Tematy i Konteksty 7(12) 2017

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Literackie narracje o kolekcjach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Skorupa, Ewa
The article concerns collections and collecting as a literary theme. Research on this issue should be undertaken by literary scholars, as collections support the characteristics of literary characters and give heroes their identity. The work analyzed from this angle is “Money” by Andrzej Strug from the year 1914. It interprets and describes three different collections and three different collectors: the eccentric Lyttons and their museum of stones, Lucy Slazenger’s precious jewelry collection and the art collection of Osias Murwaya, an enthusiast of antiquity.
Konflikty miejsca urodzenia w „Sońce” Ignacego Karpowicza
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Koprowska, Karolina
The article aims to present and analyse the concept of “birthplace” which combines different components such as topography, landscape and also cultural, symbolic and metaphorical meanings. The human attitude to a birthplace appears problematic and complex, and involves a need to create a more critical perception of own identity. My theoretical investigation is based on an analysis of Ignacy Karpowicz’s novel “Sońka” which deals with strong tensions between individual experience of the civilians and History of wars and violence, difficult relations between collective and individual identity/memory and their specificity regarding village community, ethnic conflicts connected to the Polish-Belarusian borderland and birthplace, as well.
O pewnej nienapisanej książce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Święch, Jerzy
This article presents the story of an unfinished book by Jerzy Stempowski about the Roman poet Ovid. The author analyzes the reasons for giving up this project by Stempowski so that in this way Stempowski’s attitude towards emigration and exile was reconstructed. In Stempowski’s eyes Ovid’s attitude towards exile was too unambiguous so that it could become the model for 20th century emigration writers.
Romantyzm poza wektorem „wpływu”. Model amerykańsko-polskiego rezonansu kulturowego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Ławski, Jarosław
The author of the article considers Polish-American literary and cultural relations from the 18th century to the times of romanticism. He notices that those relations fall into the model impossible to describe by the traditional models using the category of “influence” [Harald Bloom] or postcolonial dependence. The basis for American-Polish relations is the idea of freedom, fight for freedom and even a peculiar cult of freedom of both nations. The personifications of this common relation are the heroes of fight for freedom of Poland and the United States, namely Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko. As the author notices studies on these relations lead to the conclusion that apart from dependence relations between historical and cultural phenomena in intercultural relations others may be observed. Thus, I describe American-Polish relations as a realization of a certain model called „the model of resonance, circulation and transmission” of values, patterns, common ideas. As the researcher indicates the model of this type also shapes postromantic relations between the United States and Polish culture, which may also be observed on the basis of studies on reception of such writers as James F. Cooper, August Antoni Jakubowski, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Karol Wojtyła, Czesław Miłosz.
Kontakt i konflikt: polsko-żydowska contact zone
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia
This article suggests using the category of contact zone taken from the postcolonial studies in the research on borderland, which allows to describe frontier phenomena and processes in their complexity, multi-dimensionality and ambiguity. Following M. L. Pratt contact zone is understood as the space of cooperation and competition, coexistence and antagonism, contact and conflict of groups. The subject of analysis are the representations of borderland in Polish-Jewish in the prose of 1930s (including the serialized novels published in mass-circulation press). In the centre of interest there is the motive of conflict communication. In the literary renditions interactions between Poles and Jews easily transform into conflict communication and focus on indicating group differences and borders, defining collective identities and their positioning. Conflictive communication appears in various places (school, street, neighbourhood), in various forms (nicknames, arguments, pogrom cries) and functions (from initiating and escalating tensions to inspiring riots and murders), adding to the transformation of a contact zone into a conflict zone.
Motywy okultystyczne w powieści gotyckiej XVIII i XIX wieku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Szargot, Hanna
This text’s topic are all the forms of occultism and magic presented in four examples of gothic novel: Matthew Gregory Lewis’ “The Monk”, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Last Days of Pompeii”, William Beckford’s “Vathek” and Alexandre Dumas’ “The Wolf Leader”. The work presents the part, which magic plays in characters’ lives: how it is considered as art and wisdom, how important are rituals, why do people want to use it, how evil it can be, how it separates magicians from others, and how it can destroy the protagonist’s life.
Powieść jako trzecia przestrzeń w zmaganiu o własne miejsce: ukryta polemika z literaturą niemiecką w „Pornografii” Witolda Gombrowicza
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Gall, Alfred
This paper deals with Gombrowicz’s novel „Pornografia” which is interpreted as a third space where different literary discourses and philosophical concepts are interwoven. Of a special interest are in this respect two German authors: Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche. It is the aim of this article to show, to what extent Gombrowicz refers to writings of these two authors in his attempt to establish himself as an important writer in the conditions of his exile in Argentina. The novel „Pornografia” works in this respect as sphere of interferences and space of emerging hybridity, where Gombrowicz is creating a special textuality consisting of hidden references to and even polemics with Mann and Nietzsche, respectively. The notion of conflict is thus applicable in the description of the literary practice Gombrowicz resorts to in writing his novel.
