Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Szczecin (PL) |
| ISSN | 2081-8718 / 2353-2831 |
| Wikidata | Q96725983 |
| OpenAlex | S4210192734 |
| MAG | 4210192734 |
| Website | http://www.us.szc.pl/main.php/Rocznik%20komparatystyczny |
| Total publications | 93 |
| Coverage period | 2015 - 2024 |
| Country | PL |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Impact factor | 0.011 |
This journal focuses on comparative studies, which often includes comparative literature or cultural studies. These fields regularly intersect with social anthropology, particularly cultural studies, making it a cognate humanities venue
Central European Literary Studies · Diverse Academic Research Studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Education and Cultural Studies · European Cultural and National Identity · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · German History and Society · German Literature and Culture Studies · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical and Literary Studies
W kręgu filozofii egzystencjalnej. Uwagi wokół Petera Sloterdijka książki pt. Stres a wolność – artykuł recenzyjny
Joanna d’Arc pojawia się w świecie Króla Henryka VI Williama Szekspira, w pierwszej części jego najdłuższej sztuki, na mocy prawa boskiego. Jest wysłanniczką niebios. W sztuce tej wiele mówi się o prawie na dworze angielskim i francuskim. Dyskusje, kłótnie, intrygi dotyczą aspiracji do objęcia tronu. Skrajne emocje są wszechobecne. Nie brakuje słów i decyzji podejmowanych pod ich wpływem. Joanna d’Arc wzbudza zarówno pozytywne jak i negatywne emo…
The Ambiguity of Milk
This article discuses the motif of lactation in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Breastfeeding was an ambiguous phenomenon for Shakespeare’s contemporaries – it meant both an absolute power over the nursing child and an act of self-sacrifice, often out of love. It is no coincidence that Lady Macbeth admits she “had given suck” and that in her monologue directed to “spirits” she asks them to “take her milk for gall” in order to do dark deeds. The ar…
Law, language, and Anxiety in Shakespeare
Drawing on examples from Shakespearean drama, and by combining a linguistic focus with an inquiry into emotions and affect, the present writing identifies the ‘lack of control over meaning’ as one of the crucial points in forming early modern English popular fears of law
Czy milkną muzy, gdy grają armaty? Perspektywa antropologiczna w romansie Adam i Ewa Sergiusza Piaseckiego
The article is a reading of the work by Sergiusz Piasecki (1899-1964) Adam and Ewa by approaching love in confrontation with the system from an anthropological perspective. Piasecki's tragic romance is subjected to a critical sketch in a research approach to the affective turn, placing in the center the feelings and emotions of the main characters, as well as the author of the text himself. Piasecki's words become a determinant about two great lo…
Nowy kierunek badawczy? Uwagi na marginesie monografii Joanny Kamień, Prawo i literatura jako kierunek filozoficznoprawny, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, ss. 407
Hailed as the greatest playwright in history, Shakespeare and his works have evolved with the passing of the generations to become a cultural token which is acknowledged all across the globe. He had earned his fame mostly due to his infamous tragedies that is thought-provoking and filled with the themes of betrayal and misfortune. Among this collection of plays, the most notable of all is the all-time favourite revenge tragedy Hamlet, which deals…
“Fie upon the law”
This paper attempts to read Shakespeare’s famous trial scene in Merchant of Venice, and particularly Portia’s famous speech, in the context of its remarkable affinity with the Thomistic teachings on justice and mercy. In recent years some scholars argued for the previously unexplored relevance of Thomas Aquinas’s thought in Shakespeare’s plays, especially his analysis of the passions and moral values. In Merchant of Venice the thematic polarity o…
Retributivism Gone Mad
Measure for Measure is ostensibly a comedy (no one dies, and the main penalties at the play’s end are, hilariously, requiring marriage), but it is a much darker comedy than any other Shakespeare wrote written after Hamlet, retaining features of that play’s moral nihilism. Its nihilism takes the form of a criticism of the claims of strong retributivism as a basis for criminal justice, namely, that it is necessary and sufficient for punishment that…
The Rape of Lucrece and the History of Shame
The Rape of Lucrece and the History of ShameEven though William Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece (1594) is not a play, but a narrative poem, it shares with the play the use of dramatic monologues, the presentation of the plot through scenes in which specific characters appear and either enter the dialogue or deliver monologues, and the intense interest in the emotions of characters, which displays both the author's focus on the universal and on what…
The Emotional Escalation and Decision Making
