Electric Romanticism. Literature and Science in the early 19th Century Poland [PDF]
In my paper I would like to outline the electric genesis of the school of Romantic literature which emerged in the years 1820-1830 in Poland. I analyze literary metaphors covering the subject of electricity in works of Adam Mickiewicz, and the theory of ...
Piotr URBANOWICZ
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Slavic World in the Book Collection of Count G.A. Stroganov [PDF]
The article examines the Russian aristocrat and diplomat G.A. Stroganov’s perception of the ideas of Slavic unity on the material of his library. Pan-Slavic ideas are presented through their interpretation in Russian, French and Common Slavic cultural ...
Irina A. Poplavskaya +2 more
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The Comforting Power of Kitsch. The (Esthetic) Meanders of Holocaust Literature
The paper is an attempt at outlining the esthetics of kitsch in Holocaust literature. On the basis of Abraham Moles’ and Saul Friedländer’s distinctions, the author analyses works of fiction, Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Littel’s The ...
Aleksandra Ubertowska
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Two freedoms. (Poetic) fragments of Michel Houellebecq
This article discusses the poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Its reading as a world-view statement is defined by its key notion of freedom. The thus specified reading enables one to identify various meanings of the notion included in the poems of the French ...
Tomasz Wójcik
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Włodzimierz Odojewski’s writing archive in the light of genetic criticism. Initial study
The article consists of two parts. The first includes a presentation of the records collected in the Archive of Włodzimierz Odojewski in Poznań and a reflection on the writer’s creative method. The second part presents an outline of research prospects in
Jędrzej Krystek +2 more
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: Alle Wege führen nach Rom? Die Entscheidungen des Übersetzers Olaf Kühl am Beispiel des Romans „Wie ich Schriftsteller wurde. Versuch einer intellektuellen Autobiographie“ von Andrzej Stasiuk [PDF]
This article discusses the strategies that may be used during the process of translation of a literary work. It will be shown that the translators’ choices are context driven.
Joanna Sulikowska-Fajfer
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The campus novel in Eastern and Central European literature after 1989 [PDF]
Campus novel, traditionally seen as a genre of English and American literature, has recently also gained attention in non-Anglophone literary traditions. The article focuses on campus fiction written in Slovak, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian after 1989. It
Oksana Blashkiv
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Zoom Out to See a Clearer Picture: Two Plots from the Distant Reading of Ukrainian Literature [PDF]
The paper focuses on two examples introducing a distant reading approach for research Ukrainian literary works. The studies considered are rather different in terms of breadth of their aims and intentions, the number of performers, the pace and nature of
Dmytro Jesypenko
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Stanislav Mečiar and his Polonophileness on the Background of Archive Documents [PDF]
The goal of the paper is to show the manifestations and forms of polonophileness of literary historian Stanislav Mečiar (1910 – 1971) in and 1930s. The interwar relations between Czechoslovakia and Poland were tense for almost twenty years.
Pavol Matula
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The annual conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity” is a good platform for young researchers from different universities and research centers, both domestic and foreign, where they can share their scholarly achievements with colleagues and talk
Natalia A. Lunkova
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