Utwory osierocone jako zagadnienie prawa i kultury
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Jarmuszkiewicz, Anna
The article presents contemporary definitions of orphan works, the problems associated with these definitions and the importance of the existence of orphan works for contemporary culture in the context of cultural memory.
Idea hegemonii kulturowej Polski i Polaków w prozie podróżniczej Aleksandra Sapiehy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Karpińska, Monika
The aim of the article is to present the idea of Slav present in the prose of Aleksander Sapieha. Traveler in his relation reveals the cultural stratification of the Slavs, focusing not only on diverse religious influences, but also came from different areas of broad culture. Sapieha, noting those delamination, adheres to the idea of the superiority of the Poles among the Slavs, based mainly on the achievements of European civilization. The piece reflects on the idea of cultural hegemony, coming into conflict with affirmed in the eighteenth century, the vision of the Slavic tribal unity.
Nihilizm jako literackie pogranicze oraz pole napięć aksjologicznych i estetycznych na przykładzie twórczości Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza. Próba rozpoznania
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Kalandyk, Mariusz
The subject is an attempt to describe the evolution of the term „nihilism” in philosophy (hermeneutics) at the turn of centuries and the description of how this evolution influenced the ways of analyzing literary phenomena. The author wants to present judgements which revalue the approach to this way of thinking deeply rooted in culture. Nihilism in presented approaches appears to be a world view and esthetic phenomenon opening new field of interpretation of poetic and prose texts. The exemplary literary material displaying the possibilities of different interpretations of an artistic text, both an essay and a poem is the output of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz.
Konflikt młodzi – starzy w łonie drugiej emigracji niepodległościowej (na przykładzie środowiska londyńskiego w latach 1949–1966). Część I
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Moczkodan, Rafał
Transgenerational conflicts, complaints of the representatives of the older generation on the younger one, objections put forward by the latter to the former are phenomena equally common and, one may say, everlasting (even Plato complained about the Athens youth). War emigrants who found their places in the West of Europe right after they finished their active participation in fights, most frequently left their homeland as mature and well-shaped people. They were assumed as the “old” generation. They were accompanied by children and the youth who got their education in the foreign land, started employment, settled families and also took their first steps on the cultural ground. They were assumed as the “young” generation. Taking these names into quotation marks is justified by their large conventionality, their instability and changeability in time. As I will attempt to prove in this text, the line separating the “old” from the “young” did not only refer to their dates of birth and the age line of division did not definitely settle the whole matter. It was so the more that part of the “young” also took active part in fight and after its ending despite the “old’s” expectations did not share their views and convictions. This problem being connected with others such as the relation to the past and history, relations with the homeland, patriotism and relations to Polishness1 is wide and multithread enough that there is no way to present it in its entirety. Thus I am going to focus on its part which seems to me particularly important for understanding socio-mental relations and structures of the second independence emigration. The subject of my reflection will be texts and speeches showing this conflict which appeared in the circle of published in London students’ journals in years 1949- 1966 around which the later poets’ group Continents was established. This outline presents the chronological order of the conflict, the evolution of the way of thinking of both sides, the most important points of ignition and most visible differences and divisions revealed in this conflict. Due to richness of materials and problems requiring discussion this text has been divided into two parts. The first part comprises years 1949-1954. At that time the conflict emerged and unusually dynamically it developed leading to a clear difference between emigration generations (as it will be shown in the second part of the outline four stages of the conflict can be distinguished in this period). The second part begins with presenting the events of 1955 when the definite division between the „old” and the „young” happened. It is mainly about the November events in Manchester which can be viewed as the climax of the conflict and which initiated its fall. Discussing it along with the division into two phases (the fifth and sixth) ends with a summary and conclusions concerning the course of the conflict.
Wokół „Wyprawy Wołodyjowskiego na kresy”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Uliasz, Stanisław
The author’s attention is focused on the analysis of Zdzisław Grodecki’s novel entitled “Wyprawa Wołodyjowskiego na kresy” (“Wołodyjowski’s expedition to the Eastern Borderlands”) published in 1929 in Lviv. The novel is set in the context of various discourses, among which the discourse on the Eastern Borderlines appears to be the most significant one, as it regards interwar Polish Eastern Territories as a strongold preserving the Polish identity. Crucial to Grodecki’s work are references to a cult classic “The Trilogy” by Henryk Sienkiewicz, including the notion of characters on “loan” which is enhanced by a strategy which might be described as a follow-up. The author of the paper analyzes the presence of literary symbols within national community, stereotyping, as well as coaxing strategies.
Kreso-pograniczny świat prozy Marii Schoferowej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Suchomłynow, Lech Aleksy
In his stories of the homeland Polish writer Maria Schofer created a specific and unique model of multi-ethnic borderland interwar period. A cursory analysis of the works of this author can state that the image of the Other, is inextricably linked to the texts of writer.
