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Poradnik dla osób, wybierających książki dla dzieci i młodzieży. O pewnych aspektach pedagogicznej działalności Jana Karłowicza

Author(s): Anna Gomóła,Małgorzata Rygielska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

Artykuł prezentuje okoliczności powstawania oraz treść i kompozycję wydanego w 1881 r. w Wilnie Poradnika dla osób, wybierających książki dla dzieci i młodzieży Jana Karłowicza. Książka, opublikowana przez oficynę „Wydawnictwa E. Orzeszkowéj i S-ki”, wchodziła w skład zaprojektowanej przez Elizę Orzeszkową serii kierowanej przede wszystkim do czytelników na Litwie. Przekonanie o konieczności zredagowania specjalnego poradnika lekturowego skłoniło pisarkę do kontaktu z (nieznanym jej osobiście) Karłowiczem, a wspólna praca nad tekstem zaowocowała przyjaźnią, o czym świadczy częściowo zachowana korespondencja (listy Orzeszkowej do Karłowicza). Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia między innymi poglądy Karłowicza na rolę dzieł literackich w procesie kształcenia, a kontekstem naszych rozważań są dziewiętnastowieczne koncepcje pedagogiczne. Autor Poradnika, zgodnie z wymogami ówczesnych bibliografii zalecających, wymienia lektury istotne w procesie wychowania i szeroko pojętej edukacji młodych Polaków końca XIXw. Za najważniejsze Karłowicz uważa dzieła (i im poświęca odpowiednio dużo miejsca) dotyczą- ce historii polskiej i powszechnej (w tym podręczniki, syntezy dziejów oraz dostosowane do możliwości poznawczych oraz wieku odbiorcy powieści historyczne); szczególną uwagę skupia także na nauczaniu języka polskiego. Co interesujące dla badaczy kultury – Karłowicz wskazuje jako cenne dydaktycznie wybrane prace etnograficzne. Znaczący kontekst dla przedstawionych w artykule faktów stanowią współczesne omawianym zdarzeniom, czasem skrajnie rozbieżne, 90 Laboratorium Kultury 4 (2015) opinie na temat Poradnika. Pytanie czy Karłowicz był pedagogiem, pozostaje bez odpowiedzi, choć uznanie, że jego działalność (nie tylko naukowa, ale i dydaktyczna) miała wpływ na wielu Polaków, nie budzi większych wątpliwości.

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МОЖЕ ЛИ БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ДА УСПЕЕ НА НЕМСКОЕЗИЧНИЯ ПАЗАР?

Author(s): Thomas Frahm / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Due to the existence of an endless number of prejudices among Bulgarian intellectuals coupled with the paranoia that Bulgaria and its writers are being intentionally neglected by the world at large, the author of this article reveals the most influential factors that contribute to literary success, or failure thereof, among German-speaking readers and literary critics. He concludes that contemporary Bulgarian writers are inclined to either follow the Anglo-American pattern of fiction writing, or focus on their domestic cultural tradition, thus paying no attention to the universal human qualities and patterns of behaviour that would enable readers all over the world to indetify with their works. Toward its end, the paper points out a few specifics of Milena Kirova’s History of Bulgarian literature that have rendered the volume (in its German translation) valuable to the German-speaking audience.

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The necessity of using humour in the teaching activity

Author(s): Marius Costel ESI / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2017

The importance given to the pragmatic and functional nature of humor in the educational system expresses the existence and assumption of specific teaching strategies of the school organization. The idea we want to analyze is to see to what extent the use of humor in didactic activity becomes relevant and, at the same time, to analyze the (direct/indirect) relationship between it and the social and educational reality. Thus, we are interested in capturing the main ideas that refer to such an approach to humor in relation to the idea of education and, implicitly, to the didactic activity.

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Myth and Education: between Sisyphus and leadership

Author(s): Avdi Visoka / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2018

This paper aims to theorize the interplay of the mythic imaginary with education and ideology, focusing on the case of Kosovo. After the Second Wold War, a hundred Albanian-language primary schools were opened. 1970 saw the establishment of the University of Prishtina which has had a great impact not only on educational policy but also on the national political agency. This is how the educational policy came in contact with political myths. After Kosovo’s autonomy was abolished in 1991, the Albanian schools and university were closed by the police forces. Education soon took over the mission of the parallel state by being implied in national ideological agencies. This ideological implication continued even after 1999, when an international protectorate was established under UN auspices. Within this political milieu the process of reform has been sketched, a process which has presented reform mainly as a protection from the wrong way, by employing political myths to create tomorrow’s leaders.

