19 articles in this issue
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Anna Krajewska
Editorial
Malgorzata Choczaj
The basis of this deliberation is a critical discussion of common perspectives and research methodology concerning the notion of adaptation. The author searches for universal adaptation models, describes creating new techniques of translation and examines... see more
Bartosz Swoboda
The article – in its first part titled The space of theory – brings a discussion and interpretation of the theoretical views concerning ekphrasis formulated by W.J.T. Mitchell in the essay Ekphrasis and the Other. The second part of the article – The spac... see more
Mariusz Marszalski
American ecological poetry is a relatively recent literary phenomenon that has marked its existence within the tradition of nature poetry. It is represented by such poets as Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder, Archie R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver and... see more
Grazyna Gajewska
n the article I shake a common conviction that the quasi-female mannequins fascinate us because they remind beautiful, real women in their unliving materiality they represent human bodies. Basing on psychoanalytical theories, I am proposing a thesis that ... see more
Lucyna Marzec
The article treats the aquatic imagination of Zofia Nalkowska in her early and late works. The matter of water is in Nalkowska’s writing strongly connected with an image of women, but, as the author claims, not in the way Gaston Bachelard pointed out in h... see more
Wojciech Kruszelnicki
In my article I reconstruct the Lacanian notion of the Symbolical and explain why language constitutes its most important domain. Following Kojève, I argue that language introduces to the human world an insurmountable negativity – the “deadness of the wor... see more
Piotr Jakubowski
This article refers to critical considerations about limits of interpretation focusing on the category of “use” that is – depending on methodological basics – recognized as an opposition of the interpretation or one of its kinds. Some critics invert that ... see more
Hanna Trubicka
The articles derives from a conviction that the later essays writing of Stanislaw Baranczak in one of its important aspects is a criticism of the morally destructive features of the language. His theory of poetry as a particular kind of speech – directed ... see more
Katarzyna Mulet
The article is an attempt at a new reading of Stanislaw Baranczak’s poetry by using Charles Mauron’s psychocritical method. Four volumes of poems are subjected to analysis, in which the writer’s obsessive metaphors are extracted, allowing the unveiling of... see more
Agnieszka Rydz
Although the term “trauma” has recently been a bit abused, it is very well justified with regard to the poetry of Waclaw Iwaniuk. Literary transformation of the biography of the author of “The Mirror” (World War II soldier serving on the front, prisoner o... see more
Grzegorz Pertek
In this article the author made an attempt at demarcating the limits of the poetic language of Rafal Wojaczek, the crossing of which – as the author of this study thinks – opens before the poet a possibility of achieving the perfectness of the subject of ... see more
Ewa Szkudlarek
Epistolary writing has been known for ages and has won a significant position in the history of literature. One of the most intriguing exchanges of letters known from the 20th century started nine days before the wedding of the renowned artist Stanislaw I... see more
Adela Kobelska
The author proposes to create a map of the city of Poznan which could present the milieu of life activities and practices of Konstanty Troczynski (1906–1942), who was a Polish literary scholar from Poznan. The university is considered as a very important ... see more
Igor Pilszczikow
This article is devoted to the basic ideas of Russian formalism and their later development in the Russian scholarship from the 1960s to the present time. The traditional view which is focussed on the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (Obšcestvo po... see more
Ernst A.J. Honigmann
The text “Catholic Shakespeare?” is a response to the book of Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel titled William Shakespeare – Sein Zeit – Sein Leben – Sein Werk (2003). E.A.J. Honigmann joins the debate about a secret Catholic code in Shakespeare’s plays. The... see more
Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel
This text is a reply to E.A.J. Honigmann and presents another point of view on Shakespeare’s Catholicism. H. Hammerschmidt-Hummel defends her thesis and tries to convince that her book is based on reliable studies and historical sources. She proves that a... see more