21 articles in this issue
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Anna Krajewska
Editorial
Jan Michalik
This article is an attempt to show the non-professional reception of literature and theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by ‘a young theatre amateur’ from Cracow. It reveals the dilemmas of a patriot who was convinced about the obl... see more
Arkadiusz Morawiec
The article deals with the image of Ewa Lipska as a political writer, a committed person, and also discusses her attitude to Poland. In the studies conducted so far this aspect of her work was merely indicated, and also was sometimes a subject of manipula... see more
Anna Legezynska
The author pays attention to the need to search new keys of interpretation of the ouevre of Ewa Lipska, recognising that the constant distinguishing feature is the anthropological aspect. The main thesis of the article is as follows: Lipska’s poetry may b... see more
Agnieszka Rydz
For a model of nostalgic memory in the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, based on the psychological phenomenon of reminiscence, an allegoric counterpart can be identified in the hologram metaphor (Douwe Draaisma). The question: “Who am I” – reappears in Milosz’s ... see more
Tomasz Umerle
The aim of this text is to present an attempt at the deconstructionist interpretation of Czeslaw Milosz’s verse ‘Dar’ (‘Gift’). On the one hand, this paper emphasizes the moment of ‘dissemination’ of the literary work – the space between the title and ‘th... see more
Bartlomiej Biegajlo
The aim of this article is to discuss the problem of translating Polish prose, based on an analysis of a selection of samples taken from Czeslaw Milosz’s Native Realm. A Search for Self-Definition translated by Catherine S. Leach. The book documents speci... see more
Arkadiusz Zychlinski
One of the last great novels of José Saramago, Death with Interruptions, begins with an epigraph taken from Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encou... see more
Bogna Choinska
In my article I discuss the concept of the subject from the Lacanian psychoanalysis point of view. My aim is to show that the subject seen from such a perspective is condemned to total loneliness. I refer to three different points: otherness, comprehensio... see more
Dorota Wojda
The article concerns texts which problematize such figures of criminological discourse as crime, perpetrator, victim, interrogator, or the penitentiary system. The works of A. Kusniewicz, W.L. Terlecki and J.M. Rymkiewicz perform multidimensional revision... see more
Cezary Zalewski
This article deals with M. Jastrun’s and Z. Herbert’s essays in which mythological figures (Minotaur, Iphigenia) appear. Demythologisation strategies of both authors are presented, which consist in either direct or indirect (most often ironic) questi... see more
Piotr Dariusz Urban
A superior aim of the article was to prove that Zbigniew Herbert’s lyrical works in an unusually clear way gravitate towards drama and theatre. To prove this, the author of the thesis revealed the relationship between the, coming from the volume Hermes, D... see more
Aleksandra Reimann
The article compares the cyclic form in music with the poetic cycle. The analytico-interpretational identifying of two sub-cycles: “Music for quartet” and “Music for orchestra”, which make up the volume, helped to formulate the interdisciplinary propositi... see more
Marcin Rychlewski
The author discusses some theoretical problems associated with the description of the modern book market. In particular, he is interested in the release notes and book covers in the context of the literary categories of interpretation and reception. He po... see more
Iwona Grodz
The article is an attempt to look at all the achievements of the Polish filmmaker – Jerzy Kucia – through the prism of his last work, Strojenie instrumentów/Tuning the Instruments (2000). The author points out that all the director’s previous projects, st... see more
David Williams
The article is a collage of texts concerning the phenomena of waste in context underworld, underground and underhistory. Starting from environmentalism, cultural studies, sociology and psychoanalysis, the author moves towards a wide array of contemporary ... see more
Janis Augsburger
The study Masochisms. Mythologizing as an Aesthetics of Crisis in the Work of Bruno Schulz, parts of which have been translated below, presents the thesis that in the work of B. Schulz the phenomenon of mythologizing is connected with masochism – a concep... see more
Katarzyna Lukas
Recenzja ksiazki - Janis Augsburger, Masochismen. Mythologisierung als Krisen-Ästhetik bei Bruno Schulz, Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2008, ss. 344.
Regina Lubas-Bartoszynska
Recenzja ksiazki Stanislawa Jasionowicza - "Pustka we wspólczesnym doswiadczeniu poetyckim", Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków 2009.