Ładoń / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2014