Edyta Żyrek-Horodyska

The purpose of this article is to discuss two travelogues: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck and In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak. The comparative analysis method was used to examine the intertextual references between the two books, highlighting the similarities and differences between the way both reporters present their journeys around the USA. The findings suggest that intertextual references blur genre boundaries, and that they can serve both as a tool for connecting with the past and also as a means of challenging factual narratives.

The article aims to discuss the characteristic features of ecological reporting in the context of the main assumptions of the paradigm known as ecological journalism. The research was conducted using the close reading method and ‘green reading’ practices developed in the field of ecocriticism. The author analyzes two reportages: “Betonosis. How Polish Cities Are Being Destroyed” by Jan Mencwel and “Atlas of Holes and Cracks” by Michał Książek. The author of the article verifies the hypothesis whether the reporters who present the plant history of the city from different perspectives, create texts corresponding to documentary and intervention journalism. The research showed that the authors of both ecoreportages think about the protection of urban nature in ethical terms and that they expose the perfor­mative nature of their publications.

The main purpose of this essay is to discuss selected photographs of American photographers Diane Arbus and Lisette Model. The artists, who can be also called modern flâneuses, strolled the streets of Paris and New York in order to take pictures of the urban leisured class. An important element of the analysis is to demonstrate the women’s point of view presented in the works of Arbus and Model. Furthermore, particular works of these authors are discussed in the context of the camp theory, created by Susan Sontag. My aim is to prove that camp is reflected not only in the portrayed characters, but also it is included in the gaze of the artist.

The article presents the book entitled Letters from Poland by Joseph Roth, in which the journalist creates a journalistic portrait of Poland right after the country regained its independence. Research shows that in this text the author remains both: a part of the country and “the alien’’. He treats his return to Poland as an opportunity to confront the memories and present times. Roth’s comments created during the journey are not only an expression of admiration for the independent country, but they also bring a bitter reflection on anti-Semitism, social exclusion or political sluggishness. 

The Other or the Alien? The dilemmas of multiculturalism in the reportages
on Africa by Jean Hatzfeld and Ryszard Kapuściński

The main purpose of this article is to discuss how Ryszard Kapuściński and Jean Hatzfeld
present the major problems of contemporary Africa. My intention is to show how both authors
write about the dilemmas of multiculturalism in the (post)modern world. I want to present
the attitude of Hatzfeld and Kapuściński towards the Other, their methods of evaluation of the
African reality as well as the way they defi ne the responsibilities and tasks of the postmodern
mass media.

The aim of this article is to present Jon Krakauer’s reportage Into Thin Air in the context of the main features of New New Journalism. The author critically discusses the most important elements of this paradigm, which refers on the one hand to the legacy of muckrakers from the beginning of 20th-century, and on the other hand – to the tradition of American reporters from the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed research was devoted to the Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, which has been described as a journalistic syncretic form, combining elements of auto-reportage, immersive reportage and paraliterature.

The aim of the research outlined in this article is to discuss Hanna Krall’s works in the context of language, aesthetics and poetics of photography. The analyzes are based on the texts published in the volume „Phantom of Pain” (2017). They lead to the conclusion that photography is used in these texts as a journalistic source of information, a medium of artistic expression, a specific object, and a tool that triggers the work of memory. The journalist uses the photography to present the inexpressible, particularly when she wants to familiarize the reader with the idea of the Holocaust.

The aim of this article is to discuss the crucial ideas of the press reform introduced in 1836 by Émile de Girardin. It signifi cantly changed not only the way of thinking about the function of  mass media in France, but also it had an infl uence on the press in other European countries. The research focuses on the reception of this reform in Poland, discussed in the 19th century by such authors as Adam Mickiewicz, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Leon Rzewuski. In the article the author asks which elements of the French reform seemed to be particularly important to Polish writers and journalists, which cases they found impossible to reproduce in Poland and what was the reason of it.

The aim of the article is to discuss the books written by Marcin Kołodziejczyk, which could be described as an intergeneric journalistic project.The author of the article devotes attention to the reportages, the comics reportage (prepared by the journalist in cooperation with Marcin Podolec) and the novel, arguing that in each of these books the reader could easily find similar ideas and similar language. Therefore, such project could be discussed in the field of comparative media studies.