Obraz zaburzeń emocjonalnych w autonarracji K.R. Jamison

Author(s): Barbara Gawda,Kalina Kosacka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The aim of this work is to reconstruct the picture of emotional disorders as revealed in Jamison’s self-narration. The starting point was the question whether self-narration can be a source of information about the patterns of experience of disorder. The self-narrations expressed in the book An Unquiet Mind have been analyzed. The picture of emotional disorders has been reconstructed including the course of depressive and manic episodes and their alternations. The Jamison’s personal description of the experience of disorder was a valuable record of the perception of her own and the world.

Transmediation od Spatial Characteristics – Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Series and Philip Cooke’s Gormenghast: A Board Game set in the World of Mervyn Peake

Author(s): Aleksandra Mochocka / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

The text discusses notable spatial characteristics of the storyworld created in Mervyn Peake’s Gormeghast literary series and relates them to the mechanics used in a paratextual board game designed by Philip Cooke. Spatiality is crucial in Peake’s series, thus allowing for a specific relationship between literary pre-text and the board game as a medium that allows participation. The text thus tries to answer the questions how the Gormenghast storyworld utilises spatial categories, how the spatiality of the novels represents certain “transfictional affinity” with board games, and how the board game utilises game mechanics to convey the affect and pathos of the pre-text.

Dzieła osierocone jako wyzwanie dla humanistyki

Author(s): Anna Smywińska-Pohl,Anna Jarmuszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The article presents the legal concept of orphan works in the context of the Polish Law on Copyright and its social and cultural impact on the effectiveness of scientific research, especially in the field of humanities. The purpose of introducing legislative solutions relating to orphan works is to save the cultural heritage from oblivion, and also to restore the continuity of scientific research. The article also raises the question of the contemporary idea of Open Access, which is considered as another plane for new humanities — as a place of common ground to exchange knowledge without barriers.

Między wolnością badacza a pragmatyzmem. O degradacji nauk humanistycznych w obecnym dyskursie edukacyjnym

Author(s): Aleksandra Belina / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The article analyses changes in humanities in the context of growth in competitiveness and the influence of free market on education. The author examines the impact of capitalist values on the commercialized process of creation and popularization of liberal arts in Europe. She inquires if states — as leading public entities — reduce the meaning and essence of humanities. It is also argued that the trial of marketization withdrawal constitutes one of the major challenges for the representatives of the humanistic discipline.

Participatory Audiovisual Translation in the Age of Immediacy

Author(s): Olga Łabendowicz / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 3/2017

In the age of participatory culture and post-translation, the liberalization of the domain of audiovisual translation (AVT) was only a matter of time. The key four factors which have contributed to this demotic turn include: Linguistic Competence, Availability, Immediacy, and Free-of-Chargeness. Amateur and fan-produced translations increasingly gain in popularity. Meanwhile, the expectations of the industry towards professional translators has become more challenging than ever. The aim of the presented paper is to explore whether these changes call for a more market-driven approach towards AVT in the age of the opening of the industry for other agents.

The Counsel of the Fox. Examples of Counsel from the Commedia, Short Stories, Letters and Treatises

Author(s): Bruno Capaci / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

If the aim of argumentation is that of increasing acceptance of the orator’s thesis (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca 1969, 49), then the ultimate goal of counsel, a widespread argumentative practice within the genres of discourse as well as literature, is indeed persuasion. The subject of this essay—that is, the rhetoric of counsel—allows us to observe the interpretative richness of this element of the “new rhetoric” through examples offered by Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lucrezia Borgia and Niccolò Machiavelli, straddling the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, bridging the fields of literature and history.

Justifying a recommendation: tell a story or present an argument?

Author(s): Paul Van den Hoven / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

In the deliberative genre there is a complex ‘playground’ of choices to present a recommendation; a rhetorician has to determine his or her position. Relevant dimensions are the coerciveness of the recommendation and the strength of its justification, but also the presentation format, varying from prototypical narrative to prototypical argumentative. In different contexts this playground seems to be exploited in different ways and employed with different intensity. It is argued that this can best be understood in terms of different ideas about the management of the audience’s face and in terms of different concepts of rationality that prevail in specific socio-cultural contexts.

Reakcje werbalne odbiorców porady internetowej a perswazyjność przekazu poradnikowego

Author(s): Joanna Smól / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

The article analyzes verbal reactions of advice receivers on the Internet in terms of the impact of reactions on the persuasiveness of the advice message. The research material comes from two websites: milionporad.pl and tipy.pl. The introduction describes the specificity of the Internet advice and the advice relationship on the Internet. Reactions of the receivers are divided into two groups – those that strengthen the persuasiveness of advice (acknowledgement, example or promise to use the advice in practice, praise and additional tips) and those that weaken its power of persuasion (denial of the effectiveness of recommendations, pointing out errors, use of irony). Some discussion is devoted to the role of questions as the receivers' reactions to the advice on the Internet, since such questions may both weaken and strengthen the persuasiveness of the advice text.

