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Reading Taboos as Allegory in O. V. Vijayan’s The Saga of Dharmapuri

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Singh R. P.

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2015

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nr 1

129-136

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The Saga of Dharmapuri, written during the days of political Emergency in India, and published when the emergency was lifted, is a poignant satire upon the then Indian political administration. The decoders of this allegory find Dharmapuri in parallel with Delhi, and that of the King with Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The beginning of the novel with the visible apocalypse of etiquette and decency in public mannerism, connotes its leanings towards postmodernist announcement of the end of grand tradition, and making even taboos to work as allegory in formal discourse. The present paper is an attempt towards decoding different metaphors and allegories used in The Saga of Dharmapuri.

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Un monde futur, un monde potentiel. La perspective des animaux sur l’humanité dans Demain les chats de Bernard Werber

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Drab E.

e-Scripta Romanica

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2023

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tom 11

97-106

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The novel Demain les chats (2016) by French writer Bernard Werber favors an analysis of the animal perspective in the narrative. Understanding the way the feline protagonists as well as the relationship between animals and humans are presented can allow conclusions about a potential world of the future in which humanity has failed during the transition between the Anthropocene and the apocalypse. Thus, the animals become both the victims of the catastrophe and the new dominant group. First, the context of the argument needs to be established by providing the fundamental information on the author, his works and the novel in question, including the feline protagonists. In the subsequent stage, the analysis will shift to the manner in which the characters of cats are depicted, examined by the means of a classification focused on the relationship between animals and humans. It leads to the observation of the hybrid nature of the characters and the perspective adopted by the author to describe them. Finally, the analysis results in the examination of the world perceived by the animals, a dystopian reality where the apocalypse marks the end of the Anthropocene and the change in the existing balance of power.

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Le roman Demain les chats (2016) de l’écrivain français Bernard Werber favorise une analyse de la perspective animale dans le récit. Comprendre la manière de présenter les protagonistes félins ainsi que les liens entre les animaux et les humains peut permettre des conclusions sur un monde futur potentiel dans lequel l’humanité a échoué lors de la transition entre l’Anthropocène et une apocalypse, tandis que les animaux deviennent à la fois les victimes de la catastrophe et le nouveau groupe dominant. D’abord, il faut établir le contexte et fournir des informations de base sur l’auteur, son œuvre et le roman abordé, en ce compris ses protagonistes félins. Dans l’étape suivante, au centre de l’analyse se trouve la façon de dépeindre les personnages des chats, caractérisée à l’aide d’une classification focalisée sur la relation entre les animaux et les humains. Cela mène à l’observation du caractère hybride des personnages et de la perspective adoptée par l’auteur pour les décrire. Enfin, l’analyse aboutit à la caractérisation du monde observé par les animaux, une réalité dystopique dans laquelle l’apocalypse marque la fin de l’Anthropocène et le changement dans le rapport de forces existant.

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Mémoire et oubli post-apocalyptiques dans La Possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq et Le Dernier homme de Margaret Atwood

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Žíla D.

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nr Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature

203-214

EN

This contribution analyzes the role of memory and oblivion in the novels The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. In both of them, these two notions play an important role in the constitution of the identity of the major characters after the collapse of civilization and during the foundation of a new humanity.

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Knjiga za zombije. O programiranoj budućnosti i pisanju bez posljednje svrhe

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Paić Ž.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2019

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nr 17

173-189

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The article deals with the analysis of the relationship between art, literature, and democracy, starting with the interpretation of Deleuzeʼs reading of D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse. It is shown that in the contemporary world we are faced with a radical turn of knowledge, values and ways of thinking. Instead of the word prophecy, the act becomes a vision of transparency that has its most powerful means in the logic of mass media interaction. Hence the image that precedes the world has the potential for transforming the idea of the Book into a post-apocalyptic era of visualization of objects. With the help of Deleuzeʼs concepts such as multitude, difference and becoming, the article focuses on the criticism of the democratic emptiness of the world from which the secret has disappeared, and there has been only writing for survivors, the Book for Zombies. Is this a metaphysical testament at the time when writing has nothing more to do with the reference framework of modern art, when a change in the society could still set goals and tasks?

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Wygnani z raju – analiza toposu domu w filmach Andrieja Zwiagincewa

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Tes U.

