W piekle heteroseksualizmu. O męskiej przyjaźni w powieści Zbigniewa Grabowskiego "Ciszy lasu i twojej ciszy"

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

The article deals with the problem of a male friendship which in a debut novel by Zbigniew Grabowski "Ciszy lasu i twojej ciszy" (1931) was presented under the label of the love of souls deprived of a bodily element. Love between the novel characters the author analyses in a perspective of “amosexuality” (J. Kristeva) has a homo-social nature and is deprived of a bodily aspect, is perceived by both friends as more valuable than love to women and, paradoxically, homosexuality. Male friendship, understood in such a way, illustrates contradictions deriving from the crisis of a definition of homo and heterosexuality that appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of the emergence of a discourse on sexuality.

Jedwabna czerwień. Kolor i materiał w powieści "W czerwieni" Magdaleny Tulli

Author(s): Kamila Dzika-Jurek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents an attempt to reinterpret "W czerwieni", a novel by Magdalena Tulli in the context of an autobiographic work of the writer, namely "Włoskie szpilki". Such an intertext allows for reading the novel in question as a record of The Holocaust experiences. The majority of researchers have qualified Tulli’s prose as the so called post‑modernist literature about nothing while incomprehensive motives in novels written by a Warsaw writer have been defined as “a writing extravagance”. The author of the very text, on the contrary, makes a belief about “the readability” of this prose a general hypothesis whereas on the example of "W czerwieni" shows referential possibilities of Tulli’s works. Discussing the motives pointing to the meaning of what is material in the world presented in the novel (porcelain, silk), as well as interpreting the meaning of the colours in the work, the author of the article concludes that the structure of the world presented, full of traces, frays and corpse is the way of expressing the Extermination.

„Istotne rozmowy”: Elsie Rosaline Masson i Bronisław Malinowski

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

The article concerns correspondence between Bronisław Malinowski and his first wife, Elsie Rosaline Masson. The letters that initially the acquaintances, later on the engaged and finally spouses wrote to each other for many years, constitute exciting reading for both anthropologists and literary experts. Basing on them, one can make an attempt to not only reconstruct a development of the relationship between two people emotionally and intellectually close to each other, but also find out a lot on the functioning of the environment of ethnologists (especially the English ones) at that time. A separate issue can be short reports and self-reflections by Malinowski concerning the field studies he conducted. A “literary nature” of these letters is as important as their referential layer. Published recently in Polish will certainly become an inspiring material for further research, not necessarily in the “centre” of a contemporary humanistic reflection.

Baudelaire’owska aksjologia w kontekście norwidowskim. Zbliżenie przez etykę?

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

The article confronts Baudelaire’s work with the perspective of Norwid’s writings through the issue of moral responsibility. The intermediary in this approach is Stanisław Brzozowski. The discussion over the (im)morality of „Les Fleurs du mal” and Norwid’s contemporary reception of Baudelaire’s writings leads to questions about the understanding of Catholicism in the era of secularization in both writers’ works, the place of evil in the world, loneliness, and the attitude to the source of transcendence. The author of the article argues that the axiological horizon disappears neither from Norwid’s works nor, in spite of appearances, from Baudelaire’s.

II wojna światowa w prozie Wiesława Myśliwskiego

Author(s): Bartłomiej Krupa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Podmiot nomadyczny w prozie Wiesława Myśliwskiego. Próba oznaczenia miejsca antropologicznego. Wprowadzenie

Author(s): Wiesław Setlak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Jak Myśliwski myśli o kobietach?

Author(s): Bogumiła Kaniewska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Ona w prozie Wiesława Myśliwskiego

Author(s): Marzena Boniecka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Historie drugoplanowe, historie kobiece. Między wykluczeniem a empatią

Author(s): Karolina Wawer / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Nie (do) wiara. Horyzonty religijne w prozie Wiesława Myśliwskiego

Author(s): Krystian Węgrzynek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Pisanie o zwierzętach u Wiesława Myśliwskiego – esej polemiczny

Author(s): Piotr Zając / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Motywy dendrologiczne w powieściach Wiesława Myśliwskiego – ujęcie językoznawcze

Author(s): Wojciech Kuska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Wędrując w pamięci. Bogdana Toszy teatralna adaptacja „Widnokręgu”

Author(s): Anna Podstawka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Adaptacje prozy powieściowej Wiesława Myśliwskiego w teatrze polskim (krótko i węzłowato)

Author(s): Jan Ciechowicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Grzechy, posty i bankiety a zdrowie fizyczne i duchowe siedemnastowiecznego sarmaty na podstawie tomów poetyckich Daniela Bratkowskiego (1697) i Hiacynta Przetockiego (1653)

