The paper discusses the genres of alternate history and uchronias, and their subversive potential as a literary aporia of politics and of the historical knowledge. The Point of Divergence as a pricipium of the genre is the ...

In my article I focus on the category of raptularz which was not yet elaborated. It appeared in old Polish language, and it gained a great popularity in the 20th century. Using the dictionaries and ...

Fundamental to the construction of any apocryphal text is its reference to a canon, which could be but is not always biblical. Thus by definition, apocryphal intertextual mediatization relies on the explicit communication ...

Since at least the beginning of the 20th century located in between word and picture logo−visual forms have a critical charge, which results from the impact of two different media (word and picture) in a single work. ...

The paper surveys the influence of Kierkegaard's theory of the Greek and the modern tragedy, spread through his various writings, on the 20th Century Critical Theory, especially Adorno. The theses that author formulates ...

The article presents a genological criticism on the example of the Polish nationalist poetry of the thirties. The author, on the basis of journalism and poems, shows the geneological reflection as a variant of an ideological ...

Rhetorical Criticism has its roots in two traditions. The first is the tradition of téchne rhetoriké and its beginning is in the works by Plato and Aristotle (for part of the scholars the early days of r.c. are in the time ...

The Article is Dedicated to Present an Environmentalist (Environmental, Ecological) Novel as a 'Critical Genre'. I show its attributes in contrast with a nature novel which in turn I define as a thematic novel ...

The key point of this article is: on the XX/XXI centuries we more and more often apply heroes, subjects and conventions of the science fiction, particularly when we talk and write about problems of the contemporary ...