19 articles in this issue
Aneta Grodecka
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Andrzej Kapusta
In the text, I address the subject of neurocognitive science, art and literature in various perspectives, whose connecting point is the perspective of the experiencing subject and her embodiment. The embodied and involved subject reveals through her ailme... see more
Hanna Serkowska
The claim here is that cultural representations of dementia may benefit from the structure of crime fiction which appears therefore to be among the theme most suited genres. We do not know enough about the disease or its etiology (the “culprit” remains un... see more
Ewa Nowak
The paper explores hybrid identities of main characters in chosen contemporary authors as Kafka, Dürrenmatt, Bulgakov, Dukaj, and in particular Brown. They all contribute to the posthumanist literary genre and to better comprehension of condition posthuma... see more
The Author is interested in the states of becoming silent, discontinuing one’s utterance, which are associated with certain mechanisms of the functioning of the brain, as well as in the observation of such states in different artistic disciplines. Looking... see more
Barbara Trygar
The aim of this article is to analyse Memory of Italy by Wojchech Karpinski in the in the prospect of the neuroaesthetic Semira Zeki theory. A works of art is an appropriately fabricated stimulus which is aimed at reprimanding the recipient. Evoking emoti... see more
Ksenia Olkusz
Multimodal techniques (meaning the use of narrative modes signalised by various typographies etc.) enable a fuller presentation of Caravaggio’s mental dysfunction (in the novel the focalizing role is performed by, among others, the notes of the painter wh... see more
Jacek Nowakowski
The article presents the character of the zombie popular in the contemporary audio-visual culture by placing it in the context of post humanist paradigm. He concentrates on the brain symbolism representative for the character, which, in the classical unde... see more
Maciej Czeremski
The article discusses the cognitive conditions of mythical narratives, especially their relationship with the architecture of the human mind and the processes of its evolutionary formation. The analyzed features are: a) a permanent arrangement of events (... see more
Marcin Jauksz
The article’s aim is to present Boleslaw Prus’s [Aleksander Glowacki’s] early literary endavours in the light of the reception of Hippolite Taine’s psychological studies at the turn of the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century. The Author challe... see more
Iwona Grodz
The theme of the text is the connection between the inspiration of the artists, for example poets, and their emotional states. The purpose of the text is to indicate the role of emotions in creative work. The subject of the analysis is the film Wojaczek m... see more
Tomasz Chomiszczak
The article is concerned with quite forgotten character and work of Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, a physician and philosopher, but also a strong supporter of the French Revolution from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. His main scientific opus was t... see more
Raoul Schrott,Arthur Jakobs
The subject of the translated article is irony understood as one of the formative elements of human speech. The author discusses the etymology of this idea, referring primarily to its definition formulated by Socrates, showing its relations with sarcasm, ... see more
Merlin Donald
Based on the analysis of a fragment of Henry James’s novel The Bostonians, the article deals with the ways in which literary fiction explores and reveals how human consciousness works.
Anna Wierzbicka
Based on the analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, the article deals with semantic structure of words for emotions.
Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich
In my text I refer to contemporary art practices, including my own artistic investigations and intuitions; questioning creative powers of the human brain-mind system in the world increasingly dependent on and transformed by Big Data. Currently, with the g... see more
Kornelia Cwiklak
In this article, the author discusses and reviews the first Polish critical edition of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (2015). The literary text was preceded by two elaborate scientific descriptions which the author of this... see more
Jakub Osinski
The review devoted to the epistolography of Polish emigration in the last century on the example of correspondence between Jan Lechon and Kazimierz Wierzynski, issued by Beata Dorosz and Pawel Kadziela (Warsaw 2016). The author presents the main problems ... see more
Lukasz Kedziora
The article Art history and medicine concerns selected aspects of the Medicine in art exhibition, taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK) between 22nd April and 22nd October 2016. The author discusses the issue of medicine with re... see more