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The House of Usher Never Fell: Impossible Escapes and the Dark (K)night of the Soul

Author(s): Paweł Pyrka / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

Among the abundance of possible readings of Poe’s short story, one of the most intriguing is its treatment as an escape fantasy - the image of the unnamed narrator delirious, flight from the collapsing structure at his back seems almost too fortuitous, and invites questions as to the sole survivor’s relation to “the house of Usher”. As the structure’s suspected sentience could be seen to relegate its occupants to the position of psychological forces and manifest thought-content, the house is transformed into a combination of physical and mental spaces, akin to the twin “prisons” of body and mind which the narrator fantasizes about being freed from. The article examines the (im)possibility of Poe’s narrator’s escape, using Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth as a companion text. Read alongside each other, the two narratives “construct” their “houses” by a superimposition of their characters’ mental landscapes onto the skeleton of physical (textual) space, in order to perform the fantasy of escape from psychological conflict, whether by tearing down the house as in Poe’s tale, or by restoring the externalized order as in the Batman novel.

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A Home on the Range and the (Near) Extinction of the American Bison

Author(s): Tadeusz Rachwał / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

Fredreric Jackson Turner’s seminal essay on the significance of frontier in American culture interestingly posits the development of railways as extension of the buffalo trail. The presentation of his ideas in 1893 not only followed the announcement of the closing of the frontier by the superintendent of the U.S. Census (1890), but was also the time of the near-extinction of bison whose number declined from about 600,000,000 at the end of the 18th century to 300 in 1900. In the paper I will try to tone the Indian traders’ transformation of the buffalo trail into a railway with the replacement of buffalo herds by cow droves as well as the popularity the song “Home on the Range” which in a way mythologized the domestic coexistence of people with the roaming buffalo. Drawing from Thoreau’s hypothesis that cows are buffalos within and capable of reasserting their “native rights,” I will look at some examples of the return of the buffalo in the 20th and 21st centuries as, however simulated, attempts at a return to homes on the range, and at living on the frontier, even if the frontier has been relocated to the vicinity of the Fermilab bosons where a small buffalo herd is maintained.

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Славянският текст на „Глави с акростих“ от преп. Григорий Синаит

Author(s): Petko Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 103/2018

“Chapters with acrostich” is the main treatise of Gregory Sinaïta, one of the pillars of Hesychasm in the 13th and 14th centuries. The text was composed on Mount Athos or in Paroria and was probably translated into Slavonic before the death of the hermit. It is preserved in a number of copies, one of the earliest is in manuscript no. 214 from the Zographou Monastery Library. A typical feature of the Slavonic version is that the text is divided into 142 chapters while the Greek version has 137. The Slavonic version has served as the basis for the text published by Paisii Velichkovski in his Dobrotolyubie (Philokalia).

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Редки думи и хапакси в Учително евангелие на Константин Преславски

Author(s): Zheny Zhikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 103/2018

This paper is dedicated to rare words and hapax legomena used in the Didactic Gospel (Homiliary) of Constantine of Preslav, a medieval Bulgarian writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. The lexemes are given in the form of dictionary articles. Being “rare” is considered every word attested in up to fi ve sources apart from the Didactic Gospel (according to the lexicographical sources used as well as indices of words of published medieval sources and the research of the author of this paper). These rare words are viewed in the context of writings that are regarded as originating from the Old Bulgarian period (late 9th–11th c.) but surviving in later copies. As a result of this largescale comparison, it is established with which Old Bulgarian texts Constantine’s Homiliary shows the greatest lexical proximity.

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Южнославянската ръкописна традиция на книга Битие (археография, структура и сегментация на текста)

Author(s): Tatyana Slavova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

The article studies the South Slavonic tradition of the biblical Book of Genesis, preserved in eight copies from the 15th–16th century. The orthographic and phonetical features, text structure, and the segmentation of the text by headings in all known South Slavonic copies point to a common Middle Bulgarian hyparchetype (х1) of Turnovo provenance, dating from the fourteenth century. This hyparchetype apparently had mechanical defects – missing or misplaced book chapters from the Оctateuch, and included as interpolations at least two excerpts from Palaea Historica and three unidentified non-Biblical fragments. Significantly, it segmented the text of the Book of Genesis (Оctateuch) by means of interpretative titles that, in addition to their exegetic function, most probably had a liturgical role. These headings were secondary to the translation and could be attributed to scolarly activity in Turnovo. The Middle Bulgarian hyparchetype (х1) generated at least two copies that turned into protographs (P1 and P2). P1 served as the foundation of Wallachian-Moldavian manuscripts (such as GIM–Moscow, Barsov collection, No. 3; Collection of the Romanian Academy of Sciences No. 85; RGB–Moscow, Rumyantsev collection, No. 29), whereas P2 gave rise to the five manuscripts originating from Western Bulgarian lands and Serbia (RGB–Moscow, Grigorovich collection, f. 87, No. 1/М 1684; Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, No. ІІІ.с.17; RGB–Moscow, Sevastiyanov collection, f.270, No. 1/M. 1431; Church-Historical and Archival Institute, Sofia, No. 351; Krushedol Monastery, No. 81). While P1 restricts the additional headings only to the main text, P2 expands their use to the manuscript’s margins as well. P2 includes also a short description and interpretation of the first five Old Testament books.

