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Simulating Democracy: Emancipation of Democracy Crisis in Dubravka Ugrešić's Essays

Marot Kiš, Danijela · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

One of the central notions of the post-Yugoslav literature is the status of democracy in national states formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia. From the perspective of the exile, not only as banishment, but also as a l…

Word in Action. Democracy and Deliberation in Literary Practice in Polish Renaissance

Meller, Katarzyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper synthesizes relations between Polish democratic system and literary practice in the 16th century. The paper analyses phenomena that project social practice of deliberation on what is important to the communit…

Mono-Chronological 'Post': Synchronization of the Meanwhiles of Nations in Antun Barac's and Pavle Popović's Histories of Yugoslav Literature and the (Post)-Yugoslav Literature

Mijatović, Aleksandar · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In this paper, I approach to the relationship between the art and the democracy via discussion of two histories of Yugoslav literatures. I propose and try to defend a thesis that both accounts of the history of Yugoslav…

Late Antiquity: Decadence or "Democratization" of Culture?

Milinović, Dino · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In our age "without the emperor", fascination with empires and with the emperor mystique continues. Take for witness Tolkien and his Return of the King, the third sequel of The Lord of the Rings, or the television seria…

Democratism of Dragojla Jarnević on the Example of her Diary

Odža, Ivana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper analyses, in the context of Dragojla Jarnević's Diary, the concept of democratism from the authoress' viewpoint of the world regarding the liberal values that represent foundation of democracy. Considering the…

Zombie Book. On Programmed Future and Writing Without the Ultimate Purpose

Paić, Žarko · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with the analysis of the relationship between art, literature, and democracy, starting with the interpretation of Deleuzeʼs reading of D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse. It is shown that in the contemporary wo…

Polish Interwar [Non]Democracy from the View-Point of Julije Benešić

Pieniążek-Marković, Krystyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the article, the image of Polish democracy/autocracy during the Second Republic has been reconstructed. The subject of the analysis were the autobiographical notes entitled Osam godina u Varšavi written by Julije Ben…

Songs of Despair in Times of Contempt. On the Poetic Cycle of Márciustól Márciusig by István Vas

Piotrowiak-Junkiert, Kinga · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article offers an interpretation of the poetic cycle Od marca do marca [From March to March] by István Vas, a Hungarian poet and writer of Jewish origin. The author treated each of his poems as a notebook, where he…

Counter-Modernism of the Modern - the Poetical Counter-World of Julije Benešić

Rogić Musa, Tea · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article deals with the poetry of Julije Benešić (his collection Istrgnuti listovi - Torn Pages) in the context of Croatian modernist poetry based on three assumptions: the first, deductive one is that Benešić's lit…

Poetry Sycophants and the Authority [On Grovelling to Pavelić, Tito and Tuđman]

Sorel, Sanjin · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the analysis of Croatian political poetry, although the article speaks only about texts on the subject of Ante Pavelić, Josip Broz - Tito and Franjo Tuđman, I also refer to all those who have written or are still wri…

Voluntary Servitude and Totalitarianism in Dystopian Novels of the 20th Century: Status of the Literature in Brave New World, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

Štahan, Matija · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article thematises the relationship of the will to rule and the will to be ruled in the aforementioned dystopian novels by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury. The first part of the article points out Hann…

Ibsen's Pharmakon: Socrates and Stockmann

Tomljenović, Ana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Although An Enemy of the People has always been one of Ibsen's most popular plays, ibsenology often dismisses it as a revolutionary pamphlet and the critique of the tyranny of the compact majority and the mediocrity of…

Should Monsters, Mutants, and Ghosts Vote? Monstrous Croatian Lyric and the Principle of Democratic Equality

Vuković, Tvrtko · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper starts from the assumption that Croatian modern lyric, from Matoš to Maleš, is haunted by various monsters, phantoms and mutants, and possessed by ghosts. Phantasmal hair speaks, the body changed by illness ac…

