scholarly journals „Libri amici, libri magistri”. O oczekiwaniach czytelniczych młodzieży licealnej

Author(s):  
Agata Kucharska-Babula

The author of the text begins with presenting the results of opinion poll, she had carried out in 2016–2017 in five music high schools. It follows that teenagers who attend to artistic schools want to read more books during Polish language lessons. They want to get to know books, with contain the meaning of life. Moreover these novels should be close to the author’s life experiance. Books for teenagers should have also conteined literary work about artists. In the further part of this text, an author was discussed about a novel „Cudzoziemka” written by Maria Kuncewicz. It shows a perfect example where the word connects with the sound, she concluded. The article shows the musicality of a reading and connecting with music talented teenagers expectations. 

Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skowronek

In her article the author discusses “success” – one of most important words defining the contemporary culture and people. She asks about the meaning of the word and compares its use in self-help books with the definition found in dictionaries of the Polish language. How is the contemporary “culture of success” created by those “new” meaning profiles? The first part of the analysis concerns the semantics of “success” in selected historical and modern dictionaries. K. Skowronek points out that the word has undergone the process of amelioration: from a neutral element to a positive one. The second part of the article is a narrative analysis. The author presents the semantics of the word in contemporary self-help books. She highlights its individualistic and self-disciplining character. Nowadays, success is synonymous with happiness and the meaning of life. It predominantly entails an obsessive chase while not necessarily a real achievement.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Leonard Zissi

Albania is a small country in Europe, which was under Turkish occupation for nearly five centuries. It did not regain its independence until 28 November 1912. During the occupation there was almost no foreign literature translated into Albanian, as more than 85% of the population were illiterate and in general there were no scientific institutions or schools. The first primary school was opened in 1887. Only in the 1920s, with the emergence of intelligentsia, world literature started to be translated into Albanian, which included Polish literature. However, the translations were not done from the Polish language but from Italian translations of it. The first Polish literary work translated into Albanian from Italian was the Nobel prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel, Quo Vadis? (in 1933). The book was translated for the second time in 1999. The translation of Polish literature into  Albanian gained momentum after World War II, and especially after 2000. So far, nearly 55 books by 34 Polish authors have been translated into  Albanian, including Adam Mickiewicz (among them his great work, Pan Tadeusz), Henryk Sienkiewicz, Boleslaw Prus, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Olga Tokarczuk, Ryszard Kapuściński, Tadeusz Różewicz, Witold Gombrowicz, Fr. Marcin Czermiński, and  others. At the same time, 8 Albanian authors wrote books on Polish topics in Albanian. Apart from the Albanian translators from Albania, Polish literature has also been translated into Albanian by Albanians from Kosovo. In comparison with other European countries,  Albania is a leader as far as the number of Polish books translated is concerned. Polish literature in Albanian is generally popular among Albanian readers. Some of the books are published for the second, or even after the third time.


Author(s):  
Krystyna Kowalik

The paper contains some remarks on the titles (ideonyms) of the works by Jan Wiktor (1890–1967, mainly literary ones). The writer, who came from Radomysl (on the San River), was socially-oriented. He spent most of his life far away from his hometown. He was a resident of Cracow by choice. He had special affection for Szczawnica and Pieniny. He is particularly remembered for his loyalty to recognised ideology and friendships. As for important professional activities, he favoured travelling. These circumstances determined his journalistic and literary work. The titles he used for his works are strictly connected not only with the content and the trend they represent, but also their genre. By following the standards of microtext poetics, which the title of the work belongs to, they form more or less equal groups from one up to four words, less frequently – more extended. The most dominant category contains titles which have the form of a nominal phrase. Thanks to their literary shape, they are recognised as the texts belonging to certain periods and they clearly reflect Jan Wiktor’s artistic personality. This link is visible at the level of linguistic realisation of a formal structure, in the formation of its shape and artistic expression, in the field of using lexis from particular semantic fields and its architectonics, which is based on the similarities between rhetorical figures (Błogosławiony chleb ziemi czarnej, Droga przez wieś, Kłosy na ściernisku, Legenda o grajku bożym, Ożywcze krynice, Rozmowy pod kolorowym parasolem, Wyznania heretyka) or forming innovative contradictions (Orka na ugorze, Miłość wśród płonących wzgórz, Podróż po słońce, Papież i buntownik, Skrzydlaty mnich, Strzecha w cieniu drapaczy chmur, Wierzby nad Sekwaną). Also orka na ugorze is an idiomatic expression that has been popularised in the Polish language thanks to Jan Wiktor.


