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Short story by Marcel Tolcea. Poem by Călin-Andrei MIHĂILESCU
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This article is an overview. It is devoted to a piece known in the literature under the title Cantilena inhon- esta, which was recorded by Nicholas of Koźle (Mikołaj z Koźla) at the beginning of the 15th century during his travels around Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia. The first part of the study discusses the question of the poem’s genesis, dating and the circumstances of its recording. The second part of the article traces the successive “versions” of the text of Sprośna śpiew- ka, starting from the manuscript “version”, through the transliterated and transcribed “ver- sion”, to the “version” translated into contemporary language. In the third part of this study, the indecent canticle is commented on. The literary genre it represents, its subject matter, the means of expression used in it and its structure are discussed in turn; then the description of the human body, male and female, and the vision of love contained in it, as well as the at- tributes accompanying its characters and the principle of the expression of feelings through behaviour, which the reader encounters while reading it.
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The author of the article considers the stylistic and syntactic features of the individual style of the famous Ukrainian poet Ivan Nyzovyi. His works were not appreciated enough from the linguistic point of view. Stylistic means based on the syntactic constructions are the main feature of the language of Ivan Nyzovyi’s poems. This article is devoted to the functions of such stylistic figures. The author examines the stylistic units as figures of addition (anaphora, epistrophe, homeoteleuth); figures of accumulation (gradation, polysyndeton, asyndeton); figures of displacement (inversion, chiasm); rhetorical figures (appeal, question, denial, affirmation, exclamation) in the poems. She concludes that the expressive means of syntactic origin create a special emotional tonality of the poetic narra- tive, highlight the key phrases, organize a peculiar rhythm pattern and relief contour of the poetry, and therefore achieve the most expressive stylistic effect in the presentation of the author’s worldview.
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The present portrait dedicated to the writer Andrei Codrescu (the most impactful American author of Romanian origin in postmodern world literature) is one of synthesis, depicting the multi-facetedness of this complex and provocative author, who is continuously innovative, experimental and charming as a poet, prose writer, essayist and thinker.
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Review of: Sánchez, Juan Antonio. Antonio Machado y Kant. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2022. 372 stran. Biblioteca filológica hispana, 269. ISBN 978-84-9895-269-8.
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The article carries out a handwriting examination of the manuscript of Dostoevsky’s third “Siberian Ode” “The Terrible War Has Fallen Silent!” (1856), stored in the Russian State Military Historical Archive. The need for such an examination is due to the fact that the manuscript is written in a special type of handwriting, which contains elements of calligraphy. In this type of handwriting, the outlines of many elements are oriented to the standards of calligraphic writing, fixed in textbooks, while the individual features of the writer’s handwriting are significantly weakened, making it difficult to establish the status of the manuscript — a copy of a scribe or an autograph (in our case Dostoevsky). The methodology of handwriting expertise was developed by the author in the article “Calligraphic Elements in Dostoevsky’s Handwriting as a Textual Problem” (Unknown Dostoevsky. 2022. No. 2), where the manuscript of the first “Siberian Ode” of the writer “On European Events of 1854” was analyzed, in determining the status of which opposing decisions were made in authoritative periodicals (white autograph/clerical copy). The examination proved that the manuscript of the 1854 poem was Dostoevsky’s autograph. This article is a direct continuation of the article written in 2022. The manuscript of the poem “The Terrible War Has Fallen Silent!” is written in a handwriting very similar to that of the first “Siberian Ode,” however, since its first publication in 1935 and to this day the status of the 1856 manuscript was that of a clerical copy. The conducted handwriting expert examination proved that the manuscript of the third “Siberian Ode” is a white autograph of Dostoevsky.
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The harvest episode presented in the novel Stone on Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski focuses on the basic structural features of this writer's works. The world of Myśliwski's works is based on the opposition "old - new", which is strengthened (or rather supplemented) by the confrontation on the "nature - civilization" axis. In such a juxtaposition, the past ("old") is usually affirmed.
