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Baśń czy nie baśń? O polskim definiowaniu fantasy w siedmiu aktach

Author(s): Katarzyna Kaczorowska-Bray / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The aim of this text is to present a Polish definitional discourse on fantasy as a convention of fantastic literature, from the moment of its appearance through to the translation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in the years 1961-1963. The first attempts to define this term, to the moment when the phenomenon took shape and the definitional discourse was taken over by Polish fantasy authors in the 1990s are also discussed. The selection of significant statements and their interpretation will be made with reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of discourse and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory.

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Kreowanie wizerunku Polaków i Polski w twórczości patriotycznej Władysława Grodeckiego

Author(s): Jadwiga Grunwald / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

Władysław Grodecki (1942–2018) was one of Poland’s most famous 20th century travelers. Due to his constant promotion of Polish culture and history abroad, the Polish press came to label him as the „wandering Polish ambassador”. In his homeland he was also valued as a committed promulgator of knowledge about Poland and the world. He constantly strove to create a positive image of Poles and Poland. These aspirations are particularly clearly reflected in Grodecki’s journalistic work. The purpose of this article is to examine the linguistic efforts that Grodecki used in his journalistic work to create a positive image of Poles and Poland. The analysis of the material is made with the use of linguistic tools including pragmalinguistics, the speech act theory. Following Grodecki’s texts, one can notice a certain specificity, the essence of which is the dominance of positive, approving and even praising actions. The stylistic means used to create a positive vision of the world include comparison, hyperbole, and metaphor. In this way, Poles are presented as beautiful, talented, honest people, and who love and miss their homeland. Meanwhile, Poland itself is portrayed as a country of beautiful nature and monuments, of delicious and healthy cuisine as well as of fascinating history.

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Schwarze Katze – podwójna biografia Karin Wolff w świetle badań nad tłumaczką

Author(s): Karolina Kamińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2022

The aim of the above article is to reconstruct the biography of Karin Wolff, a distinguished translator of Polish literature in Germany (more than 90 translations), who was active in the opposition in the GDR and the Polish People’s Republic. The author presents Wolff’s activities to popularize Polish culture (including the organization of a Polish literate salon in Frankfurt/Oder), her contacts with Polish poets (e.g. Jan Twardowski, Jerzy Ficowski) and her numerous publishing initiatives.

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Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa „Stanisław Czycz... Literatura, malarstwo, muzyka, nowe media. W 25. rocznicę śmierci pisarza” (sprawozdanie)

Author(s): Tomasz Ryrych / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2022

Thanks to the care of Dr. Hab., Prof. UP Jacka Rozmus and Dr. Doroty Niedziałkowska, w dzyną 20–21 paździądrzej 2021, the ogłonopolska konferencja naukowa "Stanisław Czycz. Literature, malarstwo, muzyka, nowe media. W 25th rocznicę śmierci pisarza". Podczas pierwszego dnia sesji prelegenci gościli w murach Uniwersytetu Pedagogicsznego w Krakowie, zas kolejnego w Krzeszowicach – rodzinnym mieście prosaika i poetry. Konferencja – przy wsparciu finansowym Gminy Krzeszowice – zorganizozwa-na zółta we złością Instytutu Filologii Polskiej UP z Miejsko-Gminną Biblio-teką Publiczną w Krzeszowicach oraz Stowarzyszeniem Miłośników Ziemi Krzeszo-wickiej. Stowarzyszenie to – koryo na konferencji czynnie reprezentowała Pani Dorota Strojnowska – na rodzymym krzeszowickim gruncie pielęgnuje płymą o Czycz, organizując, między innymi, poktości rocznicowe i cykle wyczpołów po-pularyzujących jego twórczość.

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Drukowane dedykacje w XIX-wiecznej książce jako forma polecenia książki

Author(s): Anna Gruca / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2021

A printed dedication is usually addressed to a particular person. However, since it is included in every copy of the book, it reaches all readers. Its content, often expanded in the 19th century, provided a wealth of interesting information about the author, book and addressee. Many elements in dedications could encourage people to buy or read the books containing them. For example, authors of these dedications cited scientific authorities or mentioned the titles of works already known to readers. Sometimes dedications presented the content of the books or were related to them.

