http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13779 2026-06-01T16:15:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13804 Tytuł: Konstrukcja przestrzeni i jej rola w kreacji podmiotu opowiadania Studnia i wahadło Edgara Allana Poego Autorzy: Iwanicka, Julia Abstrakt: The article aims to show the relationship between the construction of space in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and the creation of the story’s protagonist – a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who suffers elaborate torture. Relying on geopoetics and the concept of focalization as understood by Mieke Bal and Shlomith Rimmon-Kennan, the author analyzes the impact of space on the senses and emotions of the subject in a situation of sensory deprivation. She also addresses various themes, important in Poe’s work and evident in the story, such as teraphobia, gothicism and the ideas of Enlightenment. In the course of the analysis, she argues that the way the prisoner experiences and describes the space of the prison cell becomes the focal point for the construction of the literary subject in this short story. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13801 Tytuł: Ciało post/nie/ludzkie w Opowiadaniach bizarnych Olgi Tokarczuk Autorzy: Sordyl, Klaudia Abstrakt: The article analyzes the descriptive categories of the post/non/human body in selected short stories by Olga Tokarczuk from the volume Opowiadania bizarne [Bizarre Stories]. The most important basis for this reading was the understanding of the body and its ontological perspectives proposed by Ewa Domańska and Monika Bakke. Particular attention was paid to the themes of genetic experiments and cyborgization (Wizyta [The Visit]), ethical and religious aspects (Góra Wszystkich Świętych [All Saints’ Mountain]), and Tokarczuk’s post-secular vision of a post-apocalyptic world (Kalendarz ludzkich świąt [The Calendar of Human Holidays]). 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13800 Tytuł: O granicach. Przewóz Andrzeja Stasiuka wobec tradycji i współczesności Autorzy: Czyżak, Agnieszka Abstrakt: The article interprets the novel Przewóz (2021) written by Andrzej Stasiuk. The author narrates two stories: an autobiographical essay about the contemporary perspective of the Polish reality and a historical plot unfolding in the border territory by the river Bug in 1941. The main themes of the novel include myths of collective consciousness, the past and present of rural spaces, the critique of common opinions concerning World War 2 and the Holocaust, as well the theme of a border as influencing human life and identity in both, figurative and substantial aspects. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13799 Tytuł: Służące domowe we współczesnej literaturze popularnonaukowej Autorzy: Wesołowska, Julia Abstrakt: The article offers a critical reading of two popular science works about domestic servants Służące do wszystkiego [Servants for Everything]by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak and Instrukcja nadużycia [Instruction on Abuse] by Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć. According to the author, until recently domestic servants in Poland were exclusively the subject of academic consideration. At present, the subject has been taken up by popular science literature, which offers the reader a portrait of an archetypal female servant – a young (about 20–25 years old) and uneducated single woman, tormented by life and exploited by “masters”. The author of the review ponders the question to what extent such a portrait genuinely reflects historical reality. She believes that the books under discussion deploy certain historical and literary tropes, which are intended to portray the history of servants and employers in a certain way. This raises the question of why exactly this way of narrating the subject has gained an audience, and whether it really fulfills the need to give voice to servants. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z