Magdalena Kokoszka

• University of Silesia in Katowice

The article centers on the Romantic cult of familiarity as an essential premise for the idea of nature conservation. The reading of Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz shows that economic or aesthetic motives for acting for the benefit of the natural environment are ultimately less important than an intimate, ‘homely’ relationship with nature: love of na...

Rekonstruowany w artykule ironiczno-żartobliwy portret „najsłynniejszego kota PRL-u”, jednego z bohaterów prozy Tadeusza Konwickiego, to okazja do opowieści o zwierzęciu stowarzyszonym z człowiekiem, a także pisarzu i jego biofilii, relacjach z tym, co „znacząco inne”. Prozaik ceni atrybuty kojarzone raczej z fauną nieudomowioną, jakimi bywają siła...

Książka zawiera szkice poświęcone pisarzom, którym nieobca jest ambiwalencja lekkości i ciężaru. Twórcy ci chwytają za pióro, by szukać remedium na życiowy bezwład, przede wszystkim zaś wymknąć się inercji, która udziela się słowu. Próby przezwyciężania tego, co ciąży i stawia opór, podejmowane (z różnym skutkiem) przez prezentowanych autorów – Bol...

In search of the key to describe the fauna present in Bogdan Czaykowski’s poetry, the author of the article draws attention to the intriguing multiplicity of animal motifs in this poetry, to the variety of species referred to, the multiplicity forms, the impressive richness of detail. However, multiplicity is not always simply a matter of number. C...

Statistically, among not particularly abundant and diverse fauna depicted in Liebert’s poems, insects – including the metaphorically depicted ones – occupy one of the focal positions next to the usually exposed birds. The author of the article pays close attention to the poet’s actions that seem to be hiding (concealing) the existential anxieties:...

It seems that Bolesław Leśmian could anticipate the contemporary critical reflection on disability (disability studies). According to Tymoteusz Karpowicz, the poetry of the author of The Beggar’s Ballad [Ballada dziadowska] can be read, among other things, as a defence of being what you are and not necessarily what you want to be. This thesis is in...

The author of this article is interested in insect motifs appearing above all in MariaPawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s Szkicownik poetycki. The modern war described by the poet shatters the epidermal order of the world; it seems to allow the incomprehensible - that which is not an object yet, such as insects-planes, but which is not a subject anymore, su...

The article draws on the fragrances that dominate in the poetry written by Anna Świrszczyńska - it means: the odours associated with the organic matter, the matter of the body that lives, experiences and suffers. It should be noted that the key to this world of smells may be the biography of the poet, in particular her traumatic experiences of the...

The author of the article asserts that nowadays the anthologist is a persona of increasing prestige. She also tackles the widespread use of the terms "choice" and "anthology" as practically synonymous. She focuses on the specificity of the increasinglypopular kind of choices - that with a strongly resounding author-subject, presenting chiefly one’s...

„Epoka nasza jest epoką antologii” – teza Władysława Tatarkiewicza, wyartykułowana jeszcze na przełomie lat 70. i 80. ubiegłego wieku, nie straciła na aktualności. Antologia wydaje się jedną z form bloku silva o kapitalnym znaczeniu dla współczesnej kultury – w istocie skazanej na jakiś rodzaj selekcjonowania zalewającego półki księgarskie piśmienn...

The author of the following article is interested primarily by the dark facet of Sebyła’s natural vitalism, which she traces alongside her reading of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka (Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata). Over the bogs, marshes, swamps and wetlands, there exists a multiplicity of nighttime animal life which, regardless of the actual species, exhi...

The author of the article compares the writer‘s poetic and horticultural activity. She is interested in Vilnius heritage (especially that connected with Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł), which shaped the natural sensitivity of the poet, and the famed home garden at Oak Park (the suburbs of Chicago), or, as Ryszard Sawicki suggested, Karpowicz’s “Americ...

Książka pomyślana została jako dzieło ofiarowane Profesorowi Aleksandrowi Nawareckiemu, twórcy mikrologii literackiej, historykowi i teoretykowi literatury, znanemu autorowi prac śląskoznawczych. Teksty, zgromadzone w prezentowanym tomie, wyrastają z bliskich Mu fascynacji – z poszukiwania literackich osobliwości, przygody studiowania detali i sięg...

The author of the paper, following Frank Kujawiński and Tomasz Tabako, offers a reading of Karpowicz’s texts, positing in this instance that the pivot of the creative imagination is the category of space — especially germane to American culture. While space — centerless like a desert, in constant movement, limitless, and above all prehuman — establ...

The article concentrates on a description of the poetic universum by Leśmian. Both in the essayistic and poetic works the very poet consistently eliminates the division between the extra verbal reality and the language. It levels the language and the world, poetic word and man standing behind it (with the whole base of desires and emotions), referr...