DSpace Kolekcja:http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7512024-03-28T18:49:38Z2024-03-28T18:49:38ZFinding God(s) in Fantasylands: Religious Ideas in Fantasy LiteratureŁaszkiewicz, Weronikahttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/7642021-08-19T07:27:55Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Finding God(s) in Fantasylands: Religious Ideas in Fantasy Literature
Autorzy: Łaszkiewicz, Weronika
Abstrakt: The following paper analyzes how fantasy literature addresses the topic of religion. The discussion of the genre’s dependence on myths, supported by Mircea Eliade’s claims about the sacred and profane spheres of human life, offers an answer to the questions why religion is one of the most prominent themes in fantasy fiction. The analysis of a selected group of fantasy novels (the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, Guy Gavriel Kay, Celia S. Friedman, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Philip Pullman, Dave Duncan, George R. R. Martin, and Brandon Sanderson) presents various ways in which a fantasy narrative may approach religious themes: by inventing secondary religions that enrich the imaginary realm, by reworking particular religious themes and turning them into an axis of the narrative, and by supporting, promoting, or criticizing a certain faith through the means of fantasy fiction.2013-01-01T00:00:00ZFace, linguistic (im)politeness and polyphony in Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding CrowdMugford, Gerrardhttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/7632021-08-19T07:33:36Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Face, linguistic (im)politeness and polyphony in Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd
Autorzy: Mugford, Gerrard
Abstrakt: Thomas Hardy’s novel Far from the Madding Crowd provides a stark contrast in how the characters project their face (Goffman 1967) and how they seek approval from others. Such a contrast can be analysed in terms of Bakhtin’s polyphony – the many voices found in a text which includes the author’s portrayal of his protagonists and how they interact with each other. In order to highlight this contrast and its way of coming across, I examine how three key characters in the novel, Gabriel Oak, Sergeant Frank Troy and William Boldwood, present themselves interpersonally. I use the concept of linguistic (im)politeness to demonstrate how the protagonists try to further themselves, especially in their pursuit of Bathsheba Everdene. I argue that a linguistic (im)politeness approach can also be applied to other novels of Thomas Hardy and indeed to a wider range of literature.2013-01-01T00:00:00Z“Other Than They Were”: Fair Places Full of FolkThomas, Michael W.http://hdl.handle.net/11320/7562021-08-19T09:15:47Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: “Other Than They Were”: Fair Places Full of Folk
Autorzy: Thomas, Michael W.
Abstrakt: Few things are more unpredictable than the convergence of people, landscape and memory. Often, the more time that passes, the more memory has to lean upon imagination to define experiences from the ever-receding past. “The present”, notes Ian Jack, “always depends upon the past, which makes the past a necessary subject of any reporter’s enquiry” (Jack 2009: xiii). When the reporter is also a poet, however, the enquiry of which Jack speaks assumes a different character, different imperatives. The following essay considers Batmans Hill, South Staffs, 1961-1972, my themed sequence of poems, a return to the human and non-human landscapes of my childhood. One concern of the sequence is how locality defined people and people humanised locality in one region of post-war municipal England. Running alongside that, however, is an awareness of the caprice of memory and a fascination with the ways in which poetry tempers and exploits that caprice.2013-01-01T00:00:00ZVirtual Togetherness: Sense of Identity and Community in CyberspaceModzelewski, Rafałhttp://hdl.handle.net/11320/7552021-08-19T07:29:49Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTytuł: Virtual Togetherness: Sense of Identity and Community in Cyberspace
Autorzy: Modzelewski, Rafał
Abstrakt: It is an uncontroversial statement to say that we live in an age of the enormous influence of information technology. The Internet in particular has been instrumental in shaping and reshaping modern reality. It harbours millions of communities and social networks, where people interact with each other on a daily basis. What are we to think of them? Do they represent a new Renaissance of social interactions or rather a demise of the traditional community? In the following article I argue that it is something entirely different. The Internet, I propose, should be viewed as a new, different environment for communities to form and thrive. Not only are those communities formed online, they also display a wide range of features, which make them legitimate communities, and not entities impoverished in the social sense. Those communities have a profound effect on the identity of their participants.2013-01-01T00:00:00Z