Obrazy akulturacji w „Tarocie paryskim”

Author(s): Marzena Karwowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 72/2017

The current state of research on acculturation indicates that this issue has gained a growing interest in recent years among researchers such as Rudmin, Berry, Kim, Abreu, Malewska-Peyre. In the 1930’s, thanks to anthropologists such as Redfield, Linton and Herskovits, an understanding of the phenomenon of acculturation crystalized in the humanistic discourse. Already in the eighteenth century the idea of cultural identity in Western Europe interested Johann Gottfried Herder, who believed that every culture is homogeneous and national. A polemic with this vision of culture, which was paradigmatic for the nineteenth and twentieth century, was expounded by Wolfgang Welsch, who proposed his own concept of transculturality in the era of globalization. Wolfgang Welsch’s concept of transcultural identity is an important turning point in the study of the phenomenon of acculturation, which, as a matter of interest to psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers of culture, is usually analyzed at the group level and opens the way to transfer these studies to the level of creative individual experience, specified in literary texts. The aim of the article is therefore an attempt to look at the image of acculturation fixed in the Parisian Tarot by Manuela Gretkowska, and the subject of interest are the artistic strategies for expressing this phenomenon.

Życie i pisanie (dla) wspólnoty: Käthe Schirmacher i Stefania Laudyn-Chrzanowska między feminizmem a nacjonalizmem

Author(s): Monika Bednarczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 72/2017

Two controversial women, a German and a Pole, are presented in this comparative study.Käthe Schirmacher and Stefania Laudyn-Chrzanowska were radical women’s rightsadvocates who became passionate nationalists. The article is an attempt at interpretingtheir lives and writings as a kind of self-narration and at the same time a narration ofcommunity (identity). As Carolyn Heilbrun puts it, a woman can write her life by tellingit in an autobiography, she can write it as a fictional narrative or write it “in advance byliving it”. Therefore, the paper focuses on both texts and (real) lives.Moreover, individual identity continuously intersects with group identity in thebiographies and narrations displayed here. For Schirmacher and Laudyn narrating the selfoften means narrating community: either narrating the imagined women’s communityor narrating the nation. Hence both authors challenge the model of an autonomousindividual narrating a single life.A further point of departure is the relationship between identity and interaction withother languages or national groups. It is not entirely coincidental that Schirmacher andLaudyn developed strongly nationalistic and anti-Semitic attitudes after having livedabroad for a long period of time. The first few years were marked by a deep belief in supra--national women’s organizations and women’s solidarity. Then a kind of “political solstice”took place (Schirmacher). Obviously, the radical change of views was due to a numberof factors but the everyday confrontation with “the other” intensified the awareness ofcultural boundaries and resulted in the sacralization of their own respective nations.The paper offers thus a double portrait of both activists as feminists and nationalists,and also, more or less deliberately, chronists of two different, though intertwined,‘imagined communities’.

Mise en corps des «gueules» de «Ferdydurke»: le ballet grotesque d’Anna Hop à la lumière de l’œuvre de Gombrowicz

Author(s): Cécile Bocianowski / Language(s): French Issue: 72/2017

This article examines Anna Hop’s 2015 ballet, based upon Witold Gombrowicz’s novelFerdydurke, created at the National Polish Ballet, analysing the interaction between thechoreography and literary language to demonstrate the choreographic specificity of Hop’streatment of Gombrowicz’s text.

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński: Une critique littéraire engagée dans l’exploration de la vie et de l’autonomie de l’art

Author(s): Piotr Biłos / Language(s): French Issue: 72/2017

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the Polish literary critic and translatorTadeusz Boy-Żeleński achieved two contrasting goals in his work. The author shows howimportant the context, external to the ground of the literary work itself, is for Boy, (andhe reflects on the specific reasons why Boy adopts this attitude), while also describing theway Boy refuses simultaneously to consider it as a clue which could allow us to decode themeaning and deeper senses of a literary work. Moreover, Boy emphasizes the means greatwriters used to invent in order to transform reality in his own art and to insert the figuresthey created into an immanent dynamic evolution of literary patterns.The author sets forth a thesis that Boy’s method of digging out the genuine formof the works he analysed was due to the careful attention he gave to the oral and, morebroadly, the sonic dimension of human experience, which to him was a source of constantfertilization. At the same time, the article explores the way this sensibility to soundswas deeply rooted in Boy’s direct life experiences — his relationship both to Paris andto the modernist literary movement called Young Poland “Młoda Polska” led by suchoutstanding figures as Stanisław Przybyszewski and Stanisław Wyspiański with whom Boyfrequented Cracow’s various cafés and theatres as a young man.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Author(s): Orsolya Kész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2018

Margaret Atwood: A szolgálólány meséje. Ford. Mohácsi Enikő. Jelenkor, Bp., 2017.

