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This volume is a response to the criticism that scholars create "bricks" of knowledge without integrating them into a coherent whole. The twelve bricks that make up this volume form a solid edifice of innovative views on literature and language based on the idea of 'engagement'. The first part focuses on literature and its ability to engage and express the engagement of the individual. The reader will find here a reflection on the relationship between man and God, the impossibility of cognition through symbols, and the multitude of "thoughts" expressed through language. In the second part, the key idea assumes a different dimension, as the analyses engage in defining socially relevant concepts of justice, rationality, power and freedom, and cases of social life where the involvement of creators of culture is indispensable. The third part illustrates the engagement of linguistics in the description of the reality constantly created by language. These varied perspectives allow for the diversity and multidimensionality of 'engagement' to be revealed.
This volume is a response to the criticism that scholars create "bricks" of knowledge without integrating them into a coherent whole. The twelve bricks that make up this volume form a solid edifice of innovative views on literature and language based on the idea of 'engagement'. The first part fo...
About the author
Joanna Janusz is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, specialising in contemporary literature, especially the avant-garde and non-canonical literature.
Andrzej Łyda is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His major areas are discourse analysis, academic discourse and translation and interpreting.
Tomasz Nowak is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include Polish linguistics and cognitive science.
Joanna Janusz is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, specialising in contemporary literature, especially the avant-garde and non-canonical literature.
Andrzej Łyda is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His major...
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