Cognitive Literary Research as a Showcase of Multidisciplinary Concept of Science

Author(s): Jana Kuzmíková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

Cognitive literary research began to emerge in the 1980s when cognitive linguists discovered that numerous basic processes of human thinking could be revealed and studied within the field of literature. The study presents a survey of cognitive literary studies, research programmes, disciplines and outputs. The general goal of cognitive literary science is to identify common principles and processes of the literary text, imagination and thinking. This means providing a cognitive explanation with regard to the operation, constituents, methods and purposes of the literary process. It could be said, that every interpretation of non-cognitive literary studies has tended to reveal more correct principles of literature, and even more correct meaning/representation of a work of art (e.g. structuralism). Cognitive literary research/science reassesses these aims. If we add the authorial and perceptive procedural competences (memory, attention, emotions, etc.) to the system of literary notions, we will acquire better methodological instruments for the analysis of: the literary expression and shifts in perception; the examination of literary understanding and its types; resolution of literary agents (author, character, reader); and reasons for the popularity of given literary works and the value/negative value attributed to them. That can help us understand what literariness is, which is to find a solution to the main question of literary research, which has not yet been satisfactorily answered.

Materiały do „Słownika Rodzajów Literackich”

Author(s): Natalia Lemann,Izabella Adamczewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

Gonzo journalism Steampunk

Quality and inspiration. A study of the diversification of rhetoric of quality in relation to different conceptual domains in Zen and the Art

Author(s): Jarosław Płuciennik,Jagoda Sałaj / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

This article discusses the basic types of concepts of quality occurring in Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. These terms refer to the different conceptual domains, creating diversified types of rhetoric. All kinds of rhetoric refer to the discovery and awakening of individuality. The quality of education at university or on a motorbike must extend to all possible levels of the Great Chain of Being, it can not only be addressed with abstractedness. Conceptual diversification means diversifying rhetoric and style, which possibly corresponds to different levels of quality for Pirsig. In this sense, his proposals of a metaphysics of quality is part of a current dispute about the crisis within the humanities and the need to give it meaning, practicality and socially responsible utility. A metaphysics of quality uses the rhetoric of conceptual schemata which include: road, inclusion and container.

Awangardowe bezformia i ich losy. Prolegomena

Author(s): Agnieszka Dauksza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

In the following article the author considers a formlessness phenomenon which, at first, is understood as a philosophical term (Georges Bataille’s concept), then as aesthetic category (informel painting, Tadeusz Kantor's theatre, Leo Lipski's literature). Commentary is conducted from the perspective of ‘affective criticism’. The author analyses meaning, function and figures which formlessness becomes in different artistic works. Then, the author examines avant-garde interest in formlessness as a manifestation of search and establishment of ‘alternative’ modernity.

Wielopole, Wielopole Tadeusza Kantora — między medium pamięci a medium fotografii

Author(s): Irena Górska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

This paper aims to show that, by attempting in his play Wielopole, Wielopole to reconstruct images of his family home and home town recorded in his memory, Tadeusz Kantor in fact poses an extraordinarily universal problem that is independent of culture and latitude: that of the impossibility of revisiting the past. By referring to the medium of memory and the medium of photography, Kantor perseveres in reconstructing images of the past, but at the same time expresses an awareness of the fact that a lost childhood cannot be repeated. The snapshots of memories, continually adjusted and corrected in the spectacle, acquire a physical dimension and become a space for the author’s endeavours that can be construed almost literally. The images retrieved from them create a presence of the author’s photographic vision.

Allotopia — wprowadzenie do poetyki gatunku

Author(s): Krzysztof M. Maj / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

The article is the first Polish attempt to provide a theoretical framework for a relatively unknown term ‘allotopia’, coined by Umberto Eco in essay Il mondi della fantascienza. However, instead of following rather poststructuralist Eco’s reasoning, the text proceeds with the deconstruction of the underlain dichotomy between real (natural, ordinary, known, empirical, realistic) and unreal (unnatural, extraordinary, unknown, counterempirical, fantastic) world — which is subsequently exposed as fundamental for heretofore fantasy and SF studies. Consequently, the paper encourages postmodern reading of those ‘allotopian’ texts that resign from supporting a colonial, two-world model in favour of philosophy conscious worldbuilding.

