Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica: Recent submissions
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Professor Barbara Bogołębska. An Outstanding Academic, a Wonderful Human Being
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From the editors
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The theater is always dying
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The Theater Is always Dying traces the resilience of live theatrical performance in the face of competing performative forms like cinema, television and contemporary streaming services on personal, hand-held devices and ... -
Performing death: Marina Abramović’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This essay analyses the opera project 7 Deaths of Maria Callas by Marina Abramović, premiered in Munich in September, 2020. The first section reconstructs the role that the Greek soprano played in the life of the Serbian ... -
Poetic landscapes of Wilhelm Przeczek
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Wilhelm Przeczek is a Polish writer who has lived in Karviná, the Czech Republic, since he was born in 1936. He is a member of a Polish minority and he has aimed his literary output at its members and at readers in Poland. ... -
Emmanuel Lévinas. Praise of atheism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Lévinas presents atheism as the original good condition of the soul before acknowledging or rejecting God. Such description is closely linked to the notion of separation. Man is a created being, but a separated one, ... -
With rhymes about the human fate. Philosophy in the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Giacomo Leopardi is one of those authors whose texts oscillate on the border between literature and philosophy. It is true that Leopardi does not use traditional forms of philosophical expression, but the fact is that most ... -
„Dlaczego ja piszę?” Wokół filozofii pisania Sławomira Mrożka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article focusses on the meta-literary thread in the correspondence exchanged between Sławomir Mrożek and Wojciech Skalmowski. The latter, wondering about the actual reason why writers create literature, provocatively ... -
What does the silent planet tell us? The analysis of selected philosophical themes found in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The paper analyses selected philosophical aspects of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris. I argue that there is an interesting similarity between the history of “Solarist studies” –the fictional scientific discipline depicted by Lem ... -
The woman had to fall? Jean-Baptiste Clamence and the literary infection by evil
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article presents the concept of evil, as developed in the literary as well as philosophical works of Albert Camus. After a short, preliminary notice on the relationship between literature and evil, the article presents ... -
Rumory wojny. Szkic do portretu Franza Kafki (na przykładzie opowiadania Bratobójstwo)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In current research on the work of Franz Kafka, war issues occur rather incidentally. In the presented article, the Author points out the omission of kafkology and tries to indicate possible directions of belumic interpretation. ... -
Swojskie przestrzenie absurdu
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The subject of analysis in the article is The Metamorphosis (1915) of Franz Kafka. The author attempts to capture various aspects of the Kafka space phenomenon in the context of the functioning of the wall / ceiling motif ... -
Uniwersytet w stanie podejrzenia. Na marginesie Sprawozdania dla Akademii Franza Kafki
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The idea of the university was never a significant context for researchers of Franz Kafka work. It was the other social institutions that became the natural source of allusive recognition of literary scholars (court, ... -
System VR – nowa przestrzeń komunikacyjna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article describes areas of interpersonal communication in which the Virtual Reality technology plays an increasingly bigger role. The analysis of data shows that the VR system has proved successful in entertainment ... -
Znaczenie praktyki dla badacza kultury cyfrowej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article discusses the importance of practice for conducting research on digital culture. It poses questions about whether one should possess technical competences in the field of digital humanities and in what way they ... -
Decomposing the asylum in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies: Genetic criticism and the author
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This article focuses on Samuel Beckett’s use of the asylum in his novel Malone Dies to explore the role of non-textual elements in genetic criticism (the study of a writer’s creative process through the analysis of their ... -
Humanistyka, zmiana, autobiografia. Studium przypadku osobistego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article follows dynamic changes and evolutions in the history of research theories in the field of humanities. It begins with an analysis of studies on group identity, and drawing from ideas by Ewa Domanska, it employs ... -
Miejsce jako czynnik sprawczy w twórczości Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego (na przykładzie opowiadania Most. Z kroniki naszego miasta)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The author analyses the relation between the literary character and the place in Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Most. Z kroniki naszego miasta (1963). The author attempts to prove that places shown by Herling-Grudziński play ... -
Humanistyka emancypacji, czyli przestrzenie życia i przestrzenie komunikacji między słowem a wirtualnością
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article offers a summary of a number of approaches to contemporary humanities in which the main dynamics of research and methodology could be characterised as emancipation. The humanities is seen here not merely as an ... -
“Who of us has never traced light over these walls”?: The archaeology of Stanisław Grochowiak’s poems
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Through a simple wall, a transparent element of everyday life, Stanisław Grochowiak’s poems enable one to uncover the existential concrete element, matter endowed with an amazing hypnagogic potential, a chronicle of ...