{"title":"Światowa historia literatury polskiej. Interpretacje, red. Magdalena Popiel, Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2020, ss. 680","authors":"Anna Jarmuszkiewicz","doi":"10.31648/pl.7873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"77 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":"122156566","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":"Spuścizna literacka Edgara Allana Poego w dwudziestym pierwszym wieku a nowe paradygmaty badawcze","authors":"Sławomir Studniarz","doi":"10.31648/pl.7861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7861","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to re-examine the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. The starting point is a brief discussion of its complicated reception in the USA and Great Britain as well as its strikingly vivid presence in the contemporary culture. However, the main argument centres on how some of the fiction written by Poe reveals a striking convergence with the present-day environmental concerns engendered by an imminent man-wrought ecological catastrophe, and with the insights offered by zoocriticism. First, I analyse the selected stories by Poe from the perspective of ecocriticism. I wish to argue that at least some portion of his fiction could be included in “American environmentalist discourse”. I undertake to demonstrate that The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion and The Colloquy of Monos and Una carry a clear ecological message, The Domain of Arnheim features the artistic elevation of the natural world, while The Island of the Fay reveals the prefigurings of the modern Gaia Hypothesis. I also take a look at the stories Metzengerstein, The Black Cat, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue within the framework offered by zoocriticism, which studies the dynamics of the relation between Homo sapiens and other species. In this context I briefly refer to The Raven as well. The presented considerations may help understand why Poe’s fiction appeals to us so much now, in the age of Anthropocene, and at the same time try to counterbalance the image of Poe enshrined in the popular imagination – as the author of dark, terrifying, escapist stories, who has little to say about the world we live in.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"1 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":"129639941","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":"Świat zmysłów w polskim pamiętnikarstwie XVIII wieku","authors":"Agata Roćko","doi":"10.31648/pl.7863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7863","url":null,"abstract":"The article explains how eighteenth-century Polish memoirists perceived the outside world, which they depicted in their accounts. It addresses the question of whether it is feasible to identify in such extensive material, varied in terms of character and subject matter as well as marked by genological diversity, a rule that describes or organizes the external world according to the philosophy of sensualism popular in the Enlightenment. It also shows which senses are most often activated in the descriptions in the memoirs, what is most frequently perceived, how and why. These are the most important issues discussed in the article, which aims to analyse the rich Polish memoir literature of the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"55 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":"116746251","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":"The Communicative Function of Performative Ekphrasis, the Anagram Riddle and Proverbial Sayings in John Donne’s Poetic Diptych","authors":"Dorota Gładkowska","doi":"10.31648/pl.7860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7860","url":null,"abstract":"This essay takes a communication-oriented approach to selected early modern English poetry. It presents a textual analysis of John Donne’s elegy The Anagram, related to the earlier observations concerning his elegy The Comparison, and reveals its multi-generic patterns as well as certain thematic and structural relations between these poems. It thus argues, on textually substantiated grounds, that these elegies may be regarded as a poetic diptych which utilizes features and functions of various forms of communication, associated with literature, visual arts, popular entertainment and folk wisdom. The argument continued in this essay is that Donne draws on the 15/16th-century experimental artistic trend recognized in the particular paintings attributed to B. Passarotti and Q. Massys and appears to superimpose text onto the earlier provided images. The comparative analysis of Donne’s elegies suggests he brings together different reference objects and his poetic message presupposes the addressee’s interaction: certain cognitive and creative processes. By presenting Donne’s ekphrasis as evolving from descriptive to performative, this essay indicates the need to further investigate early modern poetry, by means of interdisciplinary tools, for its references to other arts and, more generally, for its communicative potential.","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":"116540810","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":"Mila Elin. Poezje i szkice o poezji, zebrał, opracował i wstępem opatrzył Sławomir Sobieraj, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach, Siedlce 2021, ss. 133","authors":"Beata Walęciuk-Dejneka","doi":"10.31648/pl.7874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7874","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"125789548","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":"Miniaturowe romantyczne bestiarium. Robactwo i owady w twórczości Romana Zmorskiego","authors":"Grzegorz Igliński","doi":"10.31648/pl.7864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7864","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a review of Roman Zmorski’s works, focusing on the author’s use of expressions related to insects and vermin. The goal is to determine the intensity of occurrence of such names (the scale of this phenomenon) as well as their functions and meanings. Consequently, the paper adopts the style of a documentation catalogue. It employs thematic criticism and takes a micrological approach. Zoomorphic connotations, images, metaphors and comparisons are considered in the context of the cultural tradition and the resulting symbolism. The conducted analysis indicates that the name “worm” is almost absent. Instead, the following terms are used: “vermin”, “vermin desires”, “little vermin”, “larva”, “caterpillar” and “leech”. The most frequent terms are “butterflies” and “ants” (“chills”, “tingles”, “swarm”). Among the infrequently used names there are “flies” (“little flies”), “bees”, “grasshoppers” and “locust”. Also “insect” is a rare term, yet it is used in a specific way: to describe a man dreaming of a great thought and suffering because of discovering it. While these names sometimes update the traditional meanings connected with vermin and insects, they occasionally convey such an unusual sense.