20 articles in this issue
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Michal Januszkiewicz
This article Literature and Nihilsm is an attempt at capturing nihilism as a category of the study of literature. Considerations concerning three questions: 1) analysis of historical disputes (e.g. between Plato and Aristotle) on nihilism of literature (w... see more
Andrzej Zawadzki
The article is an analysis of Boleslaw Lesmian's Snieg (Snow), the character of which is that of a poetic meditation on the subject of impossibility of return to childhood and of recreating the past. Special emphasis is put on the problem of trace, functi... see more
Andrzej Lesniak
The experience of Minimal Art tells us that a visual object can confront us with absence. The minimal objects are absent - they do not recall any past, they do not refer to any story that might be their source. At least this is the very first impression..... see more
Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel
This dissertation shows synthetically the Young Poland elegy together with a proposal, due to properties of aesthetics and subject matter of the typology of the genre in this epoch: 1. elegies of the mood connected with the poetics of symbolism, which ins... see more
Wojciech Balus
Stanislaw Wyspianski's journey to France, which he made thanks to Tadeusz Stryjenski in 1890, influenced the artistic development of the young painter. In his letters, written during his journey and addressed to T. Stryjenski, and in his poetic notes to L... see more
Cezary Zalewski
The article discusses transpositions of photographs of artists contained in W. Szymborska's works Znieruchomienie [Demotioning], Z. Herbert's Pan Cogito z Maria Rasputin - próba kontaktu [Pan Cogito with Mary Rasputin - an attempt to contact] and A. Stasi... see more
Piotr Dobrowolski
The article deals with a category of repetition. This category is used as an artistic technique by Tadeusz Kantor in his unique theatre performances. The author analyzes an aesthetics' agenda of its practical use. The category is shown in a philosophical ... see more
Maria Golebiewska
In this text the author describes briefly Kierkegaard's conception of existence, which has been juxtaposed by him with the reinterpreted conception of essence and of the existing. Kierkegaard defined existence referring to different orders of representati... see more
Dariusz Sniezko
The topic of the article are opinions formulated by old Polish writers on this sort of literary activity (and it's authors) that presently is called "graphomania", in the context of the ancient tradition and some statements expressed by selected European ... see more
Jan Kordys
The essay provides an interpretation of a scene (dialogue Don luan - Monsieur Dimanche; IV, 2) from Molière's Dom luan ou le Festin de pierre in several complementing discursive orders. The first relates to the formal theory of cooperation (R. Axelrod, W.... see more
Stanislaw Balbus
This sketch presents the most important linguistic and semiological premises of the relatively new field of science, neurosemiotics, which is the research base of Jan Kordys' studies, who transformed it into a neurosemiotical hermeneutics of culture-texts... see more
Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska
Motives of ascending are placed in the text of the author in the domain of verticality. There are problems of dynamism of poetic space. The crossing of a horizon is characteristic for such a space. The perpetual crossing of any horizons is characteristic ... see more
Anna Igielska
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's Sny (Dreams) are interpreted by me in the context of Schopenhauer's philosophy of music and phenomenology of perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a new phenomenology of Hermann Schmitz. The memory of Richard Wagner's Die Traume ... see more
Margaret H. Freeman
Przekraczanie granic czasu: fenomenologia Merleau-Ponty'ego a teorie jezykoznawstwa kognitywnego
Craig Brandist
Parodia w rosyjskiej literaturze i literaturoznawstwie rosyjskim lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX wieku
Reinhard Döhl
Literatura konkretna
Brigitta Helbig-Mischewski
Miedzy omnipotencja a niemoca, gloryfikacja a denuncjacja. O rozpadzie „porzadku Ojca" i masochizmie w twórczosci Brunona Schulza
Ewa Szkudlarek
Listy do mojego Wuja. Listy Tymoteusza Karpowicza do brata Jana Brzezinskiego
Frank Kujawinski
Noc nadchodzi. Dnieje