In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet,” the path to tragedy is paved with a series of escalating emotions that ultimately lead to the catastrophic demise of the characters. This essay will delve into the intricate analysis of emotional escalation within the play, tracing the progression of emotions experienced by Romeo and Juliet and the surrounding characters. By analysing critical moments of emotional intensity, this essay aims to uncover the unde…
“The Sense of Death is Most in Apprehension” Law and Death in Augustine, Donne and Measure for Measure
In this paper, I would like to identify two legal terms concerning death that were common in early modern legal and artistic discourses and then discuss ways that these terms are used, and the emotions they produce, in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. This discussion takes place within the Augustinian concept of the three stages of existence--before death, in death, and after death--which I will contextualize shortly. The first of these legal t…
The Divergent or Convergent Paths of Law and Emotions in William Shakespeare’s Plays. Introductory Remarks
The text introduces the volume and provides a summary of the papers
“I Play the Devil.” Theodicy and Kingship in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The villainy of a despot and William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard the Third will forever mark the English literary imagination. Through examining the nexus of the performative power of kingship and its relationship to Elizabethan moral and political order, the issue of theodicy naturally arises as it relates to English history. In joining history to theodicy, Shakespeare questions English ideas of personhood and the performative nature of…
Reflections of “Otherness” in William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
e j J o c a Cleopatra. 2 In the tragedy, the Queen of Egypt is portrayed as a "creature" alien to Roman (ergo: Elizabethan) culture.As presented below, Shakespeare depicts her as terrifying and fascinating (a destroyer and life-giver) at the same time.A woman of dark complexion, wearing a crown, openly flaunting her sexuality, and in a liaison with a married man was seen by the Shakespearean audiences as "other" and "alien".Her image contrasts wi…
Being the Other, Speaking for the Other
This essay examines the phenomenon of false minority representation in US academia. it seeks to draw a parallel between the individuals choosing to speak for the other in the workplace and recent theoretical and pedagogical trends in academia
Literary dreams of animals within the framework of psychoanalysis. The case of dogs. A comparative study
The main objective of the article is to compare two short stories: “Dog’s Dream” by Stefan Flukowski and “Waiting for the Dog to Dream” by Jerzy Ficowski. The element that both narratives have in common, as their titles indicate, is the question of their onirism. This is especially evident in Flukowski’s story, which almost in its entirety is a record of a “literary dream of psychoanalysis” (to use Inga Iwasiów’s phrase). The short story represen…
Author as translator, translator as author – mapping the interrelations
The article attempts to catalogue the various relationships of authorial and translational writing and the ways in which one affects the other or vice versa (typically, a direction of influence is clearly identifiable). The author indicates and discusses the following trajectories: from translating to stylising original writing as a translation; from translating to pseudotranslations; from translating to stylising a translation as an original; fr…
Reader-Writer Pact, Relation and Translation. On Cultural Translation à la Tout Monde in the Writings of Parick Chamoiseau
This article attempts to present the idea of cultural transaction in the light of Édouard Glissant’s theory of Tout-Monde and his poetics of Relation. Translation becomes a mean to introduce the Otherness to the reader who must accept its part in the reader-writer pact legitimizing the cultural transaction and its aims. As an illustration of this process serves a novel Solibo Magnifique, written by Patrick Chamoiseau in 1988
Translation and own work in the light of Polish-Czech translations of the 16th and 17th centuries
The subject of considerations in the article are translations from Polish into Czech made in the 16th and 17th centuries. The author presents the cultural differences between Poland and the Czech Republic at that time, which determined the selection of works for translation and also influenced the reception of the translations. The main attention is focused on the figure of the Polish emigrant writer Bartłomiej Paprocki, who had the greatest cont…
Laments XVII and XVIII by Jan Kochanowski against the biblical Book of Davidic Psalms
Reflecting on the place of the Laments XVII and XVIII within the funerary cycle of Jan Kochanowski, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that, contrary to appearances, it is possible to identify many arguments in favor of their integral relationship with the rest of the collection. However, the fundamental purpose of the dissertation is to set both works in relation to the biblical tradition of the Book of Psalms. The author's attent…
Between Celan’s Silence and Brecht’s Precision. Translations of Bertolt Brecht’s poetry in the work of Ryszard Krynicki