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nr 41

303-316

EN

The topos of ‘home’ is one of the most important motifs in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s films. The director perceives ‘home’ as a material and symbolic term. It applies to the place where a family lives and to the house of God. The article refers to Eliade’s well-known concept of home, but also to the more modern one created by Zbigniew Kadłubek, who writes about oikology in the context of faith. The article reveals the richness of mythical, cultural, religious and artistic references. Each film exposes different images of ‘home’, but they use common metaphors, such as the fall, destruction and the apocalypse. Contemporary man, turned away from God, recreates the mythical thread of exile and ceases to have a safe place to be in the world. In such works as The Banishment, Leviathan, Elena, and Loveless, the director fully showed the consequences of losing the spiritual dimension of life. The proposed interpretations of Zvyagintsev’s films expand the reception of his work in Poland.

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Poetyka pustego miasta. Pejzaże urbanistyczne w katastroficznej science fiction

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Szałasek F.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2013

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tom 1

138-157

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Post-apocalyptic novel – a catastrophic branch of science fiction devoted to the vision of civilization ruined by some sort of a cataclysm – managed to form a separate poetics of space creation. Images of the presented world depend on the psychological shape of the heroes who are directly exposed to the extreme boundary experience. When picturing the landscapes of desolated metropolises, the authors use solutions typical for horror and adventure novels, the ex- and impressionistic traditions as well as techniques typical for grotesque and naturalism. By extending the paths typical for science fiction, the post-apocalyptic novel moves away from the main movement and forms a separate convention of the description. The author of the article tries to shed some light on its assumptions by providing numerous examples of urban landscapes.

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„Próba generalna” współ-odczuwania z nie-ludźmi w opowiadaniu Olgi Tokarczuk

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Kamiński S.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2022

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nr 15

82-94

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The work reflects Olga Tokarczuk’s short story Dress Rehearsal which deals with the topic of apocalypse, climatic catastrophe, and climate change. The article is a part of a scientific work, which is a master’s thesis dealing with the complex issue of the subjectivity of animals and nature, as well as the common environment and post-environment, and the study of the relationship between humans and non-humans. In the work, the Nobel Prize winner comes under the influence of a ‘world-creator’ and an ‘intense observer’, thus human relations can be complicated in times of the end of the world and how human attitudes towards animals and the world change. This time of the end, marked by Giorgio Agamben with the messianic era, allows for a certain non-action towards reality, and empathy and compassion begin being a remedy for centuries of objectification of other beings.

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„Podróż ku sobie w podróże od siebie”. O poezji i sztuce Ewy Kuryluk

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Stankowska A.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2018

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nr 32

221-249

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The paper is devoted to Ewa Kuryluk’s poetry and art. The author describes intermingling dimensions of the poet’s artistic identity – existential, hermeneutical and aesthetical – presenting three major tensions present in her work. The first one is between the apocalypse and utopia. The second one may be described by the phrase from one of her poems, establishing the first rule of hermeneutics, according to which she tries to understand herself and the world. The poet defines existence and understanding as a “journey towards oneself and from oneself”. The idea of the third tension may be defined as a spread between the shade/contour and the reflection/picture. The author focuses on presenting the parallels between Kuryluk’s artistic work and her early poems.

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Intertextuality of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle

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Zegarlińska M.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2014

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tom 2

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nr 1

50-58

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The Chronicles of Narnia has an established position in the canon of children’s literature. However, what on the surface is a fairy tale involving adventures and magic; with children, kings, talking beasts, and wood spirits as main protagonists; is, in fact, a set of stories deeply rooted in Christian and chivalric traditions, containing elements of beast fable and morality tale. The story, according to Madeline L’Engle, depending on the reader's cultural knowledge and experience, may be understood on various levels, from the literal one of an adventure story for children, through the moral and allegorical levels, eventually reaching the anagogical level. While reading The Chronicles, one is able to notice various references to other written works, interwoven into the text, with the Bible, chivalric romances and beast fables being the most prominent sources of intertextual allusions. In The Last Battle Lewis attempts to answer John Donne’s question, “What if this present were the world’s last night?" (Holy Sonnet XIII) and presents a comprehensive image of Narnian apocalypse and life after death in Aslan’s country. The following paper will present the most noteworthy intertextual references in the final volume of The Narniad.

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Biblijne obrazy nieba w późnej liryce Juliusza Słowackiego. Kilka uwag badawczych

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Kulesza M.

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2016

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nr 23

165-180

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Niniejszy artykuł jest poświęcony obrazom nieba w późnej twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego. Głównym przedmiotem rozważań są te poetyckie utwory, w których obecne są przemyślenia na temat Jerozolimy Słonecznej i związanej z nią problematyki apokaliptycznej. Owe obrazy nieba badacze zwykli byli interpretować często w kontekście (nieortodoksyjnej) filozofii genezyjskiej poety. Praca zwraca uwagę na fakt, że w późnej liryce Słowackiego, nieprzeznaczonej do publikacji, napotykamy nieco odmienną koncepcję przestrzeni niebiańskich, zgodną w swoim przesłaniu z biblijnymi obrazami nieba.

