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Volume 19, Issue 2

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Publication date: 04.2025

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Cover design: Paweł Bigos.
 
This publication was funded by the program „Excellence Initiative – Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow” and „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”, MEiN, no RCN/SP/0284/2021.

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Zastępca redaktor naczelnej / sekretarz Orcid Natalia Palich

Editor-in-Chief Orcid Katarzyna Bazarnik

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Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 83-91

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.24.008.21001
In the present paper I aim at exploring Keats’s use of Gothic and grotesque images in his three famous poems: “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil,” “The Eve of Saint Agnes” and the unfinished “The Eve of St. Mark.” I argue that there is a consistent pattern of imagery in Keats’s poetry that combines these two categories, and this imagery revolves around an idea of a spectral presence, or a “life-in-death” existence. The mingling of these two literary and aesthetic modes allows for a powerful articulation of anxieties relating to mortality, a confrontation with the inevitability of death and decay of the human body, and the uneasy, tentative hope for the afterlife.
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Monika Coghen

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 93-102

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.24.009.21002
In his poetry and in letters Byron occasionally writes of horses and uses the imagery of horse riding. This essay examines Byron’s representation of human-horse interactions and the ways in which the poet deploys the images of horse riding in The Giaour, Mazeppa, and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. I would like to suggest that Byron’s representation of horses may be seen as figuratively reflective of his poetic development from the passion-spurred ride of the Giaour to the harmonious bond between horse and human that Mazeppa learns through his wild ride.
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Krzysztof Miś

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 103-115

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.24.010.21003
The article examines the way the Tibetan monks had been portrayed in Heinrich Harrer’s book Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama (in English translation known as Seven Years in Tibet). An analysis of the monks’ everyday life and their influence on the state and Tibetan society is conducted. Attention is drawn to the influence of Heinrich Harrer’s European and (to a small extend) Nazi background influencing his perception of the foreign reality of Tibet.
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Anna Wolny

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 117-138

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.24.011.21004
The aim of the following article is to present five romance novels written by Polish authors and set in Portugal. After briefly delineating the current background of Polish--Portuguese cultural tendencies, the text focuses on highlighting the characteristic that enable to inscribe all five novels to popular literature. Secondly, the depiction of Portuguese space and cultural details is observed in order to establish in which way they are used by Polish female authors. Although all three of them use techniques and narrative schemes typical for popular literature, it can be argued that they do so with different objectives in mind, Słabuszewska-Krauze’s novel being an example of intentional intercultural approach.
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Funding information

This publication was funded by the program „Excellence Initiative – Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow” and „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”, MEiN, no RCN/SP/0284/2021.