http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5788 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:20:20 GMT 2026-06-01T07:20:20Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5793 Tytuł: Understanding Self and Others: Marriage Scenarios in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Autorzy: Shpylova-Saeed, Nataliya Abstrakt: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina establish a literary and cultural dialogue through the exploration of the individual’s private space. The two writers are undoubtedly intrigued by a fluid nature of the individual: marriage appears to reveal inner conflicts, doubts, anxieties, as well as longing for happiness. Although pursuing different agendas when indulgingly devising sentimental love stories and outrageous adulteries, Ford and Tolstoy echo each other when delivering their vision of self and other. This essay explores the topos of marriage as an element that amplifies the textual double-coding and reveals ethic and aesthetic values Ford and Tolstoy communicate. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5793 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5792 Tytuł: Parallaxes as Means of Organizing Memory in Travel Narratives of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Ryszard Kapuściński Autorzy: Moroz, Grzegorz Abstrakt: This paper offers a comparative analysis of travel narratives of two key contemporary writers: Patrick Leigh Fermor and Ryszard Kapuściński. Fermor’s A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople; From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (1977), Between the Woods and the Water (1986), and The Broken Road (2015) are compared with Kapuściński’s: Imperium (1993), The Shadow of the Sun (1998), and Travels with Herodotus (2007). The figure of a ‘parallax’ is suggested as being crucial in capturing the key similarities between Fermor’s and Kapuściński’s travel narratives. The differences between these narratives are explained in terms of the differences in developments of Anglophone and Polish travel writing traditions. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5792 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5791 Tytuł: Why is Kwame Anthony Appiah’s proposal to dismiss the concept of “The West” premature? Autorzy: Kubiak, Stefan Abstrakt: This paper is a response to Kwame A. Appiah’s article “There is no such thing as western civilisation” published in The Guardian of 9 November 2016. Appiah’s proposal to dismiss the term ‘western civilisation’ seems premature since it is strongly established in the humanities and social sciences. Discussing selected models representing systems of civilisations (Spengler, Koneczny, Toynbee, Huntington) as well as Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée history, this paper demonstrates the importance of the term ‘western civilisation’ in academic and political discourses. Moreover, referring to post-colonial studies, it is impossible to avoid the term because without it, any discussion on the colonial and post-colonial reality would be devoid of substance. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5791 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5790 Tytuł: Race, space and post-colonial landscape in Bernard Malamud’s The Tenants Autorzy: Klimiuk, Magdalena Abstrakt: The following article presents strategies for decolonizing complex ethno-racial and social relationships between Jewish and black characters within a restricted, multifaceted area of a decaying tenement in Bernard Malamud’s The Tenants. This interpretation is concerned with finding features of post-colonial discourse such as the representation of the characters in dichotomous terms: the colonized/colonizer, the observed/the observer, superior/inferior. It focuses on the analysis of the main characters’ different methods of dominating the ‘space or subjectivity’ of each other through surveillance, mimicry and appropriation. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5790 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z