{"title":"Review: Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature","authors":"Heli Tissari","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"533 - 538"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41916211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The large wave of Polish immigration to Canada during the years immediately following World War II also brought the production of written narratives that reflect upon the process of migration and settlement in the new place. Although these migrants included persons from all across Poland, of different age groups, backgrounds, and occupations, the migration narratives share certain distinctive formulas and patterns, particularly in terms of their plot lines and narrative structure. Each story highlights the journey and its difficulties, the arrival and culture shock, the struggle to adapt, and finally acceptance of life in the new world. This article focuses on the migration experiences of Józef Bauer (arriving in Canada in 1946), Helena Beznowska (arriving 1948), Marian Pawiński (arriving 1949), and Erika Wolf-May (arriving 1953). Explored from a folkloristic perspective, these four narratives fulfill the four functions of folklore: entertainment, education, validation and reinforcement of beliefs and conduct, and maintaining the stability, solidarity, cohesiveness, and continuity of a group within the larger mass culture. Moreover, as folkloric expressions of culture, the narratives not only reflect our very human culture, but also reinforce our shared humanity.
摘要在第二次世界大战后的几年里，波兰移民到加拿大的浪潮也带来了书面叙事的产生，这些叙事反映了移民和在新地方定居的过程。尽管这些移民包括来自波兰各地、不同年龄组、背景和职业的人，但移民叙事有着某些独特的公式和模式，特别是在情节和叙事结构方面。每个故事都突出了旅程及其困难、到来和文化冲击、适应的斗争，以及最终接受新世界的生活。本文重点介绍了Józef Bauer（1946年抵达加拿大）、Helena Beznowska（1948年抵达）、Marian Pawiński（1949年抵达）和Erika Wolf May（1953年抵达）的移民经历。从民俗学的角度探讨，这四种叙事实现了民俗学的四大功能：娱乐、教育、验证和强化信仰和行为，以及在更大的大众文化中保持群体的稳定、团结、凝聚力和连续性。此外，作为文化的民俗表达，这些叙事不仅反映了我们人类的文化，而且强化了我们共同的人性。
{"title":"A Folkloristic Analysis of Polish Immigrant Narratives in Western Canada","authors":"J. Deutsch","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The large wave of Polish immigration to Canada during the years immediately following World War II also brought the production of written narratives that reflect upon the process of migration and settlement in the new place. Although these migrants included persons from all across Poland, of different age groups, backgrounds, and occupations, the migration narratives share certain distinctive formulas and patterns, particularly in terms of their plot lines and narrative structure. Each story highlights the journey and its difficulties, the arrival and culture shock, the struggle to adapt, and finally acceptance of life in the new world. This article focuses on the migration experiences of Józef Bauer (arriving in Canada in 1946), Helena Beznowska (arriving 1948), Marian Pawiński (arriving 1949), and Erika Wolf-May (arriving 1953). Explored from a folkloristic perspective, these four narratives fulfill the four functions of folklore: entertainment, education, validation and reinforcement of beliefs and conduct, and maintaining the stability, solidarity, cohesiveness, and continuity of a group within the larger mass culture. Moreover, as folkloric expressions of culture, the narratives not only reflect our very human culture, but also reinforce our shared humanity.","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"335 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42240902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art","authors":"Jason A. Blake","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"517 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In the twenty-first century, Canadian writers have been doing something they did infrequently in the past: acknowledging and referencing the work of past Canadian writers. Although declining pedagogical and academic interest in Canadian literature has made this development hard to see, writers themselves have been quietly building upon and contributing to something that looks very much like a literary tradition. Canadian writers of course continue to read and be influenced by writers outside Canada, just as they always have: but in their own words, they are now telling us that they are reading, learning from, and responding to other Canadian writers – that there is a Canadian literary tradition that crosses generational and regional borders, and that Canadian writers (and publishers, and readers) are aware of parts of that tradition, the parts that matter to them.
{"title":"Tradition and the Individual Canadian Talent","authors":"Nick Mount","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the twenty-first century, Canadian writers have been doing something they did infrequently in the past: acknowledging and referencing the work of past Canadian writers. Although declining pedagogical and academic interest in Canadian literature has made this development hard to see, writers themselves have been quietly building upon and contributing to something that looks very much like a literary tradition. Canadian writers of course continue to read and be influenced by writers outside Canada, just as they always have: but in their own words, they are now telling us that they are reading, learning from, and responding to other Canadian writers – that there is a Canadian literary tradition that crosses generational and regional borders, and that Canadian writers (and publishers, and readers) are aware of parts of that tradition, the parts that matter to them.","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"253 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43551793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The article engages with the cultural impact of John McCrae’s canonical poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915), and more specifically the permutations of cultural memory and heritage discourse in In Flanders Fields: 100 Years: Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance, edited by Amanda Betts and published in 2015. It shows how thirteen Canadians explore the revolutionary role of the poem in Canadian collective and individual memory, as well as its omissions and misrepresentations. The article juxtaposes the cultural history of the poem with Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and its contemporary transformations, also showing how selected essays in the collection bridge the First World War with other armed conflicts. Applying Ann Rigney’s terminology, the article approaches the poem as a textual monument, demonstrating how “In Flanders Fields” has evolved from the role of a stabilizer in Canadian cultural memory, providing a cultural frame for later recollections, to that of a calibrator, becoming a benchmark for critical reflection on dominant memorial practices.
