Space, like forms of expression, undergoes constant transformations. One may wonder about their relationships, since both space shapes the text, and text influences the perception of space as well as helps to read and understand its palimpsest, hidden elements. The article addresses the issue of time as read and written in the landscape and urban space. Using literary examples from different periods, it analyzes the presentation of Zagreb and Dubrovnik. It also seeks to point out the differen...

This paper proposes an interpretation of Sławomir Mrożek’s short story We młynie, we młynie, mój Dobry Panie [In the mill, in the mill, my Good Lord], written in the first years of the writer’s stay abroad, in the context of his Diary and correspondence. Referring to concepts concerning the relationship between an empirical author and a literary text in terms of tropes/traces, the author argues that this ambiguous parable with an elaborate fantasy-grotesque plot can be read as an attempt to “...

This article draws form what lies at the confluence of multispecies ethnography and zoonarration. It concerns the biomonitoring research, which includes an animal observation journal analyzed here as a form of animal biographies. Maria Nurowska’s novel Nakarmić wilki [Feeding the Wolves] is presented within the framework of nature-culture, as well as the “third culture,” and a wolf observation journal is presented as an animal life narrative. According to the author of the article, another wa...

The article is devoted to the analysis of spatio-temporal elements in Dina Rubina’s story Vysokaâ voda veneciancev [The High Water of the Venetians]. They are closely related to the theme of death. Venice is shown in the work as a dying city, falling into decay. Signs of destruction are clearly visible in the city landscape, and the space of Venice is largely shaped by thanatic symbolism. However, in the image of this city we will not find infernal features so often found in the European lite...

The article concerns the experimental graphic novel Here by Richard McGuire, which is a specific attempt to read time in space. The novel consists of a set of boards depicting the same place in New Jersey at different historical moments. In my work, I reflect on the category of chronotope in the comics medium and try to consider to what extent (and if) Here complements or expands understanding of chronotope in this context.

This article presents an analysis of the ways in which illness experience is represented in literary work as a process in defective (a term coined by Iwona Boruszkowska) time and space. Aneta Żukowska’s autopathography Mięcho [Meat] is presented as a case study. In illness narratives hierarchically structured space of the clinic plays an important role, while time is reorganized by the rules imposed within the pathosystem (a term coined by Agnieszka Dauksza). The analysis of the ways of repre...

Published in the year 2022, the poetic volume Ręka pszczelarza [The Beekeeper’s Hand] by Tomasz Różycki encompasses 78 poems, predominantly sonnets. These poems, according to the publisher’s suggestion, encapsulate the poet’s contemplations during his period of isolation in Berlin amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Each of these poems serves as a documentation of the metamorphoses undergone by the lyrical persona while confined within an empty apartment-transforming into mythical creatures, with c...

This article seeks to interpret Andrzej Stasiuk’s poetic prose entitled Dukla, which records the experience of a specific geographical place and is therefore read here from the perspective of geopoetics. The key reoccurring motif in the descriptions of Dukla is light, which for Stasiuk is the main event of this place, so his work can be called a poetic study of light that enlivens the landscape of Beskid Niski. The story of Dukla was read as a specific treatise on geopoetics which narrates a ...

The article discusses Andrzej Muszyński’s autobiographical book Dom ojców [House of Fathers] in the context of geological turn. In the first part, the author maps the centro-peripheral conditions of the Olkusz land. In the second part, using methods of environmental history, the author shows how, in the era of the Anthropocene and global challenges related to polycrisis, to establish a relationship with the local community. The article discusses how, by transcending the historical conditions ...

This article reviews Emilia Padoł’s biography of Maria Rodziewiczówna (Rodziewiczówna. Gorąca dusza, Krakow 2023) in the broader context of other Polish life writings that can be described as both biographies of creative women and lesbian biographies, as well as biographies of couples (in particular Karolina Dzimira-Zarzycka’s biography of Maria Dulębianka, published in 2022). The author discusses Padoł’s treatment of gender and sexual identity in her book, contrasting it with Dzimira-Zarzyck...

The article analyzes the interpretation ofWitold Gombrowicz’s The Wedding by Józef Tischner, the founder of the philosophy of drama. It distinguished and describes three stages of exegesis. It also explores what hermeneutics defines as pre-understanding of the text. In Tischner’s case, there are four constitutive assumptions of his own philosophy of drama. The article also points to the passages of the text that were omitted by the philosopher and explains the reasons for this decision. The m...

The article presents the plight of homosexuals in the Nazi occupied France. The provision discriminating against homosexual people was introduced into French penal code in 1942. It was put forward by the collaborative Vichy government promoting moral improvement and the cult of procreation. However, as the article claims, homosexuality was not a considerable obstacle in the professional career or politics, which applied both to the collaborators as well as members of the resistance. Such writ...

The article deals with the issues of sexuality in the works of Janusz Stanisław Pasierb, a Polish Catholic priest and poet. It turns out that in the case of a Catholic priest, the duty of celibacy does not mean the denial of sexuality. Celibacy is considered a kind of sublimation, in which eros transforms into agape, but also indicates sacrifice – the drama of a solitary life. Pasierb’s poetry often appears, not excluding the erotic connotations, the motif of “the entry of God into human life...

The article proposes an interpretation of Aniela Gruszecka’s Przygoda w nieznanym kraju [Adventure in an unknown country] of 1933 as the first Polish Sapphic novel. The author of the article draws attention to the poetics of the novel. It narrates the story of two women – their acquaintance, unrequited love, rejection and reconciliation, following Virginia Woolf’s style: the main persona observes and analyses her developing feelings. This open and friendly reflection on non-heterosexuality is...

Witold Gombrowicz’s Kronos was published forty-four years after the writer’s death. Announced as a literary sensation, it caused numerous discussions and disputes. It was referred to as an outstanding literary work, but the logic of the publishing of private writings was also undermined. The aim of the article is to present the most important views on the novel. The author argues that, in fact, we are dealing with two texts that require different reading strategies, namely the author’s privat...

The article addresses the theme of performativity in the context of the norms of urban space. Drawing on an analysis of several cases of nonnormative bodies, it raises the question of the emancipatory power of the city and its potential for new narratives within the social and cultural realms. A body with a disability, a queer body, breaks out of the majority and moves differently. It is exposed to threats but also seeks a new possibility of existence. Walking as a fundamental act of explorin...

The article analyzes Judith Butlers discourse on sex/gender and refers to the philosophical concept of the non-dualizing mode of speaking proposed by the Austrian philosopher Josef Mitterer. In the opinion of the author, Butler non-intentionally seems to use the non-dualizing rhetoric when discussing sex/gender differentiation, especially when she considers the performative understanding of gender. According to the non-dualizing logic, there is no difference between sex and gender for both ar...

Artykuł opisuje konflikt wokół Puszczy Białowieskiej i poszerzenia Białowieskiego Parku Narodowego w kategoriach teorii CPR. Obowiązujące rozwiązania prawne nakazują konsultowanie z lokalnymi samorządami decyzji o ustanawianiu parków narodowych i zmianie ich obszaru. Społeczności lokalne czują się marginalizowane w procesie decyzyjnym i w obawie o swoją przyszłość starają się utrzymać obecny stan posiadania. Tymczasem, zarówno rząd, jak i środowiska ekologiczne i naukowe chciałyby zwiększyć p...

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