Stanisława Vincenza filozofia współistnienia w perspektywie powojennych stosunków polsko-żydowskich
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Czarnik, Mirosław
The text considers the possibility of functioning of the philosophy of coexistence supported by Stanisław Vincenz the author of „Na wysokiej połoninie” („On the high meadow”) in the perspective of postwar Polish-Jewish relations. He does that in reference to widely treated historical context (from the 1940s up to the present times) noting that postwar Polish-Jewish relations are of extremely complex character and are realized between selfless friendship, at times even heroism and xenophobia and aggressive antisemitism. The text also mentions the criteria of strangeness/hostility and familiarity functioning between both nations. The conclusion of the text is a well-argumented statement that in the present Polish reality practical realization of Vincenz’s philosophy showing equality and equality of values in mutual interethnic relations is difficult, however, in the future perspective and „long lasting” (understood in accordance with the intention of Ferdinand Braudel) is not impossible and desired indeed.
Tęskniąc za wielogłosowością. Agnieszki Nęckiej rozpoznania „literatury nowej i najnowszej”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Pasterska, Jolanta
The review applies diagnosis of new Polish literature made by the critic and literary scholar Agnieszka Nęcka. Discussed topics of artistic innovations, polyphony and relation to reality.
Dekonstrukcja stereotypu a zrozumienie obcości
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Pokrywka, Rafał
The article is a review of the book „Deutschland- und Polenbilder in der Literatur nach 1989” edited by Carsten Gansel and Monika Wolting. In the first part four main assumptions of the volume are described: 1. The presentation of historic transformations in literary texts, 2. The provocative potential of literary texts, 3. The construction of identity in narratives, 4. The construction of symbolic spaces in literary texts. According to these categories the papers of the volumes are examined. Their coherence with the main idea of the volume as well as their methodological foundation are the evaluating criteria of the review.
Topografia baśniowego pogranicza jako reprezentacja doświadczania zła (na podstawie zbiorów baśni pisarzy polskich)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Ślósarska, Joanna
While reconstructing the subject of fairy-like borderland I consecutively discuss the problems of literary topography as a spatial figure of experiencing evil, next releasing the conflict and creation of domesticated seats and internalization and projection of fairy-like evil. In the conclusion I emphasize the tension between internal and social maturation of the hero and the semantics of the threshold and transgression as a special way of lexical organization of the fairytale form referring these problems onto theoretical and analytical contexts of postmodern culture. Because while being on the borderland fairytale characters experience evil of mainly situational character I accept in my analysis the basic assumptions of the phenomenological- existential philosophy of Gabriel Marcel dealing with the situation in which evil is encountered and experienced by specific subjects.
Maria Rodziewiczówna o swojej twórczości. Nieznana kartka pocztowa pisarki
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Rusin, Joanna
In this text an unknown before postcard by M. Rodziewiczówna has been published, in which the writer briefly yet to the point spoke on the subject of the creation of female characters and love in her novels.
On the Flexibility of Borders between Public Reason and Collective Ignorance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Żardecka, Magdalena
The main theme of the paper is the issue of the foundations of social life. The author begins by outlining the tradition of the Enlightenment represented by Immanuel Kant, who attempted to justify rationally the basis of social life. Then she moves back to antiquity, to Plato, the sophists and Aristotle, to show their attitude towards the foundations of public life in order to briefly present in the following stage the original concept of Baruch Spinoza and, in more details, the views of Blaise Pascal, who is the main figure of this presentation. The final part of the paper includes a draft of the philosophical thought of postmodernism, represented by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Jürgen Habermas. The author additionally presents an exposition of the concept of habitus by Pierre Bourdieu, interpreting it accordingly to her previous reflections. The course of thought in these considerations intends to formulate a thesis which takes a stand against the most obvious opinion of Enlightenment, purporting that neither the contemporary liberal democracy nor people’s respect for it and their will to obey the law are founded on reason.
Die Entzauberung des Westens in Julia Francks Roman „Lagerfeuer“
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Jaśkiewicz, Grzegorz
This text is devoted to the phenomenon of realism in postwar German novel on the example of the younger generation author Julia Franck (Born 1970). The tradition of realistic writing in German literature reaches the first half of the 19th century when mainly Georg Büchner postulated and realized realistic art. Consecutive authors, the great realists of the 19th century like Theodor Fontane saw in realism not only the reflection of reality in literature but embellishing it. After World War II great German writers like Böll, Andersch, Koeppen or Walser recalled Western Germany with its society in their realistic novels. Their characteristic feature was objectively marked narration. And Franck’s novel is this way as well. Told from the perspective of four people it shows what was „talked about”. Repatriation or escape to the West did not mean entering paradise. Runaways still experience humiliation, have to deal with the environment and themselves. The esthetic category is ugliness. And from this perspective the lives of heroes/narrators are analyzed.

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