Tematy i Konteksty 8(13) 2018

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Abd el-Kader o XIX-wiecznej Europie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Gadamska-Serafin, Renata
As a consequence of being an Algerian leader in the struggle of the independence movement and anti-colonial war against France during the 19th century, Emir Abd el-Kader spent 5 years in a French prison. Later he visited Paris and other European cities on other occasions as well. These events in el-Kader’s life were excellent opportunities to become well acquainted with Western civilization. His work: “Call to the Intelligent, Warning to the Indifferent. Philosophical, religious, historical and related considerations” (Paris 1858) can be described not only as a philosophical work but also as a tactful worldview discussion and a well-balanced, though a little covert, critique of the modern civilization and Western Culture. Despite his enthusiasm for Western culture and its intellectual trends of the time, the Arab thinker saw the profound flaws in the modern, Cartesian rationalism. Being a true adherent to the Eastern beliefs of reason and religion as inseparable entities, el-Kader advocated their alliance also in the field of science. He regarded religion and science as complementary domains. He also reproached European scholars for the rejection of tradition as a source of truth, which he perceived as a mistake. During the time of colonial politics, which was based on political and religious confrontation, el-Kader wrote about the essential unity of all religions and a need for consensus between people of all creeds around uniform values. Abd el-Kader’s work remains to this day an interesting testimony of the 19th-century Europe’s reception by a true Eastern thinker coming from the world of Islam.
„Bijący talent dramatyczny”? Wokół emigracyjnej recepcji „Towarzysza Października” Kazimierza Wierzyńskiego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Osiński, Jakub
The paper is devoted to the one and only drama of Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969) ‘Comrade October’, written in 1950, and released only in 1992. Its aim is to explain why it was not published immediately after the writing. The author attempts to reconstruct the circumstances of the creation of the work and to effort to publish and exhibit it, as well as to present the state of research. He show the ‘Comrade October’ against the background of emigratory dramaturgy and theater life, which serves to reflect on the political character of the drama and to analyze the reception of his public readings in èmigrè circles (Theatre ‘Pro Arte’ by Olga Żeromska, 1954).
Choroba twórcy jako źródło pamięci i zapomnienia. Na wybranych przykładach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Darska, Bernadetta
In the article “A Creator’s Illness as a Source of Memory and Forgetting: Selected Examples” I examine autobiographical works in which writers reveal their illnesses. I am interested not so much in the description of the given ailment, but rather in the embroilment resulting from being ill and from the persistent conflict between memory and forgetting. Becoming aware of the illness turns out to be a critical point, forcing the writers to re-evaluate their own lives. Consequently, memory and forgetting assume a new status. I also attempt to juxtapose the universal nature of being ill and the intimacy of this experience; I point out the similarities and differences involved in dealing with illnesses, whose common denominator seems to be the necessity of confronting the limits of memory and the expansiveness of forgetting.
Dyskursy, performanse tekstowe i narracje transmedialne polskich piosenek rockowych
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Tański, Paweł
There are a few reasons why a song, in its broad sense, is not the main focus of the present study, but its variety – a particular attention is devoted to the genre of the so-called rock music. Firstly, in my opinion, this work of art currently seems to be the most interesting, resonating, as well as artistically and aesthetically valuable. Secondly, the qualitative and quantitative intensity of the genre is priceless. Thirdly and finally, the influence of this very sort of musical activity on the 20th century is commonly known not only through a powerful impact of various counterculture areas in which rock music found its own reason for existence, but mostly owing to being what it is – a performative artistic output in which different areas of art – music, lyrics, visuals and others – correspond with one another. Awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 to Bob Dylan has marked a significant moment in cultural history – the musician gained recognition among the honourable Academy and, by the same token, the song – Dylan’s most commonly used artistic medium has raised cultural awareness, reaching out to a wider public. But did it really have to reach out to listeners? Is it not true that a song has been a soundtrack to our lives being constantly present in them? Maybe the decision which the Academy has made was only a formality – lyrics are very important and it is only up to us what meaning we assign to them. This paper aims to interpret selected lyrics of Polish rock songs, considering them as a significant part of the history of the Polish literature.
