The paper concerns posthuman and emancipatory contexts of Radek Rak’s novel The Tale of the Serpent’s Heart or Another Word about Jakób Szela. The story re-tells a fabled biography of Jakób Szela, the leader of the Peasant ...

The article is an attempt to discuss the specificity of the narrative in radio documentary. The documentary is treated as an artistic form of radio based on the character’s statement born during a meeting with a reporter, ...

This paper uses communicative-pragmatic analysis and a corpus-based method to investigate multidimensional axiological interpretation of Europäische Identität notion as a unifying political concept. The study focuses on ...

The study is carried out in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but since it considers political cartoons that, apart from linguistic, involve also other modes, the findings of theoreticians researching visual and ...

This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in the preface written by the North Irish poet Seamus Heaney to his retranslations of Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account the generic ...

The article concerns the reception of Marcel Proust’s novels by Anna Iwaszkiewiczowa (1897–1979) — an excellent expert in literature, music and painting, polyglot, erudite, humanist with a predilection for the exact sciences. ...

The nineteenth century was an age of reason and industrialization. Magic and mythical creatures ceased to exist for the rational minds of the time. Yet, despite the intellectual hostility to magic and mysticism, their sway ...

Postcolonial African literatures written in Portuguese build their identity by modifying existing linguistic and literary norms. One of its manifestations is including in writings elements of traditional orality. The orality ...

The article discusses the problem of the physical appearance of older people in the context of the stereotype that exists about old age and shows it in the context of intergenerational relations. The dynamics of socio ...