In the paper, we focus on the question of science popularisation as translation. We develop a Cultural Linguistic account of how conceptual metaphors help tailor the abstract conceptual content to the needs of non-expert...
The paper deals with a famous critical controversy of Poland’s interbellum period, the polemic about what Karol Irzykowski called “nonunderstandableness,” stirred up by his article Niezrozumialstwo (1924). Begun on the p...
The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of visuality in contemporary literary reportage. In my analysis I focus on the book Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak by Jacek Hugo-Bader, published in 2014. I...
The article discusses the correlation of ambience in Ray Bradbury’s science fiction short story Zero Hour and the paintings by a well-known Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. It specifies first the influences of Scuola Me...
This paper concerns the relation between twentieth-century model of an elegy (analyzed on the example of Rainer Maria Rilke’s works) and Zbigniew Herbert’s Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp. Similarities and di...
Popularisation of Science as Translation: A Cultural Linguistic Account
In the paper, we focus on the question of science popularisation as translation. We develop a Cultural Linguistic account of how conceptual metaphors help tailor the abstract conceptual content to the needs of non-expert...
“Clarity is a Fiction Made of the Fabric of Chaos”: Irzykowski Nonunderstandableness
The paper deals with a famous critical controversy of Poland’s interbellum period, the polemic about what Karol Irzykowski called “nonunderstandableness,” stirred up by his article Niezrozumialstwo (1924). Begun on the p...
Wizualność jako dominanta reportażu literackiego. Wokół książki Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak Jacka Hugo-Badera / Visibility as Dominant of Literary Reportage. Around the Book Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak by Jacek Hugo-Bader
The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of visuality in contemporary literary reportage. In my analysis I focus on the book Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak by Jacek Hugo-Bader, published in 2014. I...
On the Verge of the (Un)Known: Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury and the Paintings of René Magritte
The article discusses the correlation of ambience in Ray Bradbury’s science fiction short story Zero Hour and the paintings by a well-known Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. It specifies first the influences of Scuola Me...
Przedmioty i współczucie. Elegia na odejście pióra atramentu lampy Zbigniewa Herberta wobec dwudziestowiecznego modelu elegii (na przykładzie Elegii duinejskich Rainera Marii Rilkego) / Things and Compassion. Zbigniew Herbert’s Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp Within the Twentieth-Century Elegy on the Example of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duinesian Elegies
This paper concerns the relation between twentieth-century model of an elegy (analyzed on the example of Rainer Maria Rilke’s works) and Zbigniew Herbert’s Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp. Similarities and di...