Between Aesthetics and Politics: Socially Engaged Art on the Internet

Winiecka, Elżbieta · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author discusses the changes in the model of democracy that have occurred since the Internet began. The hierarchical model of representative democracy is replaced on the Web by participatory democracy. On the exampl…

Romanticism in West and South Slavonic Literature as the Epoch of Democratization of Culture

Zieliński, Bogusław · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

If we regard democracy as tied with four functions: availability, representation, freedom, and education, then we can state that the Romanticism conceived as the intellectual formation and literary current has managed t…

Plamen Doynov - Generation and Poetry. 1956-1989

Алипиева, Антоанета · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with Plamen Doynovʼs idea of the poetic generations during the time of the socialism. There are the connections between the administrative power and the poets, between the ideological directives and th…

Between Two Epochs

Fadel, Maurice · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This review is a short presentation and an analysis of the book България - страна на розите, published in 2018. The book consists of three parts - a phototypical copy of the first Polish edition of the collective book f…

Historians on Contemporary Times. The Year of Dangerous Change (2010) according to Georges Mink and Timothy Snyd

Fiećko, Jerzy · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author analyses the ways of depicting contemporary times in two monographs written by renown scholars: La Pologne au coeur de l'Europe. De 1914 à aujourd'hui, histoire politique et conflits de mémoire (Poland at the…

„Ложка страху в діжці мотороші", або кілька слів про найновішу українську антологію жахів

Горнятко-Шумилович, Анна · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The release of the newest anthology of macabre short stories "Вбивство на вулиці..." (2019) affirmed the superb state of homebred horror literature. The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the seventeen stories…

Yavorov Post Mortem

Велкова-Гайдаржиева, Антония · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Yavorov Year of Mourning by Mikhail Nedelchev is a ritual book dedicated to the most scorching deadly love affair in the history of the Bulgarian intelligentsia. This text is not a traditional literary-historical one, b…

Evaluating serum C-reactive protein level in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - A cross-sectional study

M, Karthika, Bhardwaj, Prakash Chandra, Sharma, Laimayum Amarnath, Sharma, Laimayum Amarnath, Kanan, W, Singh, W Asoka · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Abstract Patients with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have ongoing systemic inflammation, which can be assessed by measuring serum C- reactive protein. Objective: To explore whether CRP could be used as an in…

Role of Udvartana, a diurnal Ayurveda practice in the prevention and management of diabetes mellitus

Bhat, Aditya, Kumari S, Geetha · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Diabetes is among the most common lifestyle disorders of the modern era. The current approach towards its prevention and management is largely based on diet and lifestyle modifications. As increased body weight and seru…

Public Health concern for a Nipah Virus disease

Rikhabchand Surana, Ajaykumar, Ramesh Kumbhare, Manoj, Uttamrao Abhale, Apurva, Ankush Bhoir, Ankita, Puranmalgi Agrawal, Shivam · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Nipah virus (NiV) is a pathogenic paramyxovirus that has been responsible for sporadic outbreaks of respiratory and encephalitic disease in tropical countries. Elevated case mortality rate has also been connected with r…

The potential effect of pandan wangi leaf "pandanus amaryllifolius roxb.'' extract from Indonesia as time sleep inductor

Sulistiyati, Nita Tri, Aisyah, Riandini, Sutrisna, EM · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Sleep plays a role in restoring the body's biochemical and physiological processes which decrease when awake. People is not familiar yet with sleep disturbances, so they rarely seek help. Sleep disturbances can cause fa…

Remarkable Hypokalemia among Sudanese Patients with Jaundice

Arjabey, Abdel-Moniem MS, Mohamed, Bashir · South East Asia Journal of Medical Sciences;

Background: Impairment of potassium levels is common in clinical practice, mainly encountered among hospitalized patients with a wide spectrum of sickness. Hypokalemia is a potentially dangerous irregularity that may ha…