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This article is dedicated to the poetic images of heaven in the late poetry of Juliusz Słowacki. Until now, researchers used to relate these images and interpret them in the context of the “Genesis” philosophy of the poet. Meanwhile, it is worth noting that the late Słowacki’s lyrics, not intended for publication, show quite different pictures of heaven which seem to be similar to those in the Bible and standing somewhat in contradiction to the Genesis philosophy.

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Intertextuality of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle

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Zegarlińska M. , University of Gdańsk , Magdalena Zegarlińska is a senior year graduate student at the University of Gdansk. She is an author of various articles devoted to film studies and British literature a. a. m. o. r. g. c. r. i. t. a. o. d.

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The Chronicles of Narnia has an established position in the canon of children’s literature. However, what on the surface is a fairy tale involving adventures and magic; with children, kings, talking beasts, and wood spirits as main protagonists; is, in fact, a set of stories deeply rooted in Christian and chivalric traditions, containing elements of beast fable and morality tale. The story, according to Madeline L’Engle, depending on the reader's cultural knowledge and experience, may be understood on various levels, from the literal one of an adventure story for children, through the moral and allegorical levels, eventually reaching the anagogical level. While reading The Chronicles, one is able to notice various references to other written works, interwoven into the text, with the Bible, chivalric romances and beast fables being the most prominent sources of intertextual allusions. In The Last Battle Lewis attempts to answer John Donne’s question, “What if this present were the world’s last night?" (Holy Sonnet XIII) and presents a comprehensive image of Narnian apocalypse and life after death in Aslan’s country. The following paper will present the most noteworthy intertextual references in the final volume of The Narniad.

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Radical Ecopoetics: The Apocalyptic Vision of Jorie Graham’s Sea Change

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Ryoo G. T.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2023

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nr 13

92-108

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Jorie Graham’s Sea Change (2008) addresses the environmental crisis engendered by climate change, sending us a dire warning of the end of humanity by featuring an apocalyptic world. Sea Change gives a poetic voice to the dynamics of climate change by embodying the catastrophe in linguistic forms and thus enabling us to experience the ecological crisis. For Graham, poetic imagination is an act of physical or bodily engagement as it brings together linguistic and emotional factors into an embodied performance. This paper explores the affective dimension of Graham’s experimental poetry to demonstrate how her radical ecopoetics allows us to (re)engage with the material world, and how it changes our perceptual and sensorial registers to awaken our sense of interconnectedness with nonhuman others.

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Zombie nad Wisłą. Na marginesie powieści Igora Ostachowicza i Jacka Dehnela

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Piechota D.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2020

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tom 15

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nr 10

464-482

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This article is an attempt to answer the question why zombie motif is so popular in contemporary Polish literature. The author analyses two novels (Nocżywych Żydów by Ostachowicz, Ale z naszymi umarłymi by Dehnel) in which zombies appear. In Ostachowicz’s novel they symbolize Jewish people, who were killed during the 2nd World War. In his story the writer indicates the fact that Polish society has forgotten about their existence. Whereas in Dehnel’s novel zombie symbolizes fascism which is rising in contemporary Poland. It is worth mentioning that both writers use post-apocalyptic genre to talk about fears and prejudice of Polish society. What is more, the writers indicate that violence is now a huge problem in Poland. This convention seems to be the most adequate to discuss about moral condition of society.

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Artykuł jest próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie, dlaczego motyw zombie jest tak popularny we współczesnej polskiej literaturze. Autor analizuje dwie powieści (Noc żywych Ostachowicza, Ale z naszymi umarłymi Dehnela), w których pojawiają się zombie. W powieści Ostachowicza symbolizują Żydów, którzy zginęli w czasie II wojny światowej. W swojej opowieści pisarz zwraca uwagę na fakt, że społeczeństwo polskie zapomniało o ich istnieniu. Natomiast w powieści Dehnela zombie symbolizuje narastający we współczesnej Polsce faszyzm. Warto wspomnieć, że obaj pisarze używają gatunku postapokaliptycznego, aby mówić o lękach i uprzedzeniach polskiego społeczeństwa. Co więcej, autorzy wskazują, że przemoc jest obecnie ogromnym problemem w Polsce. Ta konwencja wydaje się najbardziej adekwatna do dyskusji o kondycji moralnej społeczeństwa.

