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The article is an attempt to describe autothematicism [autotematyzm] - a term coined in Poland by Artur Sandauer in the mid-20th century, referring to the quality of radically meta-reflexive works - from seven complementary perspectives. The Sandauerian understanding of the concept of metareflection was slightly different from the Western visions of mise-en-abyme or metafiction; it was described in the context of German idealistic philosophy and aesthetics. Sandauer defined the artistic "theme" as an objectivization of content (an author's perceptions and experiences); therefore "autothematicism" is not synonymous with the other terms mentioned above, which can provide interesting interpretations of self-referential works. The present paper shows that the Sandauerian concept of self-referentiality can be seen as an end product of various transformations (conversions): literature's (or the subject's) retreat from all kinds of transcendence and reality, self-reflection of the creative "I," or the text's orientation to its own ontology. However, this understanding can be reversed. Autothematicism (as an operative concept) can also be seen as a mechanism that enables the autonomous positioning of art in relation to the "reality" it co-constructs, which enables literature to take active participation in the rebuilding of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to rethink the way in which images convince us to adopt the perspective of another, which is the image itself. Starting from W.J.T. Mitchell's theory on the desire and subjectivity of images, and Gottfried Boehm's theory of the imagery, I look at a photographic and narrative album of Gerhard Richter and Alexander Kluge. This turns to itself for self-presentative and self-referential purposes. However, they do not aim to explore the essence of their medium, but "drag" the viewer into or out of the performance. I analyse situations in which we are forced to transfer our gaze to the materiality and objectivity of a picture, to its own existence. Such situations reinforce the effect of compassion, going far beyond literal meanings and content, which can be managed discursively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text analyses the Homek magazine published by Ruch Społeczeństwa Alternatywnego (RSA) [Alternative Society Movement] - a community of people with neoanarchist views first co-creating the underground Solidarność and later functioning independently. Homek, as an underground newspaper, was initially published bi-weekly, then monthly and later irregularly. This article focuses on, firstly, the RSA community's position on hostile attitudes (including the so-called hate speech) and, secondly, on the use of the term walka [fight] as what we believe to have been a self-creation device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text consists of two parts: the first is longer and concems the much discussed links between the grammar of natural language and logie, the second - the existence o f surprising geometrical objects called fractals. The coda presents the link between the objects mentioned in the title.

The aim of this essay is to discuss selected novels of Wanda Karczewska. The analysis includes only specific aspects of Karczewska's writing, such as narrative techniques, and its major aim is to situate her literary works in the context of the New Novel, a French literary movement which had a significant influence on the development of modern prose, including the postmodern novel. The second, equally important, aim of this text is to present some of the virtues of Karczewska's forgotten novels to a wider audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The theoreticians of social sciences admit that social protests belong only to the modern epoch and the very moment of its birth is strictly connected with the modernistic democracy and current European culture. Public social activity - especially social protests understood here only as legal public gatherings its structures, meanings and configurations - are possible to separate out of all the accidental factors. But the modern political tradition itself is not enough to explain the inner mechanisms of this kind of public gatherings as a tool for the social, cultural and political transformation. The ahistorical type of analysis seems to be necessary to understand social protests. The plot of structural analysis is supplemented here with some comments on the cognitive and ritual side of the social protest process and also with some philosophical comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the article is focused on those of the places in Stanisław Barańczak's poetry, in which the subject is revealed and the fact that the sender is the poet, who creates in statu nascendi and at the same time reflects on the essence of this process, is emphasize. These are obviously the self-reference procedures, directly related to perfecting his own poetic workshop. In the case of Barańczak those threads are also transferred on the self epistemology area, which means that they are involved with the identification of the subjects own identity, which is worth of interpreting precisely as an self-reference procedure. Selfreference at this point is being expanded only in a manner of pretense: it is absolutely important to remember that the "self-recognition" making subject is exactly the poet. The key figure to the topic taken in this way will be the doppelganger (and bond to this issue mirror theme). The exemplification material will be given by both early Korekta twarzy, and the subsequent volumes of Barańczak's poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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