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Publication date: 01.09.2016

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Editor-in-Chief Agata Świerzowska

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Orcid Bożena Prochwicz-Studnicka

Secretary Agnieszka Kowalska

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Emanuela Braida

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 7-28

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.001.5134

Although the story of ‟Sindbad the Sailor” is one of the best-knownn tales of the Arabian Nights, many readers are still unaware of the fact that this story was not originally part of the Arabian Nights and the oldest Arabic versions we know were preserved in independent manuscripts often circulated within the Arabic Christian milieu. This article aims to present six Garšūnī (Arabic Christian) versions of Sindbad hitherto neglected (i.e. MSS Mardin CFMM 306, ff. 65b–109a; Gotha HB 2652, ff. 8b–35b; Aleppo SOAA 124 M, ff. 85b–162a; Birmingham Mingana syr. 146, ff. 45a–65a; Birmingham Mingana syr. 463, ff. 79a– 121b; and London British Library Or. 4437, ff. 109–169), as well as an overview of the Arabic corpus of the independent versions of the story. The study is part of the research project entitled ‟La formazione del romanzo in area vicino-orientale nel periodo post-classico (1200–1800): i Sette Viaggi di Sindbād il marinaio”, carried out at the University of Turin.

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Adam Łukaszewicz

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 29-39

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.002.5135

The paper contains a brief insight into the beginnings of contacts between Rome and Egypt, especially during the reign of Ptolemy XII and at the beginning of the reign of his successors. The struggle for power in Alexandria is presented in the context of financial situation of the Ptolemies and of the beginnings of the Roman exploitation of the land on the Nile.

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Fabrizio Angelo Pennacchietti

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 41-56

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.003.5136

In the paper the etymology of the term “hypocrite” in Greek, Hebrew and Arabic is outlined. It has a special place among many European cognates derived from Greek which adopted a meaning slightly or very different to the one confirmed in classical Greek literature. Similarities are determined between the word “hypocrite” and equivalent terms recurring in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew, as well as in the languages of the Islamic ecumene. “Hypocrite” is a term fundamentally connected with a monotheistic perception of the world. The issue regarding the identification of the Hebrew term ḥānēf is broached. This word underwent a semantic evolution, just as deep as hupokritḗs. As opposed to the Europeanism “hypocrite”, which became secularised, munāfiq – an Arabic equivalent – has never separated from its religious meaning.

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Paulina Tendera

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 57-71

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.004.5137

The article refers to the issues surrounding ideas of art and the creativity in arts. I intend to illustrate such concerns by drawing on the example of the works of César Manrique. The following samples of his work show that the relationship between man and nature can reveal the problem of artistic creativity in a new cultural perspective. This article was written in scientific cooperation with the César Manrique Foundation (Lanzarote, Canary Islands) and is part of a research project conducted by the author and Mr. Wojciech Rubiś.

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Franc Wagner

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 73-88

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.005.5138

The functions of metaphors are not solely stylistic; they are also cognitive. It is argued that metaphor scenarios in particular play an important role in the constitution and transfer of cultural constructs like, for instance, in the narrative of transcendent justice. Three examples of this narrative in three different cultures and ages are discussed, outlining the differences but also the similarities of the constituting metaphor scenarios. To conclude, the thesis of a cultural influence between the three narratives is discussed.

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Magdalena Wójcik

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 89-107

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.006.5139

The purpose of this article is to analyse and compare the eponymous characters from two plays: Solomon Ettingerʼs Serkele, or, In Mourning for a Brother and Gabriela Zapolskaʼs The Morality of Mrs. Dulska. A petty-bourgeois tragic-farce. Both characters have become the embodiments of a terrifying female in Yiddish and Polish cultures respectively. The plays are briefly summarised, then compared and, finally, a new interpretation of the main characters is proposed. According to this new interpretation, they can be seen as women who disagreed with their position according to tradition and society and therefore tried to break free of the mould.

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Interpretatio Mundi

Meera Nanda, Agata Świerzowska

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 109-131

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.16.007.5140

This is a much revised version of the paper that appeared in “Eastern Quaterly”, Vol. 3, Issue II, July–August 2005, pp. 75–85. A Hindi Translation, by Om Prakash, has appeared in “Pahal”, 84, November 2006. Polish translation based on M. Nanda, How Modern Are We? Cultural Contradictions of India’s Modernity [in:] eadem, Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays, Three Essays Collectives, Gurgaon, Haryana 2007, s. 145–164.

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Dialogues and Diagnoses

Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Rafał Czerner

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 133-142


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Marta Kudelska, Agnieszka Staszczyk, Agata Świerzowska

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 149-170

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Natalia Nadkańska

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 171-173

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Natalia Tołsty

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 3 (1/2016), 2016, pp. 175-177


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