This article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]

The 9th issue of the LLSW Literary and Cultural Studies. List of Contents: 1. Estranged Flowers: Plant Symbolism in Antonia Pozzi’s and Krystyna Krahelska’s poems – Alessandro Amenta, 2. Motywy antyczne w Czarodziejskiej górze Thomasa Manna – Jakub Handszu, 3. Terminologia teatralna u Petroniusza – Michał Heintze, 4. Przekład literacki z perspe…[Read more]

8/2018 issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw including:
“Scratching Claw Marks on the Lid”: The (Dis)abled Female Character in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan – Justyna Dąbrowska
Artistic Forms of Consciousness Representation in the Dramatic Works by Oleksandr Oles Zemlya Obitovana and Nich na Polonyni – Viktoriya Ataman…[Read more]

The 7th issue of our journal. List of contents: 1. XVI-wieczny poeta-metafizyk jako twórca świata przedstawionego. Nowe pola badawcze Dorota Gładkowska 2. “The Vane Sisters” by V. Nabokov and the Hermeneutics of Memory and Death Małgorzata Hołda 3. Lose Yourself, Find Empathy – Narrative Perspective and Mirror Neurons in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iro…[Read more]

2015 edition of the Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw. List of Contents: 1. Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Family Supper” – the Hermeneutics of Familiarityand Strangeness – Małgorzata Hołda, 2. Magna Poeta, Magnum Opus: Paul Muldoon’s “Cuthbert and the Otters”and Unending Heaney – Wit Pietrzak. 3. Tłumaczenie audiowizualne w oparciu o klasyczne tłumac…[Read more]

2015 issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw. List of Contents: 1. Edward Morgan Forster i Polska: Przypis do biografii i próba studium recepcji – Krzysztof Fordoński, 2. Enjoy!: Transgression (aga)in(st) Consumer Culture – Paweł Wojtas, 3. Evasion and/or expiation? – Telling/reading stories in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the…[Read more]

2014 edition of the journal Contents Studia Literaturoznawcze. List of contents: 1. Problemy refeksji nad spektaklem w klasycystycznej teorii teatru we Francji – Michał Bajer, 2. John Dryden’s Conversion and Its Political Basis in The Hind and the Panther – Paweł Kaptur, 3. Źródła romantycznej fascynacji Ukrainą i zagadnienie szkoły ukraińsk…[Read more]

The third issue of Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw published in 2013. List of contents: 1. Spatial and temporal deixis in Cantar de Mio Cid – Łukasz Berger, 2. Fag-End of Romanticism: The Nationalist Impulse in English Surrealism – Matthew Chambers, 3. Feelings and Form in King Alfred’s Psalter – Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, 4. “Now I have…[Read more]

The second issue of The Linguistic Academy Journal of Interdisciplinary Language Studies

The first issue of The Linguistic Academy Journal of Interdisciplinary Language Studies – yearbook of the LSW in Warsaw

Academic freedom is under attack, both in authoritarian democracies, such as Hungary and Turkey, and in liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, the UK, France and Germany. For example, Gender Studies are being targeted by right-wing governments in Eastern Europe, and in France President Emmanuel Macron has attacked post-colonial…[Read more]

Final draft of the article – the complete published version is available in Journal of Neo-Latin Language and Literature 19/2017, pp. 157-173. Joseph Hucks, the author of Poems (1798), explaining his decision to add to the volume of his own poems (both original and translated) the four translations of poems of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (2021). Evolutionary Mathematics and Art for Bilingual Poems. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王 抗 曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 3, March 2021; 43 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA.…[Read more]

The challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political…[Read more]

This study aims to outline and critically analyze key shades in the contemporary meaning of the military culture. An etymological study is conducted, based on a literature review of academic publications in the sphere of military culture. Furthermore, text mining was performed in the bodies of deliberately selected publications in order to explore…[Read more]

The mentorship programme in the school of education of a South African university shows what is possible in peer mentor leadership development. Through the analysis of first-year student mentees’ perceptions, experiences, and assessment of their peer mentors’ roles, and accounts of the mentors’ review of their role in the mentorship progr…[Read more]

Privy councils are among the most traditional, yet least conspicuous forms of collective decision-making in modern states. However, using the example of East Asia, this chapter shows that, far from being a moribund relic of the pre-constitutional past, advisory councils to the head of state were a highly productive global element of…[Read more]

The article examines the relationship between the late Qing constitutional movement of 1905–1911 and the vast borderland regions of the Qing Empire–that is, Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. It traces how intellectuals and officials concerned with devising constitutional policies foresaw the integration of these regions into the nascent par…[Read more]

The task of the literary translator is usually framed around the notion of ‘fidelity’ to the source text. Whatever the translator is trying to be faithful to (which is another question), any betrayal of the original, according to this logic, is deemed a failure. Or, as the Italian motto has it, traduttore traditore. The translator Mark Pol…[Read more]