UNSPEAKABLE OTHERNESS—AN ESSAY ON THE FAILURE OF COGNITIVE AND EPISTEMIC COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN STANISLAW LEM’S SOLARIS by Sébastien Doubinsky

“…One can however choose this exegetic impossibility as a major theme in the novel, and reflect on the implications of the situation Kelvin faces, caught between a desire to understand the nature of Solaris’s ocean and the sheer failure of doing so. In this essay, we will try to suggest that, by showing the limits of language as the means to express a satisfying epistemic frame, Lem’s parabol could be seen as an attempt to show the reader the existential limits of our anthropocentrism and scientific hubris. …”
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Dyktatura oczami kobiet. Analiza porównawcza Opowieści podręcznej Margaret Atwood i twórczości eseistycznej Herty Müller by Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

“…The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and essays written by Herta Müller, the most famous Romanian dissident and the recipient of the 2009 Noble Prize in literature. …”
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Drifts of myths. Mythological discourses of Mieczysław Jastrun and Zbigniew Herbert by Cezary Zalewski

“…Jastrun’s and Z. Herbert’s essays in which mythological figures (Minotaur, Iphigenia) appear. …”
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Tekstualność i teatralność by Beata Popczyk-Szczęsna

“…Analyse des textes, de Sarraute k Vinaver comprises the collection of essays on the contemporary French drama. The author proposes the textual analysis, which takes into account all levels of the composition of discourse. …”
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Selected peasant issues of the 1930s in the opinions of Warsaw literary magazine columnists (Wiadomości Literackie, Prosto z Mostu, and Pion) by Małgorzata Bańkowska

“…The study deals with the main themes of press discussions and literary critical essays, referring to the constitutive features of peasant literature, the social image of the village (Jalu Kurek’s novel Grypa szaleje w Naprawie), the living conditions of peasants (Pamiętniki chłopów) and their political attitudes (the Great Peasant Uprising). …”
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In silence by Anna Krajewska

“…This is a memoir of Professor Kazimierz Bartoszyński. The theme of this essay is silence – literary silence, which is the result of convention, anecdotal silence, which prompts scholarly meetings and friendships, and metaphysical silence, which is connected with death.…”
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From Iser to Turner and beyond: reception theory meets cognitive criticism by Craig Hamilton, Ralf Schneider

“…<span>In this essay, we review the work of Wolfgang Iser, the major proponent of reception theory, and Mark Turner, the major proponent of cognitive criticism. …”
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Sztuka religijna dawniej i dziś - Wędrówki po Europie Aleksandry Olędzkiej-Frybesowej by Bogna Choińska

“…The article presents a peculiar understanding of religious art, which is possible to be found in Aleksandra Olędzka-Frybesowa's essay writing. An artistic easiness of the usage of symbols is connected with two orders coexistance in a human being: a cosmic and a historical, sacrum and profanum. …”
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Dlaczego pytamy "Co by było, gdyby…?". Uwagi na temat funkcji historii alternatywnej by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

“…In this essay, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld argues that writers and scholars have long produced “allohistorical narratives” out of fundamentally presentist motives. …”
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Music as Pure Art. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Konstanty Regamey by Lech Sokół

“…In my opinion, yet another essay by Regamey should be taken into consideration in sketching relations between his and Witkacy’s theories of music; it is Próba analizy ewolucji w sztuce [An Attempt at Analysis of Evolution in Art]. …”
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