Kwiaty Hiszpanii, wspaniałości Portugalii (1631) Antóniego de Sousa de Macedo, czyli jak udowodnić „siłę” Portugalczyków

Author(s): Anna Działak-Szubińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

Published in 1631, the Flowers of Spain, Excelencies of Portugal („Flores de España, excelencias de Portugal”), a treaty written by a Portuguese erudite, António de Sousa de Macedo, is virtually unknown to Polish readers, nor does it enjoy a deepened interest among Portuguese researchers. The treaty, however, emerges to be a one-of-a-kind vehicle of persuasive devices. It documents the evolution of a sense of national pride and ties among the Portuguese. The work was written in the fi nal period of the so-called Iberian Union, i.e. the rule of the Habsburg dynasty in Portugal (1580–1640) and seems to correspond well both with the assumptions of the so-called “autonomist literature” (a term by Hernani Cidade), whose task was to maintain the national spirit, and with the tendencies of its times. The article shows how António de Sousa de Macedo, making use of a rich arsenal of rhetorical tools, corroborates the primacy of Portugal in all areas and also underlines its uniqueness as compared to other European lands. The analysis is based on the chapter entitled “The Strength of the Portuguese” (“De la Fortaleza de los Portugueses”) and makes clear that the author creates both idealized and functionalized portrait of Portugal and its people.

Uvodnik 6 (2)

Author(s): Smiljana Narančić Kovač / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2017

This is an editorial to the magazine Libri et Liberi, vol. 6, issue 2.

O TYM, JAK XIII WYDANIE PISOWNI POLSKIEJ Z 1963 ROKU POSZŁO NA PRZEMIAŁ

Author(s): Maciej Malinowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 09/2017

Kultura książki w XIX wieku w Wielkiej Brytanii. Rec.: William St Clair, „The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period”, Cambridge 2007

Author(s): Anna Zdanowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

The article recapitulates the main theses of "The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period" by William St Clair. St Clair made good use of very extensive archive sources and brilliantly reconstructed British book culture in the 19th century. He demonstrated the importance of changes in copyright and prices, and in the technologies of book production and methods of print distribution.

L’arginamento dell’eterodossia riformata nel Granducato di Lituania e in Polonia: il trattato Orthodoxa fidei confessio di Mikołaj Pac

Author(s): Dainora Pociūtė / Language(s): Italian Issue: 8/2017

The paper focuses on the process of consolidating different Christian forces fighting the rise of the anti-trinitarian movement in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland in the mid-sixteenth century, right after the death of Duke Mikołaj Radziwiłł (Radvilas) the Black, the leader of the Reformation. One of the first attempts to oppose and officially condemn anti-trinitarian ideas, which began to spread after the fragmentation and schism of the Polish and Lithuanian Reformed Churches in 1563, was the Orthodoxa fidei confessio (Königsberg, 1566) written by Nicolaus (Mikołaj) Pac, Bishop of Kiev. Notwithstanding the fact that his confession revealed his Protestant identity, Pac managed to retain his position as a Catholic bishop (not ordained by the Pope) for about 27 years, i.e. almost until his death in 1584. The paper describes the religious context of the publication that defended traditional Trinitology as well as its confessional details, which were closer to Lutheranism than to the Reformed faith.

Niedokonany. L’opus magnum incompiuto di Tadeusz Micińsk

Author(s): Valentina Brusamento / Language(s): Italian Issue: 8/2017

In this article, we offer a summary of the most recent Polish studies about the undone poem Niedokonany by the modernist writer Tadeusz Miciński (1873-1918). This posthumous prose poem underwent complex vicissitudes and was probably still being revised by the author when he died in 1918. It could therefore be regarded as the ultimate attempt to structure his otherwise chaotic philosophical views. Unfortunately, given the “undoneness” of the work, its meaning is not clear. Is it, as Wojciech Gutowski claims, a representation of a failed Jungian reintegration process? Or should we rather consider it a metaphor for a human being trying to free the divine spark inside him, as Jarosław Ławski suggests? Both theories are indeed fascinating and seem well grounded, but some acute remarks by Jerzy Sosnowski unveil their inconsistencies and hint at yet another interpretation.

Speculum animae. Metafore catottriche nei racconti di Stefan Grabiński

Author(s): Andrea Fernando de Carlo / Language(s): Italian Issue: 8/2017

Through an analysis of several short stories by Stefan Grabiński, the article aims to show that his narrative is based on the principle of a metaphorical mirror, which exposes the dual nature of the world: matter and spirit, good and evil, world and afterworld, inner reality and outer reality. The reflected image of the world does not coincide with the real one. That image in the mirror is beyond human reason and appears as a terrifying truth and as the profound chaos of the soul. Grabiński develops the doubling of reality, which is present – with different meanings – not only in philosophical, religious, psychological and psychoanalytic thought, but also in the field of the paranormal and of parapsychology, through the theme of the double.