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The author summarizes the results of his research on the relationship between myth and literature. He discusses the universal theoretical and literary issues, such as the concepts of literary myth, mythical roots of literature, myths as a source of literary inspirations, myth creating function of literature, types of myth transformations in the texts of various writers and the ways of functioning of the mythical stories and the mythical figures in the literary text. The author systematizes the most important literary issues, e.g. the differences between myth, fairy tale and legend. He also provides a detailed discussion of the traditional and latest methods of studies on myths in literature, as well as the most recent theories concerning the relationship between myth and literature.
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The book tells not only the story of lives and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot – two French philosophers in conflict, but also that of cultural relationships and divisions in the European Enlightenment. The texts are devoted to different categories, correspondences and discrepancies, examined diachronically and synchronically by outstanding Polish and French researchers of eighteenth-century literature.
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The author presents Mickiewicz’s relations with widely defined Judaism, which the poet encountered while living in exile, as well as his interest in Jewish mysticism, literature and culture. A comprehensive study is supplemented by the texts analysing in detail various “Jewish” themes in life and works of Mickiewicz and other Polish Romantics (J. Słowacki, Z. Krasiński, C.K. Norwid, J.I. Kraszewski and M. Czajkowski).
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An attempt at analyzing the process of the birth of contemporary Korean theatre. In the first decades of the 20th century theatre underwent radical transformations, as a result of which native performative forms were rejected, traditional theatre genres were modified, and, above all, foreign theatrical and literary models were adapted and turned into the leading artistic paradigm. Korean theatre was elevated to the position of social value and given a new, previously unheard of social dimension, which situated it within the trend of national interests and the social realities of an occupied country.
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In the light of the seventeenth-century memoirs and autobiographies of English puritans, the author researches the relationships between the rules of the verbal expression of emotions existing in this community and the practice of expressing feelings by its particular members. She follows the evolution of attitudes and emotions, which accompany the authors of the presented sources at various stages of their fatherhood, set in a very specific religious context. The author uses the notion of emotional community, conceived by an American researcher, Barbara Rosenwein.
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The monograph aims to discuss the Armenian-Turkish relations in the media discourse of the 21st century, predominantly on the basis of French and Russian-speaking mass media on the Internet, with particular emphasis on cognitive analysis of media materials and their influence on exacerbating or alleviating the Armenian-Turkish conflict.The Armenian-Turkish conflict, triggered by the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and lasting for more than 100 years, has been widely discussed in media coverage, including on the Internet. Most of the research material therefore comes mainly from the Internet and includes online editions of paper publications, including traditional periodicals, digitalized official publications, blogs, forums, and even Wikipedia. The choice of the research material is motivated by approaching the subject via the analysis of information transmitted in any direction, in any medium, and in any form to any recipient, because an undefined recipient (i.e. everyone) often seeks out and retains information without paying attention to its source.The above approach has also conditioned the research timeframe, which covers the first and partly the second decade of the 21st century (with the origins of the conflict in the beginning of the 20th century briefly sketched out for context). The choice of languages, on the other hand, was dictated both by the fact that the Russian and Frenchspeaking media practically “accompanied” this conflict from the first moment onward, as well as by the fact that the former reflects its Eastern and the latter its Western perception.The present study constitutes the first foray into the topic and is an essential part of understanding and improving the processes taking place in French and Russianspeaking media discourses, among other things: 1) critical analysis of the abovementioned discourses, 2) influence of the media on the processes occurring in the perception of discursive information at the level of consciousness and subconsciousness of the recipients, 3) attempts to distinguish discursive fact and falsehood from the perspective of cognitive analysis of discourse models, 4) the paradigm of truthfulness of discourse at the level of its compatibility with