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Świat po katastroﬁe. Motywy postczarnobylskie w powieści Очамимря Ołeksandra Irwańca i w dramacie Na początku i na końcu czasów Pawła Arje

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Olechowska P. , Zambrzycka M.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2019

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tom 7

121-136

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The subject of the article is the analysis of post-Chernobyl themes in the novel by Oleksandr Irwaniec Ochamimriya and in Pawel Arje’s play At the beginning and end of time. The Chernobyl disaster played a key role in the development of contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. Chernobyl very quickly became a universal metaphor that have gone far beyond ecology and into a cultural and political context. In both works, the atomic explosion (taken literally by Arje, as the explosion of the No. IV reactor in Chernobyl and by Irvacek more vaguely as an explosion) is a key element of the plot, aﬀ ecting both the fate of the characters and the shape of the surrounding reality. Although these works belong to two diﬀ erent literary genres and showcase two diﬀ erent conventions of presenting reality, they are connected by a post-apocalyptic vision of the world and the concept of a looping time. The heroes of both texts live in a time after the catastrophe, deprived of civilized goods and isolated from the rest of the world. In the novel by Irwaniec, this time after the catastrophe is a sort of “new medieval” with a decidedly pessimistic expression while in Arje’s drama the return to the pre-industrial worldview contains hope for ﬁ nding traditional values. Both texts also address issues relevant to the modern post-Soviet society, but they do so in very diﬀerent ways. Irwaneć uses grotesque, to deprive his characters of complexity, while Arje makes his characters deeply tragic and psychologically probable.

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Postapokaliptyczny obraz Polski w „Apokalipsie według Pana Jana” Roberta J. Szmidta

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Krzykała E. J.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio FF – Philologia

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2016

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tom 34

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nr 2

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Issues discussed in post-apo fiction also gain popularity elsewhere. The devastated reality, within the a trend of alternative history is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. A good example is Apokalipsa według Pana Jana [Mr. John’s Apocalypse], with its panorama of radioactive deserts and completely devastated city. The present study analyzes the topography of the destroyed city of Wrocław in order to create a “map” of the new Fourth Republic, as well as to consider the social structures and the laws that organize the life of survivors and future generations in a new post-apo world.

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Problematyka post-apo zatacza coraz szersze kręgi. Bohomaz zdewastowanej rzeczywistości włączającej się w nurt alternative history stanowi niewyczerpane źródło inspiracji. Doskonałym przykładem jest w tym kontekście Apokalipsa według Pana Jana, która panoramę radioaktywnych pustyń i spustoszonych miast przenosi na grunt Polski. Celem rozważań autorki jest analiza topografii zrównanego z ziemią Wrocławia, odtworzenie „mapy” IV Rzeczpospolitej, a także przyjrzenie się wyrastającym spod gruzów lechickiej krainy strukturom społecznym oraz prawu mającemu organizować życie ocalałych i całej przyszłej generacji.

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Obraz państwa postapokaliptycznego w prozie Ziemowita Szczerka

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Dąbrowska J. E.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio FF – Philologia

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2016

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tom 34

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nr 2

EN

This article attemps to analyse a theme of the post-apocalypse in Ziemowit Szczerek’s literary work, the author of three gonzo reportages: The Seven, The Mordor Will Come and Eat Us, The Trident Tattoo. Szczerek uses post-apocalyptic imagery to describe modern Ukraine and a newly formed country.

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W artykule analizowany jest motyw postapokalipsy w twórczości Ziemowita Szczerka, autora trzech reportaży w stylu gonzo: Siódemka, Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje oraz Tatuaż z tryzubem. Szczerek wykorzystuje metaforykę postapokaliptyczną, opisując współczesną Ukrainę i tworzące się na nowo państwo.

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Czas apokalipsy. Przemoc, wojna i pragnienie mimetyczne według René Girarda

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Ufnal P.

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nr 1

261-276

EN

According to René Girard’s mimetic theory, all desire is the imitation of another person’s desire, thus violence results from destructive competition. The violence originating from mimetic desire can concern any object: the fact that an object is in possession of someone else makes it attractive to the point of inducing the outbreak of violence. Therefore, differences are not the source of violence, as Girard says, but similarities. In this article, I have tried to explain causes, mechanisms and effects of the mimetic desire, and to outline Girard’s pessimistic view of the world. The apocalypse has begun.

