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A Polish-Canadian Trajectory of Feelings

Justyna Budzik

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 170, Issue 4, 2018 (XLIV), pp. 159 - 164

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.051.9453

Arlette Cousture, ‘Dzieci stamtąd. Nawet ptaki umilkły, Kraków: WAM 2017, pp. 568.

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The Great Theater of the World by Elżbieta Wittlin Lipton

Justyna Budzik

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 3 (177), 2020 (XLVI), pp. 51 - 60

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.030.12594

The paper takes as its focus the theatrical oeuvre of Elżbieta Wittlin Lipton – a Polish émigré artist and the daughter of an eminent Polish émigré writer Józef Wittlin. It presents a concise introduction to the artistic work of Wittlin Lipton – her costume and set designs – which she has been creating on the European (Spain) and North American continents (United States) since late seventies of the previous century onwards. Biographical facts have been outlined here along with the most charactristic features of her artistic style, with a special emphasis laid on the Spanish genius loci which should be regarded as the most outstanding trait of her total work.

The paper constitutes a part of a book devoted to the life and artistic achievements of Elżbieta Wittlin Lipton which the author of this manuscript has been currently writing.

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W przestrzeni znaków i symboli – poezja Andrzeja Buszy

Justyna Budzik

Konteksty Kultury, Vol. 7, 2011, pp. 81 - 99

The essay is devoted to the creative activities of Andrzej Busza, one of the members of the London group “Kontynenty” (Continents). His Polish poetry from the 60s of the previous century and the one that originated in Canada were presented in the context of complex experience of an emigration poet. I paid utmost attention to the problems of settlement and alienation of the author living away from his homeland. The thoughts concerning the physical and symbolic space, in which Busza attempts to feel at home, occupy a significant place in here. They are accompanied by divagations on time and periodicity of events which human existence is filled with. Moving within the space of signs and symbols, the poet wishes to understand the essence of being as well as find their place in the world. Palimpsest and intertextual character of this lyric poetry allows to refer to various disciplines of art, and most of all to the European literature. That is why a number of references to Anglo-Saxon literature appear in this article.

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„Ostatnie słowo Bytu”. Metafizyczne medytacje w poezji Andrzeja Buszy

Justyna Budzik

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 382 - 393

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.13.009.1767

The sketch discusses the metaphysical poetry of Andrzej Busza. A deepened refl ection over it was inspired by the latest, English-language poems in which the poet muses over the phenomenon of death, as well as asks questions concerning the existence/nonexistence of God in the universe. The philosophical reflections appearing in many poems help us to formulate a hypothesis that Busza searches for answers to the questions disturbing him in two opposite poles – metaphysics and philosophy. The reading of the last tome, under the title Niepewność [Uncertainty], broadens the field of interpretation, since the poet shows a third sphere – the scientific one, where he will search for the answers to questions of being. Andrzej Busza’s reflections focus on three areas which reveal anxiety and uncertainty, still keeping company to the lyrical hero of his poems. The article was intended to present one of the most important motifs in the works of the poet from Vancouver, illuminating them from three different perspectives which intertwine in his poetry.

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Justyna Budzik

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland