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Tamara Hundorova, author of a methodologically excellent analysis of post-modern Ukrainian literature entitled The Post-Chernobyl Library: Ukrainian Literary Postmodernism, which takes as its starting point the meaning of Chernobyl as a word-symbol for complete disaster, sees 1986 as the moment when a new postmodern consciousness and literature was born in Ukraine. She also shows that Chernobyl has come to occupy an “unspeakable” place in Ukrainian culture – a phenomenon similar to the Holocaust. In discourses within the humanities today, Chernobyl and the accident at the nuclear power plant are associated with the emergence of a new consciousness and a new Ukrainian literature: “Chernobyl literature”. The Chernobyl corpus includes apocalyptic works of both high and low culture.
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Luce Irigaray, previously associated with the French-speaking community of feminist theorists, is the author of numerous works focused on the issue of so-called relational identity. This essay discusses two recently released philosophical works by Irigaray, Sharing the World (2008) and In the Beginning, She Was (2013). These latest books, which are still not well known in Poland, explore a wide range of contexts, around which the philosopher constructs her project for an ethics of sexual difference. The starting point in her work was the concept of a feminist perspective, which over time has gradually evolved into the wider concept of emancipating not only humanity, but the entire world. The philosopher remains uncompromising in her thinking and aims her pointed criticism at the monosubjective (i.e., patriarchal) culture of “The Same”, emphasizing the need to build a culture of two, that is, a culture of dialogue and difference.
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The article deals with Arleta Galant’s book "The Provinces of Literature. Polish Women’s Prose after 1956", which is the culmination of a research project focused on both the previously insufficiently analyzed creative output of Polish women writers between 1956 and 1989 and the category of space, to which the concept of the province belongs. This concept is used as a methodological frame for interpreting selected works, and provides a multilayered conceptual category for describing literary and historical processes in various contexts. The author situates literature from the PRL period by Zyta Oryszyn, Britta Wuttke, Ewa Maria Slaska, Krystyna Kofta, Renata Zwoźniakowa, Małgorzata Szejnert, and Krystyna Sakowicz within literary theory, reflecting on the concepts of the provinces, narrative, gender, and the history of literature, and proposing a formula for understanding women’s writing over a span of four decades.
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In the turn of the 19th and 20th century, F. M. Dostoevsky became one of the most discussed authors in Russian philosophy. Leo Shestov, one of key thinkers of the Russian religious philosophy, dedicated to Dostoevsky several writings, icluding two books. Shestov’s hermeneutical approach to Dostoevsky belongs to most eccentric. Is is very far from facts of writer’s life and traditional interpretation of his works. Shestov postulates non provable moments of Dostoevsky’s life crisis and the most serious factor he declares meetings with underground. These, from his point of view, became the most significant points of Dostoevsky’s creative way. On this base, Shestov build completely new construction of writer’s life story. But Dostoevsky is not the only one author that became interesting for Shestov. Described scheme is typically applicated to all authors analyzed in Shestov’s works. This approach, far from scientific concept, far from traditional understanding of hermeneutics, is an integral part of Shestov’s philosophical method.
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Despite the polemic with Fyodor Dostoevskyin Joseph Conrad’s “Russian” novel, Ivan Turgenev’s presences can also at some point be identified in Under Western Eyes, and various details of a descriptive, psychological and intellectual nature can be faced back to Turgenev’s political novels: Smoke,Rudin, On the Eve and Virgin Soil. Preoccupation with dreams and fantasy also echoes in Turgenev and Conrad’s works. Both writers shared with the German Romantics their beliefs in the significance of dreams and fantasy, and in the borderline world where dream seems to merge with reality. Whereas Turgenev’s dreams are purely prophetic and visionary, in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes illusion and hallucinations are seen to be bound up with the moral culpability of preferring subjective fantasies to objective knowledge. The more Conrad’s protagonist acts selfishly the more subject he is to hallucinations and misperceptions, and the more a person flees from the truth the less he knows what the truth is. The mysterious and strange events that fascinated Turgenev and Conrad are another manifestation of the theme that constantly absorbed them – man’s helplessness before the dreadful and inexplicable forces of nature which are hostile to him and threaten him with inevitable destruction. Is it a chance or fate? This is the question that runs through all of Turgenev and Conrad’s works, and Turgenev’s Insarov, Nezhdanov, and Conrad’s Razumov are either casualties of absurd chance or victims of malevolent and implacable forces which control man.
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The prose writer Eva Tvrdá (1963) is interested in the life fates of ordinary women from the region of the town of Hlučín which has a powerful history linked with the Third Reich. She places more than sixty years of history, which are parts of memorial and recollective pictures, into the prose of the so-called Silesian Trilogy which have been published in a collected form as Dědictví (Heritage), Třešňovou alejí (Cherry Lane) and Okna do pokoje (Windows to a Room). The motifs of family, home, travels and motherhood, which are linked with social and regional identity, are repeated in her work.
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The theme of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains topical one in the prose of Ukrainian writers. It is represented in the number of works by Katerina Motrych, in particular in the short story “Zvizda Polyn” in which the contemporary author artistically treats the problem of ecology of soul and nature. In the article the title of the short story is decoded; the following aspects are considered: semantic-intonational parts highlighted by the author of the article, somewhat “shifted” composition, peculiarities of individual writer’s style; moral issues are conceptualized.
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Śląsk Cieszyński is a very specific region on Polish-Czech border. Śląsk Cieszyński is geographical, historical and cultural idea and rarely the border of Śląsk Cieszyński identified with administration divisions. An intricate history of Śląsk Cieszyński is a source of multicultural backgrounds. Over the years polish national minority has created an interesting and specific literature, closely associated with a Polish literature. The literature of the region behind the Olza River that by its development and content most reflects the complexity of the frontier spirit. An important role in creating a distinctive, Těšín “genius loci” in the context of the national literature (Polish and Czech) is played by the work of two authors – Renata Putzlacher and Bogdan Trojak. In this article the author analyzes only poetry was written by Renata Putzlacher.
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The main concept of this work is the presentation and analysis of a specific motif occurred both in hagiography and iconography – cephalophory. It consists of three main aspects: martyrdom, decapitation and carrying a head. A severed head symbolized posthumous glory of a martyr, but it got more universal meaning connected with hierophany which sacralized a concrete space. The legend of cephalophory was created in the Latin West, however it was adopted in the Christian East and in the Slavia Orthodoxa area, where it was covered with new meanings.
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