This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]

Polish Journal of English Studies Issue 8.1/2022 List of Contents “Literary Critics Make Natural Detectives” – Or Do They? Detection and Interpretation in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Agnieszka Seredyńska Violence and Rejection: The Hegemony of White Culture and Its Influence on the Mother–Daughter Relationship in Toni Morrison’s…[Read more]

This working paper presents a 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman translation-cum-commentary of the preface and introduction of one of the classics of Islamicate rhetoric, al-Qazwīnī’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The Key’s Digest), a 14th-century work on rhetoric based on al-Sakkākī’s 13th-century seminal Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm (The Key of Sciences). This part…[Read more]

The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]

The book is a popular Polish-language monograph study in the life and works of the American novelist and painter William Wharton (Albert du Aime, 1925-2008). William Wharton gained international fame and popularity with his first awarded novel ‘Birdy’ (1979), his popularity was furthered strengthened by such books as ‘Dad’ and ‘Midnight Clear’,…[Read more]

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade’s birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde’s sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]

Are you tripping over your own feet, incapable of advancing even a single metre, when it comes to understanding the technicalities of the feet and metres of pre-modern Islamicate poetry? Then you should probably not consult Nevāʾī’s Meter of Meters, since you are better off with the works of a Wheeler Thackston or a Finn Thiesen… If, howe…[Read more]

This article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes the temporality of the instant (kairos) over the temporality of the linear sequence (chronos). Ka…[Read more]

In the summer of 2011, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov (1887) debuted on the Iranian stage. The director and playwright Amir-Reza Koohestani (b. 1978) created a production that was faithful to the classic status of this text while also maximizing its resonance with a contemporary Iranian audience. I explore how Koohestani achieved this b…[Read more]

Purportedly in response to a request by his unnamed beloved one, the late 18th-century Ottoman poet Ḥasan-i Yāver wrote Poetry’s Artistry, a 441-verse mathnawī that offers some hands-on advice for trying one’s hand at poetry. As tashbīh, jinās, kināya, taḍādd, taḍmīn, ilmām, iltifāt, tardīd, ishtibāh, tawriya, īhām, takhmīs, tarkīb-band,…[Read more]

This essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[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