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"25 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":"134484381","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":"Baroque Tradition in the Poetry of Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. Reconnaissance","authors":"I. Szczukowski","doi":"10.31648/pl.7867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7867","url":null,"abstract":"Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn Dycki (born 1964) belongs to the group of poets whose work has been awarded many times in prestigious literary competitions; the poet received, among others, The Nike Literary Award (2009), the Gdynia Literary Award (twice: in 2006 and 2009) and the SilesiusWrocław Poetry Award (twice: in 2012 and 2020). His poetry has been systematically elaborated on the themes of madness, disease and the obsession with death. When writing about death Dycki refers to the baroque tradition. Therefore, the aim of this article is an attempt to interpret the works of Tkaczyszyn-Dycki in the context of questions about the Baroque tradition and its various continuationsin contemporary Polish poetry. Dycki certainly refers to the Baroque (or more broadly the Old Polish tradition), but this Baroque undergoes a far-reaching metamorphosis. It is an obscure, non-obvious Baroque, functioning rather as a specter haunting the language, through which Dyckifights for his own speech, still watching death.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"9 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":"133410129","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":"The “alien” alien in Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris and its manifold echoes in the world of literature","authors":"M. Rieger","doi":"10.31648/pl.7857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7857","url":null,"abstract":"Stanislaw Lem has left a remarkable impact on world literature in science fiction and beyond. One of the reasons for this is his – often radical – approach to exploring new topics and philosophical concepts. In this article, we study his concept of an unknowable intelligence that eludes all scientific approaches by humans who try to understand its motivations, reasoning and functioning; an “alien” alien, as it is most clearly presented in Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris. Echoes of this radical concept can be found, albeit often in a highly diluted form, in a number of subsequent works by various writers like Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Iain M. Banks and Cixin Liu. They also resurface in other media, from mainstream movies to anime. We argue that Lem’s original concept has been utilized by later writers for manifold purposes, sometimes merely as a plot device, but at other times as a metaphor exemplifying the insurmountable limits of knowledge or even for transporting entirely different ideas.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"1 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":"129514178","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":"Negative Evolution. Zur Rezeption von Stanisław Lem bei W.G. Sebald","authors":"U. Schütte","doi":"10.31648/pl.7854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7854","url":null,"abstract":"abstract","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"1 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":"130614155","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":"Fantastyka naukowa i trauma: konstelacje w powieści Solaris Stanisława Lema","authors":"Alfred Gall","doi":"10.31648/pl.7853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.7853","url":null,"abstract":"The paper offers a new reading of Stanisław Lem’s most popular novel Solaris. The text is interpreted as a literary representation of trauma. The notion of trauma is understood in two ways. On the one hand, it refers to the tradition of the gothic novel and its staging of the uncanny which causes disbelief in the reality. In Lem’s Solaris this complexity is transferred into the context of science fiction. On the other hand, trauma is a key motif in the novel and indicates the past experiences or the present states of mind the protagonists have not come to terms with. The aim of this article is to explain how science fiction serves as a literary disguise for the representation of those traumatic experiences which cannot be handled on the ground of traditional psychoanalytical strategies for overcoming trauma. Solaris thus undermines basic assumptions of psychoanalysis. However, the novel is not a mere illustration of theoretical concepts or a work based upon Lem’s own personal wartime experiences in Lwów, though his biographical background may have influenced the writer’s depiction of the situation on the Solaris station. The novel should rather be treated as a critical assessment of the contemporary technological civilisation, which enables man to conquer the cosmos but is also guilt-ridden and burdened with a past, still haunting the protagonists even in the depths of the universe.","PeriodicalId":112997,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Literature","volume":"2015 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":"125711203","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}