The paper deals with the relationship between Ryszard Krynicki’s own poetry and his translations of Bertolt Brecht’s poems. Translations of selected poems with political overtones, published in 1975, 1980 and 2022, are compared. The analysis shows that the 1975 translation exposes and reinforces the political message of the original; however, Brecht’s references to the realities of the Third Reich and East Germany in the 1950s are updated and tra…
The Ways of Presenting translations on the title Pages of Books (1750–1799)
The article discusses the functions and frequency of the use of various forms of subtitles in editions of Polish translations of the Enlightenment period. The results of research reveal the following regularities: firstly, regardless of the type of the text, there are recurrent patterns of presentation of translation, in a variety of ways referring to the (real or not) publishing history of the translated works. Secondly, the identity of the orig…
Jan Kasprowicz’s Dialog with Greek Playwrights
Jan Kasprowicz was one of the most prominent authors at the turn of the 20th century. He was also a very eager translator. All scholars agree that, above all, he was interested in works of those authors who expressed ideas similar to those he himself believed. In my paper I would like to take a closer look at two works by Kasprowicz, Baśń nocy świętojańskiej and Uczta Herodjady, and discuss whether the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which Kasprowicz tran…
Authors and Translators. Polish Transfictions
Research on transfiction – and “rethinking translation through literature”, as Rosemary Arrojo puts it – is a considerable novelty in Polish translation studies, especially in its diachronic and sociocultural aspect. The “fictional turn” in TS has not yet made itself felt very clearly in Polish literature. Yet, convinced that literary fiction thematising translation as a process and a product is an interesting reflection – and distortion – of a t…
Chateaubriand’s literary identity
The aim of this article is to examine how Chateaubriand's translation of Milton's Paradise Lost influenced his monumental portrayal of the memorialist in Memoirs from Beyond the Grave. The writer is aware that his work marks the culmination of his literary creation: hence the reference to Milton drawing on the beauty and universalism of the Bible. In this context, the works of both writers show convergence in terms of thematic and stylistic threa…
Navigating Translations in Multilingual India. A Personal Response
In multicultural, multilingual, India, languages are constantly engaged in a colloquy, thus making the translational exercise a living, continuous attribute of subcontinental existence. This essay is a reflection on the purpose and pertinence of the exercise of translation in the context of a deeply personal engagement with it in a constantly changing and complex politico-historical matrix. Revisiting both gratifying and frustrating translational…
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Współczesna literatura emigracyjna/migracyjna
The author of the article reflects on the necessity of rethinking and reformulating the critical categories that deal with a new e(i)mmigrant literature. He proposes some revision of the traditional notions and definitions in the field
Region ze słów. Górnośląskie odzyskiwanie głosu
The aim of the articile is to represent and to analyze two of the most important elements of literary and cultural depictions of Upper Silesia in the latest Polish and Czech literature: greenness and blackness.They are two sides of the same coin, which becomes clear when we look at two candidacies for the title of European Capital of Culture from this region: Ostrava (2015) and Katowice (2016) and read the latest Silesian literature (written in P…
Od melologu do melodramatu i dalej, czyli historia wątpliwej tożsamości
The term “melologo”, used sporadically in modern language and treated as an Italian synonym for melodrama, was in its genesis associated with the beginnings of melodramma, although it had a distinct genre and stylistic distinctiveness. The aim of the article is to make this term more precise and to discuss examples of related artistic realizations. The confrontation of the notions of melodrama and melolog in a historical and genological perspecti…
Arystotelesowska szkatułka albo Melodramat w objęciach opery (na przykładzie sceny kopania grobu w Fideliu Ludwiga van Beethovena)
This article analyzes the complex connections and interrelations between opera and the French melodrama of the late 18th and early 19th century, using Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1814 opera Fidelio as a vantage point. Underpinning the author’s inquiry is the question about the ways in which the musical plain deepens and amplifies the melodramatic qualities of the operatic work, and the extent to which one can demonstrate the cohesion of dramatic measu…
Intymna obcość. Figura matki w powieści Frascati Ewy Kuryluk
The article examines a mother-daughter relationship in Ewa Kuryluk’s autobiographical novel Frascati using the term “strangeness” as a methodological tool. Maria Kuryluk (Miriam Kohany), a Holocoaust survivor, who keeps her real Jewish identity as well as her pre-war life secret from her progeny, is partly a “stranger” – using Julia Kristeva’s term – in biography of her daughter. As a Jewish woman, a wife of the high-ranking socialist in the comm…