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Film jako narzędzie przekazu informacji w literaturze XX wieku

Author(s): Anna Ślósarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2021

The authors of this article discuss the many different ways in which writer can use the literary affordances of film. Writers present diverse approach to intersubjective codes of cinema, according to the authors, while extremes emerged in literary genres. Moreover, the author’s claim, the attitude writers take to film works and means of expression of the film can be radically different. Authorial approaches range from being fascinated with film methods of presenting reality (Tadeusz Peiper) and using them as a way to stimulate the reader's imagination (Stephen King), to ignoring such methods, regarding them as extremely conventionalized or even trivial (Zbigniew Herbert) and therefore not worthy of interest. The 460 works of ten authors were analysed to find the contexts in which the words film and movie appear. The authors found that Tadeusz Peiper was fascinated by silent films while Zbigniew Herbert, who evaluated them from perspective of time, condemned their conventions. Making references to film assisted Andrzej Stasiuk in presenting local community, and it helped Stephen King gaining global fame. Prominent playwriters either ignored affordances of film in their literary works (e.g. Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard) or affordances were key in their dramas: e.g. Tennessee Williams, who used numerous cinematic references to portray his characters; intersubjective communication codes made Williams’s plays popular.

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Skandynawska powieść detektywistyczna dla dzieci i młodzieży… w polskiej przestrzeni medialnej

Author(s): Michał Rogoż / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2018

The worldwide trend for the Scandinavian criminal novels lasting for many years until today has marked itself even more visibly in the first decade of the 21st century, among others after the success of the “Millenium” by Stieg Larsson. An interesting phenomenon in the modern Polish publishing market can be seen in the growing popularity of the detective novels for children and youth arriving from that cultural area. It is worth noticing that this type of literature has a grounded tradition – the classics of the genre include e.g. the novel by Astrid Lindgren about Bill Bergson or Åke Holmberg’s saga about detective Sventon. It is often the case that authors of crime fiction writing for an adult recipient devote a part of their output to young readers. A characteristic symptom of interest in this type of literature in our country can be found in the growing presence of various mentions about it in Polish media space. The considered novels are usually based on a simple puzzle plot, captivating the audience with their humour and a graceful connection of educational values, psychological observations and sensation. Children crime fiction are right now considered most often as popular page-turners, which can turn out to be helpful in raising and solidifying the interest in individual reading, although their cultural potential seems to be much bigger.

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Mieczysław Porębski – pisarz bytu i mitu. Lektura „Z.” Szymutką

Author(s): Katarzyna Szkaradnik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1 (21)/2023

The article is devoted to the interpretation of selected motifs of Z. Po-wieść – the only strictly fictional work of the art critic and art theorist Mieczysław Porębski – in the context of Stefan Szymutko’s concepts and studies. This Silesian literary scholar was particularly interested in the works of Teodor Parnicki, with which the aforementioned “postmodern” historical novel is sometimes compared. Z. Po-wieść depicts the journey of the eponymous character, the reborn Z., through the history of European civilization. Such a plot illustrates the confrontation with “the great history” (history-being) and serves to create a certain overall vision. A comparative reading of Szymutko’s statements and Porębski’s book (as well as some of his other texts) highlights the problem of the relationship between history, reality and literature, which is particularly important for both protagonists of the article. While Szymutko clearly opposes literature (the domain of words) to empirical historical reality, Porębski vindicates the former as a tool for confronting historicity and defending individual existence. In spite of the cruelty of historical reality, artistic creation that corresponds with it allows for the achievement of catharsis and the only indelible “pleasure of history” (Szymutko’s formulation). According to Porębski, myth, like literature belonging to the so-called sphere of the third logical value, has a similar effect. And literaturę has the ability to give a mythic – timeless – actuality to what is incidental and ephemeral.

