In this article, the author discusses Krystyna Kosiskas monograph entitled Neuroza. Zagroone mskoci. In a synthetic approach, the reviewer situates Kosiskas latest book in the context of her earlier ...scientific works and masculinity studies. The author shows that for Krystyna Kosiska, neurosis is a category that brings together nineteenth-century obsessions; fantasies and internalized fears related to technological development; challenges related to political changes and the capitalist economy. Kosiska puts the figures of masculinity at the center of her research and interprets them from the perspective of nineteenth-century gender divisions.
This article is a critical analysis of the novel The Palace by Wieslaw Myliwski. The author first presents the existing interpretations of this work, and then shows that they lack a description of ...what is one of the most fundamental elements of the plot: the description of sexual violence by the noblemen against women of both the gentry and peasant social classes. Based on this material, the author argues that The Palace is a compelling analysis of the relationship between class and gender, and in this sense shows Myliwskis prose as intersectional. In the very last part of the essay, the author discusses the latest psychological and neurological studies of trauma and shows that they explain not only the content of The Palace but also the unusual form of this novel.
This study explores the genealogical awareness of the Polish nobility and the role of outstanding individuals in creating collective memory. More specifically, it offers an analysis of genealogical ...references included in encomia devoted to Jan Kochanowskis enatic descendants, in the context of their famous ancestors literary output and his fame. Coming from the line of Zuzanna Woucka, nee Owadowska, Jan Kochanowskis granddaughter, the descendants inherited parts of the poets real estate and buried their relatives next to his Zwolen mausoleum till the end of the 18th century.
The article is based on commemorative prints devoted to the poets descendants: Falces avitae ad lauream vernantis gloriae messem by Wojciech Zatoski (1696) written in honour of the Sieradz castellans wife Zofia Lipska nee Olszowska, Chwalebny zawód do kresu szczliwego by Krzysztof Wierzbicki (1699) in honour of the Sieradz chamberlains daughter Konstancja Zapolska, Niebo herbownego Ksiyca by Samuel Wysocki (1732) lauding the Gostyn starostes daughter Zofia Lipska nee Granowska, as well as the anonymous Panegyricus probatissimo magistro belli in sago (1757) devoted to the Rawa palatine Kazimierz Granowski. None of these pieces includes any references to Jan Kochanowski, which can be explained by the social status of these newly promoted to state offices families with middle- to petty-nobility roots. The need to legitimize their position as the noble well-to-do class holding state posts required to show connections with sufficiently important ancestors who also held state offices, rather than by giving prominence to the genealogy and the past generations.
The aim of this article is to shed light on the role of Podlasie in Andrzej Stasiuks latest prose, especially in texts such as Fado, Grochów and Wschód. After a brief excursus examining what issues ...are raised in relation to this region in contemporary Polish prose, the analysis sheds light on the values attributed to Podlasie and the way it is represented by Stasiuk. I shall argue that it is thematised accordingly to commonly shared meanings attached to the region and constitutes the final step of the authors shaping of imaginary geographies, which acquires in Stasiuks poetics a precise connotation as both a place of remembrance and a symbolic, constructed image of the Orient.
The article discusses signs of identity (burgher arms) of Tomasz Treter (Treterus, 15471610). Treter was a trusted secretary of Cardinal Stanisaw Hozjusz (Hosius), but also a draughtsman, a painter, ...an engraver, a designer of monuments and prints, and a Neo-Latin poet. The texts focuses on Treters non-armorial seals, depicting a shield with a winged snake twisted around a cross (the Brazen Serpent) and on Treters two supralibros (one with the burgher arms and the other displaying an impresa). The paper also analyses emblematic compositions in Symbolica vitae Christi meditatio, a volume of meditations composed by Treter. These sources are used to undermine the belief that Treter was ennobled by Pope Gregory XIII and that he used the Boncompagnis coat of arms (Draco).
