Contemporary multidisciplinary resistance studies and practices explore many intriguing literary works. Some writers argue that the literary forms they develop are also forms of resistance and resilience. However, this formal aspect of literary forms as resistance and resilience seems rather mysterious. (...)
Philosophical immunology and literary immune strategies
Jerzy Franczak
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The article opens with a recapitulation of the most important theories in the field of philosophical immunology – from the pioneers of this reflection, working at the intersection of the medical sciences and the humanities (Alfred I. (...)
“Circus variations” in interwar Czech literature
Anna Gawarecka
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In Czech interwar literature, the circus (similarly to other mass culture phenomena, e.g. sports or cinema) became the subject of complex analyses, inspiring axiological questions. (...)
Tagi: 1 (39), Anna GawareckaSolaris – the world of “alien(ated/ing) consciousness”
Lin Xin
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The article proposes a new interpretation of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris. Indeterminism and determinism clash both in Lem’s prose and in his understanding of physics. (...)
Tagi: 1 (39), Lin Xin