At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world (Polish women’s, Belarusian, Palestinian, Roma and Sinti, to name just a few), as well as local and regional initiatives by minorities, migrants and refugees, we would like to bring together scholars who combine a focus on migrants or m…[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

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]

Cicely Foster (1903-2002) va ser una compositora anglesa, alumna entre d’altres d’Alfredo Casella, Alfred Cortot i Nadia Boulanger. El 1932 ella i el seu marit, el pintor nord-americà Archie Gittes, es varen instal·lar a Mallorca. L’illa era aleshores un refugi de bohemis i artites estrangers, entre els quals Robert Graves, Albert Vigoleis T…[Read more]

El Título VIII de la Constitución Española de 1978 desarrolla una nueva distribución territorial del poder en España. En la constitución se observan dos grandes procesos institucionales: la democratización del estado, y la descentralización del poder, procesos que en su desarrollo muchas veces se iban a entender parejos, (Tamboleo García, 2013:144…[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]

Jean de la Taille’s ‘The Famine’ (1573), like the author’s slightly earlier ‘Saul in his Madness’ (1572) is a dramatization of events narrated or mentioned in the biblical Books of Samuel, augmented by excerpts from Josephus’ ‘Antiquities’. This English translation of ‘La Famine’ is based principally on the edition prepared by Kathleen M. Hall…[Read more]

This article explores how certain dramatists in early modern England and in Spain, specifically Ben Jonson and Miguel de Cervantes (with much more emphasis on the former), pursued authority over texts by claiming as their own a new realm which had not been available – or, more accurately, as prominently available – to playwrights before: the sta…[Read more]

Comparative studies have revealed uncanny similarities between the theatrical cultures of Shakespearean England and Golden Age Spain, and in particular between the Elizabethan amphitheaters and the Spanish corrales de comedia (courtyard playhouses). Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Spain’s (and, in particular, Madrid’s) courtyard the…[Read more]

Going to the theater was one of the most distinctive-as well as conspicuous-cultural activities to take place regularly in early modern european cities. Precisely because so many people from all walks of life partook of this highly visible pastime, public theaters became spaces wherein social and cultural boundaries between spectators were easily…[Read more]

This article explores the change in dynamics between matter and style in Shakespeare’s way of depicting distress on the early modern stage. During his early years as a dramatist, Shakespeare wrote plays filled with violence and death, but language did not lose its composure at the sight of blood and destruction; it kept on marching to the beat o…[Read more]

One of the major differences between the otherwise very similar commercial theatrical cultures of early modern Spain and England was that, whereas in England female roles were performed by young, cross-dressed boys, in Spain female performers were prominent in their industry. indeed, actresses in Spain played an active role in the creative process…[Read more]