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Stan badań nad socjolektem piłkarskim (przegląd literatury polskojęzycznej) – część druga

Author(s): Wojciech Żęgota / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Poniższy artykuł stanowi drugą część podsumowania stanu badań nad socjolektem piłkarskim. Jak zaznaczyłem w części pierwszej, moim nadrzędnym celem jest próba całościowego scharakteryzowania tej środowiskowej odmiany języka polskiego. Nie będzie to jednak możliwe bez uprzedniego dokonania przeglądu polskojęzycznej literatury, która powstała na ten temat. Uwagi metodologiczne i terminologiczne zostały poczynione we wstępie do poprzedniego artykułu (Żęgota 2021: 303–305), dlatego teraz mogę przystąpić do referowania kolejnych publikacji poświęconych socjolektom piłkarskim.

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Funkcje (i konsekwencje) wybranych paratekstów w edycjach baśni Grimmowskich wydanych w latach 2000-2021. Prolegomena

Author(s): Kamila Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 33/2023

This article focuses on representative paratexts accompanying Polish language editions in fairy tales from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimms’ selection published in Poland in 2000–2021. On a basis of forewords, afterwords, blurbs, information included in prelims, and colophons, an attempt was made to signal research problems concerning the cultural status of Grimms’ fairy tale emerging from paratexts. Particular attention was paid to communication strategies of editors, publishers and translators, as well as to potential consequences in how elements surrounding and supplementing the actual text of a tale were received by the readers.

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Cyfrowe metamorfozy, czyli słów kilka o Owidiuszu w serwisie YouTube. Rekonesans

Author(s): Konrad Dominas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The article is an attempt at a preliminary analysis of Ovid’s presence (his life and work) on YouTube from two perspectives: syntactic, taking into account the specific nature of the website and social media, and comparing the current knowledge about the author of Metamorphoses with examples of his reception.

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Oedipus’ Freudian slips: language, kinship and tyranny

Author(s): JANEK KUCHARSKI / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper deals with the linguistic aspect of tragic irony in the Oedipus Rex. It begins with the observation that several ambiguous expressions in the play telegraph their double meaning through various kinds of linguistic slips. It is argued that these slips occur on three distinct levels: semantics, syntax and pragmatics. There follows an analysis of several examples under each of these three headings. The paper concludes with the observation that when it comes to the question of Oedipus’ familial relationships and the legitimacy of his rule in Thebes, language itself fails the hero and defies his attempts at controlling it.

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Kilka uwag na temat recepcji twórczości Owidiusza w chrześci-jańskeij poezji nowołacińskiej doby baroku

Author(s): Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The article is devoted to the reception of the Ovid`s poetry in Neo-Latin Christian literature. Three books published in the 17th and the first half of the 18th century, inspired by Ovid’s elegies, were taken into consideration.

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O Metamorfozach Owidiusza z Haarlemu

Author(s): Joanna Rybowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The article considers a series of relief prints by Hendrik Goltzius. The artist intended for these prints to become an ‘illustrated companion’ to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or, alternatively, a sort of mirror image that reflects the poetic world of Metamorphoses in another creative medium. The first part of this analysis surveys Goltzius’ creative career and examines which life events might have encouraged the artist to start working on his adaptation of Metamorphoses. In the second part of the article, we discuss the creation of Goltzius’ drawings and copperplate engravings, explaining why the work of this Haarlem artist represents a historic breakthrough in the illustrative tradition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Finally, the third part of the article assesses whether Goltzius’ Metamorphoses prints adhere to established conventions of the emblematic art (ars emblematica).

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Człowiek – muzyka – Śląsk. Esej o ranie

Author(s): Aleksandra Kunce / Language(s): Polish Issue: 46/2023

The article (research essay) approaches the Silesian version of the wound. The thing about Jorg is rooted in the idea of Silesian at home and Silesian varieties of anxiety, striving, and sublime looking into the infinite. The house is revealed as a significant cultural and metaphysical structure in which the wounded person trains themselves, returns home, and works through the fall. The accompanying figure of Ȭma hides the knowledge about the gravity of what is absolute, what is in the distance, which should not appropriate life and rule over man. There is something terrifyingly symbolic in Jorg’s fate when he “loses” himself with music, along with Silesia and all that is human. Throwing oneself into the embrace of art and the world, the desire to embrace “everything,” to follow that which hurts, leads to difficulties in reconciling passion and crazy talent with the restraint and precision of the home, but also with keeping a man alive. The bill paid by a man is overwhelming.

