Walka rewolucyjna w zaborze rosyjskim. Fakty i wrażenia z ostatnich lat dziesięciu (Revolutionary fight under the Russian rule. Facts and impressions over the last ten years) is a memorial feature ...article by Józef Piłsudski presenting the preparation, print, and distribution of the Polish Socialist Party’s underground pamphlets that were illegal under the Russian rule. The text is written in standard general Polish of the turn of the 20th century with a minor share of north borderland regionalisms, idiolectisms, and historisms. The style of the work combines “facts and impressions”, that is a realistic narration with a fictionalised description of various events related to the distribution of underground publications. The author of the feature article presents himself to the reader as an educated person using a language characterised by familiarity with the journalistic style.
This paper presents the preliminary assumptions of the “Corpus of the Four Poets” project, carried out in cooperation between Polish philologists (IBL PAN, UKSW) and IT specialists (CLARIN-PL, ...Wrocław University of Technology). The aim of the project is to create a digital corpus containing all Polish-language texts by the authors of the so-called “Great Romanticism”: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, and Cyprian Norwid, as well as to develop IT tools integrated with the corpus. The final result will be an online open access database with software. The texts for the corpus have been selected from the print sources that are well-known to readers, which provides the most complete and accurate form of the texts and a relative completeness of the lexical base. The set of metadata and annotations developed in the subsequent stages of the project will enable retrieval of the data on the language of individual authors and their objectivised comparison.
This paper presents and discusses two main theses. Firstly, the author claims that, contrary to what is commonly thought, neither the subject maer nor the meaning of Kazimierz Wierzyński’s later ...poems differ significantly from the topics taken up in his debut volumes. The poet never lost his youthful faith in the order of the world, nor did he quench his admiration for the work of creation. It is the main and essential feature of his poetry. Secondly, an important element of Wierzyński’s poems, which reveals itself in various forms and shapes, is prayer. This form of expression is referenced directly in many titles and often functions as the central theme of the poems. Moreover, many of Wierzyński’s works represent exactly this speech genre. His volumes contain poetic prayers differing thematically and functionally, for all seasons and all times of a day, for various holidays, celebrations, and other occasions. The poetry by Kazimierz Wierzyński is in fact one big prayer of supplication, humility, delight, and thanksgivings.
Dionizjusz Czubala is one of the most important contemporary Polish folklorists; his research pertains to the occupational folklore of potters and various forms of oral narratives. Among his works of ...particular value are his field studies concern- ing urban legends conducted in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Mongolia, reports from which were published in the “FOAFtale News” bulletin, and research on memoirs connected with the Holocaust, published in the book O tym nie wolno mówić... Zagłada Żydów w opowieściach wspomnieniowych ze zbiorów Dionizjusza Czubali, 2019 (We Are Not Allowed to Speak about It... The Extermination of the Jews in Memoirs from the Collection of Dionizjusz Czubala). He is the author of numerous monographs and collections of folklorist texts, including: Folklor garn- carzy polskich, 1978 (The Folklore of Polish Potters); Podania i opowieści z Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego. Sto lat temu i dzisiaj, 1984 (Legends and Stories from the Dąbrowa Basin. A Hundred Years Ago and Today); Opowieści z życia. Z badań nad folklorem współczesnym, 1985 (Stories from Life. From Research on Contemporary Folklore); Nasze mity współczesne, 1996 (Our Contemporary Myths); Polskie legendy miejskie. Studium i materiały, 2014 (Polish Urban Legends. Study and Materials).
This paper is an attempt to discuss certain aspects of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński’s style. It notes the coexistence of in fact mutually exclusive lexical phenomena in the artist’s texts, i.e. popular, ...colloquial, bawdy, and vulgar names (e.g. bufon, safanduła, pierdoła, pryk, bajdurzyć, mizdrzyć się, rżnąć marsze, zalać pałę) and vocabulary attributable to the sphere of erudition, that is vocabulary the primary feature of which is that it is present today, but it was also present at the turn of the 20th century and in the interwar period in the written variant of Polish or in carefully worded utterances (e.g.: epikurejczyk, erudyta, diatryb, eufemizm, mimetyzm, preegzystencja, trawestacja, sardoniczny, deliberować, restytuować). It also points to the fact that expressions that are diverse in terms of emotional and stylistic markedness function in Boy-Żeleński’s works naturally and virtually unpretentiously.
This article aims to present the image of the Silesian women emerging from the novels by Anna Dziewit-Meller (Góra Tajget Mount Taygetus, Od jednego Lucypera All Because of One Lucifer). The analysis ...and interpretation focused on the category of silence inscribed in the studied text allow the author to draw conclusions about the complicated family relationships of women, marked by the twentieth-century history of Upper Silesia. In the article, the author posits a thesis about silence as an immanent trait of Dziewit-Meller’s protagonists, and asks whether they have a chance of breaking out of the circle of traumas passed down in their families.
The aim of the article is to present three individual world views of Cyprian Norwid, Joseph Conrad, and Andrzej Trzebiński. It is not without significance that each of the individualities mentioned ...here represents a specific artistic vision of the world, which acquires its idiomatic writing articulation, and with it – a peculiar literary study. Assuming that literature remains the richest and most comprehensive expression of a view of the world (among the available forms of expression), one should nevertheless be careful in describing a specific, literary vision of the world, because it – made available by literary means of expression and literary tools – will always undergo specific poetic and creative transformations, all the way to the limits of exaggeration or deformation.
Alfonso X of Castile, also known as Alfonso the Wise was one of the most eminent Medieval rulers of the Kingdom of Castile and León. This paper presents selected facts from his life, especially ...highlighting his achievements as a patron of science and literature, as well as propagator of the vernacular language, i.e. Castilian. A special focus herein will be on the code Siete Partidas. Written under Alfonso’s auspices, this text describes knightly customs and combines the features of fiction and legal documents. The paper consists of two parts: a commentary and a translation of Title XXI of Partida II. The commentary presents the essential information on Alfonso X, including his legislative activities connected to Siete Partidas, and also the significance of the code for Spanish legislation, the contents of the seven books (partidas), as well as its authorship. In order to provide some background of the knightly culture on the Iberian Peninsula in the 13th century, knighthood rights are also presented on the basis of other contemporary texts on related subjects, such as Ramon Llull’s The Book of the Order of Chivalry or the French anonymous treatise L’ordene de chevalerie. The translation presented in the second part of the article is the first and the only Polish version of a fragment of Siete Partidas dealing with duties, privileges and also customs. Prepared on the basis of the critical edition by Jerry R. Craddock and Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, the translation attempts to grasp the nature of the original language and content, providing notes, which facilitate comprehension of particularly challenging problems.
This article discusses Michał Choromański’s novel Zazdrość i medycyna. I focus on the category of reflective thinking, which is fundamental for a genre of psychological novel. First, I discuss the ...reception of the novel and recall the most important interpretations. Second, I describe a theory of British Psychoanalyst Wilfred Ruprecht Bion and its elements (alpha function and beta function, reverie). In Bion’s theory, these elements are necessary in the process of thinking to reformulate primitive drives into elements of thinking. Third, I use some categories of Bion’s theory to interpret the novel. The analyses show that the protagonists, Wismar and tamten, are not capable of creative thinking – i.e. reflection – in their lives. In short: they don’t think. In effect, subconscious, unprocessed drives cause their madness.
