Między językiem a światem. O poezji Krystyny Miłobędzkiej

Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej: Instytut Filologii Polskiej

The lay of the trilobite: rereading May Kendall

The impact of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection on the culture of late Victorian England and on the development of Western thought at large is at once widely acknowledged and hotly contested. In this essay, I revisit the question of what difference an understanding of Darwin's ideas, their reception and their afterlife within evolutionary biology makes to how we read Victorian poetry. I suggest that there are three distinct ways of approaching poetry after Darwin. The first is to examine poems in their own cultural context, considering how they respond to the scientific discourses of their time in the light of internal and external evidence as to the specific sources of each poet's knowledge of those discourses. The second is to ground an interpretative framework in Darwinism's insights into human biology itself. The third is to explore how a given poem's responses to the philosophical issues raised by Darwin's thinking, including questions of ethics and theology, give its readers a possible model for their own responses to the same concerns today. I suggest too that the limitations of each approach may be best overcome by bringing them together. I go on to explore the potential of the first and third approaches through a reading of May Kendall's poem 'The Lay of the Trilobite' in a series of different contexts, from its first appearance in 'Punch', through her first collection Dreams to Sell, to her essays on Christian ethics from the 1880s and 1890s

A Land-Use and Water-Quality History of White Rock Lake Reservoir, Dallas, Texas, Based on Paleolimnological Analyses

White Rock Lake reservoir in Dallas, Texas contains a 150-cm sediment record of silty clay that documents land-use changes since its construction in 1912. Pollen analysis corroborates historical evidence that between 1912 and 1950 the watershed was primarily agricultural. Land disturbance by plowing coupled with strong and variable spring precipitation caused large amounts of sediment to enter the lake during this period. Diatoms were not preserved at this time probably because of low productivity compared to diatom dissolution by warm, alkaline water prior to burial in the sediments. After 1956, the watershed became progressively urbanized. Erosion decreased, land stabilized, and pollen of riparian trees increased as the lake water became somewhat less turbid. By 1986 the sediment record indicates that diatom productivity had increased beyond rates of diatom destruction. Neither increased nutrients nor reduced pesticides can account for increased diatom productivity, but grain size studies imply that before 1986 diatoms were light limited by high levels of turbidity. This study documents how reservoirs may relate to land-use practices and how watershed management could extend reservoir life and improve water quality.

Wielcy poeci romantyczni Polski : Mickiewicz,- Słowacki,-Krasiński /

Translation of Les grands poètes romantiques de la Pologne; essais de littérature et d'histoire: Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Krasinski.

Polska a Rosja w pieśni największych wieszczów narodu / Wł. Bandurski.

"Odczyt wygloszony w Wiedniu w roku 1915." -- t.p. verso.

Polska a Rosja w pieśni największych wieszczów narodu / Wł. Bandurski.

"Odczyt wygloszony w Wiedniu w roku 1915." -- t.p. verso.

Od Asnyka do poetów Wielkiej Wojny : wybór poezyj dla kształcącej się młodzieży /

Includes bibliographical references (p.[xxii]).

Ziemiaństwo polskie : poema w cztérech pieśniach /

Mode of access: Internet.

Wirydarz poetycki /

Mode of access: Internet.

Poetyckie dialogi Czesława Miłosza i Tadeusza Różewicza

Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej

Filmowe interpretacje polskiej transformacji gospodarczej. Kulturowe spory o obraz Polski

Wydział Nauk Społecznych: Instytut Kulturoznawstwa