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Cięcie – ćwiczenia z metafizyki ciała

Author(s): Karol Gromek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 46/2023

The article analyses two cases dealing with the issue of the body, its autonomy, and fragility. The first case concerns the decision made by Bettina Göring – whose grandfather was Hermann Göring’s brother. The woman decided to undergo tubal ligation so that her family’s lineage would die out. The second, better-known case is the story of violence in Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, where American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners and captured everything in photographs. Both events explain the importance of the potentiality in the body and its economy and prove that the limits of bodily plasticity – both physical and semantic – are shifted further than commonly believed.

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Literature of Exhaustion: Representations of Mental Fatigue in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s „Against Nature” and Wilkie Collins’s „The Woman in White”

Author(s): Małgorzata Nitka / Language(s): English Issue: 46/2023

A phenomenon known well before the onset of modern society, registered as a medical term not until the second half of the 19th century, when physiologists and psychologists inquired into physical and mental exhaustion resulting from excessive work as well as that which had no work-related etiology. Such condition of the severe mental fatigue which entailed deficiency of nerve-force was defined by American neurologist George M. Beard as neurasthenia. Taking into account scientific studies of enervation, the article examines some late 19th-century literary treatments of exhaustion in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against Nature and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White to present tchem as peculiar, decontextualized cases of exhaustion for exhaustion’s sake.

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Poezja otwartych ran. Stygmateksty Teresy Ferenc

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 46/2023

The article is an attempt at reading the poetry of Teresa Ferenc through the prism of feminist politics of mourning. Using Helene Cixous’s neologism “stigmatext,” I argue that the figure of an “open wound” constitutes Ferenc’s poetic imagination. This figure refers not only to the tragic event of pacification of Sochy – Ferenc’s family village – but also to the specifically understood relation with mother as is conceived in our culture. Motherhood functions here as a synecdoche of stigmatized otherness. From this point of view, poetry of open wounds emerges as an integral element of Ferenc’s ethical program,v which is opposed to the phallogocentric logic of war, death, and destruction.

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“Śmiechem poza siebie wybiegać”. O szczególnym artefakcie maladyczno-geloterapeutycznym

Author(s): Dorota Samborska-Kukuć / Language(s): Polish Issue: 46/2023

In the 20th century, tuberculosis was already perceived as a democratic disease. An overview of tuberculosis became different and less serious. Seven-volumed press ephemerid from the interwar period, that is, Prątka Jednodniówka (Bystra Śląska) is one of the examples. This journal is gelotherapeutic. Introducing satirical, journalistic, literary and graphic genres, it used some sophisticated rhetorical and metaphorical devices to familiarize tuberculosis and made an attempt of a laughter therapy. A sense of community associated with the undertaking, placing the subject in the health resort reality and undertaking medical issues in a humorous manner: the aim of all these factors was to show the life in the sanatorium as well as tuberculosis itself in the crooked mirror of a satire.

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From Postmodernism, with Love: Neo-Victorian Sexual/Textual Politics in The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Author(s): Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Against the backdrop of the sexual revolution that the world was undergoing and of the textual experimentation that literature was undertaking in the late 1960s, the silence of the female characters populating Victorian fiction became nothing less than audible – the source of the debate around the ‘sexual/textual politics’ to have dominated the end of the twentieth century. With The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles gives a voice to his central character, Sarah Woodruff, and, in so doing, constructs a woman who deconstructs the (predominantly male) canon. Moreover, the novelist weaves her tale into his story and thus builds successive layers of fictionality for the interrogation of outmoded patterns of thought and the associated narrative strategies – symptomatic for the late Victorian era, yet lingering in the mindset of readers a century later. To illustrate the general postmodern ‘dis-ease’ with tradition and the particular subversive manner in which Fowles challenges expectations, the present study lays focus on the cultural production of early Neo-Victorian novels, highlights parody and metafiction as recurrent modes of writing, with frequent incursions into text, context, and intertext.

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