reality.The examples analyzed in the book in both languages are identical or at least relatively substantially similar, taking into account the perceptual characteristics of both French and Russian.The monograph presents the theoretical foundations of the research (in particular, the philosophical and socio-psychological framework), introduction to the theory of discourse (the social functions of language, the place of information in cultural and relation-forming discourse, the critical analysis of discourse, the directions of research and discourse analysis) and the channels of information flow, along with their cognitive analysis (issues related to, among other things, the specificity of the language of the media, the illocutionary structure of discourse, and the categorization of discourse are taken into account).A fundamental place in the study is occupied by the matter of the semantic structure of the so-called plexuses (as components of cognitive analysis), which, derived from K. Popper’s paradigm of worlds, create discursive space and space for empirical translation (or materialization) of discourse. In addition, the monograph covers issues related to the normative meaning of discourse in correlation with national ideology and the analysis of manipulative discourse tactics. It also presents the influence of socio-political and economic factors on the linguistic structure of discourse.Moreover, the research presented in the monograph includes the influence of the noun genocide (from Greek genos – genus, genealogy, origin, and Latin cide, from caedere – to kill, to massacre) on its subliminal reception by the participants of the discourse, as well as ethnocultural stereotypes and the specificity of the sociolinguistic analysis of the ideological propaganda war. It is worth noting that the social interaction of the understanding of genocide in Armenian-Turkish relations was also taken into account in the study.The conclusion is that the discourse includes a number of clearly separated semantic codes, which in this case can be divided into historical-patriotic, legal-judicial, religiousspiritual, visionary-analytical, economic, critical-oppositional, state and raison d’etat, civilizational-European vs. barbarian-Asian, and national superiority.
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The book is devoted to French poetry and novels from the Renaissance to the present day. Articles by Polish, French and German literary researchers deal with literary issues from a comparative perspective - the relationship of literature with other fields of art, the issues of translation, reception, and intertextuality. The jubilee volume was presented to a researcher of French literature, professor Zbigniew Naliwajek.
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A book in the field of translation studies, richly illustrated with examples of translations of linguistic texts (from foreign languages into Polish) made by various translators. The author touches upon the issues of the translator's responsibility and his/her ethical attitude, thus creating the introduction to a kind of "code of honor" for the translator's work.
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The book, which shows the works of Juliusz Słowacki from the perspective of cultural memory, belongs to memory studies. It aims to follow the relations between memory, reminiscence and commemoration, as well as to describe the relations and interdependencies between individual and collective memory, memory, biography and history in the poet’s works. The authors, in an innovative and multi-faceted manner, reconstruct ideas, formulas and notions, which develop a sui generis philosophy of memory in Słowacki’s works.
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The monograph is devoted to the literary image of Lviv. It combines a new look at the borderline cultures, where the problems of cultural and historical memory and postmemory, in the melting pot of memories, reading and preserving memory, deideologization and dehierarchization of thinking, and the rehabilitation of what was concealed or forbidden are crucial. The monograph focuses on the selected Polish, Ukrainian and Russian twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts. Taken considerations are an attempt to capture general discourses of Lviv, creation of its myth/myths and to analyze how Polish, Ukrainian and Russian authors discover and perceive this unusual space. The publication also discusses how the problem of "strangeness" and/or "otherness" is reflected in literary texts and how the authors create an image of other nationalities.
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Zbiorowy tom poświęcony Profesorowi Robertowi Mrózkowi charakteryzuje się rozmaitością tematyczną i metodologiczną. Dzieli się na trzy części: I. W przestrzeni onimicznej, II. W przestrzeni apelatywnej, III. W przestrzeni komunikacyjnej. Różnorodność podejmowanej przez autorów poszczególnych tekstów problematyki (46 artykułów) jest jednym z wielu walorów księgi. Tom ten z całą pewnością stanowi nie tylko ciekawą i pożyteczną lekturę dla językoznawców oraz dydaktyków, którzy interesują się onomastyką, dialektologią oraz zróżnicowanymi zjawiskami komunikacyjnymi, lecz także dla wnikliwego czytelnika zainteresowanego zmianami języka zachodzącymi na różnych jego płaszczyznach.
