Volume 14 Issue 2 Year 2017

2017

Publication date: 16.11.2017

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Volume Editor: Dorota Siwor

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Editor-in-Chief Stanisław Gawliński

Issue editor Dorota Siwor

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Polski wojak Szwejk. O powieści Sól ziemi Józefa Wittlina

Alfred Döblin, Monika Anna Noga

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 133 - 137

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.008.7532

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Podróż po Polsce Alfreda Döblina. Kilka uwag o genezie tekstu

Marion Brandt

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 138 - 153

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.009.7533

The article presents some reflections upon the genesis of Alfred Döblin’s Reise in Polen formulated on the basis of manuscripts and other materials from the writer’s legacy. Among the figures of speech used by Döblin to turn his travel experiences into a literary text are anonymisation of conversations, blurring of the logistic background of the journey and staging orality. The second part of the article includes an analysis of Döblin’s book from the point of view of the presence of an important thematic motif, which is the national question. It discusses the way in which the writer’s views on national independence movements change in the process of writing.

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Długa noc żałoby. Narracja jako wyjście z przemocy?

Hans Joas

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 154 - 175

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.010.7534

Hans Joas’s essay presents a “sociological reading” of a late novel by Alfred Döblin, Tales of a Long Night, which was written as a direct reaction to the experience of World War II. The author first outlines the dramatic origins of Döblin’s work, and then presents a sociological model of transformation of an experience of violence inspired by the reading of the novel. Hans Joas mentions six stages of the transformation of an experience of violence: 1. the shock of mutilation felt in the body, 2. the loss of language and questioning the relation with the world, 3. the recognition of the healing power of narration, 4. the discovery of a new sense and new values, 5. the violation of previous social bonds, 6. the inevitable step towards the existential and religious sphere.

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Hans Joas – koncepcje wojny i przemocy

Bartłomiej Krawczyk

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 176 - 188

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.011.7535

The author presents the ideas of war, violence and peace as formulated by the German sociologist Hans Joas. He shows Joas’s point of view on ideas of how to maintain a long-term peace which appeared since the 18th century, and presents the scholar’s proposal concerning the close analysis of the mythology of violence. The article also describes Joas’s theory of the emergence of values in the context of violence, the origins of human rights and the use of the narrative as a way of overcoming trauma.

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Literature and Its Surroundings

Okruchy lustra w zaułkach Miasteczka. O wspomnieniach Michała Głowińskiego

Katarzyna Szkaradnik

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 189 - 203

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.012.7536

The author analyses Michał Głowiński’s short story volumes Historia jednej topoli i inne opowieści [The History of One Poplar and Other Stories] and Kładka nad czasem [A Footbridge over Time] as well as a cycle of essays Widoczki z Miasteczka [Views from a Small Town] from Fabuły przerwane [Discontinued Plots] from the point of view of the way in which the writer constructs “little narratives” devoted to his home town. The context is provided by his literature studies works, which help consider questions important for both Głowiński the writer and Głowiński the literary theorist. Thus, the narrative strategies, the problem of mimesis and (re)constructing the past, the role of the social patterns of speaking and intertextual references, the shaping of space through portraying the characters and its symbolic ordering by the flâneur narrator, as well as the tension between the documentary and fiction, representation and trauma, and literary awareness and irreducible individuality are all examined in this light. The author of the essay also points out in what sense the difference between the realistic “mirror carried along a main road” and the “shattered mirror” used by Głowiński corresponds to the difference between “finding the time” and “darning the memory.”

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Kochankowie z klasztoru Valdemosa Janusza Krasińskiego: dzieło w procesie przemian i reinterpretacji

Agnieszka Kramkowska-Dąbrowska

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 204 - 216

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.013.7537

The article describes the process of textual transformations which led to the creation of Janusz Krasiński’s play Kochankowie z klasztoru Valdemosa [The Lovers from the Valldemossa Charterhouse: A Work in the Process of Transformations and Reinterpretations]. The prototype of the drama about Fryderyk Chopin was the script of a television production, transformed into a radio drama and then into a theatrical play. In each of its incarnations this literary project was intended for a different production: television, radio or theatre. An analysis of draft copies showed that the changes which the writer introduced into the work involved not only adaptation, that is, taking into account the specific character of the given medium. Enriching the phonic layer and releasing the theatrical potential of the work enabled Krasiński to make original reinterpretations, and his creative thinking about the theatrical production resulted in introducing new motifs and led to semantic transformations.

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Od amerykańskiego snu Thompsona po ukraiński Mordor Szczerka. Estetyzacja świata w duchu gonzo

Edyta Żyrek-Horodyska

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 217 - 232

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.014.7538

The article is an attempt at a comparative analysis of two journalistic texts written in the tradition of New Journalism and classified today as instances of the gonzo style. Two books are analysed: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomson (1971) and Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli tajna historia Słowian [Mordor Will Come and Eat Us: A Secret History of the Slavs] by Ziemowit Szczerek (2013). The article aims at showing that journalistic texts following the gonzo aesthetics mime the narrative strategies found in literature (with special emphasis on thriller and picaresque novel), but also often openly question their assumptions.

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Reviews and Proceedings

Śmierć i miłość w poezji Zofii Zarębianki

Marek Bernacki

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 233 - 239

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.015.7723

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Józef Łobodowski ponad granicami

Aleksandra Luberda

Konteksty Kultury, Volume 14 Issue 2, 2017, pp. 240 - 244

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.016.7724

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Słowa kluczowe: Alfred Döblin, literary account of a journey, genesis of a text, Poland, Polish Jews, nation, Zionism, Alfred Döblin, war, violence, narration, sociology and literature, war, sociology, Hans Joas, violence, peace, human rights, Alfred Döblin, trauma, Michał Głowiński, recollections, theory of literature, space, narrative strategies, memory, intertextuality, Janusz Krasiński, emergence of drama, creative process, intersemiotic translation, literary journalism, gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, Ziemowit Szczerek, aesthetics, picaresque novel

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