"Bez tytułu i daty". O „szkicowniku myśli” Piotra Szewca

Author(s): Grażyna Maroszczuk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The subject of the article is notes by Piotr Szewc entitled "Bez tytułu i daty", published in “Kwartalnik Artystyczny” in the column of varia entitled "Z powodu i bez powodu". The sketchbook privacy is marked by writer’s mental state, the sense of an obvious bond with the events of a special personal meaning, discretely including notes into the area of emotion reactions. The author , being aware of the gaps of a memoirist form makes an attempt to order himself and drafts thoughts in his non-fulfillment, as well as fills in intuitions of the events reconstructed after years that are intensively close to him. A reflection on the past, that, according to the author is worth remembering, because otherwise, it would get lost without taking care of a tiny detail memory sticks to. Notes by Piotr Szewc point to a thematic dominance of the last achievements of the author of "Zagłada". The novel works are avoided here in favour of poetic and para-textual searches.

"Broń mnie przed sobą samym…" jako modlitwa i kontemplacja Boga

Author(s): Anita Całek / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article proposes a new approach to read Mickiewicz’s poem "Broń mnie przed sobą samym…" [Defend Me Against Myself…] in the context of meditative prayer and demeanour of contemplating God. Recalling orthodox contexts such as negative theology (apophatic), Christology, the "Old" and the "New Testament", "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis and the "Spiritual Exercises" by Ignatius Loyola, the author shows correlations between Mickiewicz’s poem and Catholic mysticism, offering a counterbalance to the existing interpretations (J. Kleiner, S. Makowski, I. Jokiel, J. Lyszczyna and others) focused on theosophical and heterodoxal themes predominantly.

"Czytadło" Tadeusza Konwickiego – interpretacja po latach

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

The article is an attempt to reconsider and reread the novel by Tadeusz Konwicki from today’s point of view and by means of research tools that has not been applied so far to this type of text. A confrontation of its character with a changed reality of the surrounding world becomes an occasion to reflect on coming to terms with tradition and ideas as well as myths of the Romantic provenience or, in a word, the whole symbolic heritage of the past while for the writer himself, also with existing hierarchies and literary conventions. In such a perspective the novel by Konwicki turns out to be an addition and supplement of "Mała apokalipsa" whereas its convention an ironic and prophetic harbinger of a direction the Polish literature goes in totally different conditions and circumstances than before.

"Den westen verlassen, heißt die welt betreten“. Ronald M. Schernikaus Poetik zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland

Author(s): Christopher Kurt Spiegl / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

"Du im Himmel! hilf mir armen / Schwarzen Mann!“ Sklavereikritik in der Lyrik des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts (Claudius, Pfeff el, Herder)

Author(s): Stefan Hermes / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

German literature, European literature, political involvement, Germany, politicsThe volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

"Komm! ins Off ene, Freund!“ Utopische Implikationen in Friedrich Hölderlins unvollendeter Elegie Der Gang aufs Land

Author(s): Björn Hayer / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

"Little Allies": Hermynia Zur Mühlens Märchen als phantasievolle Lernspiele

Author(s): Christiane Baumann / Language(s): English,German / Publication Year: 0

Zur Mühlen is known as the most important German-speaking author of proletarian fairy tales. This essay examines the concept of propaganda and the meaning of play in her writing style, which not only set the theme for her fairy tales throughout the 1920s, but also for her last fairy-tale collection, Littles Allies, which was neglected by researchers. This article debunks the widespread theory that Zur Mühlen gave up her leftist beliefs and returned to her Catholic roots while in exile.

"Ma na sobie frack” – polityka w świetle ubioru (o Gepardzie Lampedusy)

Author(s): Ireneusz Gielata / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

"New human possibilities" in Patočka's philosophy of literature

Author(s): Erin Plunkett / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

This article considers Patočka's phenomenological account of literature in "The Writer's Concern" to defend the idea that literary writing offers a distinctive philosophical contribution. In this text, Patočka gives the writer a special claim on the activity of world disclosure and suggests that literature may offer a glimpse out of the techno-scientific framework that dominates contemporary life. I examine both science and literature as modes of relating to the world, raising questions about the distinctiveness of each and their use of the written word. Finally, I locate the philosophical advantage of literary writing in Patočka's dual claims about literature: that it offers "an individual capturing of life's meaning" and that it presents "the world" as an "undivided" whole.