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Zgodnie z teorią mimetyczną René Girarda, według której każde pragnienie jest naśladowaniem pragnienia innej osoby, wszelka przemoc wynika z destrukcyjnej rywalizacji. Przemoc będąca następstwem pragnienia mimetycznego może dotyczyć każdego przedmiotu: fakt, że przedmiot ten jest w posiadaniu kogoś innego, czyni go atrakcyjnym do tego stopnia, że wzbudza zachowania, które mogą prowadzić do wybuchu przemocy. Zatem to nie różnice są źródłem przemocy, jak mówi Girard, ale podobieństwa. W artykule starałem się wyjaśnić przyczyny, mechanizm i skutki pragnienia mimetycznego oraz nakreślić pesymistyczną wizję upadku świata według Girarda, który uważa, że apokalipsa już się zaczęła.

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The Sense of an Ending and the Imagination of the End: Apocalypse, Disaster and Messianic Time

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Niedziałek E.

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nr 11

1-7

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Współczesne wizje apokaliptyczne wykraczają poza chrześcijańską eschatologię. Wiążą się nie tyle już z biblijnym lękiem przed sądem ostatecznym, ile z niejasnym poczuciem końca, które podsycane jest przez wydarzenia takie jak Holokaust, kryzys nuklearny, globalna pandemia czy zmiany klimatyczne. Jedenasty numer Colloquia Humanistica poświęcony jest różnym pojęciom końca, związanym z apokalipsą, myśleniem katastroficznym lub też czasem mesjańskim. Artykuły zgromadzone w tomie można czytać osobno, jako analizy poszczególnych narracji poświęconych tematyce końca świata, stanowią one jednak także pewną całość, która ujawniać może wspólne cechy myślenia o końcu.

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Apocalyptic visions go beyond Christian eschatology and permeate our present imagination. Not so much with already bygone symbolism or the terror of bloody carnage, as with the vague sense of an ending, fuelled by historical conditions – the Holocaust, the nuclear crisis, or the more contemporary global threats of a viral pandemic or climate change. The 11th issue of Colloquia Humanistica is devoted to various understandings of the end, introduced by the topics of apocalypse, disaster and messianic time. The articles gathered in the volume may be read separately as examples of analysis of several end-time-directed narratives, but they also constitute a whole that may indicate the specific features of thinking about the end.

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Apokalipsa bez Mesjasza. Współczesne francuskie refleksje o katastrofach i końcu świata

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Sołonko N.

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2020

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tom 109

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nr 2

167-177

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The apocalyptic discourse in modern French thought tends to revolve around environmental crisis. However, in its reflection upon the end of the world it breaks with the biblical vision of the Apocalypse which describes the last turbulent days on earth and announces the triumphant return of the Messiah. According to Delsol, catastrophic thinking has adopted an equivocal approach to the Parousia. The hope of eternal life, as conveyed by the New Testament, is suppressed by the fear of climate catastrophe. Girard says that the rejection of the Gospel message of non-violence has resulted in increased terrorism and environmental pollution. Debray argues that times of crisis need to be given a meaning while disasters must be positively thought through; the prophetic books discuss the difficult present to announce the heavenly future. Latour observes that environmental sceptics live in the post-apocalyptic times. The return to biblical references is therefore to delay an imminent catastrophe. Ultimately, the entire discussion about the apocalypse without the Messiah is essentially a critique of modernity which, blinded by the ideology of growth, has plunged the world into a climate crisis.

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Kulturowe obrazy epidemii i wizje świata „od nowa”

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Szubert M.

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2022

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tom 120

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nr 4

96-109

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This article seeks to describe the social and cultural changes in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The (post)pandemic landscape turned out to materialise the long-felt visions – dystopias. The metaphors of alienation and exile have proven dramatically real in the age of the general (self-)isolation. Particularly interesting are the social reactions to ‘new’ threats: from epidemic denialism and scepticism to epidemic panic. The biological cataclysm has triggered an avalanche of social antagonisms, contradicting the optimistic (and, it appears, naïve) thesis about the democratic nature of the disease/epidemic. In the context of the events observed since 2020, one may wonder why the world ignored the numerous warnings of microbiologists and epidemiologists, while humanity – despite the spectacular advancement in medicine – has repeated the old, pre-scientific mechanisms of constant maladjustment? Attempts to answer these questions are accompanied by an analysis of anxiety and fear as extremely important emotions governing the social life. The article develops the thesis about the significant narrative/myth-forming potential of nearly every epidemic, indicating its characteristic language and symbolic layer. Importantly, the paper also offers post-pandemic forecasts seeking to answer questions about what the new reality will look like and to what extent the presence of this biological threat will revise our (old) understanding of the world.