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The book illustrates the poet's meeting with the reader and the poetic worlds they have created. It includes interpretations of poems written by artists biographically linked to Upper Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin. They are connected not only by a common experience of place, but also by common themes: longing for the "little homeland", family peace, home (Florian Śmieja, Jan Darowski, Stanisław Horak, Tadeusz Różewicz), sincere expression of thoughts, emotions, de-sires, fears, disappointments over the most difficult matters (such as: homeland, politics, truth, woman) or attempts to tame death (Edward Zyman, Marian Kisiel, Jerzy Szymik), epiphany/metaphysics of words (Jerzy L. Woźniak, Tadeusz Sławek, Andrzej Szuba).
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Tempus edax rerum – this truth also refers to texts, especially those (what is crucial and characteristic of the 17th-century Polish culture) written only in manuscripts. "The Crumbs…" is a collection of studies presenting discovered in silva rerum, completely unknown, or lost poems (edited texts in annexes). Their diversity and curiosity (as here are nobel erotics, Arian religion poetry, poems created during Moscow captivity, and clock ekphrases) not only attracts attention but also enriches image of the Polish old literature. They, due to details, highlight important patterns of the tradition and mentality of Polish baroque.
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This book, innovative on the Polish publishing market, is an example of the ecocritical perspective used in literature research. It contains twenty texts written by specialists in French-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries coming from different Polish and European universities and research centers. In their texts, arranged in five chapters, the authors look at literature through the prism of the links between man and nature. By analyzing different ways in which writers talk about non-human worlds, researchers consider key issues such as the attitude of human beings towards nature and towards the planet, the human-animal relationship, the borders between the human and non-human worlds, ecology, or the quest for a non-anthropocentric perspective.
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The work constitutes part of a lively current in contemporary humanities research — masculinity studies. In the theoretical chapter, the author introduces and maps the latest international research in this area. In the analytical chapters that follow, he demonstrates the possibility of using these methodologies in the area of domestic literary studies. Applying the new concepts discussed in the introduction to the analysis of literary texts enables the author to demonstrate the unconscious and often difficult-to-express tension that the unstable limitation of gender categories — not necessarily related to our “here and now,” but, as it turns out, quite common and transhistorical — introduces in the discussed texts. The analyses of selected works expose the tensions that are at first glance invisible, unnamed, but fundamental, thus opening up the field of further inquiry for subsequent researchers. All the discussed plots demonstrate how changes in political, social, cultural and economic conditions have modified the definition of what is “masculine” or “non-masculine,” and how the characters have confronted these changes, sometimes attempting adaptation, at other times contestation. Between the lines of these texts one can find uncertainty, anxiety and a desire to establish an (imagined) ontological foundation for the male gender, which, however, is lacking in the secularizing, fluid reality. Moreover, almost every one of these changes resonates in the male bodies.
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The Tale of Sim Chong is one of the most famous classical novels in Korea. The theme of the story is devotion and love between father and daughter. Sim Chong suffers all the hardships, she even decides to sacrifice her life for her father. The blind father tries to save his daughter, but after he is left alone, he suffers only misery. In the end, however, everything comes to a happy ending, so typical for Koreans. On the contrary, the Tale of Unyong is a story of tragic love that overcomes social barriers, even death. The whole novel is interwoven with tragedy and despair of the main and supporting characters, who live in a world full of pitfalls, where they fail to fulfill even the slightest wish. Unyong and her lover resemble Romeo and Juliet, but their love can overcome everything. The publication consists of an annotated translation of two classic Korean novels with an accompanying study.
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W powieści Wilcze noce dominuje semantyka nocy, zmierzchu, mgły, wiatru, korzeni, trzasków, szumów, błota, lepkości, śluzu, czerni, wody, próchna, gnicia — a wszystko to podkreśla płynność i niestałość kreowanych światów, przechodzących wielokrotne metamorfozy. Nie chodzi bowiem o zamkniętą przestrzeń iluzji, lecz o unaocznienie wpływu okolicy i ludzkich doświadczeń, pochodzących z różnych wymiarów czasowych, a stanowiących elementy, które składają się na doświadczenie mentalne człowieka. Ono określa tożsamość jednostkową. Autor jest bowiem przekonany, że w każdym jednostkowym losie skupia się doświadczenie kilku, co najmniej, generacji, zachowane w pamięci językowej i pamięci ciała.