Eseistyka Wojciecha Gniatczyńskiego odkrywana (na nowo?). Przyczynek do badań
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Zahaczewska, Izabela
The article presents the profile of one of the forgotten and underestimated writers of Polish emigration after 1939 – Wojciech Gniatczyński. The intricate history of his life is the story of a man marked by the stigma of war and the traumatic experiences of a concentration camp, and an emigrant with unfulfilled ambitions, who disappeared into the shadows of his more combatived colleagues. Discussed briefly essay writing of Gniatczyński shows him unusual erudition and a writing workshop with great artistic, aesthetic and cognitive qualities. It gives the possibility of various interpretations and urges to multifaceted research, clearly indicating that Wojciech Gniatczyński is worth rediscover today.
Europa miejsc i Europa przestrzeni – o mapie wyobrażonej Starego Kontynentu w twórczości polskich pisarzy doby międzypowstaniowej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Dworak, Anna Marta
The subject of this article is the problem of the imagined geography of the nineteenth century Europe in the Polish writing under the partitions in the period between uprisings. A distinction on the Europe of places and the Europe of spaces is the basic proposition of this paper. The Polish authors focused on the specific places – towns, monuments, museum, souvenirs and nature strangeness when they described the Western. They imagined this part of Europe as the collection of places. The spaces were only the complement of this image. The Eastern and North parts of Europe were described differently. The authors rarer referred to particular places. While writing about Volyn, Podolia or Ukraine the Polish authors depicted rampant and vast steppes. Similarly, they depicted the forest landscapes while they writing about Polesia and Lithuania. They perceived the extreme North as rocky and glacial spaces.
Gothic Healing under the Mediterranean Sun: “The Magus” by John Fowles as a Gothic Novel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Kowalcze, Małgorzata
The present paper aims at interpreting the novel “The Magus” by John Fowles within the framework of the Gothic genre. The argument shall be founded on a close analysis of chosen characteristics of the Gothic convention which can be identified within the text, such as the theatricality, the motif of insanity, as well as the issue of repressed sexuality. It shall also be argued that the novel presents the therapeutic role of fear, intrinsically linked to the Gothic mode of expression. The boundary between the rational and the irrational is suspended to the point that the protagonist is unable to tell whether the apparitions he sees in the Magus’s shadowy estate are of supernatural provenance or they constitute mere figments of his imagination deluded by the elements of the Mediterranean ambience. Remarkably, it is the experience of terror that ultimately heals Nicholas, an embittered and disillusioned young man, from the state of apathy and emotional handicap.
„Ja, Ahaswer”. Motyw tułaczki, podróży, pielgrzymowania w trylogii Piotra Bednarskiego „Błękitne śniegi i inne rejsy po złote runo”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Wal, Anna
This article focuses on the topos of Ahaswer (The Wandering Jew) in Piotr Bednarski’s trilogy „Błękitne śniegi i inne rejsy po złote runo”. The creation of the main character of the series is analysed in the light of the author using the already established scenario provided by culture in the form of a legend of Ahaswer. Bednarski chooses the figure of the Wandering Jew as the one which most aptly reflects the life situation of the protagonist-narrator of the trilogy. The author emphasises chiefly two aspects of the meaning of the discussed motif in culture. The character of Ashwer is used as synonymous to Jewishness and as a universal representation of the lot of a wanderer.
Kabzanie Vincenza
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Pełczyński, Grzegorz
Stanisław Vincenz (1888–1971) is famous Polish writer. His bigges twork is novel „Na wysokiej połoninie”. It is about different cultures onsouth-east old Poland. There were different ethnic groups on this land.Article says about Armenians in Vincenz’s work.
Kalejdoskop: Poezja Krzysztofa Siwczyka jako przykład ewolucji zmiany poetyckiej na przełomie XX I XXI wieku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Walczak-Delanois, Dorota
The article is an attempt to synthesize the evolution of Polish poetry after 1990. This symbolic date, associated with the official end of censorship and the symbolic beginning of the new time in Poland and last decade in the twentieth century, has been chosen as a border date. The author is interested in the process of creation and its mechanisms of describing the world in the work of Krzysztof Siwczyk. This poetry is important because it synthesizes the individual and collective experience and reflects the present.
