The subject of the article is the first novel by Olga Tokarczuk, published in 1993, a description of the author’s creative method, her style and language, and her reflection on the notion of logos as the way to gain ...

In the article, we interpret synonyms as units of language and text. Distinctive synonymy means the difference between words captured in a synonymous sequence; cognitive synonyms, of the type carriage, cart, coach, close ...

In this article, I discuss the subject of space in the works of the authors of the Tylicz circle, i.e. the ones belonging to the group of Jerzy Gizela, Wiesław Kolarz, Andrzej Krzysztof Torbus, Andrzej Warzecha, Adam ...

The intention of the author of the paper is to study what choices were made by the publisher, in relation to the journey-describing texts, and to present what linguistic picture of journey emerged from the “amended texts”. ...

The paper is a detailed discussion of the space of the Schulz’s home. Thanks to the poetics of a dream, it becomes a place from which the author of Cinnamon Shops “sends” the characters on a journey to past years. The ...

The author of Crusaders came to the Beskidy foothills region in 1922, and after several months, she decided to settle in Górki Wielkie, near Bielsko Biała, permanently. She lived there with her family until World War II ...

During his whole life, Brandys made many trips abroad. It was only in 1980, during one of his trips to the USA, that he decided not to come back to Poland. The reason of such a decision was obviously the complicated ...

The interest of writers and artists in the Prądnik Valley dates back to king Stanisław August Poniatowski’s travels (1788). At the beginning, those were travels with the purpose of getting to know the country, its past ...

The paper discusses three topos techniques in Polish drama after World War II. Wandering as a figure of fate is the centre of Roman Brandstaetter’s art. Round structure of a trap is in opposition to the open space of ...

Zebrane tutaj teksty stanowią plon VI Konferencji Naukowej Instytutu Filologii Polskiej, która – jak co roku – odbyła się w Zajeździe Czorsztyńskim we wsi Maniowy w dniach od 4 do 6 czerwca 2006 roku. Temat tego spotkania ...