Engaged Languages and Literatures / Langues et Littératures engagées

Critical Views / Regards Critiques

Joanna Janusz, Andrzej Łyda, Tomasz Nowak

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847019350
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Literature

This volume is a response to the criticism that scholars create "bricks" of knowledge without integrating them into a coherent whole. The twelve bricks that make up this volume form a solid edifice of innovative views on literature and language based on the idea of 'engagement'. The first part focuses on literature and its ability to engage and express the engagement of the individual. The reader will find here a reflection on the relationship between man and God, the impossibility of cognition through symbols, and the multitude of "thoughts" expressed through language. In the second part, the key idea assumes a different dimension, as the analyses engage in defining socially relevant concepts of justice, rationality, power and freedom, and cases of social life where the involvement of creators of culture is indispensable. The third part illustrates the engagement of linguistics in the description of the reality constantly created by language. These varied perspectives allow for the diversity and multidimensionality of 'engagement' to be revealed.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Avant-propos
• Engaged literatures / Littératures engagées
• Jacek Kwosek (University of Silesia in Katowice): On interpretive tradition in the light of Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of rationality
• Marian Kisiel (University of Silesia in Katowice): Life With God, Life Without God: The Poem “Without” by Tadeusz Różewicz
• Krystyna Koziolek (University of Silesia in Katowice): Disorientations of a Symbol
• Tomasz Pawlus (University of Silesia in Katowice): Magnetic Fields of Reading: Kafka in the Orbit of Educational Culture
• Krzysztof Jarosz (Université de Silésie à Katowice): Giono “ anticommuniste ” : entre Machiavel et Cervantès
• Joanna Janusz (Université de Silésie à Katowice): Mirages de la liberté et du pouvoir dans la société postindustrielle. Lecture foucaldienne de Le mosche del capitale de Paolo Volponi
• Monika Karwacka (University of Silesia in Katowice): Galina Yuzefovich: An unyielding voice in the Russian literary landscape amidst emigration
• Engaged languages / Langues engagées
• Grzegorz Drożdż (University of Silesia in Katowice): Figurativity of vegetable names in English – the case of selected facets of the human being
• Paulina Polak (University of Silesia in Katowice): On familiarity in the language of Polish influencers
• Katarzyna Holewik (University of Silesia in Katowice): Factors for effective public service interpreter-mediated interactions
• Monika Zasowska (University of Silesia in Katowice): Semantic Prosody in Academic Book Reviews
• Tomasz Nowak (University of Silesia in Katowice): Polish Verbs Denoting Mental Activities: An Examination of Selected Lexical Units Containing the Segment Myśleć (to Think)