Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0054.4474
Wawrzyniec Miścicki
The article examines the notion of cultural identity in the fi rst three novels by Leopold Buczkowski:Wertepy, Czarny potok (Black Torrent, MiT 1969) and Dorycki krużganek. Although Buczkowski’swriting possesses a strong subversive potential, its disruptiveness is predominantly studiedthrough poetics or historiosophical refl ection. In this article anthropology serves as the main focalpoint to extricate from the setting of the novels a set of certain qualities that disturb the representationalunambiguity of certain topoi, such as national identity or borderland identity. These qualitiesconvey an image of a specifi c cultural formation – Galicia, however, this formation is a by-productof the locality and only constituted via contact with, and opposition to, the hegemonic discourse.Cultural relations defi ne the space of internal familiarity, while remaining „unfamiliar” to an externalobserver, a dissonance in the cultural landscape.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0054.4481
Wojciech Browarny
The article discusses Tadeusz Różewicz’s role in shaping the locality of Wrocław. Localityis defi ned as a discourse that delineates interpersonal relations and the connections between socialgroups or individuals with places and objects in their immediate space. It encompasses beliefs,perceptions, emotions, or narratives accompanying these interactions. Drawing on the writer’s literaryworks and other statements as well as on his biography – considered as mediums of localidentity – the article describes Różewicz’s infl uence on the production of this discourse. It alsoexamines the practices of commemorating and remembering the poet, which utilize his personaor literary legacy. The key research questions are: Who and how shapes Różewicz’s locality discourse?Is it a product of city institutions and political-cultural elites, or does it have a neighborly,familial, or private character? Is the local collective memory of the communist era or the pre-wartime present in it, and if so, how?
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0054.4475
Ewa Paczoska
The article discusses various aspects of the presence of the 19th century in recent Polish literature.It shows the transformation of various aspects of the legacy of that century, related toromanticism and modernism. The 19th century, important as the foundation of Polish culture duringthe partitions, turned into a toxic legacy in modern times. Contemporary Polish writers re-imaginethat century to discover stories that were excluded from the mainstream national narrative. The textsunder discussion show that the 19th century is a „neighbour” surprisingly close to our present day.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-05DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0014.1357
Linda Hutcheon, G. Bortolotti
Like the early evolutionary theory (though unlike Darwin’s own output), much work in literary adaptation today operates only in terms of higher and lower forms, considering adaptations as more or less „faithful” to the „original”. In biology, it was only when this sort of evaluative discourse was discarded that new questions could be asked and therefore new answers offered. To that end, a biologist and a literary theorist work to develop the homology between biological and cultural adaptation, between natural and cultural selection: stories, in a manner parallel to genes, replicate; adaptations of both evolve with changing environments. Their „success” cannot and should not, in either case, be limited to their degree of „fidelity” to anything called a „source” or „original”.
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