„SĂ NU UCIZI”: ÎNCĂLCAREA INTERDICȚIEI/ PORUNCII ȘI CONSECINȚELE EI (REFLECȚII DESPRE ROMANUL „DRAMA CASEI TIMOTEU”DE MIRCEA STREINUL)

Author(s): Olesea Gîrlea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2020

The article proposes a conceptual retrospective of the term shadow in psychoanalysis, defining the fable of the novel that follows the biblical prescription of the supreme sin of «don’t kill» and the conflicting experiences of the characters. In this article we explore the tellurium imaginary in the novel Drama of the house of Timoteu by Mircea Streinu, the multifaceted evil, the diabolical characteristics of the characters and the description of nature innegativeterms.Byemphasizing“donotkill”wetrytoprovethatkillingis the most abominable fact, which demonstrates man’s lack of humanity.

„Skądże słowo tak biegnie do dźwięku…” Jerzego Lieberta refleksja metapoetycka

Author(s): Katarzyna Janus / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article attempts to interpret such pieces of poetry by Jerzy Liebert which contain metapoetic reflection. Those are religious pieces rooted both in the antique tradition transplanted onto the Christian ground by medieval thinkers and in historical and literary message. The contextuality of the poems is due to the poet’s erudition which is the aftermath of mature and consistent spiritual and intellectual formation, whose main foundation is Christ’s teachings included in the Gospel. This can be evidences by both Liebert’s art and correspondence.Apart from the poems explicated in the article, there are also fragments of correspondence with Agnieszka (Bronisława Wajngold), who shared the poet’s artistic dilemmas and was his first reader. The quoted letters constitute a germane to the presented contemplations record of the poet’s reflections on the theme of his calling to writing poetry. The explications focus on the fact that the way Liebert refers to his emotions towards his writing – a sense of a mission, an issue of his talent, and eventually a comparison of the tension connected with his anticipation of artistic disposition to illness – all derive from his enduing fascination with Tadeusz Zieleński’s lectures. The belief in the necessity of God’s blessing in creative act, the identification of the gift of word with the disposition coming from the Holy Ghost are close to Catholic mysticism.

„Skłócona spoistość” – romantyczna tradycja czy modernistyczny bunt? W kręgu poetyki Jacka Malczewskiego

Author(s): Sandra Trela / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

„Słowo na »ży« usłyszałam po raz pierwszy w naszym starym przedszkolu koło placu Unii Lubelskiej”

Author(s): Natalia Żórawska-Janik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

„Słowo, które trafia do mediów, ma niezwykłą moc w dziele ewangelizacji” – prezentacja wybranych tytułów rosyjskiej prasy religijnej

Author(s): Dorota Pazio-Wlazłowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

This paper presents the structure of the Russian religious press, placingit on the media market. The author, referring to the relevant literature, dividesreligious publications according to the three main criteria: (1) the holder (i.e. thepublications produced by the Moscow Patriarchate, dioceses, congregations,churches and parishes, as well as seminaries and academies); (2) the level ofreligious engagement of the target audience (i.e. the periodicals addressed eitherto believers and active participants of religious life, or, on the contrary, the onessearching for a religion and full of religious doubt); and (3) the age and familystatus of the target audience (i.e. family journals, children’s and youth journals,and publications for students). The present article in detail discusses the selectedpublications representing each of the three groups.

„so verletzt, so erniedrigt, so elend, so mißhandelt, so verwundbar, so ungeschützt“. Zur Problematik von Identität und Gewalt im Werk Helga M. Novaks

Author(s): Izabela Surynt / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2007