Kilka uwag na temat antropologii literatury we Włoszech. O propozycji Fabia Dei

Author(s): Małgorzata Rygielska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

The aim of this paper is to present an Italian trend of the anthropology of literature represented by Fabio Dei (as well as other scholars, such as Pietro Clemente, Zelda Alice Franceschi, and Valerio Petrarca). Fabio Dei, an anthropologist of culture, analyses complex ties between anthropology and literature. First of all, he understands literature as a source of the study of culture. Also, he discusses the idea of anthropological writing (including the literary character of field research accounts). He refers his reflections on anthropology and literature in Italy to the development of Italian ethnography, folklore studies and philology.

Teoria umysłu a nieporozumienia bohaterów w prozie Czechowa (zarys)

Author(s): Artur Sadecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

This piece of work presents an introduction to the research in Anton Chekhov’s prose based on Theory of Mind. By employing this theory one may gain a new approach to the research in narration and heroes and also a way to reveal the cognitive aspects of a literary work. Theory of Mind and metarepresentation allow to notice the reasons of communication issues, ‘clashes’ between heroes, which seem to be so common in Chekhov’s prose. In a short story The Death of a Civil Servant the reason of a failure in contacts with the other person is the disorder of main hero’s Theory of Mind, which leads to his mistaken perception of himself in the eyes of others. In the piece of work titled Sergeant Prishibeyev it is the sergeant’s mistaken attribution of intentions to other heroes that causes misunderstandings. Whereas The Man in the Case reveals how the decision to resign from contacts with other heroes gives rise to one’s isolation from the world and engenders a vicious circle of misunderstandings.

Dworzanin polski Łukasza Górnickiego wobec sympozjonu literackiego. Charakterystyka gatunkowa

Author(s): Jarosław Bedyniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

A Polish Courtier (Dworzanin polski) by Łukasz Górnicki reflects the poetics of a literary symposium (Lat. convivium). In this thesis I indicate the presence of characteristic features of the ancient genre in the structure of the Polish translation of Cortegiano II Baldassare Castiglione. Genre determinants, which appear in the Górnicki’s translation include the following: external and internal narration, the order of the talks dictated by the rhythm of food consumption, the absence of women in the talks, significant number of interlocutors (9), carrying out disputes under the direction of the oldest feaster especially elected for this purpose, exposing the idea of social equality and references to the ancient and renaissance regale dialogues in the structure of the work. Górnicki created Dworzanin polski with the use of a refined form of symposium. He went away from the original pattern. The determinants of the genre of a symposium are the factors, which mostly influenced the changes introduced by the governor of Tykocin in the narrative frame of the Italian original.

Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents: Postcolonialism and the Immigrant Experience in Andrea Levy’s Small Island

Author(s): Blossom Ngum Fondo / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

Andrea Levy’s Small Island captures the immigrant’s experience in cosmopolitan London. In this novel, she showcases the fact that contrary to its claims to be accommodating to this diversity, the values upheld make no room for difference as they are strictly Eurocentric. The characters who through their colonial experience and education have been misled to believe that they are part of the British Empire are presented here faced with the shock of discovery that once in England, they are ascribed the second class position. This paper intends to interrogate the claim to cosmopolitanism. This is done through an engagement with postcolonial critique which conceptualizes the power relations between the colonizers and the colonized. The main argument of this discussion is that although the London of Andrea Levy’s Small Island accommodates individuals from a variety of racial, national, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, they are never given the chance to experience any form of social integration.

Majske igre svetla i tame

Author(s): Nebojša Popov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about political situation in Serbia.

Goropadni vladika

Author(s): Lazar Manojlović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Konstituisanje Vlade između zločina i očekivanja kazne

Author(s): Lidija Jovetić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about political events in Serbia between two issues of Republic.

Sudar suprotnih vrednosti

Author(s): Dušan Mojsin / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Upotreba čuda u političke svrhe

Author(s): Tatjana S. Jovanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Use of miracles in political aims.

Gajo Sekulić, Individuum i nasilje

Author(s): Asim Mujkić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Review of the book "Individuum i nasilje / Individuum and Violence" by Gajo Sekulić.

Sećanja bez presedana

Author(s): Ljubiša Vujošević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Review of the book "Đinđić" by Dušan Veličković and Kristof Zodeman.

Moguć odgovor birača - porast izborne apstinencije

Author(s): Zlatoje Martinov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about election abstention in Serbia.

Uspon arogancije

Author(s): Karel Kosík / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Essay about arogance from the book "Předpotopní úvahy".

Mogućnost zajedništva Srba i Albanaca

Author(s): Ivan Ahel / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 406-411/2007

Article about the status of Kosovo.