This article discusses Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto from the perspective of the notion and the activity of looking or being looked at. It is argued that the power of the gaze and the particular semiotics of “ocular ...

Wbrew nazwie Afgańska Policja Lokalna nie jest instytucją policyjną, a zmilitaryzowaną formacją ochotniczą przeznaczoną do obrony lokalnych społeczności przed rebeliantami. Służący w poszczególnych dystryktach „strażnicy” ...

The article presents a forgotten lyric cycle Intermezzo by Mieczysław Jastrun, written from 1937 to 1939, published solely in 1947 in his Chosen Lyrics and disregarded by critics. In the paper, the structure of the writing ...

The topic of the article concerns recognising the place of music, as a means of expression, in the artistic and journalistic works and correspondence of Sienkiewicz. The writer’s reflections on musicalness are ...

The purpose of the thesis is to analyze Samuel Wysocki `s sermons titled O piąci zmysłach ciała ludzkiego in which human sensual aspect is perfectly introduced in a preacher discourse. When talking about man, Wysocki ...

The progress of civilization, supported by the development of new technologies, has led to a series of social, economic and political changes. The information society, in its expectations and through access to knowledge, ...

W tekście Gra w/z sacrum w speculative fiction (Księga wszystkich godzin Hala Duncana) autor podejmuje refleksję nad wykorzystanie miopistu w konstruowaniu metanarracyjnych motywów w powieści fantastycznej. Wskazuje on ...

There is an eighteenth-century painting depicting Allegory of Divine Providence in the convent of the Sisters of the Visitation in Kraków. The iconography is unique. In addition to figures of people and animals abandoning ...