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Born in 1934 in Rozmierz near Strzelce Opolskie, living in Opole, Jan Goczoł, the poet, turned the Silesian character into a category of literary expression. The extreme feelings of “worship” and “contempt”, which appear in the title of this article, do not imply a chaos of emotions in the writer’s works; neither do they suggest a changeability in his attitudes. Still, they are operators of the division within the Silesian character, the manner of experiencing it and the poet’s way of referring to the observed changes in the region’s culture, as well as to the evaluation made by the poet who undertakes to deal with themes related to his native land.
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Given academic research on Positivist writers’ predilection for proverbs, A. Dygasiński’s work merits investigation in this respect – as seen in his novel Zając. Researchers have begun looking at both the recording and identifying of loanwords in Nowa księga przysłów polskich – as well as incorporating them in larger texts and functionalising.
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Wojciech Żukrowski (1916–2000) is a forgotten writer, however, he is significant for the history of Polish literature. For many, he is a symbol of a past epoch, a writer of the communist People’s Republic of Poland and even its favourite. Until 1981, he was a well-known, acclaimed and renowned writer who used to receive numerous literary awards. His books were published in large numbers, reprinted, translated into many languages and adapted for the needs of films (Lotna, Kamienne tablice, film novellas Kierunek Berlin and Ostatnie dni), theatre (Porwanie w Tiuturlistanie), radio (Porwanie w Tiuturlistanie) or opera (Porwanie w Tiuturlistanie). Since his memorable appearance in 1981, both Żukrowski and his prose had difficult times. The aim of the present article is to remind the reader of the literary work of this great writer, a ‘fully fledged writer’ as he was described by his friend, Melchior Wańkowicz. The article presents a holistic view on the Żukrowski’s literary output and attempts to single out its main characteristic features, which include: autobiographical elements, Christian issues, fictitiousness, political issues and sensualism.
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The paper presents a historiosophic dimension of Russian nation, created by a representative of French Ros-sica of the 18th century – a traveller Chappe d’ Auteroche. His perception of the Russian nation seems to suggest the disillusionment with the Russian mirage because the empathetic, reliable and insightful analysis of the half barbaric nation brutally reveals the secrets of its mentality. The roots of spiritual degradation are found in the omnipresent despotism and tyranny of successive rulers, as well as the slavish feudal system degrading the nation.
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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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The article presents issues related to the definitional, stereotypical and symbolic meaning of HOME. Linguistic material was gathered from a collection entitled Życie w drodze. Antologia poezji hippisów (Warsaw 1986). Non-linguistic contexts were taken into account in the process of analysis and interpretation. It has been proven that HOME in the poetry of Polish hippies is presented in a manner far removed from the stereotype and is not valued positively. The explanation of such an approach lies in the broad non-linguistic context, i.e. the philosophy of the hippie movement.
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The article touches upon the phenomenon of “implication” of the lexeme beauty in postmodern advertising, while presenting persuasive ways of the contextual placement of the same in a commercial utterance. The analytical material gathered in the form of advertisements shows that the lexeme beauty, while being intentionally inscribed in the advertising context, brings to the receiver’s mind values that are considered unique and timeless, but it also reveals the postmodern ways of semantic transformation of the lexeme’s meaning, which ways consist in desemantising, or in expanding the scope of its meaning.
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This article aims to present research on linguistic picture of „a female dog” (eng. meaning bitch), specifically a reflection what does it mean to be “a female dog” on a Polish-language websites. The article presents the most common components added to this determination. The article briefly presents a dictionary description of the female dog and its image on the dictionaries of Linde and of Doroszewski.
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This article is the result of the field research conducted in the area of the Kashubian dialect. The research concerned the Kashubian dialects’ influence on the Polish language in terms of the inflection of names. The study showed the Kashubian dialects’ interferences in terms of the use of declensional forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals
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The theme of this article focuses on a taboo variety of the Czech National language, vulgarisms. Vulgarisms have not been precisely defined. As a possible way of differentiation between this kind of lexis and neutral expressions is their ability of the parasystemic formation and also the relativity of an users' perspektive on the evaluation of an extent of expressivity. We derived the information from the results of a questionnaire survey and from the database of the Czech National Corpus. We have proved both charakteristicfeatures on the lingustic material.
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The author describes the evolution of the formation and development of indeclinable nouns in Russian. There are captured developmental trends in this area of study from the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century and their reflection in specialist literature. Within the individual decades of the 20th century are demon-strated: the thematic focus of the borrowed lexis and the specific manifestations of the enrichment of indeclina-ble noun classes in Russian. It is a sequel to previous outputs published by the author.
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In this work, we follow parallel with the development of hotel industry also its corresponding vocabulary. In the first part, we focus on the ethymology and semantics of the first namings of accommodation facilities. In the second part, we present various classes of neologisms in the present Czech and Russian hotel lexicons, in particular the occurence and comparative incidence of loanwords from English and other languages. We conclude with discussion of the current Russian hotel slang which is absent in the Czech language.
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The formation of the literary Polish language in Cieszyn Silesia is commonly linked to the literary works of the pastors from Kościół Jezusowy in Cieszyn. They are the authors of the first printed texts in Polish language. The papers written by protestant secondary grammar school students are important contribution to the research of the Polish regional language at the turn of the eighteenth century
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One of the expected results of the curriculum framework for grammar schools in the educational field of Language and Language Education is, among others, the fact that students are able to effectively and independently utilise various information resources (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, the internet). We conducted a survey to determine whether the given assertion in curricular documents are in accordance with current school practices. The investigation, which included 130 first-year students of the University of Ostrava Faculty of Arts in Ostrava, was conducted in September 2014. The data collected indicates that the use of information resources, primarily the Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost [Dictionary of Standard Czech for Schools and the Public] and the Internetová jazyková příručka [Internet Language Guide], is insufficient at some secondary schools and certainly deserves more attention.
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