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Какъв е бил оригиналът на Станиславовия чети-миней?

Author(s): Anna-Maria Totomanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

The paper describes briefly the most important orthographic and morphologic features of MS 1039 from the National Library in Sofia, known as Stanislav’s Menologion. The manuscript contains an old hagiographic collection for September, October and the first eleven days of November that could be traced back to the First Bulgarian Kingdom and the rule of Tsar Petar. The codex appeared in a difficult political and cultural situation after the defeat of the Bulgarian Tsar Michael Shishman in 1330, when a part of the Western Bulgarian lands were subjugated to Serbian rule. The author aims to identify the Bulgarian and Serbian features on orthographic, phonetic and morphological levels in order to establish the hypothetical antigraph of the codex, and concludes, on the base of the analysis, that the compilation was copied from a sophisticated Middle Bulgarian manuscript that shared the linguistic and orthographic characteristics of the Tǎrnovo written tradition before Patriarch Euthymius’ reform.

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Как Патриарх Евтимий преосмисля и преработва византийски жития?

Author(s): Evelina Mineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

This publication stems from observations on two texts: the Encomion of St. Philothea of Temnitsa (Polivot), especially its inserted tale about the pious Amun, and the extended version of the Life of St. Paraskeva (Petka) of Tanovo. The author of the article claims that Patriarch Euthimius drew from a great number of Byzantine texts for each of his works, creating complex mosaics of different motifs and themes, never blindly following his sources. These findings make visible both the creative method of the Bulgarian writer and his excellent education, including his familiarity with Greek and Byzantine literature and his skills as a sophisticated reader. They also highlight the way the Patriarch left his personal imprint on his works, for example the hint, in the Life of Paraskeva, that he personally visited the holy spring at the tomb of St. Euthymius in Madytos.

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Константин Философ Костенечки и „ересите“ в Сърбия по времето на деспот Стефан Лазаревич

Author(s): Stanoje Bojanin / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

This study deals with Chapter 29 of Constantine Kostenečki’s Treaties on the Letters, which contains a list of “heresies” – several customs and beliefs from the daily life of clergy and laymen – in Serbia around 1400. This chapter still remains fairly cryptic and unexplained, having received little reflection from scholars who have been focused primarily on Constantine’s concepts of orthography and grammar. In this treatise, characterized as “theoretical peroration” (Goldblatt), detailed and explanatory descriptions give way to moralistic lectures and criticism, replete with scriptural citations and commonplace remarks. The contents of the 29th chapter can be understood in terms of social life’s conceptual diversity, which includes dietary habits, segmentation of time, veneration of particular customs and individuals, kinship ties, and aspects of church rituals. These concepts could be mapped onto dichotomies of high/low, official/unofficial, central/local, clerical/lay culture (J. Le Goff, J.-C. Schmitt, Peter Burke), but in many cases they do not overlap with the social strata and classes in the feudal society. Constantine criticizes customs and beliefs that are, more or less, shared by many in the parish and the diocese, from priests and lower clerics to laymen. These cultural models replace the official church practice in the social and religious lives of Belgrade clergy and their flocks—a tendency that Constantine ardently opposes.

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Първо Похвално слово за св. Георги от Григорий Цамблак

Author(s): Andrej Boyadzhiev / Language(s): Old Church Slavonic,Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

The article offers an edition of the First Encomium on St. George by Gregory Tsamblak. It introduces 18 hitherto unpublished witnesses of the text from the 15th through 18th century and incorporates the previous edition from the Great Menologion of Metropolitan Makarius. The Encomium is examined together with texts that are linked to it in the manuscript tradition. Among them, special attention is paid to the Lives and Miracles of St. George, and to sermons and hagiographic texts of Slavonic origin. The author offers a classification of the witnesses according to their textological characteristics. A separate part of the publication deals specifically with some of the rhetorical figures typical for Tsamblak’s style and his preferred strategies for textual organization. The remarks on language shed light on some grammatical and lexicological features of the text. The author concludes that this exemplary work epitomizes the tradition of the Turnovo school from the 14th century.