The issue of violence towards groups and individuals within every sociopolitical system is one of the main thematic areas in the works of Helga M. Novak. The specificity of her writing on this issue lies in the way she links it with literary presentation of the processes of individual and group identity formation. In her creation of literary characters, who undergo violence and whose identities are influenced by violence, Novak not only presents these experiences as being destructive for an individual or a group but also ascribes to them a specific power which stimulates actions directed at a formation of ever new life models in constantly changing conditions. The problem of discrimination of women and groups embodying cultural, religious, ethnical and national ‚otherness‘ constitutes an extremely significant aspect in the works of Helga Novak. The article encompasses these very issues.Die Problematisierung von Gewalt gegenüber Gruppen und Individuen im Rahmen jeglichen sozialpolitischen Systems gehört zu den wichtigsten literarischen Anliegen im Werk Helga M. Novaks. Über die spezifische Behandlung dieses Themenkreises entscheidet die enge Verschränkung der Gewaltproblematik mit der Darstellung von Prozessen individueller und kollektiver Identitätsbildung. Indem die Autorin ihre literarischen Figuren in Situationen versetzt, in denen sie stets körperlicher und/oder emotionaler Gewalt ausgesetzt werden und diese Erfahrung dann zur wichtigsten Motivation ihrer Protagonisten/innen für die Erarbeitung immer neuer Ich-Entwürfe stilisiert, spricht Novak der erlebten Gewalt nicht nur destruktive Potentiale zu, sondern räumt ihr auch eine (letztlich) positive Kraft ein. Diese besteht in der Stimulierung menschlicher Aktivitäten zur Herausbildung wechselnder Lebensprojekte unter dem Zwang der sich verändernden (Um)Welt. Die Thematisierung von Identität und Gewalt in literarischen Texten Novaks geht oft mit der Auseinandersetzung mit der Diskriminierung der Frauen sowie kulturell/ethnisch/national ‚Anderen‘/‚Fremden‘ einher. Diesen Fragen ist der vorliegende Beitrag gewidmet.

„Society of control. Discursive practices in ‘Discipline and Punish’ by Michel Foucault”

Author(s): Paulina Kłos-Czerwińska / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2019

According to Michel Foucault cultural patterns in discursive practices differ and reflect the discursive apriori, or episteme, of a given epoch. Episteme is a notion introduced by Foucault in order to explain changing systems of thought, it indicates “the underlying orders, or ‘conditions of possibility’ which regulate the emergence of various scientific or pre-scientific forms of knowledge during specific periods of history. These ‘epistemological fields’ give rise to ‘diverse forms of empirical science’” (Foucault 2009: 168). The work titled “Discipline and Punish” is the example of such an empirical approach to history, where all the rules, scientific or pre-scientific forms of knowledge are revealed. The book written by Foucault is a systematic and specific analysis of discursive practices that work in societies of control. Foucault analyzes many such practices starting from severe punishment of the convicted Damiens in 1757, through the hierarchic supervision and normative sanction at the turn of XVIII and XIX century, and ending with the explanations of the workings of contemporary discipline societies with its oppressive rigor in schools, hospitals and prisons.In my presentation I would like to describe these different discursive formations and practices that have been in use in the past or present societies and to present them as certain cultural patterns characteristic to various cultures and societies on different levels of development.

„Stockholm noir“: odvrátená tvár švédčiny. Jazyk ako teritoriálny a sociálny ukazovateľ v románe Jensa Lapidusa „Snabba cash“

Author(s): Katarína Motyková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2020

The study deals with one of the most renowned works of contemporary Swedish crime fiction, the 2006 thriller Snabba cash (Easy Money) by Jens Lapidus, a part of the so-called Stockholm noir trilogy. By means of linguistic analysis of the novel, the article presents the work’s linguistic inventiveness, in which the language of the Stockholm suburbs is confronted with foreign expressions, the slang used by criminals and gangsters, as well as the language of higher social classes, i.e. the sociolect of the better-off neighborhoods of Stockholm. The characters’ discourse is a significant indicator of their belonging to a certain social stratum and manifests not only the social status but also the social exclusion.

„Stopy szukają w trawie – jest ziemia”. Ziemia w twórczości poetyckiej Karola Wojtyły – Jana Pawła II

Author(s): Mirosława Ołdakowska-Kuflowa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1S/2020

This article deals with the widely understood motif of “earth” and its polysemy in the poetic works of Karol Wojtyła / John Paul II. The method of literary analysis and interpretation has allowed for the discerning of a semantic field and to demonstrate the function of the motif of “earth” in the author’s outlook on material reality, his attitude towards the fertility of the soil, nature, fatherland, the Earth, the cosmos and, finally, spiritual reality, combined, in man, with material reality in a particular way, through the Incarnation and Redemption. The analysis of the individual poetic style, especially the method of evoking landscapes, has proved to be a particularly useful interpretational tool, and helps distinguish Karol Wojtyła from his predecessors, interwar poets, and contemporaries – the young poets of the war generation.

„Strasznie lubię cię, piosenko”. Szkice o tekstach Wojciecha Młynarskiego. Tom jubileuszowy dedykowany Profesor Barbarze Kudrze

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

The volume comprises texts analysing the oeuvre of one of the greatest Polish song poets, Wojciech Młynarski. Although the majority of the 22 papers are scientific reviews, there are also some popular science texts. The monograph consists of an introduction, the profile of Professor Barbara Kudra, the bibliography of her works. The five chapters dedicated to the work of Wojciech Młynarski comprise diverse texts written from the perspective of language, literature and cultural studies.

