Wojciecha Jagielskiego reporterska opowieść o współczesnym świecie

Author(s): Monika Wiszniowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Wojciech Jagielski is one of the most interesting European reporters of the last decades,a disciple of Ryszard Kapuściński, a careful observer of conflicts afflicting Africa, Central Asiaand Caucasus, a witness to breakthrough moments in history (though from the European reader’spoint of view they may appear to be rather exotic). The essence of his literary reportage is realisedin its “anti‑mediality”,primarily distinguished by the reflection inscribed in the text, and thequestions which the writer repeatedly asks: about the role of a human being as an individual inthe world or about the possibility of understanding and describing the considerable, sometimesinsurmountable cultural differences by linguistic means. Due to the use of individual experienceand the exquisitely built narrative, the writer turns his characters’ everyday life into the universalstories about the contemporary world.

Sprzeczności, niepokoje, interferencje — czyli zobaczyć sens sztuki

Author(s): Roman Maciuszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author of the article starts his deliberations with a recollection of Grigorij Gurdżijew andhis conception of art. As if under Gurdżijew’s influence, he reflects on the most profound senseof art. He reminds the readers about the revaluations which occured in art in the 20th century, bydrawing their attention to the divergence from the subject and figurativeness in painting and to theredefinitions of the category of beauty. The author also devotes a lot of attention to the influenceof surrealists. Simultaneously, he notices that crossing the borders, so important in art, is not an“invention” of the last century. Many distinguished artists of bygone eras, who were importantto the author, were balancing on the verge of objectivity and magic (coincidence and mystery),life and art. The author pays special attention to these artists who conduct their artistic search bymeans of exploitation of different art forms — painting and literature at the same time.

Sztuka narzędziem kształtowania samoświadomości

Author(s): Jolanta Jastrząb / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is the author’s personal report concerning her own artistic project, which sherealised with the participation of female prisoners of the penal institution in Lubliniec, convictedof murder and sentenced to imprisonment. Before the exhibition of the participants’ works, en-titled Secrets, took place in Rondo Sztuki in Katowice on 09.03.2011, the author of the articlehad completed 20 rehabilitative creative workshops with these women, during which she — per-forming the role of a teacher-artist — invited them to engage themselves in a creative activityregarding the ‘human — space — objects’ theme. Currently, rehabilitation by means of artisticactivities is becoming more and more popular. According to the author, art may indeed becomea tool for shaping one’s self-consciousness.

Twórczość plastyczna w schizofrenii jako specyficzna forma wypowiedzi

Author(s): Magdalena Bisz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The artistic activity of people suffering from schizophrenia is the main theme of the presentarticle, whereas its most important aim is to formulate a hypothesis which would provide ananswer to the significant research question: Can the pieces created during the state of psychosisbe regarded as works of art or are they only a form of substitute activity to the patient (in whichcase they should be analysed exclusively in terms of a clinical diagnosis). Many researchersrepresenting biological psychiatry opt for considering schizophrenic art as a projection of distor-tions, created in the course of mental processes that take place in the schizophrenic’s mind. Thehumanities represent a different attitude, regarding mental illness as an artificial product createdby the society. Both points of view seem to be incomplete. Therefore, the discussion concerningthe art of people affected by psychosis focuses on adopting a more moderate perspective, sug-gested by Karl Jaspers, who first acknowledged the analysis of artistic pieces created by peoplewith mental disorders as a supplementary method of examination of mental processes takingplace in the minds of patients suffering from schizophrenia. Working with schizophrenics, just asanalysing their plastic artworks, requires adopting a different perspective than the one typicallyadopted in case of healthy people. The analysis of art created by the mentally ill may be a formof examination of their internal experiences, being simultaneously a clinical diagnosis and animportant stage in the therapeutic process.

Szukanie sensu ludzkiego świata. Legendy miejskie

Author(s): Marta Rusek-Cabaj / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In November 2013, in the Gallery of the Association of Polish Photographers from the Sile-sian District in Katowice, an exhibition entitled Urban Legends took place. During the exhibitionthe artistic works of students of the Academy of Fine Arts were displayed. It is no coincidencethat the Department of Literary Interpretation and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studiesengaged themselves in the examination of urban legends. The installations presented on the ex-hibition were often interconnected with verbal elements, as if to emphasise the source and therelation to the oral origins of legends, rumours and incredible stories… It turned out that urbanlegends may be understood broadly, interpreted in many different ways and translated into theartistic language. As Dionizjusz Czubala, cited in the exhibition brochure, emphasised (and theexhibition itself confirmed): “the new system of thinking [a realistic one, based on facts andcause-and-effect logic — author’s annotation] has not resulted in the elimination of the need forcreating myths from our lives”.

Fotografia jako możliwość sensu. Strategie narracyjne w cyklu Polonia i inne opowieści Allana Sekuli

Author(s): Violetta Sajkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the analysis of a photograhic cycle entitled: Polish Diaspora andOther Stories, created by Allan Sekula, an American photograph of Polish origin. Recognisedas an artist-etnographer, and simultaneously, a critic of the late capitalism and globalism, in hisworks Sekula combines photographs with a linguistic text — titles (sometimes complex), com-ments, ambiguous allusions — obtaining a semantically rich message. From his “stories” aboutPolish-Amierican relations, an image of a postcolonial Poland emerges. The artist, who includesautobiographical material in his works, is also interested in the aspects of Polish-Jewish relations,as well as the issues connected with losing one’s national identity.

