Op reis met “Elckerlijc” en Stefan Mrożewski

This article deals with modern illustrations accompanying medieval text, with special attention to one publication – the modern edition of Middle Dutch Elckerlijc and the woodcuts made by Stefan Mrożewski. The article introduces the circumstances in which the book was published and in which the Polish artist prepared his prints. The main analysis discusses the choices made by Mrożewski and the many different ways in which he refers to the historic past in his work. In order to show a broader framework of the subject, the article also briefly sketches the Polish literary reception of the medieval morality play.

Byron’s Spanish Afterlives: Emilio Castelar’s Vida de Lord Byron

This article examines Emilio Castelar’s Vida de Lord Byron (1873), the first Spanish biography of Byron. Borrowing most information from Moore’s and, especially, Lescure’s biographies of the poet, Castelar provides an apologetic and over-romantic portrait of Byron, in which he tries to reconstruct his private life and inner self, depicting him as a tragic hero who, despite his excesses, should be recognised as a universal genius. Castelar’s biography, which became an immediate success, illustrates the keen interest that Byron still aroused in Spain in the late nineteenth century and it deserves to be considered in the study of Spanish Byronism, a cultural phenomenon that includes but should not be limited to the literary reception of his poetry.

Literary Reception of War in the Contemporary Georgian Women’s Poetry

War has been reflected in national cultures and literature of every country, as it is related to sharp and turbulent emotions. The fear of death, tension, heroic pathos and suffering, following every war, gives it esthetic value and certain romantic touch too. Georgian-Ossetian conflict, war in Abkhazia, civil war and Georgian-Russian war have clearly been reflected in the literature created at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, both in prose and poetry. In the presented report I will discuss Georgian women’s poetry, in which war is a literary reception and poems are the space for the reflection of emotions caused by war. In 2020, were published 2 volumes of the Almanac – Without Limits – which include texts by Georgian woman poets and writers, dedicated to war. Accordingly, the main literary material when preparing the report was the first, poetry volume of the aforementioned Almanac. The thesis does not consider discussion of war reception in general, in contemporary poetry, but only in the works by contemporary woman poets. There are radically different opinions on whether or not anthologies must differ according to gender and that art and its creator – artist – do not have an art-gender. It is true that art is universal and stands above any ethnic, race, religious, gender or age affiliations; however, we cannot ignore the fact that all these criteria are revealed themselves in literary works. Therefore, women’s poetry is specific and woman is always seen in its invisible nuances. In view of the research, it appeared to be very interesting and essential, how the war topic has been accepted and processed by contemporary women’s poetry. Contexts of Russian occupation, Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetian ethnic conflicts, civil wars, formed as the new, post-soviet stereotypes, have clearly been reflected in Georgian women’s poetry; while postmodernism has appeared to be the favorable space for ignoring the Soviet clichés.

"Encontré tres palabras para jugar hoy: exacto, excéntrico, extremo": el efecto performático en los cuentos de Nadine Alemán

Current Argentinean Patagonian narrative possesses Nadine Alemán (Esquel, 1977) as one of its most suggestive and creative voices. This assertion is based on her capacity to construct a narrative imaginary that produces performance effects, derived from the confluence and evocation of other languages that can be found in the literary reception of 17 simples cuentos (2006) and of El cura y la sucia (2012). The traditional boundaries that tend to restrict literature to a specific field of critical action seem, in consequence, to become fuzzy. Thus, performance ―as a “methodological lense”, according to Diana Taylor― is made into a certain possibility that widens perspectives to approach this Spanish American writing proposal.

Effect of Pornography Discourse on the Reception of Novel Stensilan by Enny Arrow

This study aims to analyze the pornography discourse in the reception of Enny Arrow's stencil novels among millennial men. The study is qualitative. The research sample focused on two millennial men in Surakarta who read the novel Enny Arrow stencil intensively. The data collected by interviews and observations over six months. In this study, researchers asked two newly recognized millennial men to read and interpret Enny Arrow's stenciled novel. After that, the researcher looks at the effect on the social relationships of the participants. The theory used to analyze the data in this study was Normand Holland's psychoanalytic literary reception. After the data analysis process, it was revealed that pornography can be both a consumption and a taboo subject. Although it is considered a sensational topic of conversation, the participants considered pornography should not be used as a general topic of conversation. Keywords: pornography, discourse, sex, stencil novel, Enny Arrow

About the Early Translations of Yordan Yovkov's Stories and Their Reception in the Polish Cultural Context

This article is devoted to the first translations of Yordan Yovkov's stories in Poland and some problems related to the reception of translated literature in a foreign cultural environment. The works of the Bulgarian writer in the mentioned period were published in Polish magazines with an orientation towards the so-called women's topics. Their literary supplements published novels and short stories by the world's most famous authors at the time and were intended for adherents of women's emancipation, with broad intellectual horizons and good literary taste. The choice of specific works by Yordan Yovkov makes it possible to assess the literary reception and the dominant aesthetic norms in the host culture and literature. The article also analyzes the issues of language and poetics of the text, as well as the attempts of several generations of Polish translators to "overcome" the difficulties of the style and poetics of Yovkov's work.

The collection 'Svinja je odličan plivač' (1971) by Miroljub Todorović in the light of Serbo-Polish connections

The introductory part of the paper highlights the threefold importance of Miroljub Todorović's poetry collection Svinja je odličan plivač [A Pig Is an Excellent Swimmer] (1971). The success of the book is important for Signalism and the work of Miroljub Todorović, as well as literary reception since a selection of his poetry (2009) and a recent Polish edition (2020) bear the same title. We refer to the image of the pig as in a diary and the poetry and prose in Šatrovački argot, so as to portray the poetic pig motif as complementary with the works of Signalism. Ultimately, we approach the 1971 poetry collection in a comparatist manner, comparing the poetry of Signalism to the poetry of the Polish poetess Ewa Lipska. In relation to being compared to the poetry of Ewa Lipska, the pig becomes a signum of a mankind deprived of love. Further comparison between the poetry book Svinja je odličan plivač and the poetry of the Polish poetess is founded on the similarities and differences in terms of their respective relationship towards machines, surrealism, the eyes motif, children, the concept of time, and the figures of Shakespeare and Socrates.