Author(s): Teresa Banaś-Korniak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to discuss the topic of physical and spiritual wellbeing as manifested in the works of two Baroque poets. Daniel Bratkowski, the author of the first volume, entitled „A World Partially Forgiven”, came from Volhynia and was a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Hiacynt Przetocki, in turn, the author of the volume entitled „A Fast‑day Dinner, or Trifle”, came from Greater Poland and was a Jesuit. In Bratkowski’s poetry, who focused particularly on spiritual wellbeing, his ruminations on the condition of a nobleman, his sins and his vices, were concentrated around social, political and eschatological matters. Hiacynt Przetocki, in turn, in his overview of various fast‑day dishes popular in his times, approaches the subject matter of the everyday life in a less serious manner, pointing to the beneficial properties of particular dishes and the harmfulness of others. Bratkowski, then, seems to be a greater malcontent and a more severe judge of his contemporaries than Przetocki. Nonetheless, both volumes constitute valuable sources of information regarding the mindsets, proclivities and sins of Polish nobility of the 17th century.

Parada brodatych i łysych w „Ogrodzie fraszek” Wacława Potockiego

Author(s): Weronika Kocela / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article aims to discuss the poems collected in the volume „A Garden of Trifles” by Wacław Potocki, in which the author presents the portraits of bearded and bald people. The focus on these particular characteristics is motivated by an inquiry into the reasons for the use of such characteristic features of the male physiognomy in Potocki’s poetry. On the one hand, they seem to direct the reader towards the notions of the concept and the symbol, while, on the other hand, they appear to stem from the author’s authentic interest in the surrounding world and his scrupulous study of the changes in human physiognomy.

Doskonała poezja jako wizja człowieka doskonałego. Epopeja w ujęciu Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego

Author(s): Jacek Kwosek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the relationship between the epic poem understood as the ideal of poetry and the vision of the ideal man in „De perfecta poesi” by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. According to him, the epic poem is supposed to present the reader with the model of an ideal life, while its form is conceived to reflect its content: its narrative should be constructed in such a way as to showcase all ideal aspects of the protagonist’s life. The article argues at the same time that Sarbiewski uses the concept of the ideal in three different ways: the epic poem – just like any other literary texts – represents the ideal when it is written in such a way that if one were to remove or add an element, the result would be inevitably detrimental; when it contains a complete picture of reality, because it touches upon both the human and the divine; and when it presents its protagonist as easily balancing active and contemplative life.

Tvůrčí činnost dvou českých badatelů o „literárním Slezsku“

Author(s): Libor Pavera / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

The topic of the following article is the history of research concerning the “literary Silesia” from the perspective of the Czech history of literature and folklore. The author emphasizes the fact that in the 20th century, Jan Malicki made substantial contributions to the state of the discipline on the Polish side, while Antonín Satke and Drahomír Šajtar contributed on the Czech side – the former in folklore studies, the latter in literary theory. Moreover, Šajtar popularized this interesting, interdisciplinary topic that Bridges several research areas (folklore, literature, ethnography, institutions, economic history, etc.). In addition, Šajtar created the program devoted to studying folklore in Silesia. The article, then, attempts to remind the readers about these two important figures in the study of the “literary Silesia” and its heritage.

Polski Roland, czyli o literackich kreacjach Stanisława Strusa

Author(s): Mariola Rokicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The following article concerns literary texts commemorating the death of one of the most famous reavers of the Eastern Borderlands, who died in the battle of Rastawica in 1571. The author argues that, in his commemoration of Stanisław Strus, Jan Kochanowski, in his „Gravestone for Stanisław Strus”, praises his entire line, while „Song VI On Strus Who Died at Rastawica at the Hand of the Tatars in the Year of Our Lord 1571” by Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński constitutes an apotheosis of the heroic sacrifice of the knight, even though his death should not be regarded as a de facto suicide. Moreover, the article traces the parallels between the Polish hero and Roland of Old French chansons de geste.

„Wio Bury do góry”. Tajniki zbójeckiego rzemiosła w „Chronografii albo Dziejopisie żywieckim” Andrzeja Komonieckiego

Author(s): Beata Stuchlik-Surowiak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article discusses the issue of bandit activity in the Żywiec region in 17th and 18th century. The main source of information regarding that topic is „Chronography or the Chronicle of Żywiec” by Andrzej Komoniecki, which documented the history of Żywiec and its vicinity between 1400–1728. This singularly fascinating source text mentions a plethora of executions of local bandits, while the author does not shy away from detailed descriptions of torture and death penalty. The chronicle confirms that, due to the geographical location of Żywiec (the proximity of the mountains), bandit activity constituted a serious issues – hordes of bandits robbed houses, manors and parsonages, as well as traveling merchants, sparing no one who dared oppose them. On the other hand, many inhabitants of Żywiec assisted the bandits and – according to the sources – did so not only out of fear. On the contrary, the courage, resilience and lack of the fear of death that characterized the bandits made them more relatable to the rest of the populace. Those mechanisms, in turn, facilitated the emergence of the myth of the “noble bandit.”