Prochy doświadczenia w urnie pamięci. Nad pudełkiem Nieszczęsnych B.S. Johnsona

Author(s): Tomasz Gruszczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the article, the author discusses the artistic output of B.S. Johnson and he suggests that thewriter’s desire to confine his subjective experience to the work of art seems to be the commonelement of his novels. As a heir of Joycean and Beckettian literary traditions, Johnson declaresthat the only chance for literature — pushed to the margins of cultural communication by thecinema — is to present everything that is individual and unique; everything that is internalised inone’s personal experience. This claim for the explication of an individual thought in the pages ofa novel comes to the fore in “The Unfortunantes”. The form of separate pages placed in a box (anelement of liberature) is perceived here as a reflection of the random activeness of the mind andmemory. Simultaneously, it illustrates the described experience in its whole chaotic and incoherentform. Moreover, it allows the readers to reduce the distance which usually exists between themand the book, so that not only can they become its witnesses but also its confidants.

Zobaczyć sens w „katastrofie narodzin” Emila Ciorana

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

In his artistic activity, Emil Cioran gradually deprives human life of tolerance. He perceivesthe fact of human existence as a scandalizing insult, an unfair joke, a tragic mistake of fate,incommesurate with the existence before the catastrophic moment of birth. The Romanian phi-losopher impairs the dense groundwork of being with his questions about the sense and purposeof existence. He weaves the texture of life with ever-multiplying question marks, which unex-pectedly peter away each time one tries to formulate any rational answer. His questioning ofthe sense of being a human perfectly correlates with the deliberations of such writers as: AnaїsNin, Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sándor Marái. Their ontologi-cal reflections, being ideologically proximate to Cioran’s own philosophy, create an extremelydelicate system of reference that allows one to comprehend the incidental nature of the earthlyroam of the embodied souls.

Poszukiwanie sensu na gruzach Historii. Historiozoficzna retrogresja Mieczysława Porębskiego

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

Professor Mieczysław Porębski, a distinguished historian and art critic, is also the author ofZ. Po‑wieść [Z. Novel] (1989), in which he presented his original philosophy of history. Charactersin this book are trying to read the meanings contained in the “images” passed down by history,in order to be able to recognise the elements of their own identity in what is considered to bedistant past, with the use of their imagination, interpretation and empathy. In this article, theauthor is trying to illustrate, how this formally complicated prose is bonded together by meansof reflection on the ways of ordering one’s own biography and polyphonic history, as well ason learning one’s history and identity through narration. The aim of the article is to characterizethe vision of Porębski as a hermeneutic project which, drawing from various achievements ofpostmodernism, does not avoid questions about the condition of human being and the sense ofwhat happens to him/her

Śmierć — być in czy out? Między potrzebą sensu a doświadczeniem absurdu

Author(s): Monika Malczak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is an attempt to present the discourse of death in philosophy and literature. Itseems that understanding of what death is and where it can be found, may be arrived at be-tween the extremes of searching for sense and experiencing the absurdity of death. Such purelyradical views are rarely expressed, hence, the problem with taking any definite attitude towardsdeath ensues. For between these two extremes a whole array of approaches to dying and waysof overcoming fear and grief expands; fear of what is unknown, grief at what is lost — namely,life. According to the author of the article, it is, above all, the mystery of this phenomenon thatthreatens the members of modern culture and their ability to think rationally.

O możliwości odbudowy sensu życia (Zapiski dla zjawy Jerzego Stempowskiego)

Author(s): Małgorzata Krakowiak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article addresses the problem of maintaining (or reconstructing) the meaning of life afterone had experienced a personal crisis. The author illustrates this problem with fragments of JerzyStempowski’s biography recorded in his texts (especially, in his private journal of mourning —untypical for Stempowski — writing of which he treated as means of his own psychotherapy).She is trying to prove to the contemporary reader that the notes of a man representing the worldwhich no longer exists, include exceptionally valid and universal observations. From the chasmmarked by illness, death of a beloved one, home loss and country bereavement and, as a result,the feeling of everything being taken away from him, Stempowski manages to emerge preservinghis human dignity. Life after all the hardship becomes meaningful again due to the strenuousprocess of returning to the public and artistic activity.

List Rektor Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, prof. dr hab. Elżbiety Żądzińskiej

Author(s): Elżbieta Żądzińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Житията в старата българска литература

Author(s): Klimentina Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

За някои литературни особености на Пространното житие на Методий

Author(s): Donka Petkanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Поглед върху старобългарската ораторска проза

Author(s): Lilyana Grasheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Към проблема за авторския стил в средновековната литература във връзка с творчеството на Климент Охридски

Author(s): Krasimir Stanchev,Vasya Velinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

За обема на понятието „старобългарска поезия“

Author(s): Stefan Kozhuharov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Летописни традиции в старобългарската литература

Author(s): Svetlina Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Действителност и мит в старобългарските историко-апокалиптични съчинения

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Жанрови проблеми и особености на старобългарската белетристика

Author(s): Maya Yonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0