16 articles in this issue
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Anna Krajewska
Editorial
Katarzyna Kuczynska-Koshany
I compare the suicide deaths of Heinrich von Kleist and Jean Améry (Hans Mayer). I discuss the issue of suicide, considering it as a category of the German language and distinguish the difference between the terms ‘Selbstmord’ [self-annihilation] and ‘Fre... see more
Emilia Kledzik
The article reports on the state of research in the German postcolonial studies, comparing it with a discussion on the implementation of a similar project in the Polish literary discourse, and on the basis of the bibliography argues that German researcher... see more
Beata Kornatowska
The article aims at showing how complex can be the relationship between literary prototype and operatic work. It analyses the adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s drama by two outstanding postwar artists: the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) a... see more
Bartlomiej Krupa
The text examines the relationship between the two categories – Auschwitz and modernity, in recognition of Jean Améry and Zygmunt Bauman, taking also into account the voice of the latter polemicists. In the first place is reconstructed Améry’s positive vi... see more
Joanna Roszak
The title “I have called you by your number” is paraphrased from the book of Isaiah. In Torah the change of name of the main character suggests the turning point of his/her fate. In the article I concentrate on the gesture of assuming pseudonym-anagrams b... see more
Slawomir Buryla
This article synthesises the topic of the views of Nazi war criminals in the Polish post-war prose (1944–1989). The author enumerates the most important pieces of Polish prose treating the motif of German war criminals. This outline is an invitation to de... see more
Piotr Marecki
The article’s author analyses Marek Bienczyk’s novel Tworki (1999), using tools from genre theory and challenging the prevailing view of Bienczyk as a postmodernist, the pantextualism of his literature, and his adherence to “non-epic prose.” Bienczyk’s no... see more
Monika Blaszczak
Dust, powder, ash – the categories of description of everything associated with passing and evanescence, forgetfulness, finitude, of elimination of time, new, contemporary, but also a reference to a rebirth, purification, reminders. Although dust is the m... see more
Marek Hendrykowski
Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece “Death in Venice” (“La morte in Venezia”) has the reputation of being a quintessential work of European art film, the epitome of 1970s auteur cinema, one of the most impressive film poems ever made. Based on famous novel wri... see more
Malgorzata Choczaj
The study is devoted to Miloš Forman’s film, a story about Mozart’s life, taken from Peter Shaffer’s drama. The author proposes a detailed analysis of Forman’s film as an autonomous work in the production of which the film was a medium. The film was an ef... see more
Deirdre Wilson
There has been some discussion about how far relevance theory can help in analysing the interpretation of literary works. Starting from the assumption that literary works are not entirely sui generis but exploit at least some of the abilities used in othe... see more
Craig Hamilton,Ralf Schneider
In this essay, we review the work of Wolfgang Iser, the major proponent of reception theory, and Mark Turner, the major proponent of cognitive criticism. The two theoretical lines advocated by Iser and Turner focus on the cognitive processes involved with... see more
Katarzyna Lukas
Review of Maria Krysztofiak. Translatologiczna teoria i pragmatyka przekladu artystycznego