摘要本文探讨了约翰·麦克雷（John McCrae）的经典诗歌《在佛兰德斯田野》（In Flanders Fields）（1915）的文化影响，更具体地说，是阿曼达·贝茨（Amanda Betts）编辑并于2015年出版的《在佛兰德斯田野：100年：写战争、损失和纪念》中文化记忆和遗产话语的排列。它展示了十三位加拿大人如何探索这首诗在加拿大集体和个人记忆中的革命性作用，以及它的遗漏和误传。文章将这首诗的文化历史与威尔弗雷德·欧文的《Dulce et Decorum Est》及其当代转变并置，还展示了该集中精选的散文如何将第一次世界大战与其他武装冲突联系起来。文章运用安·里格尼的术语，将这首诗视为一座文本纪念碑，展示了《在弗兰德斯田野》是如何从加拿大文化记忆中的稳定器角色演变为校准器角色的，为后来的回忆提供了文化框架，成为对主流纪念做法进行批判性反思的基准。
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{"title":"Review: Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel","authors":"Ishak Berrebbah","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"527 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44718549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Medievalism in English Canadian Literature from Richardson to Atwood","authors":"A. Rzepa","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"521 - 525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42829835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The aim of this paper is to look at the recent publications by writers of Polish extraction living in Canada and writing in English in order to examine these texts in the context of their treatment of the concept of home, attitude to mother tongue and the usage of English, as well as the authors’ involvement in shaping the Canadian literary scene. The analysis will concentrate on selected texts published after 2014 to delineate the latest tendencies in Polish-Canadian writing. The discussion will include life writing genres such as memoirs, short stories, and novels. Since these writers have undertaken themes of (up)rootedness, identity, and memory and they have touched upon the creative redefinition of the figure of home, these aspects will also be examined from a theoretical perspective in the introductory part of the article. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek through his concept of “in-between peripherality” (2010: 87) proposes to view Central and Eastern European literature as both peripheral and in-between its “own national cultural self-referentiality and the cultural influence and primacy of the major Western cultures” (2010: 87). Moreover, as diasporic studies are inspired by the search for transcultural, dynamic exchanges and hybridity (Agnew 2005), the analysis will also include discussions on hybridity understood as a transgression of borders, both literary and genealogical as well as thematic. That is why, the classic notion of hybridity known widely in postcolonial studies, is here understood, according to Moslund (2010), as having horizontal and vertical orientations, where the former designates transgression of borders and space and the latter is connected to the movement across time. This approach is particularly interesting in the context of Polish-Canadian migrant and diasporic literature as, according to Pieterse (2001), hybridity understood as movement and translocation can offer new perspectives on migrant literatures in multi-and transcultural worlds.
摘要:本文的目的是研究居住在加拿大的波兰裔作家最近发表的以英语写作的作品，以便在他们对家庭概念的处理、对母语的态度和英语的使用以及作者参与塑造加拿大文坛的背景下研究这些文本。分析将集中于2014年以后出版的精选文本，以描绘波兰-加拿大写作的最新趋势。讨论内容将包括回忆录、短篇小说、长篇小说等生活写作类型。由于这些作家已经承担了(向上)根，身份和记忆的主题，并且他们已经触及了对家庭形象的创造性重新定义，这些方面也将在文章的介绍部分从理论角度进行检查。Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek通过他的“中间边缘性”(in-between periperiality)(2010: 87)的概念，提出将中欧和东欧文学视为边缘和中间的“自己的民族文化自我参照性和西方主要文化的文化影响和首要地位”(2010:87)。此外，由于流散研究的灵感来自于对跨文化、动态交流和杂糅性的探索(Agnew 2005)，分析还将包括对杂糅性的讨论，这种杂糅性被理解为对边界的越界，包括文学、宗谱和主题。这就是为什么，根据Moslund(2010)的说法，在后殖民研究中广为人知的杂交性的经典概念在这里被理解为具有水平和垂直方向，其中前者表示边界和空间的侵犯，后者与跨越时间的运动有关。这种方法在波兰-加拿大移民和散居文学的背景下特别有趣，因为根据Pieterse(2001)，将混合理解为运动和迁移可以为多元文化和跨文化世界中的移民文学提供新的视角。
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Abstract The aim of my inquiry is to discuss Adam Dickinson’s revisionist approach to the lyric autobiography as shown in his most recent volume Anatomic (2018a). Informed by an eco-critical sensibility, the biotechnological gaze, and post-humanist notions of subjectivity, this highly experimental conceptual project reveals porous boundaries of the autobiographical self caught up in the entanglement of the mind and matter. Based on burden tests of the poet’s own bodily fluids, Anatomic offers a philosophical speculation on the nature of the human, asking us to go beyond anthropocentric positioning of the subject and to consider ethical alongside onto-epistemological implications of this new direction. The methodology employed in my analyses of Dickinson’s poems derives from the influential notions of agential realism, diffractive vision, and intra-action formulated by Karan Barad – a trained quantum physicist and feminist philosopher working in the field of science and technology. Barad’s theories fuel New Materialist paradigms of thought as they propose the inherent indeterminacy of matter as well as question the established views of identity and the social. The particular focus of my interrogations will be the relationship between diffractive perception and the medical gaze used by the Canadian conceptualist to see himself non-anthropologically and thus to destabilize the perimeters of the autobiographical self.
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{"title":"Dialogues, Reinterpretations, Critical Repositionings in Literary and Cultural Discourses of 21st Century Canada","authors":"A. Branach-Kallas, Dagmara Drewniak","doi":"10.2478/stap-2020-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35172,"journal":{"name":"Studia Anglica Posnaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":"249 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47101728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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