Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne
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This article deals with provinciality in the Lubusz poet’s writing. It is composed of two integrally parts. The first section concerns the category of provincial space – its nature and problems connected with the feeling of routine and lack of perspectives. Stachowiak has a genius for discovering the slits in existence, which is her way to experience an everyday epiphany. The following section attempts...
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The article presents the reflections on the practice of literary tourism, the so-called crime tourism, related to the growing popularity of Scandinavian detective story, especially Henning Mankell’s series dedicated to Wallander, which resulted in the phenomenon of touristic attraction of Swedish Ystad or Gotland. The author analyses the cultural spatial practice – murder walk – differentiating it...
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The article deals with relation between dominating discourse and marginal histories on the example of Mariusz Sieniewicz’s novel titled The City of Glass Elephants. Narrative allows us to understand the world, each other and forms the basis for our identity and subjectivity. But at the same time narration distorts, excludes, puts people, ideas and things on the outer fringes of the central theme of...
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Cities are civilization, though they were created as means to keep people safe from outside threats, that is why they were surrounded by walls or other kind of fences. However in modern times they resemble labyrinths in which people feel lost and unsafe. In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Year of the Flood the author had portrayed an anonymous metropolis ruled by a corporate police force and divided into...
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In her article entitled City as a key to Jeanette Winterson’s novels Magdalena Bulińska discusses the image of the city as a crucial metaphor in the writing of the British author. The cities are the settings of the majority of her novels. The author claims, that Winterson’s cities are at the same time realistically depicted and presented as magical, forming a hybrydical space. Winterson’s approach...
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This article deals with provinciality in the Lubusz poet’s writing. It is composed of two integrally parts. The first section concerns the category of provincial space – its nature and problems connected with the feeling of routine and lack of perspectives. Stachowiak has a genius for discovering the slits in existence, which is her way to experience an everyday epiphany. The following section attempts...
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This essay introduces Sonnets by Józef Dunin-Borkowski, a nineteenth-century Polish poet. It shows an original picture of old Lviv – the town and the people. This poems differ from any other sonnets of the romantic period. Borkowski chose a very difficult genre to present whole diversity of the Polish town. In his sonnets we can find for example: psychological portraits of people, city park, castle...
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This short article attempts at pointing political, social and emotional difficulties, which always accompany constructing the State of Israel’s discourse. The author is especially interested in Zionist and post-Zionist narrations. They both allow to indicate ways of creating national identity, national history and national self-knowledge. But Gershom Scholem’s definition of Ahawat Israel is obviously...
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In Chutnik’s novel Warsaw is featured as a city facing an imminent collapse. Formerly the jeopardy was of an external nature depicted in Cwaniary as barging in from the outside. In the recent history it has been associated with the Nazi, who occupied, besieged the Polish capital and ultimately annihilated it. However, currently the enemies are less conspicuous at first glance, as they are disguised...
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In the collection of poetry entitled ‘Tyszowce i inne miasta’ (‘Tyszowce and other cities’) by Wojciech Kudyba, we deal with the metaphysical and spiritual spatial orientation. The poetry has its origins in the romantic worldview and it consciously defies the modernist urbanistic myth. Human life is shown as a constant wandering and quest for pure places – places of origin, return to ‘oneself’ and...
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Tekst jest pisemną wersją wystąpienia wygłoszonego na konferencji „Wściekłość i oburzenie. Obrazy rewolty w kulturze współczesnej”, która odbyła się w Instytucie Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego w dniach 17–18 kwietnia 2012 roku.
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The text refers to a special kind of places described in the prose of Polish writers Daniel Odija, Filip Onichimowski and Michał Olszewski – the provincial town defined as an area of boredom, stagnation and monotony which destroy the personality of the characters. In a provincial town (defined in opposition to a big city) there live passive people with no positive outlook for the future – drunks,...
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The own, original, poetic definition of the province expressed by Kazimierz Wierzyński in the poem Dworzec (Station) from the volume Wróble na dachu (Sparrows on the Roof 1921). A station – window on the world, the source of melancholy for people from a provincial town. The image of ‘maidens who yearn from the empty platform, / from where the soul of the province and spleen blows’, for whom the direct...
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The text refers to a special kind of places described in the prose of Polish writers Daniel Odija, Filip Onichimowski and Michał Olszewski – the provincial town defined as an area of boredom, stagnation and monotony which destroy the personality of the characters. In a provincial town (defined in opposition to a big city) there live passive people with no positive outlook for the future – drunks,...
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The aim of this essay is cogitation about XXth century Warsaw. The start point is a statement that city is like a great organism. It is traditional interpretation, but as I believe it is still conventional. Warsaw is presented as a structure that never stops, it always keep on moving and changing. Important aspect of urban studies is thinking about aesthetics. I tried to show relationships between...
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The article analyses the concept of lieux de mémoire by Pierre Nora in Kościerzyna according to the recollection literature of Bronisława Niedzielska, Anna Ossowska-Pałasz and Jerzy Knyba as well as the image of the town in the old photographies and postcards. The aim of the text is to highlight the issue of symbolic power, the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, as Kościerzyna and its citizens suffered from...
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In this article, I want to focus on the specifics of the travelers experience of Hungarian writer Sándor Márai. I examine this problem based on his sketches From the Journey (Polish edition of 2012) and earlier Patrician’s Confession (2002). I am particularly interested in existential nature of his initiatory journey through Europe and the Middle East, his sensitivity to beauty, but also to the ugliness...
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The author reviews the monograph Cultural Theory of Literature, recapitulating the contents of the book, discussing the methodological proposals of its authors and assessing the potential application of the proposed tools to interpret the literary text. These critical considerations are embedded in the wider context of reflection on the condition of contemporary theories of literature.
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Among the many opinions about the flies the negative ones dominate. People tend to be disgusted by the flies; their routines and specific features of these insects, especially their inclination to linger in places affected by death and decomposition. Revulsion against flies, knowledge about the dangers that their presence may carry (epidemics, diseases) as well as conviction present in many of the...