"Nun, Gott sei Dank, ist ein polnischer Graf da aus wildester Ferne!“ Nationale Stereotype in der realistischen Literatur aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

Author(s): Karina Becker / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.

"Only in Dying Life": Ursula K. Le Guin's Dry Land and Its Cultural Contestations

Author(s): Gabriela Debita / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2020

In his seminal essay theorizing the concept of heterotopia, “Of Other Spaces”, Michel Foucault insists that his focus is on external spaces. However, given the ability of certain spaces, especially those associated with trauma and torment, to simultaneously be inhabited and inhabit the psyches of their denizens, it stands to reason that some heterotopic spaces are internal as well. One such example is Ursula K. Le Guin’s Dry Land, an inner hellscape which appears throughout her Earthsea series. The Dry Land serves to mirror, invert, and contest not only the world of Earthsea, but also the pervasiveness of Western literary and cultural influences on the genre of fantasy itself. Inspired by classical and Renaissance sources (Homer and Dante) and modernist ones (Rainer Maria Rilke and T. S. Eliot), the Dry Land, a jarring spatial and literary aberration in the context of Earthsea’s Taoist framework, serves to confront both the resistance to the finality of death and the supremacy of the Western literary canon. In doing so, it demonstrates Le Guin’s desire to distance herself from Western canonical influences, while nevertheless highlighting the fact that, given the cyclicity of literary rebellion, she is, in fact, walking in Dante’s and T. S. Eliot’s shoes.

"Poemat o zagładzie Lizbony" (1755) i "Kandyd" (1759) czyli Wolter wobec Leibniza

Author(s): Mateusz Niedziela / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XXIII/2021

This article deals with the ways Voltaire makes references in his texts to the philosophical thought of Leibniz. To achieve maximum coherence, this paper only discusses those writings by Voltaire that most directly refer to the Leibnizian issues.These are primarily Poem on the Lisbon Disaster and the philosophical tale Candide, or Optimism. The article critically examines various aspects of Leibniz’s philosophy, such as the theory of pre-established harmony and the concept of monads, and above all the notion of the best possible universe. Moreover, selected aspects of Voltaire’s and Leibniz’s thoughts are compared. For the purpose of consistent analysis, the article primarily focuses on those features in the German philosopher’s system that were particularly questioned by the author of Candide.

"Quelli che stanno in cima alle scale". Nozioni minime e qualche riflessione su: 1956 e dintorni nella cultura e letteratura polacca

Author(s): Luigi Marinelli / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 2/2008

Credo si possa esser d'accordo sul fatto che i totalitarismi restano tali finché riescono a mantenere il loro appiglio, o meglio forse dire "artiglio", appunto, totale sulle società che controllano.

"Reduta Ordona". Rzeczywistość – historiozofia – mit

Author(s): Andrzej Fabianowski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

"Reduta Ordona" [Ordon’s Redoubt] is one of the most widely recognised poems by Mickiewicz. The poem has frequently been referred to in literature and therefore it has become a sort of a myth which shows in a very apologetic and absurd manner the most crucial features of Polish ethos – patriotism, struggle for independence and the willingness to die for all these values. Being a miniature of a battle epic poem, Ordon’s Redoubt has been examined in terms of how closely Mickiewicz copied the reality of those military events. In many cases the reality presented in the poem turned out to be rather different from the historical truth – Ordon did not die from the explosion. Apart from historical inconsistencies, a dispute concerning the literal shape of the poem can also be triggered. Writing the poem, Mickiewicz used his own poetic experience but also S. Garczyński’s experience of romantic military attempts. Yet, he had gone far beyond the role models who inspired him, creating a powerful and universal catastrophic vision. Multiple perceptions of the myth, which Ordon’s Redoubt undoubtedly is, are the reasons for a number of different ideas to commemorate the place of the battle which itself becomes a metaphor of the fate of the entire world regardless of having no strictly defined boundaries as an area of the battle.