Author(s):  
Zofia Budrewicz, Maria Sienko

Between the sense of work and students’ reading concretisation. The significance of theory of literature in school education of literature (the outline of problem) The article depicts a synthesis of views on the role and significance of theory of literature in school practice of reading from the interwar period to contemporary times. It consists of three parts. In the first one the authors discuss the view of S. Skwarczyńska who sees theory of literature as fundamental in developing the analytical and interpretative skills of high school students. A reflection of textual reality in reader’s consciousness depends on the sense of literary work and its concretisation (or individuality, which is independent from reader’s perception). This view (and other scholars’ beliefs) did not solve more difficult issues, such as how to combine the analysis of the work structure with the involvement of student’s emotions. In later stages of the development of didactics of literature, the rift between the methods of text interpretation and theory of cognition, the aim of which is an aesthetic experience, did not offer satisfying methodological solutions. In the second part of the article the authors discuss a variety of methods serving to “improve”/modify the structural concept (of B. Chrząstowska), retaining its most significant elements: systematisation and organisation of students’ literary experience. These activities were inspired by new trends in the development of humanities thought (hermeneutics, cultural theory of literature, anthropology, poetics of experience). They recognize the primacy of reading over poetics, and interpretation over theory of literature which is given an important, anthropo-cognitive role. One of such proposals, which was fully used in I like it!, the series of course books (of Z.A. Kłakówna and others) designed for all levels of school Polish language and literature education, was discussed in the third part of the article. The place of theory of literature in the system of science of literature was changed over many years; as a result, its role in school education decreased. Contemporary didactic discourse demonstrates the complexity of the problem but it does not solve it unambiguously. It does not offer a “readymade” knowledge on the universal order of analytical and interpretation practices, but it obligates Polish philology teachers to be creative and to search for best solutions for their students. As such, it requires a professional philological preparation during the time of studies. 


Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kotarba

<p align="JUSTIFY">The task of humanistics, including didactics of the Polish language, is a meeting with literary work. This is a difficult task, especially nowadays when electronic media has become the main carriers of values and pseudo-values. The author presents the results of the research based on the value of reading after the lessons about Sophocles' <em>King Oedipus</em> as part of the curriculum of multimedia thematic modules. Reading has turned out to be an irreplaceable benefit in the face of the growing reluctance of young people to discuss difficult and demanding reading material in Polish language lessons.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Zając

Pointing to the progressive marginalization of the Enlightenment literature in the Polish language curricula implemented in secondary schools over the last several years, the author focuses on the related phenomenon of biased reception of that literature, dominated by stereotypes and simplifications. The author asks how the 18th and early-19th-century texts should be read – with the aim of restoring their proper rank in the cultural tradition – to perceive them not only in the historical and social context, and thus not to reduce their meaning to a didactic or political message. In the face of the disturbing trends in the field of literary studies, which instrumentalise a literary work, the author also stresses the need to avoid a situation in which the ideological beliefs of the researcher projected on an older text seem to dominate it, distorting its image.


Schulz/Forum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Rosiek

Schulz did not dwell in history. He lived apart from society, limiting his social contacts and giving them ritual forms. Generations of Polish Schulz scholars have seen him predominantly as an artist, an exceptional, unique writer, a “master of the Polish language,” while the Jewish diaspora has been approaching him in a very different way, mainly as a “symbol of the Holocaust and the loss that it caused.” These conflicting points of view point to a gap between art (literature) and history (biography). Schulz brought both domains together. He attempted to find and adopt a form of living in history and art that would let him keep at least some independence from the former. He believed that in writing or drawing it was possible to start “from oneself.” His artistic and literary works reveal a continuous endeavor to escape from history, if only in art. Was that possible at all? Can an artist escape from history, resist the power of temporality? The present essay is an attempt to address these questions. As a draughtsman, Schulz can hardly be placed in his epoch: he neither belongs to it, nor can be reduced to its norms. Except for his commissioned works, his oeuvre exists out of time, out of the artistic tradition, in three different genres: self-portrait, illustration, and compulsive drawing. It is characteristic that almost all his works from the third group are sketches. They seem to have no history, existing out of time and beyond the received conventions. Schulz’s sketch is a graphic gesture rather than an artistic activity. Whenever he tooka pen and a sheet of paper, he was everywhere and nowhere, always and never; out of time, imprisoned only in his present emotion. What is art for then? Under such circumstances, the major artistic controversies of the epoch seem irrelevant because something else is at stake. Schulz wanted to abolish the boundary between the draughtsman and the drawn, disappear in the act of creation, make that fact a fact of life. Does the literary work of the draughtsman follow the same principle? The final part of the essay is an argument for this hypothesis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Rima Sarah

Kahlil Gibran is a Lebanese-American artist, writer, and poet. He is no stranger to literary lovers and connoisseurs. His phenomenal works made Kahlil Gibran famous. His life experience also adds its unique value to his works. The various meanings hidden behind each of his works deserve further analysis. Some of them are typical poems from Kahlil Gibran. He has his way of expressing the true meaning of life through his poems. Therefore, this study will show the symbolic meaning of these poems by using the hermeneutical analysis method from Paul Ricoeur. This method explains the meaning of the symbol in real life. A symbol is a form that gives meaning to every word or sentence contained in a literary work. The result of this analysis is the discovery of various kinds of symbols contained in the poems by Kahlil Gibran, including symbols of love, life, and death. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that love, life, and death are some of the symbols found in Kahlil Gibran's poems.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Andra Fakhrian

Akeelah, a black American teenager, who faces many obstacles to achieveher purpose, to win the bee. Jibes, less attention from her mother, family,and even the roughness words are often heard by her until she becomesuncivilized. In the other side, Dylan-bourgeois with the bee�s tension aresupported her pessimism to become unsure of her own ability. Moreover, achronicle Gap Skin-Colors in America made people after she won theregional spelling bee. Thereof, Akeelah becomes more respectful and foundthe true meaning of life, all is full of love in all of sudden. Akeelah becomesmore open minded after her brutal and indecent. Hence, in this researchthe author will elaborate the logo therapy theory in a way to give a solutionfor status quo from the literary work analysis of �Akeelah and the Bee.Keywords: The logo-therapy theory, Status Quo, and Akeelah


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