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Peep Show: The Lamentations of Justyna Bargielska

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The author analyses poems of Justyna Bargielska from her first three volumes of poetry as well as her prose debut. Discussing then theories of Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal, the work of Nicole Loraux on the place of the feminine mourning voice in the ancient Athens. political system, as well as Galit Hasan-Rokem.s book on the Midrashim to the Book of Lamentations, the author builds a conceptual framework which might be helpful in understanding the feminine forms of expressions of mourning. Against this background he tries to describe the ironic dirges found in Bargielska’s work, paying special attention to the dominant figure of ‘container’ which among other things seems to refer to the very poem itself, conceived as the space which is to contain loss.

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What a Shame! Memoirs of a Time of Queer Immaturity: Prologue

Author(s): Błażej Warkocki / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This article focuses on the short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ from Witold Gombrowicz’s debut collection ‘Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity’ (later published under the title Bakakaj or Bacacay in the English translation). Warkocki reads this collection as a ‘memoir of negative affects,’ with the opening story being a story about shame. Drawing on Silvan Tomkins and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Warkocki suggests that shame is an affect that interpellates the identity of the outcast and the misfit. Thus the short story represents a particular instance of queer performativity.

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Sentimental Education

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Author of this text is trying to examine several examples of interaction between literature, other fields of discourse and social imagination. This review is focused mainly on French classicism and rationalism, nineteenth Century fiction and Darwinism, modern literature and so-called antihumanism and finally - some contemporary tendencies.

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Sociological Contexts of Liberature

Author(s): Katarzyna Bazarnik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This article analyses the situation of liberature in the field of literary production. It presents a historical outline of the phenomenon, starting with Zenon Fajfer’s proposal of a new literary genre. Bazarnik then contextualizes liberature with the sociological turn in bibliography, which demonstrated that “strong” authors striving to maintain their autonomy in the literary field paid attention to the semantically charged, intentionally shaped bibliographic code of their books. Finally, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s mechanisms of consecration as well as modern sociolinguistic and rhetorical theories of genre, she describes liberature as a new form of literary communication that can be conceptualised in terms of genre understood as the horizon of expectations.

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Academic (Non)Reading from the Perspective of “User Friendliness:” an Insight from the Fields of the Sociology of Literature and of Multimedia

Author(s): Piotr Toczyski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This article discusses data that is usually difficult to find but sometimes becomes publicly accessible, facilitating reflection on the current transformation of the humanities within Polish academia. The data was collected during classes at metropolitan universities in 2013, when over 700 students of law and other humanities individually responded to auditorium questionnaires. To account for the results of the study, the researchers suggest the categories of “non-reading” and of “ease of access”. Studies of (non)reading in Poland from 2012 form the backdrop for this investigation.

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Where Codes Meet: On the Literary Uses of Iconic Signs

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Combination of Word and Image has been recently made part of literary works, with increasing frequency (e.g. novel narratives or lyrical monologues). In such cases, image becomes part of the utterance itself, finding a place for itself in a certain sender-receiver relationship arrangement, thus also becoming a pole of various meaning-generating tensions and an integral part of the entire work.The article aims at discussing the role that images, i.e. iconic signs, play in the structure of artistic pieces of this sort. The main focus is on the multiple semiotic games whose basis is the clash of differing sign-based orders, world-representing forms and communicativeconventions. Analysis of selected pieces aims at showing the multiplicity of possible functions ascribed to visual elements as part of verbal text. A comparison of the achievements of a few selected writers is also convincing of how mutually remote positions were assumed by artists against the significative value of iconic sings (from affirmation, criticism, through to problematisation).The condition for the reader to understand the arrangement s/he comes across is, therefore, to find its suspected motivations, to discover the premises providing the grounds for such a course of presentation, and, to formulate a hypothesis restoring the coherency of a text being based upon two incommensurable orders of meaning.

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The PRL in Biographies: Preliminary Remarks

Author(s): Grzegorz Wołowiec / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The past of the People’s Republic of Poland still seems to be an incomplete object of the scholarly debate, whose most heated episodes concern the biographies of particular participants of this history. The article discusses the discursive rules which determine the shape of contemporary biographic representations. The author analyses two dominant and conflicting narrative strategies: consensual and antagonistic. He points to their genesis, political pragmatics as well as the outcome for the presentation of history. The biography of Ryszard Kapuściński, written by Artur Domosławski, serves as a case study of extremely difficult conditions of the biographic writing which struggle to transgress the existing interpretative frameworks.

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