19 articles in this issue
Magdalena Popiel
The aim of this article is to try to establish the place of Stanislaw Wyspianski in the landscape of early Polish modernism. The methodological foundation is the anthropological aesthetics of literature. Analysis of the literary and plastic work... see more
Wojciech Balus
This text is devoted to double portraits of S. Wyspianski. Macierzynstwo [Motherhood], a portrait of Henryk Opienski and of Eliza Parmenska becomes for the author an inspiration not only to speak about plastic quality of these works, but also re... see more
Krystyna Bartol
The concept of dramaticality, re-emerged after Aristotle as a topic of rhetorical interest in the classification of narrative which extends beyond the forensic. The essential point of the Hellenistic grammarians' tripartite division of narrative... see more
Piotr Salwa
In the article are discussed various aspects of dialogic character, which appear in Boccaccio's Decameron and which are signalled or discussed by the author himself (a dialogue inside the text, intertextual dialogue, thematised dialogue, a dialo... see more
Bozena Tokarz
The attitude of dialogue meant candour and creativity in the history of European cultures and literatures. It was reflected in the specific philosophical conceptions, in the alternative worlds which were brought to life, in the literary forms an... see more
Jaroslaw Pluciennik
A point of departure in my article is Francesco Loriggio's brilliant analysis Mind as Dialogue: The Bakhtin Circle and Pragmatist Psychology. My essay stands as a polemics with one of the main theses of Loriggio that dialogics should be divided ... see more
Stanislaw Jaworski
A dialogue of the author with himself/herself, with his/her own text can proceed as an utterance about intentions or about something that has already been written. This is as if a meeting with the Other, and an attempt at understanding him. Or a... see more
Jacek Nowakowski
This article presents Lech Majewski's works in the context of the intersemiotic translation: how the world painting functions in the literature and films of this author. Majewski attempts to make dreams of the modern synthesis of arts come true ... see more
Anna Jaworska
It is just Cyprian Norwid's Album Orbis, a work "in sketch", also called by him "an artistic wallet" but also "a collection of motifs" encompassing the whole course of civilisation of the world could be an attempt at capturing "the whole", revea... see more
Anna Pochlódka
This article offers an outline of the history of theoretical interest in popular literature, in particular - romance. The author discusses mainly the research propositions developed on Polish grounds, starting with the differentiation of elite o... see more
Anna Krajewska
The author discusses the reasons for the absence of the so-called performative turn in Poland and argues that the apparent lack of a theory of drama in literary studies has denied a possibility to have the changes going on within discourses of t... see more
Malgorzata Sugiera
In Bildbeschreibung (Description of a Picture, 1984) Müller deliberately fails to match up with the basic tenets of the theatricality typical of a dramatic text. Simultaneously, however, he equally deliberately posits a challenge to the theatre ... see more
Mateusz Borowski
Muller's manifold critical relationship with the tradition of playwriting allows seeing his Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome as a borderline case between the canonical form of drama and the text understood as the raw material for the stage. The comple... see more
Marek Bodusz
In this text I present the poem by Zbigniew Herbert "Oltarz" as a text whose style and line structure refer to "Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod" by Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The poem from 19th century puts a special meaning as "the most outstanding real... see more
Ireneusz Pluska
The problem undertaken in this article concerns a complicated, but also an extremely interesting both for science and the art of conservation of the repair of a bas-relief of a sculpture Macierzynstwo [Motherhood] executed in plasticine by Stani... see more
Freddie Rokem
Zyczenia, obietnice i grozby: Walter Benjamin jako storyteller
Sandra L. Richards
Storytelling we wspólczesnym teatrze w kontekscie kultury afrykanskiej
Nina Braginska
Slowianski renesans antyku
Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska
Joanna Pychowska, L'existence humaine dans le miroir littéraire belge, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, Kraków 2007