„Studii și cercetări de onomastică și lexicologie” (SCOL), Anul X, Nr. 1–2, 2017, 334 p.

Author(s): Daniela-Ştefania Butnaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 8/2018

„Studii și cercetări de onomastică și lexicologie” (SCOL), Anul X, Nr. 1–2, 2017, 334 p.

Author(s): Daniela-Ştefania Butnaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2018

„Swój urząd czynić”. Profil obywatelski twórczości Jana Kochanowskiego

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

Throughout his whole writing career, Jan Kochanowski continuously addressed the issue of citizenship, applying various literary genres and expressing his beliefs in both Polish and Latin. The issue was rooted in the ideological foundation constituting the constans within his views: on the value of virtue, moderation and serving one’s country, and thus, it was deeply embedded in axiology and ethics. Paradoxically, however, it was conducted simultaneously to his intense economic operations, which turned the indigent heir to half of Czarnolas into a wealthy man, at the end of his days. Kochanowski’s civic-oriented works stretch between the tools of lyrics and rhetoric, and yet any action taken for the benefit of public welfare requires concrete solutions and a properly channelled driving force. In such cases, the main role of literature is not to express the author’s feelings, but to inculcate beliefs and emotions in his audience. And the quality of any given civic-oriented literary work is measured by its effectiveness. This also begs the question about the subjectively and objectively comprehended validity of the propagated opinions. Firstly, did the poet perceive as congruent with actual public interest (which was always explicitly declared) the resulting actions which any given work provoked? Secondly, was this perception sound? Thus, we inquire about effectiveness (here, tantamount to beauty), about persuasive integrity, and finally, about the author’s wisdom. This is the specific look at Jan of Czarnolas that the book offers.

„Sytuacja” Norwida − „sytuacja” Baudelaire’a

Author(s): Magdalena Siwiec / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 11 (14)/2021

Norwid and Baudelaire, born in the same year (1821), unconsciously put themselves in a specific position which Paul Valéry described as a ‘situation’. Its fundamental basis is poets’ determination to define themselves against their great Romantic predecessors, stand out and finally, to release themselves from the constraints of the Romantic influence. The position the two poets find themselves in defines their attitude to Romanticism which is based on carrying on and breaking up with the Romantic tradition and this, on the other hand, makes a time mark even more difficult to establish. Their position is presented in the context of contemporary categories such as Romanticism, 19th-century culture model, generation, modernity, and crisis. Such perspective makes it possible to recognise a shared sense of unity in Norwid and Baudelaire’s literary outputs as well as in their reception styles despite the fact the poets are essentially beyond any comparison.

„Szczere słowo o sobie”. Twórczość Waldemara Bawołka w świetle tradycji cynickiej

Author(s): Jacek Bielawa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46/2020

The article is an attempt to read the works of Waldemar Bawołek in the light of the cynic matrix of an other life, as interpreted in the texts of Michel Foucault and Peter Sloterdijk. The work of Bawołek is treated as an existential project in line with the cynic tradition of spiritual exercises, in which the key role is played by the ideal of honesty and the principles of shamelessness, poverty, vigilance and sovereignty that serve its implementation. In Foucault’s thought, this tradition was presented as a kind of wandering idea whose separate forms are, among others, Christian ascetic patterns, the Nietzschean concept of the superman, or the modernist paradigm of authenticity. The category of the subject’s sincerity in Bawołek’s work is presented with reference to the theoretical model of the sylleptic self, which in the final part of the article is confronted with the main features of the New Sincerity literary trend.

„Szloma Korkociąg przed sądem”, czyli humor na łamach tygodnika „Pod Pręgierz”

Author(s): Milena Wojtyńska-Nowotka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 25/2021

The subject of the article is a series of humorous works “Szloma Korkociąg przed sądem”, which was published in the anti-Semitic weekly “Pod Pręgierz”. The author focuses on describing the linguistic comedy, the means of which was the stylization of the Polish language for Jews. She also draws attention to situational comedy. The results of the analysis showed that contrast was the essence of the comedy in the pages of selected works. It reflected the dichotomous vision of the world presented by the sender and recipient of the texts; a world in which Poles of Jewish origin were negatively evaluated. The presented comic texts, by spreading anti-Semitism, and harming representatives of the ethnic minority, are part of the phenomenon of linguistic aggression.

