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Item Miniaturowe perspektywy urbanistyczno-krajoznawcze Karela Čapka(Komisja Slawistyczna PAN, Oddział w Poznaniu, IFS UAM, Wydawnictwo PRO, 2018) Skibska, Anna MariaMiniature urban-tourist perspectives of Karel Čapek – in the essay, I make an attempt to cast some light on the Czech writer’s affection for detail of which poetics wields a description of space discovered by the author of Hordubal during his European voyages. Derived from a concept of “small nation”, interpreted – on the contrary to Milan Kundera – in the spirit of affirmation, this affection is expressed by a specific rhetorical dialectics of litotes and hyperbole which generates a narrative about small and often one-time “memorials” to the places visited by Čapek.Item Retoryka erotyzmu w prozie Milana Kundery(Komisja Slawistyczna PAN, Oddział w Poznaniu, IFS UAM, Wydawnictwo PRO, 2016) Skibska, Anna MariaIn the essay, I make an attempt to explore a question of style, derived from Nietzsche’s discourse devoted to a figure of woman. Re-written subsequently by Derrida, the discourse itself turns out to be organized around the convoluted rhetoric events which are to reveal and at the same time conceal the representation of woman in both languages: of philosophy and of literature. As is well known, Kundera’s novels and essays consist in a significant and sometimes ambivalent confrontation occurring between these two languages, which also result in feminine characters’ construction often subordinated to the dominant rhetoric of eroticism. Furthermore, this rhetoric determines the dualistic perspective regarding the lovers’ relationships, according to which the image of woman is considered on different levels (i.e. as a reduction to the bodily ego, or emotional drive acting between sex and sublimation, etc.), which, however, always refer to the figurative procedure of transformation.Item Travels of Karel Čapek. On the Role of the Imaginative Variation in the Letters from Various Parts of Europe(Komisja Slawistyczna PAN, Oddział w Poznaniu, IFS UAM, Wydawnictwo PRO, 2017) Skibska, Anna MariaIn the article, I take into con sid era tion a series of Karel Čapek’s letters, which deliver a charming and cheerful evidence of his travel ex pe ri ences resulted from his visits in various parts of Europe. In order to unveil the Czech writer’s origi nal ity regarding the poetics of trave logue, I refer to a number of figures, which are to organize his peculiar epis to lary idiom. Čapek’s style is, therefore, de ter mined by irony which turns out to be streaked with sub se quent rhe tori cal devices such as litotes, cor rec tion, and self- correction linked with el lip ti cal presence of apo sio pe sis. What is more, the Czech writer invests in the so-called variant manner of writing, due to which his letters instead of the common travel knowledge provides the reader with de scrip - tions con cern ing details: from the tra di tional point of view, they might be perceived as mean ing less facts, however, in Čapek letters they are trans formed into in di vid ual, unique, and ex cep tional events, which are to remain in the reader’s con scious ness.