"Sanatorium" Rafała Wojaczka. Próba lektury po czterdziestu latach

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

The article is devoted to "Sanatorium" by Rafał Wojaczek or a prose book of a poet, published for the first time as a whole (although with a removed motto) in 2010. The author, analyzing such, phenomena as (among others): the problem of suicide and split personality, an identity split of the main character, loss of subjectivity that are very typical of the poets defined traditionally as “damned”, shows above all a difficult reception of this prose. Hence, "Sanatorium" can be read today in different ways but it should be underlined that it is first of all a novel about fear, illness, stagnation and battle fought with the world and him/herself.

"TURCI" U SATIRU MATIJE ANTUNA RELKOVIĆA (1732-1798)

Author(s): Ekrem Čaušević / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 47-48/1999

Der kroatische Schriftsteller M. A. Relković wurde in Davor (Slawonien) geboren. Als Sechzehnjahriger trat er in den Militardienst in einem am Fluss Sava stationierten Grenzregiment ein. Da er sich durch Tapferkeit besonders hervorgetan hat, wurde er im Jahre 1778 zum Kapitân befördert. Als Offizier nahm er am Osterreichisch-Preussischen Krieg (1756-1773) teil, in dem er mehrmals verwundet wurde. Mit 54 Jahren tritt er in den Ruhestand und zieht nach Vinkovci, wo er stirbt und beerdigt wird.

"Who Was Ever Only Themselves?”— Precocity, Vulnerability, and Interbeing in Forrest Gander’s Be With

Author(s): Julia Fiedorczuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

This article aims to read Forrest Gander’s Pulitzer-winning 2018 volume, Be With, in the context of Judith Butler’s notion of vulnerability and the Buddhist concept of interbeing, introduced by Thích Nhất Hạnh. Gander’s search for a poetics of listening reaches a new intensity in Be With, a poetic lament for a deceased beloved. In this groundbreaking work, grief becomes a means of knowing the world where knowledge is understood “not as recitation but as/ the unhinging somatic event” (Gander 2018, 28). The new way of engaging with the world triggers a subjective reconfiguration that leads to the articulation of a deeply empathic poetics of vulnerability which becomes the basis for telling new stories of human, interspecies, and mineral entanglements.

"Zdania i uwagi" – dzieło nieoczywiste

Author(s): Ewa Hoffmann-Piotrowska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

So far Mickiewicz’s "Zdania i uwagi" [Sentences and Comments] has not been largely exploited in interpretative terms, yet in other respects it has been taken advantage of as a source of universal truths and principles. It has been considered extremely didactic and moralising, imposing an obvious vision of a spiritual reality. Therefore, the literary piece appears to be anti-lyrical, anti-poetic and in consequence anti-romantic, too. The author of this article makes an attempt to study the maxims from a completely different perspective. She tries to read them as meditative, open and prone to subjective interpretation and lastly, indefinite in their contents. It is worth mentioning that "Sentences and Comments" is significantly influenced by the orthodox, western European tradition of mysticism among others by St. Augustin’s works. And hence the author of this article aims to point out the philosophical and theological references of St. Augustin’s works with respect to Mickiewicz’s literary piece.

"Zima miejska". Mickiewicz w „czadzie uciech miejskich”

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

"Zima miejska" [Winter in Town] has so far been interpreted mainly in categories of classicistic debut of the romantic poet. The crucial issue in this perspective is Mickiewicz’s attitude to classicism. This article assumes a different approach which is the reinterpretation of the poem in the light of rococo aesthetics. In this way we can abandon the disputable question on the relations between classicism and romanticism (which appears to be insignificant in this particular poem) and emphasise the importance of Mickiewicz’s debut poem.

"БЕБЕ"

Author(s): Aleksandra V. Čebašek / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 72/2020