Konflikt młodzi – starzy w łonie drugiej emigracji niepodległościowej (na przykładzie środowiska londyńskiego w latach 1949–1966). Część II
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) 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 outlinepresents 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 initiatedits fall. Discussing it along with the division into two phases (the fifth and sixth) endswith a summary and conclusions concerning the course of the conflict.
Krawiec wśród literackich wykrojów i wzorów
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Wilk-Krzyżowska, Emilia
Publication of “Prose: shapes and patterns” depicts the author Jerzy Jarzębski as a tailor, showing literary shapes and patterns (forms) of works, thus creating his own literary map of Polish literature in the 20th and 21st century. Jarzębski focuses on the world of values, problems with the past, most popular topics and interviews, the aim of which is to depict the reader that there is no one ideal canon of literature. Each of us can create it ourselves, which the author encourages.
Leopold von Sacher-Masochs „Grausame Frauen“. Ein Wirrwarr um die Ausgaben
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Socha, Krzysztof
Zbiór opowiadań „Demoniczne kobiety” to jedno z nielicznych do tej pory dostępnych polskiemu czytelnikowi dzieł Leopolda von Sacher-Masocha. Ten austriacki pisarz, którego znakomita część literackiego – nietłumaczonego dotąd – dorobku dotyczy rodzinnej Galicji, znany jest obecnie przede wszystkim ze swojego opowiadania „Wenus w futrze”, wielokrotnie zresztą omawianego. Pomimo, że życiorys autora jest dość gruntownie opracowany, jego spuścizna wciąż dostarcza tematów do poszukiwań i analiz. Jednym z nich jest zagadnienie kanoniczności tytułowego cyklu „Demoniczne kobiety”. Okazuje się bowiem, że wydane po śmierci pisarza dzieło funkcjonuje pod tym samym tytułem w kilku wariantach a układ treści w polskich i niemieckich wydaniach nie zawsze jest tożsamy. Niniejszy artykuł jest próbą naświetlenia jednego z frapujących problemów, z jakimi przychodzi się stykać, wychodząc poza granice popularnego dyskursu o „Wenus w futrze” i masochizmie.
Listy Zygmunta Mycielskiego do Stanisława Lorentza
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Kowalczykowa, Alina; Stanisz, Marek
The text presents 16 letters written by Zygmunt Mycielski during the period of 1960–1986 and addressed to Stanisław Lorentz . The letters provide a testimony of long-lasting acquaintanceship of the prominent intellectuals. The edition of correspondence materials is preceded with the introduction discussing the circumstances of their mutual contacts.
Literatura polska 1918–2018. Narracje, dyskursy, dzieła
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Pasterska, Jolanta; Uliasz, Stanisław
The year when the eighth number of “Themes and Contexts” is published, is unique because we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty. It is also an opportunity to look at the contractual century of the “new” Polish literature. In this context of “duration and changeability”, it is important to discuss the work of outstanding poets and writers of the last century, as well as interpretations of important works. This is a convenient time both for reappraisals and for new interpretations seen from a variable, literary perspective. Thinking about Polish literature in 1918-2018, we had in mind the attempts to establish the hierarchy of the most important literary phenomena in the context of political, constitutional and transformational changes. These issues are discussed in the first group of texts entitled Synthesis and reappraisals. Another group of problems connected with the subject of (Post)modern reading introduces the circle of detailed considerations. The research of Polish literature of the last century is conducted by the authors in two ways. In the first one, the researchers adopted a comparative perspective and analyzed new works compiled with works from the interwar period. The second variant is dominated by the synchronous perspective, in which the authors’ attention is focused on the originality of the latest works and contemporary methodologies of studying a literary work and “modern” contexts (social-media, pop-culture, hypertext, blogosphere, etc.). The study of contemporary literature in the context of the works of the past century has resulted in interesting literary and cultural findings. This section, titled Views, is a voice of researchers asking for the restoration of forgotten literary writings, artists (Gniatczyński), single works. The articles collected in the volume authorize the conclusion that these conventional chronological frames cover many literary phenomena, as well as the names of writers who created and create an image of Polish literature of the last century.
