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Image and text in the service of the Absolute. Medieval manuscript and the idea of total work of art

The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. Miniature painting is an example of diffusional transmittance of the various semiotic orders, which define each other and…

Visual folklore: relation between oral and visualmemory

The aim of this article is to present how oral biography and photo-interviews are intertwined. In this sense, it is very important to illustrate the various methods of photo fieldwork, and also to highlight theoretical…

The smell and colour of words. Attempts at intersemiotic translation and synaesthesia in Damir Miloš's works Smetlar and Bijeli klaun

The aim of the intersemiotic and conceptual prose of Damir Miloš is to overcome the limitations of language and literary description, especially when presenting reality through the prism of sensual experience, both visu…

The human as a subject of discussion: Wissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Gogol. About two models of literary encoding of reality

The aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of two culture codes, semantic and asemantico-asyntactic, as tools for ordering reality and discovering the meaning of events. Belinsky and Gogol's lives and th…

Polish and Czech "literary reciprocity" in the second half of the 19th century: Eliza Orzeszkowa's reception by the Czechs and Karolina Světlá's reception by the Poles

The aim of the article is to describe the extraordinarily animated and extensive relationships between Polish and Czech literature in the second half of the 19th century. Literary correspondence is extremely clearly rev…

Dubravko Mataković's Underland [or, to be continued...]

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Mariola Jakubowicz, Drogi słów na przestrzeni wieków. Zarys słownika motywacji semantycznych na materiale przymiotników słowiańskich odziedziczonych z prasłowiańszczyzny, Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, Warszawa 2010, ss. 375

Lech Miodyński, Symbole miejsca w kulturze i literaturze macedońskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2011, ss. 376

Mjesto, nemjesto. Interdisciplinarna promišljanja prostora i kulture, red. J. Čapo, V. Gulin Zrnić, Biblioteka Etnografija, Zagreb 2011, ss. 444

Chrześcijański Wschód i Zachód. Formy dialogu, wzory kultury, kody pamięci, red. I. Lis-Wielgosz, W. Jóźwiak, Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej UAM oraz Wydawnictwo „Pro", Poznań 2012, ss. 562

„Književna istorija", nr 145, Institut za književnost i umetnost, Beograd 2011, ss. 962

Poljska književna avangarda 1917-1939. Programi i manifesti, wybór, tłumaczenie, wstęp i komentarze B. Rajčić, Službeni glasnik, Beograd 2011, ss. 510

Bałkański folklor jako kod interkulturowy, t. I, red. J. Rękas, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Seria Laographica Slavica et Balcanensia, nr 2, Poznań 2011, ss. 595

On the Modelative Potentials of the Curse in Oral Epics

This paper offers an analysis of (prevalently feminine) curses which come to being within the text of the epic songs. This specific form of cursing is particularly pointed in the curses by mother's milk. Both in traditi…

Wolf in the Folklore of Croats

The paper focuses on the significant role of wolf in the Croatian folklore that has been confirmed by a series of analyses over the thirty contemporary original field records. The socalled wolf processions were still pe…

The First Polish Systematics of Spells against Illness. On the Forgotten Proposal of Józef Obrębski

The author discusses the first Polish systematics of magic spells against illness, which was proposed by Józef Obrębski in a brochure Index for „Treating the Polish people" by Henryk Biegeleisen in 1931. Obrębski introd…

„Instruments of the Old Faith": Magical Words in Three Medieval South Slavic Healing Rites for Snakebite

The line between Orthodox Christianity and pagan/folk customs and beliefs in the fifteenth century Slavia Orthodoxa was not precisely drawn. The population called upon spiritual forces of all kinds, to heal illnesses an…

An Ancient Bulgarian Ritual and the Magic Power of Words

The ritual „Gramada" is a typical tradition of the Bulgarian ethnic territories that appeared between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It represents a symbolic way of „escorting" (a sort of sym…

The Magic of Word and Silence in the Ritual - Formulas and Functions

Beliefs and perceptions of word are based on existing mythological layer of culture that has specific mechanisms and functions. This mythological context of word determines its acceptance as a magical tool that has a ce…

Bee-keepers' Spell in Ukrainians' World-View Practice: the Magical Power of a Word

The article is exposing some results of the study in bee-keepers' spell as a featuring trait of Ukrainians' world-view practice; the present research is the first work of such a kind in the home ethnology. The spell bel…

Curse in Macedonian Traditional Culture

Curses are spoken formulas that express a desire to happen something bad in the future to someone or something, with the assurance that it will capture. This conviction or belief is based on faith in the magical power o…

Personal Names of Mythological Beings in Certain Slavic Curses and Phrases

The topic of the paper is the interpretation of the motivation for the personal names of certain mythological beings in curses and phrases of Slavic peoples. Curses, as well as certain phraseologisms, can preserve the n…

Spells at the Cradle. The Magic of Words in Folk and Lyrical Lullabies

The article focuses on some examples of magic in traditional folk lullabies and lyrical lullabies for children. The aforementioned types of genre should invoke child's sleep by using special words or melody. On the othe…

Magic Power of the Obscene Language in Womens' Revena

The theme of this paper is the magic power of the obscene words and jokes in traditional Serbian culture, on the example of women's only festival revena in Banat. This ritual represents one day holiday that was celebrat…

The Wedding Code in Incantations

Incantations use the wedding code in order to fulfill the magical function which faces a cure or a protection, demanded by certain people. Thus the wedding code applied to the incantation turns out to be different from…