This paper analyzes the politics of the Tale of Jakub Szela (Sowo o Jakubie Szeli, 1926) by Bruno Jasieski. The second long poem of the most renowned Polish futurist investigates mechanisms of the ...mythology of power in the 1920s Poland. Discussing the entanglements of historiography in the power apparatus, one may trace how Jasieskis work exercises the hegemonic discourse on the Peasant Uprising of 1846 in Galicia, proposing to use this historical event as a positive story about emancipation and the nucleus for the new community. In his poem, Jasieski discusses the suppressing attributes of nationalist historiography and explores possibilities to overcome its hegemonic claims to universalism. From this tension arise Jasieskis questions about what we should consider common or collectively shared and how unconventional historiography and politics of aesthetics should be used during the struggle for reconfiguring the prevalent ways of being together in social context.
The aim of the paper is to interpret Wiesaw Myliwskis The End of Peasant Culture, with particular emphasis on the issues such as the historical isolation of the peasantry, its nation-building ...potential, idealization and mythization of the peasant. The writer uses elegiac discourse to formulate his own literary program aimed at restitution of lost elements of traditional culture. The last part of the article contrasts this funeral vin vision with the phenomenon of disco polo, which is the proof for the vitality of peasant culture, reborn in a lowbrow and hybrid form.
Tom specjalny Avantu powicamy twórczoci komiksowej Henryka Jerzego Chmielewskiego, nazywanego Papciem Chmielem (take Dziadkiem Chmielem) oraz gównym postaciom serii komiksów Tytus, Romek i ATomek ...(dalej: TRiA). Wydawana od 1966 roku w formie osobnych albumów seria liczy 31 ksig, stajc si najduej wydawanym w Polsce cyklem, który zaj poczesne miejsce w historii polskiego komiksu. Pocztkowo przy-gody Tytusa jawiy si jako wejcie w krain wyobrani dziecicej (ksigi III-XVIII), z czasem jednak Chmielewski przeszed do doranych komentarzy na temat zmieniajcej si polskiej rzeczywistoci (od Ksigi XX). Zmiana ta nastpia w momencie transformacji systemowej w Polsce. Przeom 1989/1990 to okres, w którym Tytusy zaczy by wznawiane przez autora w unowo-czenionej szacie graficznej (cz ksieczek narysowano na nowo) i zmienionej formie fabularnej: pojawiy si nowe rysunki, przearanowano cz starszych, dodano wypowiedzi bohaterów. W tym okresie Chmielewski nie wydawa ksieczek z nowymi przygodami Tytusa; te zaczy si pojawia od 1992 roku, a autor zacz opisywa w nich zmiany zachodzce w Polsce. Po przeomie politycznym 1989/1990 magiczne i osadzone w wyobrani wtki zestawione zostay z tym, co w aktualnej polskiej rzeczywistoci spoecznej wydawao si Papciowi zajmujce, a czsto niepokojce lub wymagajce interwencji. Tytus zatem sta si czonkiem afiliowanego przy NATO oddziau wojskowego, walczy z handlarzami narkotyków, rysowa graffiti, mistrzowsko jedzi na desce, zwalcza bd to chuliganów na meczach pikarskich, bd to gangi przestpcze, czy te intensywnie poznawa internet.
This article discusses the presence of railway epiphanies in the works of Miron Biaoszewski, in particular their reference to queer events, understood as the presence of non-heteronormative meaning ...or desire. I examine the presence of trams, subways and railways in Biaoszewskis trips to Paris, Budapest and New York. Travelling by train can induce transgressive impulses and is often an occasion for expressing hidden tendencies, for instance homosexual behaviours. The experience of the train journey, which builds up weariness and drowsiness, can contribute to people experiencing a lack of boundaries and limits around them, with the consequence of everything becoming more confusing, obscure, and fluid. The movement of the train can cause a trance state, and due to the walking between the world of the conscious and subconscious mind, passengers evolve into transpersons, that is to say people in the transition, on the way, and between. Their gender becomes fluid, mobile, and in motion. This paper also analyses the figure of derailed person used by Artur Sandauer when comparing Biaoszewski to Genet as a means of encoding homosexuality, here understood as a figure of the queer derailment of heteronormativity.