Bratobójstwo w melodramacie Duch opiekuńczy, czyli Diabeł niewieści Guilberta Pixerécourta
The aim of this paper is to analyze the theme of fratricide in its visual, moral and verbal aspect. Fratricide, thanks to the reference to the sublime, is presented in a double aspect: as an insurmountable taboo and as a driving force that allows the hero to change his fate. Thanks to the ludic formula abounding in sudden plot twists and pictorial scenes, the viewer identifies with the problematic. On the other hand, the reference to such strong …
W cieniu gilotyny. O estetycznych, obyczajowych i społecznych uwarunkowaniach powstania melodramatu
The main goal of the article is to inscribe the formation, at the turn of the 18th century, of the melodrama in a broader context in order to show that the creation of this dramatic genre was not a result of one man’s talent or pure coincidence but actually a result of the historical process and numerous social and aesthetic tendencies that had been influencing the French theatre over previous decades. All these transformations that would eventua…
From the Action-Packed Film to the Stealth Strategy
Desperados III is a stealth-strategy developed by Mimimi Games in 2020. The game tells the story of five outlaws who undertake hazardous activities in the Wild West. As regards its plot, setting and types of characters, Desperados III seems to follow the principles of formulaic western fiction and films. Yet the process of the western’s adjustment to the genre of tactical stealth has serious implications for the formula. The aim of the article is…
Zbigniew Herberts Beziehungen zu Österreich
The volume Zbigniew Herbert und Österreich, edited by Przemysław Chojnowski, discussed and reviewed here, comprises articles by the well-known Herbert researchers that shed light on different aspects of Herbert’s connections to Austria, both to his Austrian friends and representatives of the Austrian literary scene. In addition, some previously unpublished translations of poems by the Polish poet are presented as well as a detailed list of his vi…
The Unbearable Postcoloniality of Non-Being
This paper is as much an engagement with postcolonial criticism and theory as it is an exploration into both an aesthetics and a hermeneutics of the postcolonial condition. The two texts, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, could not be seemingly more disparate. However, despite such vast differences in locationality, one might upon closer examination discern similar aesthetic devices in the narrativization of historical…
Melodramat – największa hybrydyczna struktura teatralno-dramatyczna XIX wieku
In the Polish academic context, melodrama is as fascinating, as it is underrepresented a phenomenon. This is mostly because melodrama’s roots are theatrical; a reason why, within the literary drama bounds, the genre has been considered a hybrid since the Antiquity. This article aims both at demonstrating the complex process of melodrama shaping, one which involves its multigeneric inspirations, and presenting its hybrid structure as well as the d…
Chinese Exilic Intellectual
During the 1960s and late 1980s, Chinese modern history is full of turbulence and controversy. Chinese exilic intellectuals who chose to flee to overseas during this period bore the weight of private tragedy, historical trauma, and political disputes, which, more or less, is mirrored in their writings. And encountering a profoundly ambivalent, marginal, and “unhealable” condition, Chinese exilic intellectuals fit the notion of metaphoric exile in…
Herbert i jego austriaccy przyjaciele. O trzech pośrednikach między Austrią a Polską
The article discusses the volume Zbigniew Herbert und Österreich edited by Przemysław Chojnowski and devoted to Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) and his presence in the Austrian culture. The author discusses selected phenomena connected with Herbert’s reception studies in Austria so as to focus on the poet’s friendships with the Austrians who played important roles both in Herbert’s private and official life. The cultural and social activ…
Kulturowe ramy zachowań społecznych w reportażu Nie ma Mariusza Szczygła (psychologia międzykulturowa w badaniach literaturoznawczych)
The subject of the article is the cultural frames of social behavior in Mariusz Szczygieł’s reportage Nie ma. I use the assumptions of intercultural psychology to analyze the reportage text. The adopted methodology results from the feeling that in the era of intensified contacts with representatives of various cultures, the researcher is forced to search for answers to questions about the cultural identity of Poles, manifesting themselves both in…
Soft Subversion, Hard Exposition
This essay questions the possibility and validity of multiculturalism by referring to the diagnosis and exposition of instrumental sympathy – a modern affect with an orientalist inclination in disguise – brought up in David Henry Hwang’s masterpiece M. Butterfly. Multiculturalism remains frail and unachievable when the appreciation of an exotic culture is designed to fulfill a desire for appropriation. I also recognize Song’s soft strategy as an …