Łowcy odsłon. O blogosferze literackiej słów kilka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Nęcka, Agnieszka
It’s a paradox that we trust more and more hundreds of anonymous people than people we know and who know our taste. In addition, the number of stars and the scoring of different products is more important than the opinion of a specialist. The author tries to investigate the relationship between “professional” literary criticism and “amateur” blogs on literature. With the advent of e-literature the question on the condition of literary criticism should be reformulated. The author examines the sources of change, takes into account the specificity of writing literary blogs, the relationship between bloggers and publishing market.
Lubelscy korespondenci Edwarda Stachury – Maria Bechczyc-Rudnicka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Pachocki, Dariusz
Edward Stachura spent three years of his life in Lublin. He enrolled at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1957, majoring in French Philology. In 1960 he moved to Warsaw and started coressodnance to Maria Bechczyc-Rudnicka who was a chief editor in local literary newspaper “Kamena”. Stachura published there some of his works. The letters which are stored in Hieronim Łopaciński Public Library in Lublin give us some information about writer’s life which he used to spend “in road” nad his works sent as attachments. We have letters of Stachura but not of Bechczyc-Rudnicka because at the end of his life he decided to burn all letters and photos directed to him. Thats why editors could not collect any dialog of correspondance. The letters have been read from the handwritten manuscripts, typescripts and edited (the language of the letters has not been changed). The letters appear in print for the very first time.
Ludzie i miasto w prozie dwudziestolecia międzywojennego z perspektywy współczesnej lektury (na przykładzie utworów Tadeusza Rittnera, Mieczysława Smolarskiego i Brunona Jasieńskiego)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Wikarska, Emilia
The article is an attempt to answer the question if are the pictures of the cities presented in the novels: “Palę Paryż” by Bruno Jasieński, “Miasto Światłości” by Mieczysław Smolarski and “Między nocą a brzaskiem” and “Duchy w mieście” by Tadeusz Rittner current. Selected issues from the sociology of the city have been used in this thesis. Relevant examples from the novels along with specific quotes are associated to particular aspects of the urbanization and determinants of the “urban lifestyle”. Attention is directed to the fragments which can be referred to present day to confront them with the latest phenomena and to show if are these novels in some way current or not.
Melancholia i mitologia. „Noce i dnie” a pokusy słabości
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Chyła, Karolina
The author analyzes tropes and techniques used in Maria Dąbrowska’s „Noce i dnie” both to describe and to simultaneously reject peculiarities of the melancholic identity. She also claims that, despite of abhorrence which such extreme ontological fragility seems to provoke in Dąbrowska’s world, novel as a whole manages to open itself discretely and sensitively to the several aspects of variously understood liquidity, weak subjectiviti and incomplete presence.
Melancholicy nad Wisłą
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018) Piechota, Dariusz
The theme of melancholy in the Polish prose of the 21st century is still valid and directly related to the issue of identity and maturity of protagonists. People who suffer from depression exist in a world in which “ all that is solid, melts into the air”. This feeling complicates their existence because they often cannot describe their own identity (both individual and collective). The modern homo melancholicus often treats his or her own life as someone else’s project, which intensifies the experience of incoherent self-image and sense of alienation. In the latest realistic prose, reflections on passing away appear in thirty-year-old protagonists who lose the illusion of a quick career which would give them (apparently) happiness. Recalling the past, rooted in communist Poland, turns out to be a type of autotherapy. Melancholics see their lives as scattered, deformed, similar to the puzzles that should be put together again. The ongoing depersonalization and identity problems make that the heroes wander around the labyrinth, looking for a way out of it. The experience of melancholy proves to be the experience of transgression in which a person can find himself by accepting the complexity of the world.

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