{"title":"Cielesność (nie)obecna w narracjach postpamięciowych Magdaleny Tulli","authors":"Katarzyna Bielewicz-Jędros","doi":"10.31648/pl.9086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9086","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to draw attention to the ways in which borderline experience, described in Magdalena Tulli’s postmemory narratives (Włoskie szpilki, Szum), affects embodiment experience. The methods of presenting the unmet need for the closeness of the child with the maternal – traumatised – body and the consequences of the lack of this bond were analysed. The taboo of corporeality and its marginalisation in the narratives indicate the development of defence mechanisms against the traumatic past and, at the same time, become a source of identity problems forthe representative of the second generation. Moreover, the close attention paid to Alzheimer’s disease by one of the main characters in Tulli’s novels indicates a close relationship between the way of creating a postmemory narrative and the experience of corporeality.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129714899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elements of kitsch in the wartime journals of teenagers Hanna Zach and Renia Spiegel","authors":"Aldona Kiełpińska","doi":"10.31648/pl.9079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9079","url":null,"abstract":"Present in all areas of art for many years, the image of war and the Holocaust also features in novels and non-fiction literature. As the knowledge and popularity of the subject grew, the possibility of shocking the reader with dramatic content decreased, which in turn led to the emergence of a new, disturbing phenomenon. Specifically, the authors tend to exploit the borderlines of what actually shocks the reader, while works based on the memories of war are reduced to simplified and distorted kitsch. Literary kitsch is sometimes associated with sentimentalism, mawkishness and mannerisms of style. All such qualities can be found in the diaries of teenagers growing up during the Second World War: Hanka Zach and Renia Spiegel. The young age of the authors seemsto be the main reason why the memories they recorded gravitate towards kitsch; a defence mechanism aimed at repressing the most traumatic events from consciousness is involved as well.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122396728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Trzeba cnoty i miłości\". Robactwo, moralność i natura w twórczości Edwarda Żeligowskiego","authors":"Grzegorz Igliński","doi":"10.31648/pl.9087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9087","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an analysis of literary works by Edward Żeligowski, who usually published under the pen name of Antoni Sowa. The analysis takes a zoomorphic perspective, identifying in the text terms related to objects usually referred to as vermin. The function of the followingnames was determined: “insect”, “mosquito”, “butterfly”, “ant”, “fly”, “little fly”, “wisp” (in the meaning of “glow worm”), “wasp”, “spider”, “spider’s web”, “bee”, “vermin”, “worm” and “locust”. The majority of these names were used to characterise the moral and social attitudes ofa person – serving to expose the virtues or sins of the given individual. Only the names of some particular animals/creatures were used to present the world of nature, which, together with other image-creating elements, highlight the omnipotence of nature and indicate the Creator’s love. The conclusion emerges that Żeligowski’s creative works are outstanding in moral and social sensitivity as well as the tension between a great idea and the reality which obliterates it.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"1 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120807226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory of the Holocaust in Henryk Grynberg’s volume of poetry \"Dowód osobisty\" [Personal ID]","authors":"R. Bobryk","doi":"10.31648/pl.9080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9080","url":null,"abstract":"Virtually all of Henryk Grynberg’s work is devoted to the subject of the Holocaust. In the 2006 volume entitled Dowód osobisty, individual poems require not only knowledge of the Shoah but also of the author’s biography and other work. In many, the lyrical subject is endowed withthe poet’s own characteristics. Another modality of presenting the world - one seldom employedin poetry - is through the utterance of a collective subject (the lyrical “us”, which may be identified with the Jewish nation), in which the focus shift from the personal, individual experience to a more general and objective scope. Also, numerous poems feature indirect allusions to Grynberg’s earlier work. Hence, their interpretation is contingent on the reader’s literary experience.