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Jerusalem of Gold is a term used to refer to a special piece of jewellery in the narrative of Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef (AD 40-135), the clergyman who laid the foundations of the Mishnah, which is called the Jewish Sharia in the Talmud. This precious jewel, presumed to be a crown made of gold and stones, is used as an icon representing the city of Jerusalem as a center for the Jews. This term is also used as the title for a poem written by Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer in 1967. However, the importance of the poem composed and published by Shuli Nathan on May 15, 1967 stems from the fact that it was loved and embraced as if it were the country's second national anthem, right after the Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's decisive victory. The poem/song had such a great impact that the Arab poets on the opposite front could not remain indifferent to it. Flower of Cities by Assi and Mansour Rahbani brothers and in Quds by Mahmoud Darwish are poems written in this manner. In particular, the poem of the Rahbani Brothers, which was written in 1967, right after the loss of the Six-Day War, and a short time later was composed and converted into a song by Fairuz, reached large audiences and was sung as a naqa’id to “Jerusalem of Gold”. These poems, which we have examined and compared in our essay, can be called as modern naqa’id of the modern period because they can be interpreted as literary exchanges between the parties. These are examples that we can use to understand the concept of "other" not only in today's literature, but also in today's politics, so that we can produce counter-arguments while criticizing the arguments put forward by the other side.
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Posąg Hermesa (The Statue of Hermes), a poem by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, features a myriad of references to the act of sculpting, the statue itself, the myth of Hermes, the myth of Pygmalion, images of fertility, female libido, and, last but not least, the possibility that the reader, the poet, and the girl in the text are ticked by Hermes. The symbols incorporated in the poem illuminate each other and, as a result, the myth is reenacted in the very act of reading the sonnet. At the same time, it is not possible to put forward a single interpretation of the text. The myth can only be actualized if all the interpretations or the poem are simultaneously combined.
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The literary output of Marian Pankowski (1919–2011) is rich in all literary genres. Nevertheless, relatively little has been written about his poetry, which is the subject of this study. Shaped by his personal experience, both as a human being and as a reader, Pankowski’s poems reflect the clash he faces every day, trying to master French and become part of the French-speaking world. In his carefully thought-out lyric form (alliterations, metaphors, similes), which is an explicit reference to the avant-garde and to the Skamander group, a group of experimental Polish poets, there is no place for the verbosity present in his prose. The analysis of some of Pankowski’s lesser-known or even unknown poems undertaken in this study proposes an alternative way of reading his poetic texts. The author of the article points out certain poetic images built upon a sensuous yet controlled perception of the world, based mainly on the senses of hearing and sight. The sense of touch, however, is completely suppressed, as if suggested by the heightened sense of sight. For the poet, his own corporeality is a taboo. He therefore seems to transpose it to the presented world. Pankowski’s poetry, wrongly associated only with his early works, is worth knowing. It is interesting, educational as well as visually and verbally intriguing.
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The article’s aim is to analyze the features of Masurian dialects found in the lyrical and epic works of Michał Kajka. The analysis concerns Kajka’s Opowieści ucieszne [Amusing Stories], published in 2008 in a volume titled Mały kancjonał mazurski i opowieści ucieszne [A Small Masurian Can- tional and Amusing Stories], edited linguistically and provided with an introduction by Zbigniew Chojnowski. The collection consists of twenty-eight literary works. The selection of texts for analysis was dictated by their subject matter and their peasantlike, moralistic, humorous, and ironic character. For expressive purposes, Kajka introduced into his works dialectal forms and lexemes. Overall, eight phonetic and sixteen inflectional features were described. Each of the features was accompanied by numerous quotations. The article also contains a collection of dialectal lexemes.
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In a handmade accordion leporelo made of recycled paper called MEKY MEK! The real world of animals (POP-PAP, 2022) by the authors Marcela Vostřelová and Ester Stará involves a multiple application of intermediality, an actional overlap of both the initial medium, which is the book leporelo, and accepted reception boundaries. In the presentation of eleven animals, the authors incorporated textual and artistic procedures that manifest themselves both intermediality and immediacy, because in them they connected the visual and verbal components, iconic visual signs with the sound imitation of animals, created visual analogies with the textual form of poems as well as with educational interpretation and creative activation offer. Leporelo strives for literary communication with recipients of different age groups. In the text-image representations, a cognitive statement, close to the artistic-educational genre, prevails, there are situations with experientiality, corresponding to fiction intentional genres for pre-readers and young readers. Leporelo contains ethological and ecological elements, and children can be expected to begin to notice more closely the innate abilities, intelligence and emotions of the animals that live nearby.
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