Appalachian, Southern, Universal, Global
The article discusses the universal and global features of southern and Appalachian literature. As various southern writers confirmed in a 1980 poll, good regional writing must have a broad appeal and focus on universal problems, without neglecting to deal with specific local details, including dialects. Fred Chappell, a short story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from North Carolina, who often claims to be an Appalachian author rather than …
Śladem kulturowego dziedzictwa melodramatu o charakterze tanecznym
The proposal to look at the topic of melodrama through the prism of dance seems to be not only cognitively interesting, but also justified in terms of academic research. This theatre performance, established in the 18th century, becoming a new genre of popular art, clearly emphasized the close relationship between word, music and dance. The creators of melodramatic works tried to use all means of stagecraft, focusing on eye-catching forms of expr…
Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity
This essay examines nineteenth-century literary responses to the perception of Roman Catholicism’s excess. It focuses on Frederick Douglass’s visit to Rome in 1887. Douglass, a former slave who had become a gifted writer and orator, visited Italy during a Grand Tour of the continent. In many respects, Douglass’s views of Italy, its culture and religon reflect that of other American intellectuals of his time. However, it also espresses his concern…
Intelektualista jako upadły prorok. Dyskretny, retoryczny urok Syrakuz
The article makes an attempt at describing the socio-symbolic field in which the contemporary intellectual has to act. The intellectual has undergone the processes of his/her position and his/her role in academic (intellectual) life, which is one of the reasons of the failure of thinking (reason). The article also encompasses an attempt at answering the following questions: what is the role of the three basic components of classical rhetoric: log…
Melodramatyczność w powieści Szaleństwo Almayera Josepha Conrada
This paper focuses on the melodramatic features in Almayer’s Folly, the first part of The Malay Trilogy by Joseph Conrad, and their significance for the interpretation of the novel. The poetics of melodrama and opera is reflected in various aspects of Conrad’s prose, such as e.g. main plot construction, references to Verdi, characterisation of the protagonists. The melodrama and opera provide an important cultural frame of reference, which affect…
Pamiątka po dobrej matce”. O wierszu Rozważania Mszy Świętej Anny Skarbek-Sokołowskiej
The text presents an unknown poetic work written by Anna Skarbek-Sokołowska based on the memories of her daughter, Grażyna Lipińska, from her stay in the Soviet prison of inquiry in Minsk in 1940. An unsigned typescript of the poem is in the archive of the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London. The text of the poem is also unavailable in Poland. The work is rooted in the tradition of Polish literature, primarily romantic, but also lau…
The Aleph that Unveils the Reality of Our Times
Glass Walls: Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle is a carefully selected, exquisite bouquet of stories that are cathartic, masterfully told and very relevant to our times. This collection makes a genuine attempt to demystify violence that has become an undeniable part of our “everydayness” that more often than not goes unheard or unsaid
Melodramat jako gatunek „przepisany” (na przykładzie XIX-wiecznych dramatów inspirowanych dziełami Hugo, Mickiewicza, Scotta)
The article is devoted to intertextuality in the nineteenth-century dramatic texts inspired by other literary forms. The group of melodramas rewritten from texts of various literary genres includes works both secondary and literally impoverished, as well as some that are interesting, even innovative. In the practice of rewriting, the main plot of the original is retained only in its general outlines. The omissions, rearrangements, and simplificat…
Obcość, rozpoznanie, przyswojenie. O recepcji literatury i w literaturze
The article deals with the question of foreignness in the reception of literature, especially of literary translation, as well as through literature. Presenting a brief outline of Translation Studies discourse on foreignness, this text serves as a short introduction to “Winnie-the-Pooh as a stranger to Polish literature” by Agata Chwirot and „The intimate strangeness. The figure of the mother in the Ewa Kuryluk’s Frascati” by Izabela Sobczak
W perspektywie Innego. Czytanie opowiadań Irit Amiel w kontekście psychologii międzykulturowej
Intercultural psychlogy is a discipline within cultural studies. It is of an interdisciplinary character, combining the philosophy of meeting, imagology, and discourse and becomes the part of the metadiscourse practiced by cultural comparative studies. The article attempts to test the tool in reading Irit Amiel’s stories. The author is an Israeli writer who, in The Seared, deals with the topic of the Holocaust. Her biography – Jewish in origin, w…