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124457360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anstelle einer Autobiographie? Schreiben über die Shoah in Stanisław Lems \"Apokryfy\"","authors":"A. Gall","doi":"10.31648/pl.9075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.9075","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on Lem’s transition from autobiographical writing to paratextual discourses.This shift is discussed as reaction to the delegitimized position of the subject, especiallyafter the Shoah and wartime experiences. When Lem deals with wartime experiences he doesn’tresort to autobiographical writing and, hence, won’t write a sequel to the self-portrait about hischildhood and adolescence in Wysoki Zamek (The High Castle, 1966). Instead, the writer createsin some of his works paratextual narratives that reflect the new, distorted subjectivity whichemerged in the aftermath of the Shoah. With this rupture of civilisation in mind Lem’s paratextualwriting represents a criticism of subjectivity as well as the autobiographical foundations in memoirs.In his approach Lem outlines the profile of a modern subjectivity that echoes the critical reassessmentof the subject in Critical Theory (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse). This article tries to shed some light on this intriguing correspondence and attempts to highlight Lem’s understanding as well as literary practice of post-autobiographical writing about the subject.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"544 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130389964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bartąg w piśmiennictwie polskim i niemieckim. Rekonesans","authors":"Jan Chłosta","doi":"10.31648/pl.7869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7869","url":null,"abstract":"Places with signs of the past have been preserved in the cultural landscape of Warmia. According to the findings of Elżbieta Rybicka, objects, material traces and practices of a commemorative nature can be discovered in the landscape of a given area. Such a place saturated with the memory of the past is Bartąg near Olsztyn. Its history has been recorded in Polish and German literature. The aim of the article is to review the literary representation devoted to the Warmian village of Bartąg.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127238378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stanisława Lema wizja człowieka przyszłości","authors":"J. Sobota","doi":"10.31648/pl.7859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7859","url":null,"abstract":"In his works, Stanisław Lem not simply conveys his visions of technological changes of future civilizations – his central focus is on the question of man in the near and distant future. In addition to his anthropological explorations of changes in humanity, Lem adopts both axiological and sociological approaches to exploring questions regarding evil in human nature, the means of eliminatingit, and the functioning of future societies. Alienation to first contact is another recurring theme inLem; it can be seen in the scenes depicting contact with other civilizations. In Lem, alien speciesconstitute a specific “anthropological mirror”, which is an interesting point of view in the observationof humanity.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133747978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Młodopolskie miłośnice i okrutnice. Skrajne doświadczenia bohaterek utworów Ewy Łuskiny jako manifestacja obyczajowej odwagi","authors":"Barbara Bandzarewicz","doi":"10.31648/pl.7865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7865","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to present the works of a lesser-known Polish writer – Ewa Łuskina, taking into consideration their feminist dimension. The conducted analysis shows that the decadent prose convention adopted by Łuskina helped her freely introduce not only an element of cruelty, but also that of murder. What is significant, however, is that the atrocities are primarily committed against the opposite gender.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125887490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O potrzebie badań interdyscyplinarnych na przykładzie projektu Egodokumenty członków rodziny wojewody pomorskiego Piotra Jana (1685–1736) – opracowanie filologiczno-historyczne i edycja","authors":"I. Maciejewska","doi":"10.31648/pl.7870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7870","url":null,"abstract":"The article is primarily aimed at presenting the tasks to be completed under the project The Sources for the History of the Czapskis in the 18th Century. Egodocuments by Family Members of the Pomeranian Voivode Piotr Jan (1685–1736) – a Textual and Historical Analysis and Editing financed by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. The said project will culminate in three editions – of the diary of the travels of the Starost of Knyszyn Tomasz Czapski and of the letters of the Pomeranian Voivode’s wife Konstancja Czapska and her children – her sons: Tomasz, Paweł Tadeusz and her daughter Rozalia. The work will be conducted simultaneously by literary scholars, historians, linguists and an art historian, hence the sources prepared to appear in print will have been thoroughly analysed, characterised and published with due diligence. In the author’s opinion, implementation of such interdisciplinary scholarly enterprises is particularly important in the field of the humanities, as it breaks the hermetic seal of the conducted research, hence enabling an in-depth and multidimensional interpretation of old egodocuments.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133253171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}