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Democratism of Dragojla Jarnević on the Example of her Diary

Odža, Ivana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper analyses, in the context of Dragojla Jarnević's Diary, the concept of democratism from the authoress' viewpoint of the world regarding the liberal values that represent foundation of democracy. Considering the…

Late Antiquity: Decadence or "Democratization" of Culture?

Milinović, Dino · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In our age "without the emperor", fascination with empires and with the emperor mystique continues. Take for witness Tolkien and his Return of the King, the third sequel of The Lord of the Rings, or the television seria…

Mono-Chronological 'Post': Synchronization of the Meanwhiles of Nations in Antun Barac's and Pavle Popović's Histories of Yugoslav Literature and the (Post)-Yugoslav Literature

Mijatović, Aleksandar · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In this paper, I approach to the relationship between the art and the democracy via discussion of two histories of Yugoslav literatures. I propose and try to defend a thesis that both accounts of the history of Yugoslav…

Word in Action. Democracy and Deliberation in Literary Practice in Polish Renaissance

Meller, Katarzyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper synthesizes relations between Polish democratic system and literary practice in the 16th century. The paper analyses phenomena that project social practice of deliberation on what is important to the communit…

Simulating Democracy: Emancipation of Democracy Crisis in Dubravka Ugrešić's Essays

Marot Kiš, Danijela · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

One of the central notions of the post-Yugoslav literature is the status of democracy in national states formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia. From the perspective of the exile, not only as banishment, but also as a l…

From the 1990s Onwards: Activist and Artivist Practices - the Case of Croatia

Marjanić, Suzana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article documents the relation of performance art, actions, interventions, happenings, and the democracy of capital for the ruling power through double optics. The first optics constitutes a niche within which art i…

Poetic Manifestos and Democracy (in Poland after 1989)

Hoffmann, Krzysztof · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

A form of poetic manifesto rooted in the avant-garde tradition is construed here as a performative project of the future. This temporal quality links it with the Derridean notion of "democracy to-come". The presented pa…

"All Your, Our, Their Day-time Affairs […] Are Political Affairs". On Social and Political Engagement in Contemporary Women's Poetry on the Example of Post-December Poems

Grądziel-Wójcik, Joanna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

An important, though underestimated theme in Polish poetry written by women is the thread of poetry engaged in social and political matters, thematizing the connection between literature and civic life. Poetesses are of…

Breakthrough or Continuation? Slovak Political Thought after 1867).

Goszczyńska, Joanna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article focuses on two texts (Jozef Podhradský, The secret history of Pan-Slavism and Michal Miloslav Hodža Vieroslavín), that are located on the periphery of Slovak political thought, but they are a very significan…

Writing from a Distance. The Past and the Present in Novels by Central and Eastern European Female Migrant Writers in Italy

Belozorovich, Anna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Based on a research concerning literary works by the authors from Central and Eastern European countries living in Italy, this article explores the imaginary bonded to a vast geographical area and to a variety of social…

Art After Democracy, Art Before Democracy

Mizerkiewicz, Tomasz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper describes today's new situation of art facing antidemocratic processes. The powerful metaphor of Parthenon of books is used, which once was the name of an installation by Marta Minujín presented just after the…

Sztuka i demokracja (słowo od redakcji)

Pieniążek-Marković, Krystyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

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Ibsen's Pharmakon: Socrates and Stockmann

Tomljenović, Ana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Although An Enemy of the People has always been one of Ibsen's most popular plays, ibsenology often dismisses it as a revolutionary pamphlet and the critique of the tyranny of the compact majority and the mediocrity of…

Songs of Despair in Times of Contempt. On the Poetic Cycle of Márciustól Márciusig by István Vas

Piotrowiak-Junkiert, Kinga · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article offers an interpretation of the poetic cycle Od marca do marca [From March to March] by István Vas, a Hungarian poet and writer of Jewish origin. The author treated each of his poems as a notebook, where he…

Polish Interwar [Non]Democracy from the View-Point of Julije Benešić

Pieniążek-Marković, Krystyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the article, the image of Polish democracy/autocracy during the Second Republic has been reconstructed. The subject of the analysis were the autobiographical notes entitled Osam godina u Varšavi written by Julije Ben…

Yavorov Post Mortem

Велкова-Гайдаржиева, Антония · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Yavorov Year of Mourning by Mikhail Nedelchev is a ritual book dedicated to the most scorching deadly love affair in the history of the Bulgarian intelligentsia. This text is not a traditional literary-historical one, b…

„Ложка страху в діжці мотороші", або кілька слів про найновішу українську антологію жахів

Горнятко-Шумилович, Анна · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The release of the newest anthology of macabre short stories "Вбивство на вулиці..." (2019) affirmed the superb state of homebred horror literature. The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the seventeen stories…

Historians on Contemporary Times. The Year of Dangerous Change (2010) according to Georges Mink and Timothy Snyd

Fiećko, Jerzy · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author analyses the ways of depicting contemporary times in two monographs written by renown scholars: La Pologne au coeur de l'Europe. De 1914 à aujourd'hui, histoire politique et conflits de mémoire (Poland at the…

Between Two Epochs

Fadel, Maurice · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This review is a short presentation and an analysis of the book България - страна на розите, published in 2018. The book consists of three parts - a phototypical copy of the first Polish edition of the collective book f…

Plamen Doynov - Generation and Poetry. 1956-1989

Алипиева, Антоанета · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with Plamen Doynovʼs idea of the poetic generations during the time of the socialism. There are the connections between the administrative power and the poets, between the ideological directives and th…

Romanticism in West and South Slavonic Literature as the Epoch of Democratization of Culture

Zieliński, Bogusław · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

If we regard democracy as tied with four functions: availability, representation, freedom, and education, then we can state that the Romanticism conceived as the intellectual formation and literary current has managed t…

Between Aesthetics and Politics: Socially Engaged Art on the Internet

Winiecka, Elżbieta · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author discusses the changes in the model of democracy that have occurred since the Internet began. The hierarchical model of representative democracy is replaced on the Web by participatory democracy. On the exampl…

Should Monsters, Mutants, and Ghosts Vote? Monstrous Croatian Lyric and the Principle of Democratic Equality

Vuković, Tvrtko · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper starts from the assumption that Croatian modern lyric, from Matoš to Maleš, is haunted by various monsters, phantoms and mutants, and possessed by ghosts. Phantasmal hair speaks, the body changed by illness ac…

Voluntary Servitude and Totalitarianism in Dystopian Novels of the 20th Century: Status of the Literature in Brave New World, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

Štahan, Matija · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article thematises the relationship of the will to rule and the will to be ruled in the aforementioned dystopian novels by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury. The first part of the article points out Hann…

Poetry Sycophants and the Authority [On Grovelling to Pavelić, Tito and Tuđman]

Sorel, Sanjin · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the analysis of Croatian political poetry, although the article speaks only about texts on the subject of Ante Pavelić, Josip Broz - Tito and Franjo Tuđman, I also refer to all those who have written or are still wri…