The paper analyzes the sources of the modern metaphor of revival of the city, finding conections with of two concepts taken from the biological sciences: circulation and metabolism. The author describes how this understanding ...

The paper deals with the relation between seeing a picture and talking about a picture. Selected poems by Joanna Ślósarska are juxtaposed with theses put forward by Władysław Strzemiński in his theory of vision and by ...

The relationships existing between two different disciplines of science may be indispensable, but not necessarily reciprocal. The problem arises when one cannot live without the other remaining indifferent towards it at ...

In this chapter, the author examines the translation of Michel Provins’ theater play, entitled Degenerates! from French into Polish. The extracts of this extensive drama have been published in the anarchist journals, because ...

This chapter deals with Józef Wittlin’s Polish translation of Homer’s Odyssey as a literary channel to convey the translator’s own very humanist outlook. It focuses, above all, on the translation’s peculiar archaising ...

The term activism usually refers to an activity aimed to produce some change at political and/or social level. An activist translation consists therefore in the practice which, through the means of translation, has this ...