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The aim of the work is to present the way of conceptualizing the notionof corpo umano (a human body) and cura del corpo (taking care of the body) intexts devoted to women’s health and beauty.The corpus being analysed contains persuasive texts deriving from the ItalianInternet portals such as spaziodonna, donnamoderna, alfemminile, italiadonna,benesseredonna and Internet websites of the following periodicals: “IlCorriere della Sera”, “La Repubblica”, “Cosmopolitan”, “Marie Claire”, “Focus”,and “Panorama”.Chapter one presents the assumptions of cognitive linguistics, discussingthoroughly the issue of conceptualization based on a categorial organization ofexperience.Special attention was paid to metonymy (a mechanism creating semanticextensions within one domain based on adjacence) and metaphor (a processof copying from the input to the target domain based on similarities) that arethe basis of the conceptualization of the notion of corpo umano in the verycorpus.The analysis conducted was based on a cognitive conception of Lakoff andJohnson’s metaphor. The types of metaphors embodying our experience arereflected in a language use distinguished by the researchers were characterized.The process of conceptualization was presented in a wide communicativeand genological context. Chapter two gave definitions and determinants of thetext, as well as selected models of communication, taking into considerationa linguistic communication. In view of the source of the linguistic material, thework included descriptions of the communications models in the Internet.A lot of attention was paid to argumentative texts where the author presentshis/her point of view and makes the receiver accept it. In so doing, he/she usespersuasive strategies such as constructing the source of the expression or axiologization.In this perspective, a discourse is not only a functional product, but isalso treated as a phatic object and carrier of the value system, which proves itsmultidimensional nature.Further on, the work discusses the problem of manipulation, that is, animplicit persuasive communication being psychological in nature, and an axiologicalaspect of persuasive strategies.In subsequent chapters of the book, definitions and classifications mentionedin the analysis of the notion of corpo umano in a persuasive discoursewere characterized. The subject of the studies presented in chapter three weremetaphors used in a description of the body and actions taken when taking careof the body. As a result of the analysis of the linguistic determinants one couldthoroughly analyse the conceptualization of a given notion.The analyses of metaphorical expressions conducted allowed for showinga part of the human body and its functions in the categories of a material, plant,building as well as an object of a religious cult. The measures aiming at obtaininga perfect look are understood as an armed conflict and a journey.Chapter four discussed the linguistic mechanisms used by the authors ofpersuasive texts in order to influence the receiver (through arousing emotions,influencing the receiver’s awareness, his/her imagination and reactions).Also, an attempt was made to characterize the linguistic actions aiming atinfluencing the receiver’s decision by means of imposing a particular vision ofreality on him/her. Such actions include, without a doubt, creating the sourceof the expression.The analysis of linguistic expressions, being the trace of the author’s presencein a given linguistic material allowed for outlining a profile of a text sender.He/she wants to escape from being responsible for the information read, doesnot reveal him/herself at all, sometimes hides in a group or gives the floor toothers, mainly experts.The sender seems to be a person having a rich experience, high competencesand potential (in comparison to the receiver). Even though he/she tries toenter into a contact with the addresser, he/she does it in order to impress him/her much more, and, in consequence, influence more.Sender’s dominance in a discourse also takes on the form of criticism towardsdefects of women’s body. The way the authors of persuasive texts describefemale readers’ bodies creates an image of an imperfect receiver who (perceivedthrough the prism of his/her physicality) is urged for a constant metamorphosis.
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The book is an anthology of literary works of Jerzy Jankowski vel Yeży Yankowski, a Polish Futurist poet from the beginning of the 20th century. His poems and prose are preceded by the poet’s biography, the most complete reconstruction of the artist’s life to date. Jankowski’s works are accompanied by a commentary and an editorial note, which draw attention to the specific nature of the material and difficulties concerning, among others, the attribution of texts. The publication also contains a register of the varieties of individual works.
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