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Item Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit? Relations between Europe and China in the Travelogue "Tamo amo po istoku" of Milan Jovanović(Pracownia Humanistycznych Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych, 2015) Tomasz, EwertowskiThe main focus of the paper is the image of European-Chinese relations in the travel prose Tamo amo po istoku (‘Here and there in the East’), written by the Serbian traveller Milan Jovanović. Jovanović worked as a doctor on a steamer belonging to the Lloyd company in the 1870’s and 1880’s, and travelled through the Mediterranean, the Middle East, India, and the Far East. In his prose, he made quite a few remarks about China and the Chinese. According to Jovanović, European presence in Asia is dominated by greed, violence and injustice, and because of that, the peoples of Asia have started to despise Europeans and perceived them as cruel barbarians. Chinese industriousness, perseverance, frugality and good manners are emphasized in the travelogue. In general, Jovanović’s view on the future of intercultural relations was an optimistic one. Contacts between civilisations were an opportunity for Europe to adopt Chinese values. It should be pointed out that Jovanović’s way of thinking would have been very interesting in the context of 19th century ideologies of racism and colonialism.Item Przedstawienia Matki Boskiej w poezji Lazy Kosticia. Między bluźnierstwem i modlitwą, między prawosławiem i katolicyzmem(2014) Tomasz, EwertowskiThere are various images of the Mother of God in Laza Kostić poetry. In the study Ilijada. Pogled na jednu lepu glavu Kostić describes the Holy Mother in negative terms. The cult of Virgin Mary is called an illness of the western civilization. In the poem Dužde se ženi famous Venetian church Santa Maria della Salute is described as built at the expense of suffering imposed on Slavic people, so the Mother of God is connected with the Venetian expansion. Negative views on Virgin Mary are also introduced in the drama Pera Segedinac through an ekphrasis of famous Raphael’s work Sistine Madonna. However, Kostić’s new attitude towards the Mother of God is presented in his last and the most famous poem Santa Maria della Salute. The lyrical subject of the poem begs for forgiveness and glorifies the beauty of the Venetian church. The chasm between Latin and Byzantine culture is overcame.