„Ta wojna trwa permanentnie, ona się nigdy nie kończy”… O ‘Wszystkich wojnach świata’ Tomasza Szerszenia

Author(s): Wiesław Szpilka,Tomasz Szerszeń,Zbigniew Benedyktowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

A block of discussions on Tomasz Szerszeń’s book Wszystkie wojny świata (słowo/obraz terytoria – Instytut Sztuki PAN 2021). How is one to decipher from today’s perspective the recurring images of catastrophes or traces of historical events observed from a distance? Can the ancient skill of “spodomancy” be of use in this attempt at archaeology of contemporaneity? From Hiroshima and Chernobyl, the Near East and Algeria, Auschwitz and Fukushima, all the way to the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and other contemporary conflicts and crises the author creates a by definition incomplete planetary cartography of destruction: he takes a closer look at photographs and texts concerning vestiges of catastrophes and wars seen from afar, and follows their tracks so as to attempt to decolonise their images and latent impact upon us. Wszystkie wojny świata is a multitiered lavishly illustrated essay situated on the crossroads of anthropology, literature, and reflections on photography. At the same time, it is the outcome of years-long studies, a register of travels, and an attempt at regaining certain childhood images in order to better understand oneself and one’s place in relation to history.

„Taki to mistrz...”. Norwid w późnej liryce Tadeusza Różewicza

Author(s): Grażyna Halkiewicz-Sojak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 39S/2021

At the beginning of the 1990s,Tadeusz Różewicz prepared his own selection of poems by Norwid. Although this personal anthology was never published, a trace of it lingers in the form of the essay “To, co zostało z nienapisanej książki o Norwidzie” [What remains of the book on Norwid I never wrote], and more deeply – in the shape of numerous references to Norwid’s poetry and biography in Różewicz’s lyricism from the last quarter of his literary career. This article attempts to reconstruct Różewicz’s dialogue with his nineteenth-century precursor, which he initiatedlate in his life. Analysis incorporates several aspects of Harold Bloom’s theory of literary influence,indicating shared elements and polemical issues. Interpretations revolve primarily around works from those poetry books by Różewicz that contain particularly clear references to Norwid: Płaskorzeźba, Szara strefa, Nożyk profesora, Zawsze fragment. Recykling, and Wyjście. Conclusions drawn from a number of detailed, comparatist readings make it possible to establish thematic similarities (e.g. existential lack and incompleteness affecting both the lyrical subject and the poems’ protagonists, a predilection for developing figures who are misunderstood, inconspicuous, and hollowed out, etc.) andformal preferences (e.g. the use of ellipsis,terse and precise imagery, and consideration for the poem’s visual dimension). However, Różewicz also identifies in Norwid’s poetry certain things that repel him, e.g. lofty poetics, self-restraint with regard to sensuality, and the tendency to obscure the literal character of evil with symbolic images.

„Tam zaczyna się mój świat” – Hans Christian Andersen wobec ojczyzny na przykładzie wybranych utworów pisarza z gatunku tzw. pieśni o ojczyźnie (fœdrelandssang)

Author(s): Aldona Zańko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2018

This article discusses the patriotic themes in the works of the Danish writer HansChristian Andersen. These considerations are based on selected “songs about the fatherland”written by the author discussed in the perspective of the program of the Danish nationalRomantic era. Based on the analytical material, the author carries out the reconstruction ofAndersen’s vision of the fatherland, pointing to its multidimensionality dictated by thehistorical and literary context. Focusing on lyric poetry, the article also contributes to thebroadening of Andersen’s reception in Poland to include the genres marginalized so far,giving a more complete picture of the fairy tale writer’s works.

„Ten biedny Itek! Taki zblazowany! Pozuje!” Gombrowicz jako pozer

Author(s): Ewa Kobyłecka-Piwońska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2020

Kobyłecka-Piwońska discusses Argentinian interpretations of Gombrowicz’s work that refer to notions of posing. She begins by outlining the history of simulation as an illness and as a strategy of assimilation applied by immigrants in Argentina. Next she analyses passages in the Diary, using the notion of the pose as an attitude to life and as a narrative strategy. The article concludes with an analysis of Gombrowicz’s Wędrówki po Argentynie[Travels in Argentina], where both Polish and Argentine nationality, presented throughthe lens of exotism, appear as a pose.